Presentations

Joint Workshop on Waterway Management of EUSDR/PA1a and the Danube Commission: The potential of fairway information services and active traffic management to cope with low water conditions

Viktoria Weissenburger, viadonau and PA1a – Improving fairway information services: Overview of existing and planned services for Danube navigation
Romeo Soare (AFDJ) and Ivelin Zanev (APPD) – Case study Lower Danube: coping with extreme water conditions through active traffic management
Csaba Bede and Anita Reichardt (OVF) Case study Middle Danube: current practices on traffic regulation during low water periods
Balazs Hlavacska DDSG – MAHART – Go ahead and make Danube much navigable together!

2023

Working group on technical matters (WG TECH)

Mladen Grujic – 65^th Conference of directors of Danube shipping companies
Peter Caky – Updates on the interactive map of the Danube Commission
Pjotr Suvorov – The Working Platform for Fleet Modernization
Pjotr Suvorov – Updates on DCs activities in the field of the security of navigation on the Danube
Sebastian Roger – Ausbau der Bundeswasserstraße Donau
Tetyana Tarasenko – Energy efficiency issues regarding the operation of pushed trains on the Danube
Vladimir Rybkovskiy – Information from the Secretariat on the Preparation of the Statistical Yearbook of the Danube Commission for 2022

Danube Regional Workshop on Energy Transition in Inland Ports

Alexio Picco, SEANERGY – Project Presentation
Werner Auer, Ennshafen – Regional Workshop Ennshafen Port
Werner Auer, Ennshafen – Calculating and reporting CO2-emissions: How Ennshafen is starting to deal with the new requirements
Manfred Seitz, DC – Green Danube Port – Joint Statement of the Danube Port Authorities and Ports Stakeholders
Sasa Jovanovic, IC-consulenten – Gaps in regional developments in the Danube Region Danube Region and their influence on the energy transition needs
Danique de Jonge, ESPO – EU Taxonomy: a ports’ perspective

Joint Statement Meeting

I 1-3 EU Enviromental policies – Diar Isid-EC DG ENV
I 1-4 Activity report of METEET – Dejan Trifunović-DC
I 1-5 Update on the FRMMP for Danube – Viktoria Weissenburger-EUSDR PA1a
I 2-1 Updates on the progress of works in Germany – Stefan Neudert-StUMV
I 2-2 Improvement of the Danube in Hungary – Bede Csaba-OVF
I 2-3 Border section HR-RS-FAIRway 2 works – Hubalek MSTI-Mihajlović Plovput
I 2-4 Update on the progress in Serbia-Iron Gate I&II – Bojana Nedovic-Plovput
I 2-5 Updates RO-BG part of the Danube – Romeo Soare AFDJ-Ivelin Zanev APPD
I 2-6 Waterway Monitoring System WAMOS 2.0 – Susanne Bachl-Via Donau
II 1-1 State of navigation on the Sava – Krunoslav Sopček-Duško Isaković-ISRBC
II 1-2 New age of river engineering – Duška Kunštek-MSTI
II 1-3 Serbian and BiH sector confulence of Sava and Drina – Lubiša Mihajlović-Plovput
II 1-4 Croatian port infrastructure-economy hub – Vjekoslav Janković PA SB
II 1-5 Development of nautical turism in the SRB – Božana Matoš-Ancoris
II 1-6 Case study-River Marina Sisak – Duška Kunštek-MSTI
II 1-7 Crusing tourism infrastructure – Srđa Lješević-PGA
II 1-8 State of fleet and expected improvements – Tomislav Uroda-iCat
II 2-1 Process to adapt the Joint Statement 2.0 – Birgit Vogel-ICPDR

METEET – Workshop on the climate resilience of inland waterways and ports

Birgit Vogel / ICPDR – ICPDRs Climate Change Adaptation Strategy and planned work on droughts
Claus Kondrup / EC – Technical guidance on the climate proofing of infrastructure in the period 2021-2027
Diar Isid / DG ENV – Water related EU legislation with regard to inland waterways and introduction of EDORA and Water Quantity projects
Euripides Sakellariou / CINEA – Climate proofing requirements for the CEF Transport calls
Judith ter Maat / CHR – Impacts of climate change and socio-economic scenarios on low water in the Rhine River basin
Kai Kempmann, Laure Roux / CCNR – CCNR’s Act now! reflection paper
Nevena Gavalyugova-Bolsi / DG MOVE – Climate proofing provisions in the revised TEN-T Regulation and forthcoming study on TEN-T climate resilience
Viktoria Weissenburger / viadonau – Innovative and flexible approaches for climate-resilient waterway management

