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Partnership of Georgia and the EU on Water Supply Management


Thursday, September 24, 2009

Invited guests:  

Michal Nekvasil – Second Secretary Depute Head of Operations of the EU Delegation of the European Commission to Georgia,

Tamar Gugushvili –Coordinator of the Project "Environmental Cooperation for the Black Sea",

Marina Makarova – Ministry of Environment Protection and Natural Resources of Georgia, Head of Water Resources protection Division  

Expert consideration: 

Experts of the project "Environmental Cooperation for the Black Sea", Greta Guldenman and Malkhaz Dzneladze.

Discussed issues:

The topic of the program was Georgian legislation on Water Supply Management and importance of the correspondence of Georgian Water Supply legal acts with the EU member states’ norms; approach and treatment of the society in the EU member states and Georgia to Water Resources. The listeners had also a chance to aware of the information about the EU financed project "Environmental Cooperation for the Black Sea". Within the project in compliance with Ministry of Environment Protection and Natural Resources of Georgia two crucial documents were released: Conception of Georgian Water Law and guideline on harmonization of Georgian Water Supply Legislation with the EU appropriate directives.

The focus of the rubric reportage was public responsiveness for Water protection issues and the society’s view on the troubles in the field.