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Seventh meeting of the Legal Board

15 - 16 April 2010

The seventh meeting of the Legal Board was held in the Palais des Nations, Geneva, on 15-16 April 2010.

As requested by the fifth session of the Meeting of the Parties (Geneva, 10-12 November 2009) the Legal Board started to discuss possible options for a mechanism assisting Parties with solving implementation problems and preventing or settling differences regarding the interpretation and application of the Convention. The Legal Board also considered modalities and content of a study on the applicability of the Convention to transboundary groundwaters.

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Official

Document Title	ENG	FRE	RUS
Provisional agenda for the meeting	PDF	PDF	PDF
Considerations on a Facilitative Implementation Mechanism under the Water Convention: Discussion Paper	PDF	-	PDF
Application of the UNECE Water Convention to groundwater and possible developments: Discussion Paper LB/2010/INF.2	PDF	-	PDF
Groundwater in transboundary water cooperation agreements in Eastern Europe, Caucasus, and Central Asia: Preliminary Overview	PDF	-	-
Draft Organization of Work for Developing a Proposal on a Mechanism to Facilitate and Support Implementation and Compliance	PDF	-	PDF
List of Participants	PDF	-	-
Report	PDF	PDF	PDF

Background documents

Document Title	ENG	FRE	SPA	RUS
Guidelines on Monitoring and Assessment of Transboundary Groundwaters, UNECE (2000)	PDF	-	PDF	PDF
Helsinki Rules on the Uses of the Waters of International Rivers, International Law Association (1966)	PDF	-	-	-
Draft Agreement Concerning the Use of Transboundary Groundwaters, International Law Association (1989)	PDF	-	-	-
Berlin Rules on Water Resources, International Law Association (2004)	PDF	-	-	-
Resolution on Confined Transboundary Groundwater, International Law Commission (1994)	PDF	-	-	PDF
Draft articles on the Law of Transboundary Aquifers, International Law Commission (2008)	PDF	-	-	PDF
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly A/RES/63/124. The law of transboundary aquifers (2009)	PDF	-	-	PDF
Arrangement on the Protection, Utilization, and Recharge of the Franco-Swiss Genevese Aquifer (2008), (English unofficial translation by the International Water Law Project)	PDF	PDF	-	-

Seventh meeting of the Legal Board

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Background documents

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