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‘Vistula River and Its Basin 2020’ Programme
Union of Vistula River Towns
‘Vistula River and Its Basin 2020’ Programme Office
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Aims of the Programme
to continue the work in progress undertaken by a number of governmental and local self-government institutions, research institutes, associations and others;
to compensate for the absence of any direct (united) action related to water economy, including a total lack of water management strategies;
to finally create an unambiguous definition and classification of the problems present in the
Vistula River basin and to arrive at the ways to solve them, mainly concentrating on finding funds to finance the work to be undertaken;
to co-ordinate various activities and to solve the existing and prevent possible new conflicts from arising.
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Legal Foundations Underlying the Operations of „Vistula River and Its Basin 2020’ Programme
Office On 2 June 2000 governors (wojewoda) and heads of provincial parliaments
(marszałek) representing 11 provinces (województwo) situated within the conventional the conventional bounds of the Vistula River Basin met in Toruń and signed an agreement to draw up a programme to improve the ‘Vistula River and Its Basin’. The Agreement was signed in the presence of the Head of the Council of Ministers’ Chairman’s Office and the Minister of Environmental Protection.
Apart from the Union of Vistula River Towns, the following associations have been the initiators and participants of the programme:
Nautical and River League; Vistula Basin Association – ‘Wisła’ Lower Vistula River Cascade Foundation; Association of Water Management and Land Melioration Engineers and Technicians; Water Engineering and Management Institute Council of Krakow Institute of
Technology.
The initiators and signatories of the Agreement set up the ‘Vistula and Its Basin’ Programme Office, financed from membership fees paid by the Union of Vistula River Towns and supported by the Head of the Council of Ministers’ Chairman’s Office and the Minister of Environmental Protection.
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Basic Legal Foundations of the Programme
Constitutional sustainable development principle
Acts of Law: Water Law, Law on Environmental Protection and Management
EU directives, especially the EU Water Management Guidelines
Polish ecological policy International agreements and
conventions State government and
provincial self-government strategies.
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Objectives of the PROGRAMME
• Flood drought and other hazard control.
• Vistula basin ecosystem improvement.
• Surface and underground water quality improvement.
• Facilitating sustainable economic development, agriculture included, within the Vistula basin, in compliance with the sustainable development principle.
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Characteristics of the ‘Vistula and Its Basin’ Programme
Openness to a variety of initiatives and offshoot programmes and - with a passage of time - to the changing social, economic and legal conditions.
Cohesion planning activities within the area of the basin correlation between various initiatives
Compliance with the current laws (especially the Water Law, environmental laws and EU directives
– EU Water Management Guidelines, etc.) with strategies and spatial development plans and other improvement plans that have
been and are being worked out at various levels with the expertise available in given institutions and organisations with requirements set by NGOs , as a result of negotiations
Limited Range the programme embraces a clearly defined area in the domains presented in the
tables attached
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Territorial Division of the PROGRAMME AREA
Vistula Basin within the Polish Republic
Basins of other rivers and the Baltic Coastland rivers situated within the conventional bounds of the Vistula Basin area
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Subject Areas to be Covered by the PROGRAMME
The Programme covers the following interconnected basic subject areas:
protection of the sources and purity of underground and surface water;
emergency prevention; environmental protection and protection of nature
resources and landscape; economic development of the basin.
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1. Protection of the Sources and Purity of Underground and Surface Water .
Protection of underground water reservoirs, especially the GZWP (main underground drinking water reservoir)
Facilitation of rational water use, with a special focus on the quality of municipal water for home use (people – underground water, industry – surface water)
Underground and surface water pollution control, including projects carried out within the framework of the National Municipal Sewage Treatment Programme
Identification of surface washings and their neutralisation
Assessing water abundance levels in individual catchment basins and drawing up appropriate spatial development guidelines
Water balance and economic balance of individual catchment basins
Supporting and creating conditions for local legislative bodies to pass their own laws of basin water use
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2. Emergency Prevention Flood control:
active Flood-control reservoirs,
especially in the Upper Vistula basin
Small retention Flood control polders
Ice-breaking passive
Flood embankments River and mountain regulation
non-investment projects Spatial development planning Expropriations Taxation and insurance systems
Flood emergency procedures Response action plans in case of
crisis Flood prevention education
Drought prevention Surface and underground water retention, small
retention, including afforestation in the basin Facilitating rational use of water and maintaining
its high quality Prevention against industrial accidents and breakdowns
of hydraulic engineering structure
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3. Environmental Protection and Protection of Nature Resources and Landscape
• Designating areas whose nature and landscape will be protected, taking into special account elements included both in provincial strategic developmental plans and national programmes, e.g. Natura 2000, among others
• Designating areas to be protected within the framework of international conventions
• Solving conflicts of interests between environmental protection and economic development, in compliance with the sustainable development principle
• Counteracting negative effects of the economic development in the basin, paying special attention to the ichthyofauna.
