The Saeima has adopted and the President promulgated the following laws: On 17 March 1992, the Convention on transboundary watercourses and International Lakes protection and use of the Protocol on water and health in article 1. 17 March 1992 Convention on transboundary watercourses and International Lakes protection and use of the Protocol on water and health (hereinafter referred to as the Protocol) with this law is adopted and approved. 2. article. Protocol commitments provided for in the public health coordinated by the Ministry of health. 3. article. Fulfilment of the obligations provided for in the Protocol on environmental protection is coordinated by the Ministry of the environment. 4. article. This Protocol shall enter into force on it in article 23 on time and in order, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs shall notify the newspaper "journal". 5. article. The law shall enter into force on the day following its promulgation. With the law put the Protocol in English, and its translation into Latvian language. The law adopted by the Parliament in 2004 on September 23. State v. President Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga in Riga 2004 13 October PROTOCOL ON WATER AND HEALTH TO the 1992 CONVENTION ON the PROTECTION AND use OF TRANSBOUNDARY AND INTERNATIONAL Lakes WATERCOURS the parties to this Protocol, Mindful that water is essential to sustain life and that the availability of water in, and of a quantit quality, sufficient to meet basic human needs is a prerequisite both for improved health and for sustainable development , Acknowledging the benefits to human health and well-being that accru from wholesom and clean water and a properly functioning water environment and harmonio, aware that surface waters and groundwater are renewable resources with a limited capacity to recover from adverse impacts from human activities on their quantity and quality, that any failure to respect those limits may result in adverse effects , in both the short and long terms, on the health and well-being of those who rely on those resources and their quality, and that the sustainable management in the consequences of the hydrological cycle is essential for both meeting human needs and protecting the environment, aware also of the consequences for public health of the shortfall of water in the Andes of the quantit to quality sufficient to meet the basic, human needs, and of the serious effects of such a shortfall, in particular on the vulnerabl, the disadvantaged and the socially excluded, conscious that the prevention, control and reduction of water-related disease are important and urgent tasks which can only be satisfactorily discharged by enhanced cooperation at all levels and among all sectors, both within countries and between States , Conscious also that surveillance of water-related disease and the establishment of early-warning systems and response systems are important aspects of the prevention, control and reduction of water-related disease, Basing themselves upon the conclusions of the United Nations Conference on environment and development (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), in particular the Rio Declaration on environment and development and Agenda 21, as well as upon the programme for the further implementation of Agenda 21 (New York , 1997) and the decision of the consequen to Commission on Sustainable Development on the sustainable management of freshwater (New York, 1998), Deriving inspiration from the relevant provision of the 1992 Convention on the Protection and use of Transboundary and International Lakes Watercours and emphasizing the need both to encourag more widespread application of those and their provision to that Convention with further complemen measure to strengthen the protection of public health By Taking note of the 1991 Convention on Environmental impact assessment in a Transboundary context, the 1992 Convention on the Transboundary effects of Industrial accidents, the 1997 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Use of International Watercours and the 1998 Convention on access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-making and access to justice in Environmental matters, Further taking note of the principles be pertinen , targets and recommendations of the 1989 European Charter on environment and Health, the 1994 Helsinki Declaration on environment and Health, and the Ministerial declarations, recommendations and resolutions of the "environment for Europe" process, Recognizing the sound basis and relevance of other environmental initiative, instruments and processes in Europe, as well as the preparation and implementation of National Environment and Health Action plans and of National Environment Action plans , Commending the efforts already undertaken by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and the Regional Office for Europe of the World Health Organization to strengthen bilateral and multilaterals cooperation for the prevention, control and reduction of water-related disease, Encouraged by the many examples of positive achievements by the States members of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and the States members of the Regional Committee for Europe of the World Health Organization in abating pollution and in maintaining and restoring water environments capable of supporting human health and well-being, have agreed as follows: article 1 objective the objective of this Protocol is to promote at all appropriate levels, nationally as well as in transboundary and international context, the protection of human health and well-being, both individual and collective, within a framework of sustainable development, through improving water management, including the protection of water ecosystems in , and through preventing, controlling and reducing water-related disease. Article 2 DEFINITION For the purpose of this Protocol, 1. "Water-related disease" means any significant adverse effects on human health, such as death, disability, illness or disorders, caused directly or indirectly by the condition, or changes in the quantity or quality, of any waters; 2. "Drinking water" means water which is used, or intended to be available for use, by humans for drinking, cooking, food preparation, personal hygiene or similar purpose; 3. "Groundwater" means all water which is below the surface of the ground in the saturation zone and in direct contact with the ground or subsoil; 4. "Enclosed waters" means artificially created water bodies separated from surface freshwater or coastal water, whethers within or outside a building; 5. "Transboundary waters" means any surface or ground waters which mark, cross or are located on boundaries between two or more States; wherever transboundary waters flow directly into the sea, these transboundary waters end at a straight line across their respectiv of mouth between points on the low-water line of their banks; 6. "Transboundary effects of water-related disease" means any significant adverse effects on human health, such as death, disability, illness or disorders, in an area under the jurisdiction of one Party, caused directly or indirectly by the condition, or changes in the quantity or quality, of waters in an area under the jurisdiction of another Party, whethers or not such effects constitut a transboundary impact; 7. "Transboundary impact" means any significant adverse effect on the environment resulting from a change in the conditions of transboundary waters caused by a human activity, the physical origin of which is situated wholly or in part within an area under the jurisdiction of a Party to the Convention, within an area under the jurisdiction of another Party to the Convention. Such effects on the environment include effects on human health and safety, flora, fauna, soil, air, water, climate, landscape, and historical monument or other physical structures or the interaction among these factors; They also include effects on the cultural heritage or socio-economic conditions resulting from alteration to those factors; 8. "Sanitation" means the collection, transport, treatment and disposal or Reuss of human or domestic waste water excret, whethers through collective systems or by installation serving a single household or undertaking; 9. "collective system" means: (a) A system for the supply of drinking water to a number of household or undertaking; and/or (b) A system for the provision of sanitation which serves a number of household or undertaking and, where appropriate, also provides for the collection, transport, treatment and disposal of industrial waste or Reuss water, provided by a body whethers in the public sector, an undertaking in the private sector or by a partnership between the two sectors; 10. "Water-management plan" means a plan for the development, management, protection and/or use of the water within a territorial area or groundwater aquifer, including the protection of the associated ecosystems; 11. "the public" means one or more natural or legal persons, and, in accordanc with national legislation or practice, their associations, organizations or groups; 12. "Public authority" means: (a) Government at national, regional and other level; (b) Natural or legal persons performing public administrative functions under national law, including specific duties, activities or services in relations to the environment, public health, sanitation, water management or water supply; (c) Any other natural or legal persons having public responsibilities or functions, or providing public services, under the control of a body or person falling within subparagraph (a) or (b) above; (d) the institutions of any regional economic integration organization referred to in article 21 which is a Party. This definition does not include bodies or institutions acting in a judicial or legislative capacity; 13. "Local" refer to all relevant levels of territorial unit below the level of the State; 14. "Convention" means the Convention on the Protection and use of Transboundary Watercours of and International Lakes, done at Helsinki on 17 March 1992; 15. "Meeting of the parties to the Convention" means the body established by the parties to the Convention in accordanc with its article 17; 16. "Party" means, unless the text otherwise indicates, a State or a regional economic integration organization referred to in article 21 which has consented to be bound by this Protocol and for which this Protocol is in force; 17. "Meeting of the parties" means the body established by the parties in accordanc with article 16 Article 3 scope the provision of this Protocol shall apply to: (a) surface freshwater; (b) Groundwater; (c) Estuar. (d) Coastal waters which are used for recreation or for the production of fish by aquaculture or for the production or harvesting of shellfish; (e) Enclosed waters generally available for bathing; (f) Water in the course of abstraction, transport, treatment or supply; (g) waste water throughout the course of collection, transport, treatment and discharge or Reuss article 4 GENERAL PROVISION 1. The Parties shall take all appropriate measure to prevent, control and reduce water-related disease within a framework of integrated water-management systems aimed at sustainable use of water resources, ambient water quality which does not endanger human health, and protection of water ecosystems. 