1st meeting of the Stakeholders Forum for improvement of the navigability of the Sava River

First meeting of the Stakeholder Forum for the development of environmental impact assessment study and design for the action: Improvement of the navigability conditions of the Sava River from rkm 300 to rkm 329 (Project Jaruge - Novi Grad) was held in Zagreb on May 22, 2019 on the premises of the premises of Croatian Waters.

Stakeholder Forum was established with the aim of ensuring transparency in the implementation of the project mentioned above, in order to facilitate better communication between all stakeholders involved in the project. The work of the Forum will be performed in accordance with the guidelines defined in the Joint Statement on Guiding Principles for the Development of Inland Navigation and Environmental Protection in the Danube River Basin and Platina Manual on Good Practices in Sustainable Waterway Planning.

Main tasks of the Forum are: enabling exchange of information about the development of the Environmental Impact Study and project documentation; formulation of the project-related information needs, comments, questions and recommendations to the project team; elaboration of proposals for required improvements of the activities in different parts of the project; stimulation of implementation of the principles of the Joint Statement on Guiding Principles for the Development of Inland Navigation and Environmental Protection in the Danube River Basin and Manual on Good Practices in Sustainable Waterway Planning; consideration of other relevant recommendations and proposals regarding the project. 

The work of the Forum will actively involve stakeholders, i.e. their full participation throughout the entire process of project planning, and consequently their direct contribution to final outcome and plans.
At the meeting were presented the activities on preparation of design documentation and environmental impact assessment (EIA) study. Special attention was paid to the hydraulic modelling for the needs of conceptual solutions, including multi-criteria analysis for the optimal choice of measures for the sections concerned. With regard to the environmental impact assessment, it was concluded that additional analyzes of variant solutions with better elaboration of environmental indicators, i.e. indicators of environmental impact, should be made.

Documents in attachment

Agenda (in Croatian)
Agenda (in English)
Improvement of the navigability conditions of the Sava River from rkm 300 to rkm 329 - Conceptual design
Report of the Meeting (in Croatian)