Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and Council is a legislative approach established for managing and protecting water, based not on national or political boundaries but on natural geographical and hydrological formations: river basins.
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Strategic and Legal Framework of Torrential Flood Control in Some Western Balkan and EU Countries
Nada Dragović (Faculty of Forestry, University of Belgrade, Serbia), Tijana Vulević (Faculty of Forestry, University of Belgrade, Serbia), Muhamed Bajrić (Faculty of Forestry, University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina), Johannes Huebl (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna, Austria), Paolo Porto (University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy), and Ivan Blinkov (“Hans Em” Faculty of Forestry, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje, North Macedonia)
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|Pages: 32
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8459-0.ch003
Abstract
The EU countries are obliged to harmonize their legislation in the field of flood protection, and thus torrential floods, in accordance with the Water Framework Directive (WFD) which was adopted in 2000. Two EU countries, Austria and Italy, and three Western Balkan countries were selected for the strategic and legal framework of torrential flood control: Serbia, North Macedonia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. In addition to the legal framework of torrential flood control in EU countries, policies and strategies related to this area were studied for comparative analysis with non-EU countries. The strategic framework for the protection of water resources, and in particular torrential flood protection, is lacking in all Western Balkan countries. The aim of this chapter is to determine the directions of future strategic directions and torrential flood control policies in the Western Balkans based on the experiences of EU countries, advantages and disadvantages of the existing strategic, and legal frameworks.