2. The Parties shall, in particular, take all appropriate measure for the purpose of ensuring: (a) the supplies of an Adequat wholesom drinking water which is free from any micro-organism, normal and substances which, to their numbers or concentration Owings, constitut a potential danger to human health. This shall include the protection of water resources which are used as sources of drinking water, treatment of water and the establishment, improvement and maintenance of collective systems; (b) the sanitation of a standard Adequat which sufficiently protects human health and the environment. This shall in particular be done through the establishment, improvement and maintenance of collective systems; (c) effective protection of water resources used as sources of drinking water, and their related water ecosystems, from pollution from other causes, including agriculture, industry and other discharge and emission of hazardous substances. This shall aim at the effective reduction and elimination of discharge and emission of substances judged to be hazardous to human health and water ecosystems; (d) be Sufficient safeguards for human health against water-related disease arising from the use of water for recreational purpose, from the use of water for aquaculture, from the water in which shellfish are produced or from which they are harvested, from the use of waste water for irrigation or from the use of the sewag sludg in agriculture or aquaculture; (e) effective systems for monitoring situation will likely result in a Cheeto? or the incident of water-related disease and for responding to such incidents and their Cheeto? and the risk of them. 3. Subsequent references in this Protocol to "drinking water" and "sanitation" are to drinking water and sanitation that are required to meet the requirements of paragraph 2 of this article. 4. The Parties shall base all such measure upon an assessment of any of the proposed measure in respect of all its implications, including the benefits, disadvantages and costs, for: (a) Human health; (b) Water resources; and (c) Sustainable development, which takes account of the differing new impacts of any proposed measure on the different environmental medium. 5. The Parties shall take all appropriate action to create legal, administrative and economic frameworks which are stable and enabling and within which the public, private and voluntary sectors can each make its contribution to improving water management for the purpose of preventing, controlling and reducing water-related disease. 6. The Parties shall require public authorities which are considering taking action, or approving the taking by others of action, that may have a significant impact on the environment of any waters within the scope of this Protocol to take due account of any potential impact of that action on public health. 7. Where a Party is a Party to the Convention on Environmental impact assessment in a Transboundary context, compliance by public authorities of that Party with the requirements of that Convention in relations to a proposed action shall satisfy the requirement under paragraph 6 of this article in respect of that action. 8. The provision of this Protocol shall not be affec the rights of parties to maintain, or adop implementations more than a measure of the stringen those set down in this Protocol. 9. The provision of this Protocol shall not be affec the rights and obligations of any Party to this Protocol deriving from the Convention or any other existing international agreement, except where the requirements under this Protocol with more than òàæó the stringen the requirements under the Convention or that other existing international agreement. Article 5 principles AND approaches In taking measure to implementations that this Protocol, the Parties shall be guided in particular by the following principles and approaches: (a) the principals of the banks, by virtue of which action to prevent, control or reduce water-related disease shall not be postponed on the ground that scientific research has not fully proved a causal link between the factor at which such action is aimed , on the one hand, and the potential contribution of that factor to the prevalence of water-related disease and/or transboundary impacts, on the other hand; (b) the polluter-pays principle, by virtue of which costs of pollution prevention, control and reduction shall be borne by the polluter; (c) States have, in accordanc with the Charter of the United Nations and the principles of international law, the sovereign right to exploit their own resources to their own environmental and pursuan developmental policies, and the responsibility to ensur that activities within their jurisdiction or control do not cause damage to the environment of other States or of areas beyond the limits of national jurisdiction; (d) Water resources shall be managed so that the needs of the present generation are met without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs; (e) Preventive action should be taken to avoid a Cheeto? and incident of water-related disease and to protect water resources used as sources of drinking water because such action addresses the harm more efficiently and can be more cost-effective than remedial action; (f) Action to manage water resources should be taken at the lowest appropriate administrative level; (g) Water has social, economic and environmental values and should therefore be managed so as to enforce the most sustainable combination of acceptabl and of those values; (h) efficient use of water should be promoted through economic instruments and awareness-building; (i) access to information and public participation in decision-making concerning water and health are needed, inter alia, in order to enhance the quality and the implementation of the decision, to build public awareness of issues, to give the public the opportunity to express its concerns and to enable public authorities to take due account of such concerns. Such access and participation should be supplemented by appropriate access to judicial and administrative review of relevant decisions; (j) Water resources should, as far as possible, be managed in an integrated manner on the basis of catchment areas, with the aims of linking social and economic development to the protection of natural ecosystems and of relating water-resource management to regulatory measure concerning the other environmental medium. Such an integrated approach should apply across the whole of a catchment area, whethers transboundary or not, including its associated coastal waters, the whole of a groundwater aquifer or the relevant parts of such a catchment area or groundwater aquifer; (k) Special considerations should be given to the protection of people who are particularly vulnerabl to water-related disease; (l) equitable access to water, adequat in terms both of quantity and of quality, should be provided for all members of the population, especially those who suffer a disadvantage or social exclusion; (m) As a counterpart to their rights and entitlement to water under private law and public law, natural and legal persons and institutions, in the public sector or whethers the private sector, should contribute to the protection of the water environment and the conservation of water resources; and (n) In implementing this Protocol, due account should be given to local problems, needs and knowledge. Article 6 targets AND target dates 1. In order to achieve the objective of this Protocol, the Parties shall pursu the aim of: (a) access to drinking water for everyone; (b) Provision of sanitation for everyone within a framework of integrated water-management systems aimed at sustainable use of water resources, ambient water quality which does not endanger human health, and protection of water ecosystems. 2. For these purpose, the Parties shall each establish and publish national and/or local targets for the standards and levels of performance that need to be achieved or maintained for a high level of protection against water-related disease. These targets shall be periodically revised. In doing all this, they shall make appropriate practical and/or other provision for public participation, within a transparent and fair framework, and shall ensur that due account is taken of the outcome of the public participation. Except where national or local circumstanc makes them for preventing, controlling and irrelevan reducing water-related disease, the targets shall cover, inter alia: (a) the quality of the drinking water supplied, taking into account the guidelines for drinking-water quality of the World Health Organization; (b) the reduction of the scale of the incident of Cheeto? and water-related disease; (c) the area of territory, or the size or proportion of the population, which should be served by collective systems for the supply of drinking water or where the supply of drinking water by other means should be improved; (d) the area of territory, or the size or proportion of the population, which should be served by collective systems of sanitation or where sanitation by other means should be improved; (e) the levels of performance to be achieved by such collective systems and by such other means of water supply and sanitation respectively; (f) the application of recognized good practice to the management of water supply and sanitation, including the protection of waters used as sources for drinking water; (g) the occurrence of discharge of: (i) Untreated waste water; and (ii) Untreated storm water overflow from waste-water collection systems to waters within the scope of this Protocol; (h) the quality of discharge of waste water from waste-water treatment installation to waters within the scope of this Protocol; (i) the disposal or Reuss of sewag of sludg from collective systems of sanitation or other sanitation installation and the quality of waste water used for irrigation purpose, taking into account the guidelines for the safe use of waste water and in agriculture and aquaculture excret of the World Health Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme; (j) the quality of waters which are used as sources for drinking water, which are generally used for bathing or which are used for aquaculture or for the production or harvesting of shellfish; (k) the application of recognized good practice to the management of enclosed waters generally available for bathing; (l) the identification and remediation of particularly contaminated sites which adversely affec the waters within the scope of this Protocol or are likely to do so and which to threaten to give the rise to water-related disease; (m) the effectiveness of systems for the management, development, protection and use of water resources, including the application of recognized good practice to the control of pollution from sources of all kind; (n) the frequency of the publication of information on the quality of the drinking water supplied and of other waters relevant to the targets in this paragraph in the interval between the publication of the information under article 7, paragraph 2 Within two 3 years of becoming a Party, each Party shall establish and publish targets referred to in paragraph 2 of this article , and target dates for achieving them. 4. Where a long process of implementation is foreseen for the achievement of a target, intermediate or phased targets shall be set. 5. In order to promote the achievement of the targets referred to in paragraph 2 of this article, the Parties shall each: (a) Establish national or local arrangements for coordination between their competent authorities to; (b) Develop water-management plans in transboundary, national and/or local context, preferably on the basis of catchment areas or groundwater aquifer. In doing so, they shall make appropriate practical and/or other provision for public participation, within a transparent and fair framework, and shall ensur that due account is taken of the outcome of the public participation. Such plans may be incorporated in other relevant plans, programmes or documents which are being drawn up for other purpose, provided that they enable the public to see clearly the proposals for achieving the targets referred to in this article and the target data respectiv; (c) Establish and maintain a legal and institutional framework for monitoring and enforcing standards for the quality of drinking water; (d) Establish and maintain arrangements, including, where appropriate, the legal and institutional arrangements, for monitoring, promoting the achievement of and, where not cessary, enforcing the other standards and levels of performance for which targets referred to in paragraph 2 of this article with the set. Article 7 REVIEW AND ASSESSMENT OF progress 1. The Parties shall each collect and evaluate data on: (a) Their progress towards the achievement of the targets referred to in article 6, paragraph 2; (b) indicators that are designed to show how far that progress has contributed towards preventing, controlling or reducing water-related disease. 