Data entry notes

TFDD Basin: Rhine

URL to text of IEA

http://www.iksr.org/GB/bilder/pdf/convention_on_tthe_protection_of__the_rhine.pdf

Possible sources (additional)

ECOLEX-3230; http://www.dundee.ac.uk/law/iwlri/Research_Documents_International.html

Date IEA was concluded

1999-04-12

Conclusion year

1999

Place IEA was concluded

Berne

Date IEA entered into force

2003-01-01

Membership eligibility (multilateral, bilateral, etc)

Multilateral (3 or more governments)

Agreement type level 3

Convention

E (environment) code (agreement is environmental or not)

Environmental

Source for e (environmental) code

Preamble: Desiring to work towards the sustainable development of the Rhine ecosystem [and] ... maintaining and improving the Rhine ecosystem, Considering that the improvement of water quality achieved ... must be continued; Bearing in mind that the restoration of the Rhine is also necessary in order to maintain and improve the ecosystem of the North Sea,

Text used for e (environmental) coding

Preamble: Desiring to work towards the sustainable development of the Rhine ecosystem [and] ... maintaining and improving the Rhine ecosystem, Considering that the improvement of water quality achieved ... must be continued; Bearing in mind that the restoration of the Rhine is also necessary in order to maintain and improve the ecosystem of the North Sea,

Words used to code as environmental

water/development of the rhine/ecosystem/sustainable development/water quality

Lineage

Rhine Pollution

Sequence in lineage

1200.000

Secretariat

International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine

Version

2007.10

Inclusion auto-generated

MEA - Multilateral Environmental Agreements

Subject

FreshwaterResources/Nature

Category

ENV