Constanta Port Business Association Event “ The Corridor Caspian Sea-Black Sea and the Port of Constanta – the Way to Europe”

Manfred Seitz – Danube solidarity lane – Danube information and coordination desk
Antonio Stoean – Danube solidarity lane – Danube information and coordination desk

Expert Meeting on Development of Ports and Port Operations (EM PORTS)

Dejan Trifunovic, Manfred Seitz – Update on policy framework relevant for Danube ports
Robert Rafael – Green inland ports presentation introduction to the project
Dejan Trifunovic, Manfred Seitz -Infrastructure development and impact of climate change
Antonio Stoean – Danube solidarity lane – Danube information and coordination desk
Grzegorz Pawelec – Status of Hydrogen development in Europe
Manfred Seitz – Joint Statement
O.Riepkin – Ukraine’s green hydrogen potential new challenges and opportunities
Tobias Block – eFuels in inland navigation
Robert Rafael – DaRePORT
Raphael le Guillou – Best Practice Guide on Cybersecurity in Inland Ports
Rudy Hemeleers – Speeding-up UA-EU corridors through digital data sharing
Mario Kaufmann – Overview of the work plan for the RIS COMEX2
Svetlana Stirbu – Carbon Footprint
Srdja Ljesevic – PGA APDM
Manfred Seitz – Next steps

Expert Meeting on ship-generated wastes (EM WASTE)

Dejan Trifunović – Expert Meeting on Ship-generated waste
Marcela-Daniela Costea – Port facilities and environmental services provided by the NATIONAL COMPANY ‘MARITIME DANUBE PORTS ADMINISTRATION’GALATI

Expert Meeting on Hydraulic Engineering (EM HYD)

Gert-Jan Muilerman, PA 1a EUSDR / viadonau – EUSDR PA1a Inland Waterways
Ralf Jina, DDSG – River Engineering Works
Georgel Negrea. AFDJ – Difficulties encountered in 2022 in the transport of goods on the Danube
Marius Paruse, ANC – Maintenance works Danube-Black Sea Canal and Northen Branch Poarta Alba-Midia Canal
Romeo Soare, AFDJ – Dredging works 2022 sector rkm 863-rkm 610 and rkm 375-rkm 0
Ivelin Zanev, EAMDR – Status of the main critical sections in the period 2020-2022 and hydrological information, Bulgaria
Jasna Muskatirovic, Plovput – Inland Waterways in the Republic of Serbia- Current Status and Perspectives
Lidija Hubalek, MMPI – Status of Inland Navigation in Croatia
Csaba Bede, OVF – National status and update of activities in waterway management – Hungary
Pavel Virág, Vladimir Novák, SVP – Information on the status of the fairway in 2022 and on the Program for maintenance work of 2023
Simon Hartl, viadonau – Presentation and discussion of activities planned in Austria
Dmytro Barinov, USPA – The Black Sea grain initiative and the fight against world hunger

2022

The 13^th Follow-up Meeting of the Joint Statement on Guiding Principles for the Development of Inland Navigation and Environmental Protection in the Danube Region:

