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A convention is an agreement between states or rulers. The following conventions are relevant to EMWIS work.
 

URL Accord sur la protection de l'Escaut 1994-04-26, Charleville-Mézières.
Agreement between the French, Belgian and Netherlands governments regarding the Escaut river.
URL Accord sur la protection de la Meuse 1994-04-26, Charleville-Mézières.
Agreement between the French, Belgian and Netherlands governments regarding the Escaut river.
URL Agreement between Canada and the United States of America on Great Lakes quality 1978-11-22, Ottawa.
URL Convention entre le Conseil fédéral suisse et le Gouvernement de la République française concernant la protection des eaux du lacLéman contre la pollution 1960-11-09, Lausanne.
Convention between France and Switzerland to protect trans-boundary lake.
URL Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic 1992-10-22, Oslo-Paris.
Also known as the OSPAR Convention
URL Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer 1985-03-22, Vienna.
URL Convention on Biological Diversity 1992-06-05, Rio de Janeiro.
URL Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context 1991-02-25, Espoo.
URL Convention on Wetlands of International Importance especially as Waterfowl Habitat 1971-02-02, Ramsar.
URL Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes 1992-03-17, Helsinki.
URL EUR-OPA Major Hazards Agreement 1987-03-20, Strasbourg.
An intergovernmental platform for cooperation in the field of major natural and technological disasters between Eastern and central Europe, the South of the Mediterranean and Western Europe.
URL Protocol on Substances that deplete the Ozone Layer 1987-09-16, Montreal.
URL The Metre Convention 1875-05-20, Paris.
The Metre Convention established a permanent organisational structure for member governments to act in common accord on all matters relating to units of measurement.
URL Treaty between the United States and Great Britain relating to boundary waters 1909-01-11, Ottawa, Washington.
Includes questions arising between the United States and Canada.
URL UN Convention to Combat Desertification 1994-06-07, Paris
URL UN Framework Convention on Climate Change 1992-05-09, New York.
URL WATERLEX

FAO search tool for international agreements on international water sources.

WATERLEX carries the full text of treaties and agreements, bi-lateral and multi-lateral, concluded by sovereign countries in regard to the development and management of rivers and lakes, and/or of groundwater resources, which form an international boundary line or which are bisected by such boundary line.

Country and river/lake/basin/aquifer coverage does not purport to be exhaustive. WATERLEX covers a timespan from 1909 to-date.
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