Alternative treaty name

Tripartite Interim Agreement Between The Republic Of Mozambique And The Republic Of South Africa And The Kingdom Of Swaziland For Cooperation On The Protection And Sustainable Utilisation Of The Water Resources Of The Incomati And Maputo Watercourses

Data entry notes

The stipulations of existing bilateral and trilateral agreements among the Parties concerning the present subject (Annex IV) will remain in force as far as they are not in conflict with this Agreement.; The stipulations of existing bilateral and trilateral agreements among the Parties concerning the present subject (Annex IV) will remain in force as far as they are not in conflict with this Agreement.; This Agreement shall enter into force on the date of the last notification to the Depositary of this Agreement of the fulfilment of the internal procedure for the conclusion of international agreement s. This Agreement shall remain in force until 2010 or until superseded for the relevant watercourse by comprehensive water agreements on the Incomati and Maputo watercourses supported by joint studies, whichever is the earlier.; This Agreement on the co-operation between Mozambique, South Africa and Swaziland on the shared watercourses Incomati and Maputo aims to ensure the protection and sustainable utilisation of the water resources of those watercourses. General principles set out in the Revised Protocol on Shared Watercourses in the Southern African Development Community shall apply to this Agreement in accordance with Article 3. Article 4 defines the individual and joint responsibilities of Parties. The joint body for co-operation between the Parties shall be the Tripartite Permanent Technical Committee established by the Agreement established by an earlier Agreement between the Parties of 1983. Flow regimes and utilisation directions for each watercourse are set out in Annex I.; FAO Descriptors: 110; 021; 207; 247; 240; 218; 234; 244; TFDD Basin: BAS-FAOC018849BAS-FAOC015205 ;

URL to text of IEA

http://faolex.fao.org/docs/texts/mul34943.doc

Possible sources (additional)

LEX-FAOC034943; mul34943.doc; http://www.dundee.ac.uk/law/iwlri/Research_Documents_International.html

Date IEA was adopted

2002-08-29

Adoption year

2002

Place IEA was adopted

Johannesburg

Membership eligibility (multilateral, bilateral, etc)

Multilateral (3 or more governments)

Agreement type level 3

Agreement

Source for e (environmental) code

Title

Text used for e (environmental) coding

Tripartite Interim Agreement Between The Republic Of Mozambique And The Republic Of South Africa And The Kingdom Of Swaziland For Cooperation On The Protection And Sustainable Utilization Of The Water Resources Of The Incomati And Maputo Watercourses

Words used to code as environmental

water/africa/sustainable utilization/utilization of the water/watercourse

Lineage

South Africa-Swaziland-Mozambique Rivers

Sequence in lineage

300.000

Secretariat

Inco-Maputo Tripartite Permanent Technical Committee

Version

2007.10

Inclusion auto-generated

MEA - Multilateral Environmental Agreements

Subject

Freshwater