2. The Parties shall each publish periodically the results of this collection and evaluation of data. The frequency of such publication shall be established by the Meeting of the parties. 3. The Parties shall each ensur that the results of water and effluent keeps re-infecting the sampling carried out for the purpose of this collection of data with available to the public. 4. On the basis of this collection and evaluation of data, each Party shall review periodically the progress made in achieving the targets referred to in article 6, paragraph 2, and publish an assessment of that progress. The frequency of such reviews shall be established by the Meeting of the parties. Without prejudice to the possibility of more frequent reviews under article 6, paragraph 2, reviews under this paragraph shall include a review of the targets referred to in article 6, paragraph 2, with a view to improving the targets in the light of scientific and technical knowledge. 5. Each Party shall provide to the Secretariat referred to in article 17, for circulation to the other parties, a summary report of the data collected and evaluated and the assessment of the progress achieved. Such reports shall be in accordanc with guidelines established by the Meeting of the parties. These guidelines shall provide that the parties can use for this purpose reports covering the relevant information produced for other international forums. 6. The Meeting of the Parties shall evaluate progress in implementing this Protocol on the basis of such summary reports. Article 8 response systems 1. The Parties shall each, as appropriate, ensur that: (a) comprehensive national and/or local surveillance and early-warning systems are established, improved or maintained which will: (i) Identify a Cheeto? or incident of water-related disease or significant threats of such incidents, or in a Cheeto? including those resulting from water-pollution incidents or extreme weather events; (ii) give prompt and clear notification to the relevant public authorities about such incidents or threats, Cheeto?; (iii) In the event of any threat to the imminen public health from water-related disease, disseminat to members of the public who may be affected all information that is held by a public authority and that could help the public to prevent or harms of mitigat; (iv) make recommendations to the relevant public authorities and, where appropriate, to the public about preventive and remedial actions; (b) comprehensive national and local contingency plans for responses to such incidents and risks in a Cheeto?, with a properly prepared in due time; (c) the relevant public authorities have the capacity it responds to such a Cheeto? cessary, incident or risk in accordanc with the relevant contingency plan. 2. Surveillance and early-warning systems, contingency plans and response capacities in relations to water-related disease may be combined with those in relations to other matters. 3. Within three years of becoming a Party, each Party shall have established the surveillance and early-warning systems, contingency plans and response capacities referred to in paragraph 1 to of this article. Article 9 PUBLIC awareness, EDUCATION, TRAINING, RESEARCH AND development AND INFORMATION 1. The Parties shall take steps designed to enhance the awareness of all sectors of the public regarding: (a) the importanc of, and the relationship between, water management and public health; (b) the rights and entitlement to water and òàæó obligation under private and public law of natural and legal persons and institutions, in the public sector or whethers the private sector, as well as their moral obligations to contribute to the protection of the water environment and the conservation of water resources. 2. The Parties shall promote: (a) Understanding of the public-health aspects of their work by those responsible for water management, water supply and sanitation; and (b) Understanding of the basic principles of water management, water supply and sanitation by those responsible for public health. 3. The Parties shall encourag the education and training of the professional and technical staff who are needed for managing water resources and for operating systems of water supply and sanitation, and encourag the updating and improvement of their knowledge and skills. This education and training shall include relevant aspects of public health. 4. The Parties shall: (a) encourag Research into, and development of, cost-effective means and techniques for the prevention, control and reduction of water-related disease; (b) development of integrated information systems to handle information about long-term trends, current concerns and past problems and successful solutions to them in the field of water and health, and provision of such information to the competent authorities. Article 10 PUBLIC INFORMATION a complemen 1 to the requirements of this Protocol for parties to publish specific information or documents, each Party shall take steps within the framework of its legislation to make available to the public such information as is held by public authorities and is reasonably needed to inform public discussion of: (a) the establishment of targets and of target dates for their achievement and the development of water-management plans in accordanc with article 6; (b) the establishment, improvement or maintenance of surveillance and early-warning systems and contingency plans in accordanc with article 8; (c) the promotion of public awareness, education, training, research, development and information in accordanc with article 9 Each Party 2 shall ensur that public authorities, in response to a request for other information relevant to the implementation of this Protocol, make such information available within a reasonable time to the public, within the framework of national legislation. 3. The Parties shall ensur that information referred to in article 7, paragraph 4, and paragraph 1 of this article shall be available to the public at all reasonable times for inspection free of charge, and shall provide members of the public with reasonable facilities for obtaining from the parties, on payment of reasonable charges, of such information to the cop. 4. Nothing in this Protocol shall require a public authority to publish information or make information available to the public if: (a) the public authority does not hold the information; (b) the request for the information is manifestly unreasonabl or formulated in too general a manner; or (c) the information concerns material in the course of completion or concerns internal communications of public authorities where such an exemption is provided for in national law or customary practice, taking into account the public interest served by disclosure. 5. Nothing in this Protocol shall require a public authority to publish information or make information available to the public if disclosure of the information would adversely affec the: (a) the confidentiality of the proceedings of public authorities, where such confidentiality is provided for under national law; (b) International relations, national defence or public security; (c) the course of Justice, the ability of a person to receive a fair trial or the ability of a public authority to conduct an enquiry of a criminal or disciplinary nature; (d) the confidentiality of commercial or industrial information, where such confidentiality is protected by law in order to protect a legitimat economics interest. Within this framework, information on emission and discharge of which are relevant for the protection of the environment shall be disclosed; (e) Intellectual property rights; (f) the confidentiality of personal data and/or files relating to a natural person where that person has not consented to the disclosure of the information to the public, where such confidentiality is provided for in national law; (g) the interests of a third party which has supplied the information requested without that party being under, or capable of being of being put under, a legal obligation to do so, and where that party does not consent to the release of the material; or (h) the environment to which the information relate, such as the breeding sites of rar spec. These grounds for not disclosing information shall be interpreted in a restrictive way, taking into account the public interest served by disclosure and taking into account the information relate to whethers emission and discharge of into the environment. Article 12 INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION the Parties shall cooperate and, as appropriate, assist each other: (a) In international actions in support of the objective of this Protocol; (b) On request, in implementing national and local plans in pursuanc of this Protocol. Article 12 joint AND COORDINATED INTERNATIONAL ACTION In pursuanc of article 11, subparagraph (a), the Parties shall promote cooperation in international action relating to: (a) the development of commonly agreed targets for matters referred to in article 6, paragraph 2; (b) the development of indicators for the purpose of article 7, paragraph 1 (b), to show how far action on water-related disease has been successful in preventing, controlling and reducing such disease; (c) the establishment of joint or coordinated systems for surveillance and early-warning systems, contingency plans and response capacities as part of, or would it be the complemen national systems maintained in accordanc with article 8 for the purpose of responding to the incident of Cheeto? and water-related disease and significant threats of such incidents, especially in a Cheeto? and from water-pollution incidents or extreme weather events; (d) Mutual assistance in responding to incidents of Cheeto? and water-related disease and significant threats of such incidents, especially in a Cheeto? and from water-pollution incidents or extreme weather events; (e) the development of integrated information systems and databases, exchange of information and sharing of