• Marking out individual areas and start work on restoring their natural environment to its former condition
• Protecting sites of a unique scenic value in the basin
• Protecting the cultural heritage of the basin, paying special attention to hydraulic engineering structures (e.g. canals) and urban arrangements (e.g. arrangements of riverside towns)
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4. Economic Development in the Vistula Basin Area
Water tourism and recreation connected with water inland navigation ports, marines, riverside hostels for yacht, canoe and
motorboat tourism revitalising navigable tourist routes developing international water tourism bathing resorts and recreational complexes
Hydropower engineering determining the maximum level of hydropower potential to be safely used in
the basin indicating places where hydropower plants should be built
Inland navigation determining possibilities how to make use of inland trade navigation as an
alternative means of merchant transport, especially of bulk goods reaching a compromise between waterway parametres and adjusting the
water navigation stock to them development of tourist and individual inland navigation
Traffic between riverbanks and lakeshores designating and assessing the results of building permanent river-crossing
spots and places for ferry crossing, together with construction of other facilities
Water for Industry dividing the basin into areas suitable for supplying industry with water
Inland fishing and angling indicating waters suitable for fishing and angling indicating areas where fish farming might be developed
Spatial development planning indicating areas available for the development of settlement, environmental
protection, etc. indicating areas suffering from water deficits, resulting in their limited
potential for economic development
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Administrative Bodies, Institutions and Organisations Taking Part in the Programme
governmental administration, first and foremost, the Minister of Environmental Protection as the Polish Government’s Plenipotentiary for the ‘Vistula 2020’ Programme
self-government administration at all levels associations of towns and ‘gminas’ (local basic
administrative municipal and rural communities) academic and research institutes NGOs - ecological (e.g..WWF) and economic included businesses private persons ‘Vistula River and Its Basin’ Programme Office
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Administrative Bodies, Institutions and Organisations Implementing the Programme
governmental administration, mainly regional water management boards, regional state forest managing boards, national parks, inland navigation offices and nautical offices
self-government administration, in matters that fall within their legal authority (e.g. land melioration and water structure managing boards supervise passive flood hazard control and melioration pumps, while ‘gmina’ control sewage treatment management.
businesses mixed bodies operating as public and private
partnerships
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Conflics connected with the Programme
any activity causes a conflict of interests and loyalties conflicts that might arise:
conflicts between economic and environmental lobbies – see: Nieszawa water screen, the Natura 2000 Programme, the Lower Vistula Cascade Programme
conflicts arising from different local interests in the basin conflicts between interest groups present within the environment
connected with water management conflicts between the government and self-government administration international conflicts
one of the main aims of the programme is to arrive at a compromise in the areas of conflict
implementation of the programme will be rendered impossible if a consensus in the areas of conflict cannot be reached
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Financing the Programme
The prerequisite of the Programmes success is its financial standing – the previous programmes have fallen through due to a lack or mismanagement of the funds available
It is vital to achieve a synergy effect through acquiring funds from a variety of sources:
It is vital to achieve a synergy effect through acquiring funds from a variety of sources:
state budget – within the framework of the Long-term Programme Law
state strategic funds, mainly from the National Environmental Protection and Water Management Fund, Provincial (wojewódzkie) Environmental Protection and Water Management Funds, the ECOFund.
EU funds whose beneficiaries are, first and foremost, self-government bodies and businesses.
private sources, especially those which form public and private partnerships.
That is why, the most important task of the Office now is to prompt the Polish Parliament to finally pass the long-awaited Law of the Vistula “Ustawa Wiślana”. The second best might be the formal approval of the Programme given by the Government of the Polish Republic.
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Analysis of the Strengths and Weaknesses of the Programme
Strengths gathering all interest groups around the idea of the Programme a comprehensive Programme for the entire basin stands a better
chance to be implemented than dispersed individual initiatives high degree of social acceptance of the programme voiced by
local self-government authorities and communities. Weaknesses
low degree of acceptance regarding the problem of funding the programme, expressed by decision makers at various levels, caused by its long-term character and, consequently, the prolonged completion time, way beyond the official’s time in office.
conflicts of interests and loyalties mentioned above
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Programme Procedure
Collection and update of reliable data received from institutions participating in the Programme, mainly from:
Minister of Environmental Protection and from organisational units subordinate to him;
self-government authorities at all levels – provincial (województwo), district (powiat) and basic municipal and rural local district communities (gmina);
associations of ‘gminas’ and towns; institutions implementing particular projects; businesses; academic and research institutes;
Verification of the data acquired and negotiating compromises in conflict areas
Preparing the final draft of the ‘Law of the Vistula River’ (‘Ustawa Wiślana’) Submitting the law proposal to the Minister of Water Management in order
to secure agreements between departments at the ministerial level. Submitting the law proposal to the Parliament of the Polish Republic
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Programme Advancement
The basic territorial range and subject areas of the Programme have been agreed upon
A draft proposal of the Programme has been completed
Most of the data needed has been acquired, the main source being provincial administration offices. According to the Programme participants, ca. 80% of the data needed has been collected.
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Expectations
Representatives of various groups and circles, especially authorities in water management will get actively involved in the implementation process of the Programme
Information on the already existing programmes and projects carried out in the Vistula basin, especially data coming from academic and environmental circles will be freely shared and processed
Full updated information needed for the implementation of the programme will be accessed, the main source being the governmental administration (Minister of Environmental Protection, Regional Water Management Boards, etc.), district (powiat) and local municipal and rural communities (gmina), ‘gmina’ associations and businesses.
Understood as attempts made to reach a mutual aim, the Office’s activities will win the approval of academic circles, various governmental and self-government administrative bodies at all levels, businesses and NGOs.
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Contact address
Biuro Programu dla Wisły i jej Dorzecza / ‘Vistula River and Its Basin’ Programme Officeul. Chopina 100-559 Warszawatel. (22) 520 04 34, fax.(22)520 04 35e-mail: [email protected]
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