Invitation

Dear Madam, Dear Sir, Dear Friends,

I remind you that the next « EUROPE-INBO 2007 » international conference, organized by the « Group of European Basin Organizations for the Implementation of the Water Framework Directive », will take place, at the invitation of the Italian Ministry of the Environment and the Italian Basin Authorities:

From 8 to 10 November 2007

Sala dello Stenditoio - Complesso San Michele a Ripa

Via di San Michele 22

in ROME – ITALY

The «EUROPE-INBO 2007» meeting itself will be organized simultaneously with the General Assembly of the Mediterranean Network of Basin Organizations (MENBO), which will also take place in ROME at the same dates.

I send you herewith the form necessary for your registration and the draft program of the meeting.

There will be simultaneous translation into English, Spanish and French.

Registration to the « EUROPE-INBO 2007 » conference is free of charge.

The aim of INBO is to enable the Basin Organizations to regularly and informally meet in order to exchange their practical experiences.

Our work will be in line with the recommendations and decisions made by the Committee of the European Union’s Water Directors and by the Strategic Coordination Group led by the Commission.

The implementation of the Water Framework Directive is now in an active and operational phase, which directly involves the Basin Organizations or the « District Authorities », which are facing operational problems in its field implementation that are to be discussed.

You are invited to present a paper on your experiments: The title and summary should reach us now by return mail to: inbo@wanadoo.fr.

Our meeting will be organized around three main current topics on the Framework Directive implementation in the European River Basin Districts in 2007:

• 1.      Cost of the Water Framework Directive: cost of procedures, preparation of Management Plans and Programs of Measures and their financing, economic studies, water price, etc.
• 2.        Consequences of global warming: prevention and management of extreme climatic phenomena of floods and droughts, situation in the Mediterranean Region.
• 3.        Public participation: outcomes of the first enquiries of 2005 and 2006 and the lessons learned for the next enquiry in 2008.

As the meeting is taking place in Italy, special attention will be paid to the issues specific to water management in the Mediterranean region.

The meeting is open to all INBO member organizations and observers, and also to the water administrations and organizations, interested in the implementation of the Framework Directive, of the member and candidate countries of the European Union and of all the other countries of the Balkans, Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia, and of the Mediterranean region, in particular.

Any useful information, programs and proposed papers will be continuously available on the website: www.inbo-news.org.

A meeting of the new INBO World Liaison Bureau will be held at the same dates, in hotel Abitart, Via P. Matteucci 10/20 Roma, following our 7th World General Assembly 2007, which took place in Debrecen in Hungary.

I thank you in advance for kindly returning, at your earliest convenience, the enclosed registration form to inbo@wanadoo.fr, in order to facilitate the good organization of the meeting and your best welcoming in ROME.

I would advise you to arrive on Wednesday 7 November 2007 at the Rome International Airport. If your agenda allows it, you could leave Rome on Sunday 11 November in the morning.

Your hotel booking at group discount price can be made for you by our Italian hosts, passing by Well Done Group :

Tel. +39 06 99701270, Fax  +39 06 97840965,

Mobile : 334.6245918 - 393.0935801 ; E-mail: riob2007@welldonegroup.it (See hotels List). .

For any information concerning the practical organization of the conference, please contact Mr. Remo PELILLO at the Secretariat General of the Tiber River Basin Authority, which will be our host in Rome:

Tel:  +390649249230 or: + 390649249239 and E- mail: remo.pelillo@abtevere.it   - segreteria@abtevere.it

We cannot take charge of your air travels and hotel accommodation in Rome.

I am pleased to see you in Rome next November, and I remain,

Yours faithfully.

 

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