technical and legal knowledge and experience; (f) the prompt and clear notification by the competent authorities of one Party, be it the òàæó authorities of other parties which may be affected of: (i) a Cheeto? and incident of water-related disease, and (ii) significant threats of such incidents in a Cheeto? and which have been identified; (g) the exchange of information on effective means of disseminating to the public information about water-related disease. Article 13 COOPERATION IN the TRANSBOUNDARY waters 1. RELATIONS where any parties border the same transboundary waters, as to their obligation to complemen others under articles 11 and 12, they shall cooperate and, as appropriate, assist each other to prevent, control and reduce transboundary effects of water-related disease. In particular, they shall: (a) Exchange information and share knowledge about the transboundary water and the problems and risks which they present with the other Parties bordering the same waters; (b) Endeavour to establish with the other Parties bordering the same transboundary waters joint or coordinated water-management plans in accordanc with article 6, paragraph 5 (b), and surveillance and early-warning systems and contingency plans in accordanc with article 8, paragraph 1, for the purpose of responding to the incident of Cheeto? and water-related disease and significant threats of such incidents and Cheeto? , especially from water-pollution incidents or extreme weather events; (c) On the basis of equality and reciprocity, adap and others subject to their agreements regarding their transboundary waters is in order it any contradiction with eliminat the basic principles of this Protocol and to define their mutual relations and conduct regarding the aims of this Protocol; (d) consult each other, at the request of any one of them, on the significanc of any adverse effect on human health which may constitut a water-related disease. 2. Where the parties concerned are parties to the Convention, the cooperation and assistance in respect of any transboundary effects of water-related disease which are transboundary impacts shall take place in accordanc with the provision of the Convention. Article 14 INTERNATIONAL support FOR NATIONAL ACTION When cooperating and assisting each other in the implementation of national and local plans in pursuanc of article 11, subparagraph (b), the Parties shall, in particular, consider how they can best help to promote: (a) Preparation of water-management plans in transboundary, national and/or local context and of schemes for improving water supply and sanitation; (b) Improved formulation of projects, especially infrastructure projects, in the pursuanc of such plans and schemes, in order to access their facilitat sources of finance; (c) effective execution of such projects; (d) establishment of systems for surveillance and early-warning systems, contingency plans and response capacities in relations to water-related disease; (e) Preparation of legislation needed to support the implementation of this Protocol; (f) Education and training of key professional and technical staff; (g) Research into, and development of, cost-effective means and techniques for preventing, controlling and reducing water-related disease; (h) Operation of effective networks to monitor and assess the provision and quality of water-related services, and development of integrated information systems and databases; (i) achievement of quality assurance for monitoring activities, including inter-laboratory comparability. Article 15 REVIEW OF compliance the Parties shall review the compliance of the parties with the provision of this Protocol on the basis of the reviews and assessments referred to in article 7. subject of Multilaterals a non-confrontational, non-judicial and consultative nature for reviewing compliance shall be established by the parties at their first meeting. These arrangements shall allow for appropriate public involvement Forum. Article 16 MEETING OF the parties 1. The first meeting of the Parties shall be convened from later than eighteen months after the date of the entry into force of this Protocol. Thereafter, ordinary meetings shall be held at regular intervals to be determined by the parties, but at least every three years, except in so far as other arrangements to achieve the cessary not the aims of paragraph 2 of this article. The Parties shall hold an extraordinary meeting if they so decide in the course of an ordinary meeting or at the written request of any Party, provided that, within six months of it being communicated to all parties, the said request is supported by at least one third of the parties. 2. Where possible, ordinary meetings of the Parties shall be held in conjunction with the meeting of the parties to the Convention. 3. At their meetings, the Parties shall keep under continuous review the implementation of this Protocol, and, with this purpose in mind, shall: (a) Review the policies for and methodological approaches to the prevention, control and reduction of water-related disease, promote their convergence, and strengthen transboundary and international cooperation in accordanc with articles 11, 12, 13 and 14; (b) evaluate progress in implementing this Protocol on the basis of information provided by the parties in accordanc with guidelines established by the Meeting of the parties. Such guidelines shall avoid duplication of effort in reporting requirements; (c) Be informed on progress made to the skipper in the implementation of the Convention; (d) Exchange information with the Meeting of the parties to the Convention, and consider the possibilities for joint action with it; (e) Seek, where appropriate, the services of relevant bodies of the Economic Commission for Europe and of the Regional Committee for Europe of the World Health Organization; (f) Establish the modalit for the participation of other competent international governmental and non-governmental bodies in all meetings and other activities to the pertinen achievement of the purpose of this Protocol; (g) Consider the need for further provision on access to information, public participation in decision-making and public access to judicial and administrative review of a decision within the scope of this Protocol, in the light of experience gained on these matters in other international forums; (h) Establish a programme of work, including projects to be carried out jointly under this Protocol and the Convention, and set up any bodies needed it implementations that this programme of work; (i) Consider and adop guidelines and recommendations which promote the implementation of the provision of this Protocol; (j) At the first meeting, consider and by consensus the rules of procedure adop for their meetings. These rules of procedure shall contain provision to promote harmonio in cooperation with the Meeting of the parties to the Convention; (k) Consider and adop proposal for amendments to this Protocol; (l) Consider and any additional undertak action that may be required for the achievement of the purpose of this Protocol. Article 17 Secretariat 1. The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Europe and the Regional Director of the Regional Office for Europe of the World Health Organization shall carry out the following secretariat functions for this Protocol: (a) the convening and preparing of meetings of the parties; (b) the transmission to the parties of reports and other information received in accordanc with the provision of this Protocol; (c) the performance of such other functions as may be determined by the Meeting of the parties on the basis of available resources. 2. The Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Europe and the Regional Director of the Regional Office for Europe of the World Health Organization shall: (a) set out the details of their work-sharing arrangements in a memorandum of Understanding, and inform the Meeting of the Parties accordingly; (b) report to the parties on the elements of, and the modalit for carrying out, the programme of work referred to in article 16, paragraph 3 article 18 AMENDMENTS TO the PROTOCOL Any Party may 1-amendments it proposes this Protocol. 2. Proposals for amendments to this Protocol shall be considered at a meeting of the parties. 3. The text of any proposed amendment to this Protocol shall be submitted in writing to the Secretariat, which shall communicate it to all parties at least ninety days before the meeting at which it is proposed for adoption. 4. An amendment to this Protocol shall be adopted by consensus of the representatives of the Parties present at the meeting. The adopted amendment shall be communicated by the Secretariat to the Depositary, who shall circulate it to all parties for their acceptance. The amendment shall enter into force for the parties which have accepted it on the ninetieth day after the the date on which two thirds of those parties have deposited with the Depositary their instruments of acceptance of the amendment. The amendment shall enter into force for any other Party on the ninetieth day after the date on which that Party deposits its instrument of acceptance of the amendment. Article 19 right TO vote 1. Except as provided for in paragraph 2 of this article, each Party shall have one vote. 2. Regional economic integration organizations, in matters within their competence, shall exercise their right to vote with a number of votes equal to the number of their member States which are parties. Such organizations shall not exercise their right to vote if their member States exercise their will, and vice versa. Article 20 settlement OF DISPUTE 1. If a dispute between two of the «arise or more parties about the interpretation or application of this Protocol, they shall seek a solution by negotiation or by any other means of dispute settlement to the acceptabl parties to the dispute. 2. When signing, ratifying, accepting, approving or acceding to this Protocol, or at any time thereafter, a Party may declare in writing to the Depositary that for a dispute not resolved in accordanc with paragraph 1 of this article, it will accept one of the following means of dispute settlement as compulsory in relations to any Party accepting the same obligation: (a) where the parties are parties to the Convention , and have accepted as compulsory in relations to each other one or both of the means of dispute settlement provided in the Convention, the settlement of the dispute in accordanc with the provision of the Convention for the settlement of the dispute arising in connection with the Convention; (b) In any other case, the submission of the dispute to the International Court of Justice, unless the parties agree to arbitration or some other form of dispute resolution. Article 21 signature this Protocol shall be open for signature in London on 17 and 18 June 1999 on the occasion of the Third Ministerial Conference on environment and Health, and thereafter at United Nations Headquarters in New York until 18 June 2000, by States members of the Economic Commission for Europe, by States members of the Regional Committee for Europe of the World Health Organization , by States having consultative status with the Economic Commission for Europe to the paragraph 8 of pursuan Economic and Social Council resolution 36 (IV) of 28 March 1947, and by regional economic integration organizations constituted by sovereign States members of the Economic Commission for Europe or members of the Regional Committee for Europe of the World Health Organization to which their member States have transferred competence over matters governed by this Protocol , including the competence to enter into the treats in respect of these matters. Article 22 RATIFICATION, acceptance, APPROVAL AND ACCESSION 1 this Protocol shall be subject to ratification, acceptance or approval by signatory States and regional economic integration organizations. 