This document discusses Slovenia's involvement in several regional water management initiatives and plans. It begins by providing context on Slovenia's geographic position and participation in the 1992 UN Earth Summit. It then outlines key concepts from Agenda 21 like integrated water resource management. The rest of the document summarizes Slovenia's role in developing and implementing management plans for bodies of water like the Mediterranean Sea, Danube River, Sava River, and Adriatic-Ionic sea region. It also highlights examples of improved water quality and cooperation between Slovenia and neighboring countries on issues like pollution response.

1. National, Transboundary, Regional Water
Management Plans - Best Practice Examples
Mitja Bricelj, Ministry for Environment
and Spatial Planning,
IDMP Workshop, Bucharest 22 April 2015

2. Hydrogeographic position of Slovenia

3. Regional position

4. Agenda 21, UNCED, June, Rio 1992
First appearance of Slovenia in
the UN
Slovenian flag at the UNCED

5. Agenda 21:
bringing the doctrine of sustainable development at a global
level? environmental / social / economic dimension of
development  Agenda 21
Chapter 17:
Integrated Sea and Coastal
Zones Management (ICZM)
Chapter 18:
Integrated Water Resources
Management(IWRM)
complement Conventions
goals included in the EU acquis

6. Sustainable development
Integration social/economic/environm
ental
„New management units“:
Regions/ecoregions
River basins
Coastal zones/Sea
Cooperation
(local/regional/national)
Development recognizes
the importance of
maintaining / adaptation
ecosystem services and
amenities of the local
environment

7. Uveljavljanje trajnostnega razvoja v
regionalnem morju/Sredozemlju
Portorož, 2005:
adopted the
Mediterranean Strategy
for Sustainable
Development (MSSD)
Signature of Slo-ital-hr
cooperation agreement
on the pollution caused
by accidents at sea

8. Protocol on integrated Coastal Zone
Management/ICZM

9. EU Adriatic – Ionic Strategy
Stakeholders Consultation for the 3 Pilllar:
Preserving, protecting and improving the quality of the evironment
 September 25, 2009, 1. ratification of ICZM
Protocol –
NATIONAL
ASSEMBLY Slovenia
 Coast Day 2013 : Koper/Slovenia, Rimini/Italy Brussel
- focus on EU SHAPE project: ICZM

10. Applying Sustainable Development in the
Danube Region :
Danube River Protection Convention
(DRPC)
Signed
on 29 June 1994
in Sofia - Bulgaria
DRPC is a legal frame for cooperation to assure
the protection of water and ecological
resources and their sustainable use in the
Danube River Basin.

11. Danube River Protection Convention
from Schwarzwald to the Black Sea

13. Water quality
improvement
Since 1990 decrease in loads
of dissolved inorganic nitrogen
and total phosphorus
discharged into the Black Sea
by 20 - 30%
The average concentrations of
priority substances decreased
between 2001 and 2007 (JDS)

14. Slovenia in regional processes
2005 – 2008 chaired the
Barcelona Convention
2010 predseduje
Mednarodni komisiji za
varstvo reke Donave
Adopted the
Mediterranean Strategy
for Sustainable
Development (MSSD)
Accepted Danube River
Basin Management
Plan / and the starting of
EU Danube Strategy

15. Applying Sustainable Development at the subregional
level: The Framework Agreement on the Sava River
Basin? Kranjska Gora, 2002
International Sava River Basin
Commission
Prepared:
 Sava River Basin Management
Plan/SRBMP
 Navigation plan for the Sava River
 Guidelines for sustainable boating tourism
 Sava Day: 1 June
 Cycling tour Sava - from the source to the
mouth
 The Sava River Youth Parliament

16. Porečje Donave in Savski bazen

17. Porečje Save

18. Sava Day 2013: Sava Biking
Tour
8

19. Beograd, 2013
9

20. Announcement of traditional techniques for
cultural heritage - a good practice use of natural
resources2013: wooden “kašta” / Kranj wall in the Register of
Cultural Heritage of Slovenia

21. Future:
EU Adriatic-Ionic Strategy
2014- 2020
Goal:
Sustainable development /
consideration of ecosystem
services; green
infrastructure; green and
blue growth to improve the
quality of life of the common
sea.

23. Linkage between water management in the Sava
River Basin and the Adriatic Ionic Basin trough
Dinarides. Hydrological delimitation / catchment area
is dynamic and depends on the precipitation
conditions