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Objectives

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• Related to waterway maintenance: river engineering; river bed-, shoreline-, water-level regulation, maintenance and operate of the fairways, making of the marking plans, providing of the floating and coastal marking, mapping/charting, coper-ation with the relevant authorities.Organization and implementation of the survey, collection, store, forwarding of data of river bed, shoreline and waterways.

• VKKI – through the activities of the 12 territorial directorates - within their numer-ous tasks - is responsible for the good con-dition of the rivers including the different categories of waterways/fairways consider-ing the international regulations.

Bodies Involved

Roles &Responsibilites

Territorial Initiation “The handling of the problems of waterways/fairways is more effi-cient apply-ing this state’s dealing system. The use of the (not too rich) sources is more efficient in the field of the development, oper-ation and maintenance of Hungar-

ian waterways. We can focus on the most important, most urgent tasks initiated by the territorial/lo-cal bodies.”

The role of the organisations is to provide secure multi-functional use of the waterways for all: both exploiters of transport and recreational users. It has to ensure a balance across the entire user spectrum.

ERDF co-financing rate: 85%• Total amount: 131.753,33 €• ERDF Funding:111.990,33 €• EU National co-financing: 19.763,00 • €

In the surrounding countries there are river stretches with common interests & problems (in terms of waterways op-eration, maintenance and navigation). There are bilateral agreements with all neighboring countries. The cross-bor-der activities are operated on the basis of different water management level organizations.

It’s an ongoing process• The main changes of the structure • happened between 2004-2006

Shared responsibility between navi-• gation by the decentralized networkShared waterway maintenance and • operations

More decision levels – but less ac-• countable, professional people in-volved Fewer people involved in administra-• tive organisationsMore representatives are needed to • ensure the safeguard of heritage as-sets, as well as increased represen-tation for the tourist sector.

The First Level Control is the VÁTI Hungarian Non-profit Company for Re-gional Development and Town Plan-ning, Central Control Unit in Budapest, by whom the expenditure of project partners will thus have to be checked and confirmed.

Decentralisation of the out-of-date • system, modernisationMore accentual role for the territorial • water management directoratesChanging the “way of orders” which • supports success of the initiations “from beneath” concerning alterna-tive usage of inland waterways

Budapest, Hungary

G29In Hungary, the year before the country joined the EU, there was a strongly concentrated two lev-el water management system in work: a central governmen-tal body and 12 territorial water management directorates. In 2004, the year Hungary joined the EU, the dividing and trans-forming of the tasks and roles between the central and terri-torial organizations in the field of the water management sec-tor began. Despite the system of the administrative structure’s network not being transformed, it has nevertheless represented a significant change in the field

of decision-making among the different levels of the structure.

The role of the members of the water (and also the environ-ment) management structure has been modified. The ter-ritorial bodies all around the country are very much aware of local problems and local situa-tions, as they are in close con-nection with local stakeholders: those users of the waterways who have been involved in joint talks about the implementation of the key goals within local wa-ter management, in particular regarding the development, op-

eration and maintenance of the waterways/fairways. Among the other numerous tasks of the 12 territorial directorates, they are directly responsible for keep-ing the rivers in a good condi-tion, including the different cat-egories of waterways/fairways, whilst taking international regu-lations into consideration. Their ongoing activities include: river engineering, riverbed, shore-line and water-level regulation, the maintenance and operation of the fairways, drawing up de-marcation plans, providing float-ing and coastal markers, map-ping/charting, and cooperating

with relevant local navigation authorities. They carry out sur-veys, collections, storage, and forward data concerning the riv-erbeds and shorelines, as well as the waterways.

These two bodies coordinate local planning with national de-velopment at various water lo-cations (and the surrounding areas) and the associated man-agement activities, in order to be able to assess the most ap-plicable and efficient domestic and international financial and HR funding for the activities.

A story in Hungary of Good Practice:

Source: András Magyarics, WF project manager

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