2. This Protocol shall be open for accession by the States and organizations referred to in article 21. ' 3. Any organization referred to in article 21 which become a Party without any of its member States being a Party shall be bound by all the obligations under this Protocol. In the case of such organizations, one or more of whose member States is a Party, the organization and its member States shall decide on their respectiv has responsibilities for the performance of their obligations under this Protocol. In such cases, the organization and the member States shall not be entitled to exercise rights under this Protocol concurrently. 4. In their instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, the regional economic integration organizations referred to in article 21 shall declare the exten of their competence with respect to the matters governed by this Protocol. These organizations shall also inform the Depositary of any substantial modification to the exten of their competence. 5. The instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession shall be deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations. Article 23 ENTRY into force this Protocol shall enter 1 into force on the ninetieth day after the date of deposit of the sixteenth instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession. 2. For the purpose of paragraph 1 of this article, any instrument deposited by a regional economic integration organization shall not be counted as additional to those deposited by States members of such an organization. 3. For each State or organization referred to in article 21 which ratif, accept or approve this Protocol or accede of theret after the deposit of the of the sixteenth instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, the Protocol shall enter into force on the ninetieth day after the date of deposit by such State or organization of its instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession. Article 24 WITHDRAWALS At any time after three years from the date on which this Protocol has come into force with respect to a Party, that Party may withdraw from the Protocol by giving written notification to the Depositary. Any such withdrawals shall take effect on the ninetieth day after the date of its receipt by the Depositary. Article 25 DEPOSITARY the Secretary-General of the United Nations shall act as the Depositary of this Protocol.

the 1992 Convention on transboundary watercourses and International Lakes protection and use of the Protocol on water and health Protocol: aware that water is essential for life to exist it should be high quality, sufficient to accommodate the requirements of the people and is a precondition for improving both health and sustainable development, while acknowledging the benefits to human health and well-being, healthy and clean water and a balanced and properly functioning water environment Knowing the surface and ground water are resources with a limited capacity for quantitative and qualitative to recover from exposure to adverse human impact. Any non-compliance with this limit can give the opposite effect for both short term and long term period on human health and welfare, when based on the quality of water resources and effective management of the hydrologic cycle, as well as essential human needs and the protection of the environment, Recognizing also the water and quality deficiencies and their impact on public health, which does not satisfy the requirements of the people and the impact of this deficiency especially to needy socially excluded the public, realizing that with water related diseases prevention, reduction and control is an important and urgent task that can adequately realize only increasing cooperation at all levels between all sectors in all countries and among countries, recognizing also with water related disease surveillance and early warning systems are important water-related diseases, in the prevention, reduction and control measures on the basis of the United Nations Conference on environment and development (Rio de Janeiro, 1992), and in particular the conclusions of the Rio Declaration on environment and development and Agenda 21 "implementation PROGRAM (New York, 1997), and the subsequent decision of the Commission on sustainable development and the sustainable management of fresh waters (New York, 1998), inspired by the 1992 Convention on transboundary watercourses and International Lakes protection and use the following prerequisites and emphasis on the need both to promote the implementation of these provisions and to supplement the Convention with other means to strengthen the protection of public health, referring to the 1991 Convention on environmental impact assessment in a transboundary context, the 1992 Convention on the transboundary effects of industrial accidents, the 1997 United Nations Convention on the law of international watercourses to use outside the navigation and the 1998 Convention on access to information, public participation in decision-making and access to justice in environmental matters Further, with reference to the principles, goals and recommendations of the 1989 European Charter on environment and health, and the 1994 Helsinki Declaration on environment and health and the "environment for Europe" process, the Ministerial Declaration, the recommendations and resolutions, recognizing as the basis and close links with other environmental initiatives, instruments and processes in Europe, the environment, the national environment and health action plans and national environmental plans, celebrating the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and the World Health Organization's European Regional Office, toils in a reciprocal and multilateral cooperation in strengthening to prevent, control and reduce the disease that spreads through water, Encourage positive with many examples of the achievements of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe and the World Health Organization's European Regional Office Member States in reducing pollution, and such water environmental conservation and regeneration, able to ensure human health and welfare, agreed as follows: article 1 the purpose of this Protocol is to promote human health and well-being and the protection of the individual and sustainable development within and across borders and in the international context, at all appropriate levels, improving water management, including the protection of aquatic ecosystems and preventing, reducing and controlling water-related diseases. Article 2 definitions in the context of this Protocol: 1. "water-related disease" means any harmful effects on human health, such as death, disease or disorder, directly or indirectly, conditions or changes of any quality or quantity of the waters; 2. "drinking water" means water used by people and that are designed for cooking, drinking, cooking, personal hygiene or similar purposes; 3. "groundwater" means all water which is below the surface of the ground in the saturation zone and in direct contact with the ground or subsoil; 4. "closed/Delimited waters" means any artificially created water supply, which is delimited from surface fresh waters or coastal waters, either inside or outside of the building; 5. "Transboundary waters" means any surface or ground waters which mark, cross borders between two or more States or located on the frontiers; in those cases where the border crossing waters flow into the sea, the waters directly borders represents a straight line, crossing the inlet between the points to maximum low tide water line the shores; 6. "water-related disease impact on border crossing" means any harmful effects on human health, such as death, disability, illness or disorders, in the territory of one party shall, directly or indirectly, conditions or changes of any water quality or the quality of the waters under the jurisdiction of the other party, and produce such effects or the effects of crossing the border; 7. "border" effects "means a significant adverse environmental impact across boundaries in the waters of the changes caused by human exposure, the physical origin of which is situated wholly or in part within an area under the jurisdiction of another party. Such effects on the environment belongs to the consequences that affect human health and safety, flora, fauna, soil, air, water, climate, landscape and historical monuments or other material objects, or the interactions among these factors, here belong to the consequences affecting the cultural heritage or socio-economic conditions resulting from the changes in these factors; 8. "sanitation" means human excreta or domestic waste water collection, transport, treatment and discharge of either through a total system, or through equipment that serves a single household or undertaking; 9. the "common system" are: (a) a system for the supply of drinking water to several households or businesses, and/or: (b) system, which provides waste collection, transport, treatment and disposal or reuse of industrial waste water, provided by the public sector, the private sector and entrepreneurship both sector of this participation; 10. "water-management plan" means a water development, management, protection and/or use of the plan specific areas or groundwater horizon, including the protection of ecosystems; 11. "the public" means any one or more natural or legal persons and, in accordance with legislative practice, their associations, organisations or groups; 12. the national Government means: (a) Government at national, regional and other levels; (b) natural or legal persons performing public administrative functions under national law, including specific duties, activities or services in relation to the environment, public health, sanitation, water management or water supply; (c) any other natural or legal persons with public responsibilities or functions, or providing public services, and that are controlled by other institution or person referred to in apakšparagrāf (a) or (b); (d) any regional economic integration organization which is a party referred to in article 21. This definition does not include organizations and institutions working in the field of legal or legislative; 13. "local" refers to all the territorial units, which is below the national level in the country; 14. "Convention" here referred to as the Convention on transboundary watercourses and international lakes and the use of protection adopted on 17 March 1992 in Helsinki; 15. "meeting of the parties to the Convention" means the body established by the Convention in accordance with article 17; 16. "party", when not otherwise specified, means a State or regional economic integration organisation, which stipulated in article 21, and for which this Protocol is recognized as valid and binding in the country; 17. "meeting of the parties" means the authority that establishes the parties/Member States shall, in accordance with article 16. Article 3 competence of this Protocol shall apply to: (a) surface waters; (b) groundwater; (c) estuaries; (d) coastal