The European Union Strategy for the Danube Region: EU macro-regional strategies workshop on Water

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1 The European Union Strategy for the Danube Region: EU macro-regional strategies workshop on Water Károly Gombás , Budapest Project co-funded by European Union funds (ERDF)

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3 Danube Region Strategy and PA5 - Environmental Risks Introduction of the current activities and focal topics Project co-funded by European Union funds (ERDF) Károly Gombás HU coordinator, , Budapest

4 Environmental Risks Priority Area (PA5) HU Coordination Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Mr. Károly GOMBÁS Priority Area Coordinator RO Coordination Ministry of Environment, Water and Forests Mr. Gheorghe CONSTANTIN Priority Area Coordinator Website: Colleagues in MFA-HU: Beatrix Kosztyi, Viktor Oroszi Colleague in MAP-RO: Manuela Miron The first period between was closed. New work programme for period have been elaborated. The coordination is financed by a DTP project.

5 Actions of PA5 To develop and adopt one single overarching floods management plan at basin level or a set of flood risk management plans coordinated at the level of the international river basin To support wetland and floodplain restoration as an effective mean of enhancing flood protection, and more generally to analyse and identify the best response to flood risk (including green infrastructure ) To extend the coverage of the European Floods Alert System (EFAS) system to the whole Danube river basin, to step up preparedness efforts at regional level (including better knowledge of each other's national systems) and to further promote joint responses to natural disasters and to flood events in particular, including early warning systems To strengthen operational cooperation among the emergency response authorities in the Danube countries and to improve the interoperability of the available assets To continuously update the existing database of accident risk spots (ARS Inventory), contaminated sites and sites used for the storage of dangerous substances To develop rapid response procedures and plans in case of industrial accidental river pollution Anticipate regional and local impacts of climate change through research To develop spatial planning and construction activities in the context of climate change and increased threats of floods

6 Period PA5 project elements Output 2.1: Development of CCA Strategy-Update2018 A2.1: Cooperation with GWP CEE's IDMP: historic droughts event database, review of 5 EU policies from drought management point of view A2.2: Support of a special international issue of a scientific journal on climate change through research (PA5 Action7) A2.3: Contribution with expertise to the ICPDR Climate Change Adaptation Strategy 2018 Update (participation on meetings, proofreading/comments) Output 2.2: Pilot study on coordination of OFMPs (operative flood management and civil protection plans ) in the DB A2.4: Pilot study on coordination of OFMPs in the Danube Basin, workshop and study tours (MD, UA) Output 3.1: Strategic network Cooperation with other EUSDR Pas and with other international organizations and EU institutes (ICPDR, JRC, CC, GWP, ISRBC, EC DGs, 3 macro-regional strategies)

7 Climate Change Adaptation related activities Contribution to update of EU Strategy on Adaptation to Climate Change carried out by DG CLIMA in 2017 to assess the role of EU macro-regional strategies (interview, written contribution) European drought and water scarcity policy review in 2018 within the Global Water Partnership CEE Integrated Drought Management Programme ICPDR Climate Change Adaptation Study Update 2018 was elaborated in PA5 contributed to the first review of the document at the ICPDR CCA Workhop in Belgrade (27-28/3/2018) - serve as the basis of a regional climate change adaptation strategy elaborated in 2018

8 Period PA5 project elements Output 3.2: Flood protection training scheme A3.3: Facilitating the organization of a flood protection training and enlargement of an education network (DR Oper&Cooper measure Nr.6) International conference session on flood protection experiences, techniques and technologies Special issue on flood protection experiences of a scientific journal Workshop for higher education institutes for networking, curricula development, identifying funds/scholars E-learning material related to flood protection (InterFloodCourse, DAREFFORT) International flood protection postgraduate training Output 4.1: Supported and/or generated projects A4.1: Identification of strategic issues: Number of SMF projects identified (December, 2017) Leaflet about PA4/5/6 support for projects with LoRs Letter of recommendations to new project ideas (14+6 so far)

