Euro-Mediterranean Information System on know-how in the Water sector - International conventions

WATERLEX

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FAO search tool for international agreements on international water sources.

WATERLEX carries the full text of treaties and agreements, bi-lateral and multi-lateral, concluded by sovereign countries in regard to the development and management of rivers and lakes, and/or of groundwater resources, which form an international boundary line or which are bisected by such boundary line.

Country and river/lake/basin/aquifer coverage does not purport to be exhaustive. WATERLEX covers a timespan from 1909 to-date.

UN Convention to Combat Desertification

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1994-06-07, Paris

Accord sur la protection de l'Escaut

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1994-04-26, Charleville-Mézières.
Agreement between the French, Belgian and Netherlands governments regarding the Escaut river.

Accord sur la protection de la Meuse

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1994-04-26, Charleville-Mézières.
Agreement between the French, Belgian and Netherlands governments regarding the Escaut river.

Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic

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1992-10-22, Oslo-Paris.
Also known as the OSPAR Convention

Convention on Biological Diversity

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1992-06-05, Rio de Janeiro.

UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

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1992-05-09, New York.

Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes

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1992-03-17, Helsinki.

Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context

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1991-02-25, Espoo.

Protocol on Substances that deplete the Ozone Layer

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1987-09-16, Montreal.

EUR-OPA Major Hazards Agreement

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1987-03-20, Strasbourg.
An intergovernmental platform for cooperation in the field of major natural and technological disasters between Eastern and central Europe, the South of the Mediterranean and Western Europe.

Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer

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1985-03-22, Vienna.

Agreement between Canada and the United States of America on Great Lakes quality

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1978-11-22, Ottawa.

Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat

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1971-02-02, Ramsar.

Convention entre le Conseil fédéral suisse et le Gouvernement de la République française concernant la protection des eaux du lacLéman contre la pollution

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1960-11-09, Lausanne.
Convention between France and Switzerland to protect trans-boundary lake.