Meeting with Ms. Schwarz, representative of the Ministry of environment, nature protection and nuclear safety of Germany

The meeting of the Sava Commission’s Secretary, Mr. Dejan Komatina, and representative of the Ministry of environment, nature protection and nuclear safety of Germany, Ms. Franca Schwarz, was held on May 17 2006, in premises of the Secretariat of the Sava Commission. Preliminary conversation on organization of the event "Roundtable on Trans-boundary Multipurpose Water Management in the Sava River Basin", which would be held within the activities under process "Petersberg Phase II / Athens Declaration", was run on the meeting.

Ms. Franca Schwarz presented the framework program of the Roundtable, according to which key topics from aspect of water management in the basin in conditions of multi-purpose utilization of waters, such as management of flood protection, hydro-energy and navigation, would be processed on the event. It was agreed that the Secretariat of the Sava Commission would overtake the further development of content of certain sessions of the Roundtable, so that the Commission could benefit from organization of such event as much as possible. Further development of Program of the Roundtable should be realized after reconsideration on the Third Coordination Meeting under the process “Petersberg Phase II / Athens Declaration”, to be held on May 29-30 2006, in Athens.