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Erschienen in: Environmental Earth Sciences 12/2017

01.06.2017 | Thematic Issue

Legal challenges to the management of transboundary watercourses in Central Asia under the conditions of Eurasian Economic Integration

verfasst von: Daria S. Boklan, Barbara Janusz-Pawletta

Erschienen in: Environmental Earth Sciences | Ausgabe 12/2017

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Abstract

Worldwide experience has shown that interstate economic integration can help states in strengthening of management of transboundary waters and international water law serves as a reference for developing of relevant interstate cooperation. Transboundary waters in Central Asia play important role in the economic cooperation among riparian states, including those who are members of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU). At the current stage of transboundary waters management in Central Asia, the obsolete legal status is evident. The international water law sources developed under the United Nations’ auspices have no binding application due to luck of formal membership of the EAEU states in these treaties. Also the regional set of regulations, especially for the Aral Sea Basin, needs further enhancement and more efficient implementation. The bilateral interstate regulatory framework of the managemennt of waters shared by EAEU states in Central Asia requires development of additional rules to enable better accommodation of challenges existing in terms of the current interstate cooperation. Having said that can one further assume that EAEU could serve as a new legal framework for more effective cooperation on transboundary watercourses in Central Asia? The answer might be yes, but… the current stage of the legal framework for cooperation on transboundary waters within the EAEU requires sufficient enhancements in terms of developing its legal and institutional framework. The first condition for EAEU to serve as framework for cooperation on transboundary waters of Central Asia is to strengthen the regulatory framework for the cooperation of EAEU member states regarding environmental issues in general and transboundary water relations in particular, able to accommodate two main goals: environmental protection on the one hand and economic development on the other hand. The EAEU legal framework shall also lead to improvement of existing institutional cooperation and a dispute settlement mechanism on transboundary waters shared by the member states of the EAEU.

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Fußnoten
1
See: The Helsinki Rules 1966 (art. III); UNECE Water Convention 1992 (Art. 1); UN Water Convention 1997. Art. 2 (b).
 
2
Concerning their legal force we may admit that some authors consider provisions of the Helsinki Rules of 1966 as a reflection of the international customary law (Valeev 2012: 378), but some others consider them merely as unbinding recommendations (Vinogradov 2000).
 
3
The Law of Transboundary Aquifers’ of December 11, 2008, UN Doc A/RES/63/124.
 
4
‘Agenda 21’ of the UN Conference on Environment and Development of June 14, 1992, UN Doc A/CONF.151/26/Rev 1 vol I, 9.
 
5
UN Water Convention 1997 Art. 6.
 
6
See: Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States of 1974, Art. 1. A/RES/29/3281; Rio Declaration on Environment and Development of 1992 in Principle 2. A/CONF.151/26 (Vol. I).
 
7
Helsinki Rules 1966, Art. 4; UNECE Water Convention 1992, Art. 2, par. (c), UN Water Convention 1997 Art. 5, par. 1.
 
8
Helsinki Rules 1966, Art. 10; UNECE Water Convention 1992, Art 2 par. 1, UN Water Convention 1997. Art 7.
 
9
Pulp Mills on the River Uruguay (Argentina vs. Uruguay), para 205 (Judgment of International Court of Justice from April 20, 2010). Available at http://​www.​icj-cij.​org/​docket/​index.​php?​p1=​3&​p2=​3&​k=​88&​case=​135&​code=​au&​p3=​4. Last visited 20.03.2016.
 
10
According to Article 2 (para 2) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights of 1966 “All peoples may, for their own ends, freely dispose of their natural wealth and resources without prejudice to any obligations arising out of international economic co-operation, based upon the principle of mutual benefit, and international law”.
 
11
ILA Berlin Rules, Art. 64.
 
12
Art. 64 of Berlin Rules on Water Resources, International Law Association ‘Resolution No 2/2004: Water Resources’ in International Law Association (ed) Report of the Seventy-First Conference: Berlin: 16–21 August 2004 (ILA London 2004) 15. https://​www.​google.​pl/​#q=​ilahq+Berlin+Rul​es+on+Water+Reso​urces%2C+International​+Law+Association​+%282004%29+.
 
13
UN Water Convention 1997, Art. 8, and 24; UNECE Water Convention 1992, Art. 9.
 
14
CIS Agreement on basic principles of interaction in the sphere of sustainable use and protection of transboundary waters of 1998.
 
15
See Ref. EU-UNDP Project (2008–2012), p. 10.
 
16
Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Joint Utilisation and Protection of Transboundary Water Bodies from 2010 (further referred to as 2010 Water Agreement).
 
17
Agreement between the Government of the Russian Federation and the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan on Joint Utilisation and Protection of Transboundary Water Bodies from 1992. It created a Kazakhstan–Russia committee meeting twice a year to approve the work schedule for reservoirs designated for joint use, set limits for water extraction and develop measures for the repair and operation of water facilities designated for joint use.
 
19
The global opening of the 1992 Water Convention, P. 2, see: http://​www.​unece.​org/​fileadmin/​DAM/​env/​water/​publications/​brochure/​Opening_​brochure.​pdf. Last visited 20.03.2016.
 
20
See: www.​chutalas-commission.​org. Last visited 20.03.2016.
 
21
EAEU Treaty 2014, Art. 29.1.
 
22
EAEU Treaty 2014, Art. 65.7.
 
23
The Declaration of the high-level meeting of the General Assembly on the rule of law at the national and international levels A/RES/67/1, para 7 (2012).
 
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Metadaten
Titel
Legal challenges to the management of transboundary watercourses in Central Asia under the conditions of Eurasian Economic Integration
verfasst von
Daria S. Boklan
Barbara Janusz-Pawletta
Publikationsdatum
01.06.2017
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in
Environmental Earth Sciences / Ausgabe 12/2017
Print ISSN: 1866-6280
Elektronische ISSN: 1866-6299
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12665-017-6741-3

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