waters which are used for recreation or for the production of fish or sea water for the production or harvesting of shellfish; (e) enclosed waters/closed used as bathing water; (f) water for transportation, purification, or supply; (g) wastewater collection, transport, treatment, discharge or recycling cycle. Article 4 General provisions 1. Parties should use all means to prevent, control and reduce water-related diseases in an integrated water management framework that would focus on sustainable use of water resources and aquatic ecosystems, the surrounding water resources quality which does not endanger human health; 2. The parties, especially to apply all relevant means to provide: (a) an adequate supply of drinking water, free of any micro-organisms, parasites and substances which, due to their number or concentration can cause hazard to human health. Here to include the protection of water resources, from which drinking water is obtained, as well as the overall system design, improvement, and maintenance; (b) adequate sanitation standards that are sufficiently safe to protect human health and the environment. the rule in particular attention should be paid to the common central system creation, improvement and maintenance; (c) water resources and effective protection of the ecosystems that are used for the abstraction of drinking water, as well as the protection against pollution from other sources, including from agriculture, production, hazardous substances, emissions. These actions should be geared to the effective reduction or prevention; (d) adequate protection and security for human health against water-related disease arising from the use of water for recreational purposes, such as swimming, from water use water management sector, marine invertebrates of cultivation and harvesting, from sewage irrigation needs or use of sewage sludge in agriculture or aquaculture use; (e) effective monitoring system, which is able to accurately assess the water associated outbreaks of diseases or accidents and timely response to such outbreaks, incidents and risks; 3. the following references to drinking water and sanitation, this Protocol is for drinking water and sanitation that must comply with that article, paragraph 2; 4. The parties should participate in the evaluation of all activities of all the measures proposed, taking into account their indirect costs, disadvantages, benefits: (a) human health; (b) water resources; (c) sustainable development, taking into account any proposed new measure different impacts on the various environmental components. 5. The parties must implement the appropriate actions that are causing the legal, administrative and economic framework that is stable and contributes to public, private and voluntary sector participation in improving water management to prevent, reduce, and control of water-related disease incidence; 6. The parties will be required from public officials that key decisions on the conduct or approve other decisions which may have significant effects on the environment of this Protocol in the jurisdiction of water resources, due to consider such action potential impact on public health; 7. Where a party referred to in the Convention on environmental impact assessment in a transboundary context, and, in respect of the proposed measures, the parties State officials should comply with the requirements referred to in point 6; 8. The provisions of this Protocol shall not affect the right of parties to maintain, adopt or to comply with even more stringent measures than those laid down in the Protocol; 9. the provisions of the Protocol should not affect any party's rights and obligations arising from the Convention or any other existing international agreement, except those that are more stringent than the provisions of the Convention or any other existing international agreement. Article 5 principles and approach in taking measures to implement this Protocol, the parties should take into consideration the following principles and approaches: (a) the precautionary principle, which has the advantage that the start of water related diseases prevention, control or abatement measures cannot be put aside just because scientific research has not fully proved a causal link between the factor for which the action is brought on the one hand and, the potential importance of the factor of water related diseases prevention and/or the transboundary impact on the other; (b) the polluter pays principle, in which the pollution prevention, control and reduction of costs shall be borne by the polluter; (c) States, in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations and the principles of international law, have the right to use their own resources according to their own environmental and development policies, are obliged to provide in their jurisdiction and oversight of the action in the safety environment of other countries in areas outside national jurisdiction; (d) water resources should be managed so that the needs of the present generation are satisfied without kompromitēj the future generations of use of water resources; (e) the need to take such preventive measures to avoid outbreaks of water related diseases and accidents, to protect water resources, which are used for the abstraction of drinking water, so these measures more effectively determine the environmental damage and the cost of that is undoubtedly less as recovery costs; (f) the real action in the management of water resources should be taken at the lowest administrative level; (g) water has social, economic and environmental values and should therefore be managed so as to find the best and most sustainable combination; (h) promote the efficient use of water, using economic instruments and awareness-raising; (i) public participation in decision-making and access to information on water and health is very important to enhance the quality of decision making and implementation in order to raise public awareness of issues and allowed an opportunity to express the views of the public, and ensure that public officials take into account public opinion. This approach and participation should be supplemented by appropriate access to judicial and administrative decisions for the second pass; (j) water resources should, as far as possible, be managed in an integrated manner, on the basis of the drainage basin, with the aim to combine socio-economic development with protection of natural ecosystems and associated water management by means of legislation relating to other environmental components. This integrated approach should apply to the entire drainage basin, including appropriate coastal waters, the whole of the horizon or the ground water following main drainage basin or groundwater horizon; (k) special account should be taken of the protection of people who are especially sensitive to diseases associated with water; (l) equitable access to water should be ensured for all citizens, in both qualitative and quantitative, taking into account in particular districts, which suffer from social isolation and lack of; (m) under private law and public law, law, natural and legal persons and institutions, both public and private sector should make their contribution to the protection of the environment and water resources conservation; (n) Implementation of the Protocol, due attention should be paid to local problems, needs and knowledge. Article 6 objectives and due to reach 1, parties to the Protocol should be the following objectives; (a) to provide drinking water for everyone; (b) anyone provide the sanitation model based on integrated water-management systems aimed at sustainable use of water resources, the ambient water quality which does not endanger human health and aquatic ecosystems. 2. for the implementation of these goals for each party and should be nopublic your national and/or local targets for the standards appropriate levels to achieve the highest protection against diseases associated with water. These objectives may be revised periodically. Through their implementation, to take appropriate practical or other provisions for public participation, which is based on the principles of transparency and integrity, and, of course, should ensure adequate attention to this partnership, acquired with public participation. The exception here is going to be there, where national or local circumstances make them irrelevant to the water related diseases prevention, reduction and control, these objectives should include: (a) the quality of drinking water supplied, taking into account the who guidelines for drinking-water quality; (b) water-related disease outbreaks and reduce the number of accidents; (c) that part of the population should be provided with the common drinking water supply system or drinking water quality should be improved as otherwise; (d) or part of the territory, the people of which should ensure the total sanitation system, or sanitation should be improved; (e) the target quality level, which should be achieved by setting the following common sanitation systems, or other water supply and sanitation; (f) recognized good practice/policy of use of water supply and sanitation management, including the protection of drinking water sources; (g) the leakage accident: (i) untreated waste water; and (ii) untreated stormwater discharge; and leakage from wastewater collection systems to waters that are included in the Protocol; (h) the sewage treatment plant purified water quality, which are included in the Protocol; (i) the common collection system or other sanitary equipment, the use of sewage sludge disposal or reuse and irrigation needs, the quality of the water used, taking into account the who guidelines for sewage and sludge in agriculture and the use of safe water and the United Nations Environment Programme; (j) the protection of The water source, which are used as bathing or water fish and marine invertebrates for farming or harvesting; (k) good practice/policy recognized the use of bathing management closed; (l) special recognition, contaminated sites remediation, which negatively affects the waters contained in the Protocol, or the place where the incredible might be affected and pose a threat to water-related diseases; (m) an effective water resource management, development, protection and use of the systems by applying good practices recognised any pollution source control; (n) sufficient information on the publishing frequency of the supplied drinking and other water quality that meets the objectives set out in article 7, paragraph 2, on the publication of information in between. 3. the two years since the country has become a party, it must be determined and nopublic their objectives, which are stated in paragraph 2 of this article, and the deadline for their achievement. 4. If you anticipate long implementation process, targets should be set, or the implementation of the objectives of the interim phase. 