9 Period Executed PA5 project elements so far Cooperation with other EUSDR Pas and with other international organizations and EU institutes (ICPDR, JRC, CC, GWP, ISRBC, EC DGs, 3 macro-regional strategies) International conference session on flood protection experiences, techniques and technologies 05/07/2017 Special issue on flood protection experiences of a scientific journal 18/10/2017 Workshop for higher education institutes for networking, curricula development, identifying funds/scholars 29/06/2017 E-learning material related to flood protection (InterFloodCourse, DAREFFORT) Leaflet about PA4/5/6 support for projects with LoRs Letter of recommendations to new project ideas (14+6)

10 EUSDR PA5 supported projects in 2017 Ongoing supported projects DriDANUBE, Danube Sediment, JOINTTISZA (e.g. peer review group), CAMARO-D Project development: InterFloodCourse (subsidised DSPF project) LP: National University of Public Services Aims to develop e-learning material in flood protection DAREFFORT (submitted to DTP 2nd call) Focuses on better data share among countries, HU-LP ICPDR DanubeHIS system elaboration support Support for projects DTP 2nd call: Danube Floodplain Ongoing calls: Seed Money Facility (SMF)

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12 Higlight of steps towards milestones PAC coordination to discover synergies Strong coordination by Ministry of Foregin Affairs and Trade, focus and push on EUSDR issues (HU) Priority areas are DTP projects themselves with definite tasks to carry out differencies in progress in activites INTERREG programme with the same extent Danube Transnational Programme LoR, projects, SMF, project financing conference Basin wide survey and cooperation with ICPDR Education curricula and workshop, project Policy review on droughts and climate change adaptation Publications for better understanding flood risk management and climate change

13 Outreach towards organizations so far Continous discussion and adjusted workflow with ICPDR Signature of the Memorandum of Understanding document with the Carpathian Convention (13/12/2017) Participation of EUSDR PA5 HU PAC on the EUSALP Annual Forum and invitation to the 12nd PA5 SG Meeting (Vienna, 5/12/2017) INTERACT Joint meeting of macro-regional coordinators on climate and disaster risk reduction (Budapest, 16-17/11/2017) As a follow-up the coordinators jointly organized a conference session on the EU Civil Protection Forum2018 in Brussels SCALING UP PREVENTION: Cross-border cooperation for effective disaster risk management highlighting their achievements for the whole European civil protection community. 6th ASEM Seminar on Integrated Water Resources Management for Sustainable Development (Lao PDR, 25-26/10/2017) - representing PA4 & PA5 achievments and projects for Asian experts

14 activities with potential MRS cooperation Participation on steering group meetings and presentation of progress in the relevant field if there are, sharing EU reports Organising meeting back-to-back or joint (e.g. general management of MRS, policy and governance) Exchange information or at least inform MRS viewpoints on: policy/eu directive reviews directly Climate adaptation strategy updates (e.g. ICPDR) Mutually evaluate and support EU supervision surveys Learning interactions: Contacts to be established supporting projects (e.g. ice management, Odra) Maybe study tours or participation on plenary events Identification of transferable topics and knowledge: Drought management Sediment management etc.

15 messages PA5 would like to go beyond the flood hazard and risk management and incorporate other actors e.g. catastrophy agencies, forestry. Enhance climate change adaptation on society level with practical solutions for problems on local level. Further enhance the cross-sectoral educational capacities (e.g. social aspects, green infrastructure) and rising awareness among the future generation. How to step further and support basin-wide development? aim to influence territorial programmes support project generation and application (LoR, LoM) distribute specific information via website and inform potential recipients about certain issues provide discussion and visibility platform in different type of media

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17 KÁROLY GOMBÁS MSc in water engineering Fluvial flod protection, deputy department leader Thank you for your attention! NORTH-TRANSDANUBIAN WATER DIRECTORATE GENERAL DIRECTORATE OF WATER MANAGEMENT MINISTRY OF INTERIOR, HUNGARY CHAIRMAN, NATIONAL DELEGATE FLOOD PROTECTION EXPERT GROUP BFP-EG) INTERNATONAL COMISSION OF THE DANUBE RIVER HUNGARIAN COORDINATOR PA5 ENVIRONMENTAQL RISKS EU STRATEGY FOR THE DANUBE REGION NATIONAL DELEGATE WORKING GROUP ON FLOODS (WG-F) EUROPEAN COMISSION Project co-funded by European Union funds (ERDF)