5. An arrangement should be made to promote the achievement of the objectives referred to in paragraph 2 of this article, therefore, the need to: (a) the national or local) to take measures for the coordination with the competent national authorities; (b)) to develop water management plans in transboundary, national and/or local contexts, preferably here based on the drainage basin or groundwater horizon. In doing so, it should make appropriate practical and/or other provisions for public participation, based on the principles of transparency and integrity, thereby ensuring due attention to public participation. These plans may include also other plans, programmes or documents with clear proposals at this point to achieve those objectives within certain time limits; (c) to establish and maintain a legal and institutional base for the drinking water quality standards and monitoring; (d) to establish and maintain order in cases of necessity also include legal and institutional changes to facilitate the monitoring, implementation and, where necessary, to promote other standards and the implementation of the activities relating to paragraph 2 of this article, the goal. Article 7 progress assessment and report 1. Each party should gather and evaluate data on: (a) stipulated in article 6 of the Progress in achieving the objectives; (b) indicators, set out to see how this progress contributes to water related diseases prevention, control or abatement. 2. Each party should periodically nopublic in data collection and assessment results. Publication frequency is determined by a meeting of the parties. 3. The Parties shall ensure the water exhaust analysis results available to the public. 4. on the basis of data collection and assessment, each Party shall review periodically the progress made in paragraph 2 of article 6 tasks and nopublic in this assessment. The frequency of the publication of the report be determined at a meeting of the parties. Publication of accounts may also be more likely than a particular article 6 paragraph 2 of the agreed objectives of the report, thereby improving the achievement of the objectives of the technological aspects of knowledge. 5. Each Party shall provide to the Secretariat of the review report, which stated in article 17, to provide data for the assessment of progress, and that is meant for other exchanges between the parties. Messages must be based on meeting specific criteria. Criteria should be laid down that the parties can use reports as a source of information in other international forums. 6. on the basis of the reports, the Conference of the parties should evaluate progress in the implementation of the Protocol. Article 8 responsibilities 1. Each Party shall ensure that: (a) comprehensive national and/or local surveillance and early-warning systems are established and maintained in a way that: (i) the detection of water-related disease outbreaks or incidents, or significant threats of such outbreaks, including those resulting from water-pollution incidents and extreme weather conditions; (ii) give prompt and clear message to government officials about such outbreaks, incidents or threats; (iii) any inevitable threats to public health from diseases associated with water, and that affects all of the information that is held by public officials, and which can help to reduce and prevent harm to the public; (iv) prepare recommendations to government officials and, where appropriate, to the public, for the prevention and remediation measures; (b) must be prepared in time for a comprehensive national and local prevention plans to respond to such risks and accidents; (c) the relevant public officials must respond to such outbreaks, incidents and risks under exceptional circumstances. 2. surveillance and early-warning systems, contingency plans and response to circumstances capabilities on diseases associated with water, can be combined with other types of systems. 3. in the three years since the country has become a party, it must be established for monitoring and early-warning systems, contingency/emergency plans and response to circumstances, as referred to in paragraph 1 of this article. Article 9 public awareness-RAISING, education, training, research, DEVELOPMENT and information 1. Parties should implement measures to raise public awareness in all sectors of: (a) water management and public health and the importance of mutual obligations; (b) the rights and obligations of the water sector and physical, legal persons and institutions, as well as the obligations of their moral obligation to contribute to the protection of the environment and water resources. 2. The Parties shall encourage: (a) those persons responsible for public health, understanding of water management, water supply and sanitation; and (b) water management, water supply and sanitation awareness of the fundamental principles of the people responsible for public health. 3. The parties ' professional and technical staff training and instruction required to manage water resources and work with the water supply and sanitation systems, as well as promote knowledge and skill level. Education and training should include important aspects of society. 4. The Parties shall encourage: (a) effective cost and technology research and development, in order to prevent, control and reduce water-related disease; (b) integrated information system for both long-term and short-term goals, given the past problems and successful solutions to water and health, as well as the competent national authority, provide it with information. Article 10 public information 1. additional requirements for this Protocol to publish specific information or documents, each Party shall, in accordance with their national legislation, to consider the steps required to make this information available to the public, to inform the public of: (a) the achievement of objectives and the setting of dates and water management plans in accordance with article 8; (b) surveillance and early warning systems and plans of unforeseen circumstances, improvement or maintenance in accordance with article 8; (c) public awareness, education, training, research, development and promotion of information, in accordance with article 9. 2. Each party should ensure that State officials, in response to the request for information related to the implementation of the Protocol, provide this information to the public within a reasonable time, in accordance with national legislation. 3. The Parties shall ensure that information referred to in article 7, paragraph 4, and paragraph 1 of this article, is available to the public free of charge or options from the copy of that information to the parties at a reasonable cost. 4. nothing here can force public officials to publish information or to ensure public access to information, if: (a) the information is not public officials; (b) the information requested is unreasonable or formulated in too general sweeping manner; or (c) the information relates to materials that are in a stage of completion or concerns internal communications of public officials in the national legislation or practice, which is intended for the following exception, taking into account the openness that serve the public interest. 5. Nothing in this Protocol can not compel public officials to publish information or provide information to the public if disclosure of that information would adversely affect: (a) the confidentiality of national officials with the form determined in accordance with national legislation; (b) international relations, national defence or public security; (c) the progress of the Court, able to judge the Court of Justice relating to a person or Government officials the ability to run a criminal or disciplinary nature of the investigation; (d) an industrial or commercial confidentiality, if it is protected by the law, which provides legal protect economic interests. Information on emissions and discharges, concerning the protection of the environment, are to be found; (e) intellectual property rights; (f) personal data and/or files relating to the privacy of individuals and that has given consent to disclose information to the public, where such confidentiality is defined in accordance with national legislation; (g) the interests of the third party who gave the information requested, and which cannot be identified as a party from which information is requested, and, where the third party does not give its consent to disclosure of the material; or (h) environment to which the information relates, such as the rare species feeding areas. The reasons for non-disclosure could describe the cautiously, taking into account the public interest, and, considering that this information will affect emissions and releases into the environment. 11. Article 1 of international co-operation. the Parties shall cooperate and assist each other: (a) the international activities for the implementation of the objectives of this Protocol; (b) upon request, provide assistance in implementing national and local plans in accordance with the Protocol. Article 12 JOINT and coordinated INTERNATIONAL action following the article 11 (a) (a), the parties should promote international cooperation that relate to: (a) the common objectives of development signed, which stated in paragraph 2 of article 6; (b) article 7(1) (b) above, the development of indicators to see how successful are measures of water-related disease prevention, control and reduction; (c) joint or coordinated systems for monitoring and early warning systems, unforeseen circumstances plans and response capacities as part of, or attachment to a national system that is provided under article 8 to be able to react with the water associated outbreaks of diseases, accidents or threats, in particular water pollution emergencies or severe weather; (d) mutual assistance in responding to outbreaks of water-related disease or accidents, especially water contamination or severe weather; (e) Integrated information systems and database development, information, technical and legal knowledge exchange of experience; (f) the competent authorities of one of the parties, an immediate and clear message other parties appropriate institutions can affect: (i) water-related disease outbreaks and accidents; and (ii) following the outbreak and the threat of accidents significantly, which is found; (g) the exchange of information on effective ways for the dissemination of information in society about the disease associated with water. Article 13 public WATERS crossing the border in the context of the 1. If more Parties bordering the same transboundary waters, an additional 11, atrunātaj in article 12 obligations, they should cooperate in providing mutual assistance when necessary to prevent, reduce and control of water-related diseases and to prevent the spread of the disease crossing the border. The parties should, in particular: (a) Exchange information and share knowledge about the transboundary waters problems and risks that may affect the other Parties bordering the same waters; (b) to seek to create a United and coordinated water-management plans in accordance with article 6 point (b), and surveillance and early-warning systems, contingency plans the conditions in accordance with article 8, paragraph 1, to respond to diseases associated with water, outbreaks and incidents, as well as to the threat of such diseases, in particular those resulting from water pollution emergencies or extreme weather conditions; (c) to the equality and mutual advantage, to accept the principle of a basic mutual agreement and other measures concerning border crossing waters so as to avoid any contradiction with the principles of the Protocol, and to determine their mutual relationships, manage them in accordance with the objectives of the Protocol; (d) to provide mutual consultations, at the request of either party on any adverse effect on human health significance which might give rise to water-related diseases. 2. If the parties concerned are parties to the Convention, the cooperation and assistance of water related diseases transboundary effects and exposure assessment must be dealt with in accordance with the provisions of the Convention. Article 14 INTERNATIONAL assistance to national activities in collaboration and helping national and local plans, followed by article 11 (b), parties should consider how better could facilitate: (a) the preparation of a management plan for water movement of national and/or local context, sanitation and water supply schemes; (b) projects, especially infrastructure projects, improving the wording, realizing the plans and schemes that promote access to financial sources; (c) effective execution of such projects; (d) monitoring and early warning, unexpected case plan and control system capabilities with water related diseases; (e) preparation of the legislation required for the execution of the Protocol; (f) the main professional and technical training, education and instruction; (g) effective cost and technical research and development to prevent water-related disease; (h) creating a network to carry out the service of water services and the monitoring, evaluation and integrated database and information system; (i) the achievement of high quality monitoring activities, including cross-laboratory comparison. Article 15 review of compliance the Parties reviewed the parties ' compliance with the provisions of this Protocol and to review the assessment basis as stipulated in article 7. Not confrontational, non-judicial and consultative nature of multilateral agreements, the parties should form the first consultation. In those agreements the parties must also include the issue of public involvement. Article 16 CONSULTATIONS of the parties 1. The first meeting of the Parties shall be convened no later than eighteen months from the date on which this Protocol enters into force. Further consultations on a regular basis, as determined by the parties, but not less frequently than every three years, except in cases of necessity, when it is more likely that article 2 point objectives. The Parties shall hold an extraordinary consultation if it decides itself during the current consultation, or at the request of any party, provided that, within six months of it being communicated to all parties, if the request is received at least one third of the parties ' support. 2. Where possible, ordinary meetings should preferably be combined with the Conference of the parties to the Convention. 3. At their meetings, the Parties shall review the implementation of this Protocol and to this end: (a) examine the parties ' policies and methodological approaches to water-related disease prevention, control and reduction, as well as promote policy convergence and strengthen transboundary and international cooperation in accordance with 11, 12, 13, 14; (b) on the basis of the information submitted by the Parties, in accordance with the guidelines laid down in the consultation of the Parties shall evaluate the progress made in the implementation of the Protocol. These guidelines should not overlap with reports on the fulfilment of requirements; (c) Is informed of the progress in the implementation of the Convention; (d) Exchange information with the consultation of the parties of the Convention and consider the possibilities for joint cooperation; (e) use the services provided by the Economic Commission for Europe and the World Health Organization's European Regional Office's institutions if necessary; (f) provide other competent international governmental and non-governmental organization participation in all meetings and events organized to achieve the objective of the Protocol; (g) examine the rules on access to information and the need for public participation in decision-making and review courts, administrative bodies, either within the competencies of the Protocol or other international experience aspects of the forum; (h) draw up a plan of work, including projects to be jointly marketed both Protocol and the Convention. Establish institutions that enforce this work plan; (i) consider and adopt guidelines, recommendations, which contribute to the implementation of the provisions of this Protocol; (j) first meeting, consider and by consensus adopt rules of procedure for this consultation, which includes the conditions that contribute to a harmonious society with the Conference of the parties to the Convention; (k) consider and adopt amendments to the Protocol; (l) consider and initiate additional measures necessary for the attainment of the objectives of the Protocol. Article 17 Secretariat 1. Secretariat of the Economic Commission for Europe and the World Health Organization (who) European Regional Office carries out the following functions: (a) Convene and prepare meetings of the parties; (b) the transmission to the parties of reports and information received on the provisions of the Protocol; (c) another, similar functions, which can be determined at a meeting of the parties, on the basis of available resources. 2. the Executive Secretariat of the Economic Commission for Europe and the who regional offices are: (a) the details of the work must be recorded in a memorandum of understanding, and inform the parties; (b) to report to the parties on the means and opportunities to realize a work plan which addressed in paragraph 3 of article 16. Article 18 amendments to the Protocol 1. any party may propose amendments to this Protocol. 2. Proposals for amendments to this Protocol consider meeting. 3. Any proposed amendments shall be submitted in writing to the Secretariat of who shall communicate it to all parties at least ninety days before the meeting at which the amendments envisaged. 4. Amendments to the Protocol shall be adopted by consensus of the parties representatives participating in the meeting. Amendments accepted the Secretariat shall notify the depositary that it shall be made available to the parties for acceptance. The amendment shall enter into force for parties that have adopted it on the 90th day after the date on which the parties adopt this amendment document and two thirds of the parties puts it with the depositary. For any other party on the amendments shall enter into force on the twentieth day following the date on which that party has deposited its instrument is the document of acceptance of the amendments. Article 19 right to vote 1. Each Protocol Party shall have one vote, except paragraph 2 of this article stipulates the cases. 2. regional economic integration bodies in matters within their competence, shall exercise the right to vote with a number of votes corresponding to the Member States, the number of Parties to the Protocol. The organisation loses the vote, if a Member State or the party exercised its right to vote and vice versa. Article 20 settlement of disputes 1. If a dispute arises between two or more parties about the interpretation or application of the Protocol, it should be solved by negotiation or by any other means acceptable to the parties to the dispute. 2. the signing, ratifying, accepting or approving this Protocol or by joining it, any party may notify the depositary in writing of the dispute, which is not adjusted according to paragraph 1 of this article, and uses one of the noregulējoš of disputes both parties means as mandatory for any party that accepts the same obligation: (a) If a party is a party to the Convention and has recognized both dispute settlement options provided by the Convention, the settlement of the dispute must be carried out in accordance with the provisions of the Convention, which stipulates the procedures for the settlement of disputes that arise in connection with the Convention; (b) in other cases, the dispute may be submitted to the requirements of the International Court of Justice, unless the parties have agreed to arbitration, or other dispute settlement approach. Article 21 SIGNATURE Protocol was opened for signature 17 1999-18 June in London, the third environment and health Ministerial Conference and then opened for signature of the United Nations in New York to the central headquarters of 18 June 2000. It was signed by the Member States of the Economic Commission for Europe, World Health Organization (who) Regional Committee for Europe, the Member States, the countries that have a consultative status in the Economic Commission for Europe (ECE) in accordance with economic and Social Council on 28 March 1947 (IV) of resolution 36 (IV) of paragraph 8, and regional economic integration organizations, constituted by sovereign States, the EEC and the who European Regional Office and the Member States which are empowered with regulatory issues in the Protocol , including the contracting, related to these issues. Article 22 ratification, acceptance, approval and accession 1 this Protocol shall be subject to ratification, acceptance or approval by States and by regional economic integration organizations to sign. 2. the Protocol shall be added to article 21 of the said countries and organizations. 3. any of the 21 bodies referred to in article, which becomes a party, given that no other organizations from that Member State is not a party, will be associated with all the parties to this Protocol. When such an organization is a member of one or more of the party organization together with the representatives of all the Member States, adopt the decisions on the obligations of the Protocol obligations. In such cases, the organisation and its Member States cannot use the rights provided for in the Protocol. 4. Regional economic integration organizations referred to in article 21, shall notify their competence issues governed by the Protocol. These organizations shall also inform the depositary of any substantial modification affecting their area of expertise. 5. instruments of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession have been deposited with the Secretariat-General of the United Nations. Article 23 entry into force, the present Protocol shall enter into force on the 90th day after the date has been given to the 16th instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession. 2. in accordance with paragraph 1 of this article, any instrument that will be deposited in a regional economic integration organization shall not be counted as additional document storage for documents that will transfer such organizations in the Member States. 3. in article 21, each State or organization which ratifies, accepts or approves this Protocol or accedes thereto after the date has been given to the 16th instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, the Protocol shall enter into force on the 90th day after the date on which such State or organization has deposited its instrument of deposit of its instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession. Article 24 withdrawal at any time from the moment when a party of three years from the date of entry into force of the Protocol with respect to a party, the party may withdraw, send a written report to the depositary. Any such withdrawal shall take effect on the 90th day after the date of receipt of the notification the depositary. Article 25 depositary the depositary of this Convention is the Secretary-General of the United Nations. Article 26 authentic texts the original of this Protocol, of which the English, French, German and Russian texts are equally authentic, shall be deposited in the United Nations General Secretariat.