András Tóth – Technical guidance on the climate proofing of infrastructure in the period 2021-2027
Csaba Bede, Anita Reichardt – Improvement of the Danube in Hungary – CEF-Study Section Szob – Southern border
Duska Kunstek, Lana Deraković Rakas – Application of EU standards in ecological water engineering case study from Croatia
Helmut Habersack – Current status and future requirements in education and training of engineers
Ivan Mitrovic, Veljko Kovacevic – Upgrade of the Iron Gate I and Iron Gate II Navigation Locks
Jan Brooke – Perspectives for enhancing navigation and environmental protection in the scope of climate change
Jeanne Boughaba – EU environmental policies and latest developments relevant for waterways
Johan Magnusson – EUSDR Action Plan and its impact on PA1a cohesion policy 2021-2027
Lidija Hubalek, Ivan Mitrovic – Border Section Croatia-Serbia CEF Study, Preparing FAIRway 2 works in the Rhine Danube Corridor
Manfred Seitz -Implementation issues of the JS & advisory services
Marc Daniel Heintz – Fit for climate change – experience from the River Rhine & measures identified
Susanne Bachl – Waterway Monitoring System WAMOS 2.0 – a joint endeavour towards harmonised Danube waterway data
Victoria Weissenburger – EUSDR PA1a: Update on the Fairway Rehabilitation and Maintenance Master Plan (FRMMP) for the Danube and its navigable tributaries

2021

Working group on technical matters (WG TECH) (21-23 April 2021)

Oleksandr Riepkin – H2U Hydrogen Valley

Expert Group on Security in Inland Water Transport (EG SEC) (17 February 2021)

Pjotr Suvorov – Updated information on DC’s activities in the field of the security of navigation on the Danube
Laurentiu Petrache – AQUAPOL
Alfred Spörr – Pooling & Sharing
Philipp Hermes – Aktuelle Aspekt der Gefahrenabwehr in der Binnenschifffahrt

2020

Expert Group on Security in Inland Water Transport (EG SEC) (12 February 2020)

Pjotr Suvorov – Updated information on DC’s activities in the field of the security of navigation on the Danube
Pjotr Suvorov – Meeting of experts on the security of IWT
Hubert Griepe – Das Bayerische Landeskriminalamt
Hubert Griepe – EUSDR: Status of joint activities of PA1a and PA11
Hubert Griepe – ADN
Dejan Trifunovic – David forms, Summary of implementation steps 2020 – 2022
Laurentiu Petrache – Inland Maritime “DANUBE – BLACK SEA” HUB
Philipp Hermes – Gefahrenabwehr in der Binnenschifffahrt

GRENDEL 2nd Public Consultation on State Aid for the Modernization of the Danube Inland Fleet (22 January, 2020)

Daiwa Żukowska – State aid for modernizing the Danube fleet – legal framework
Charlotte Siot – Towards modernisation and greening of Danube inland waterborne sector and strengthening its competitiveness
Lucia Karpatyova – Activity 5.1 Public consultations
Lucia Karpatyova – Questions
Vojtěch Dabrowski – Modernisation of Inland Waterway vessels in the Czech Republic

2019

Working Group on Technical Affairs (WG TECH) (15 – 18 October 2019)

Daniel Grosu – AFDJ Dredging works
Dejan Trifunovic – Presentation DC role in ports 2019
Evgeny Brodskiy – Overview of current RIS issues Russia
Igor Alexander – Fragebogen über die Kommunikationssprachen auf der Donau
Petar Kirov – Overview of the DARiSS Project
Plamena Yordanova Kapralyakova – Impact of Bulgarian legislation on submission of statistical data to the Danube Commission
Sergey Viktorovich Kanurniy – VOPOG 2019
Virginia Oganesian – Activity of the Danube ports in 2018

Expert Group Hydrotechnology (EG HYD) (18 – 19 September 2019)

Matej Vaníček – Aufrüstung von Schleusenkammern in Gabcíkovo
Viktoria Weissenburger – EUSDR PA1a
Pjotr Semjonovitsch Suvorov – Water levels on the Danube in 2018
Daniel Grosu – Dredging works AFDJ
Peter Čaky – ПЛАН ОСНОВНЫХ РАБОТ, НАПРАВЛЕННЫХ НА ДОСТИЖЕНИЕ РЕКОМЕНДОВАННЫХ ГАБАРИТОВ СУДОВОГО ХОДА, ГИДРОТЕХНИЧЕСКИХ И ДРУГИХ СООРУЖЕНИЙ НА ДУНАЕ

10^th Joint Statement Meeting (11-12 September 2019)

Jeanne Boughaba, European Commission DG ENV – EU environmental policies relevant for inland navigation – latest developments
Ismini Maria Kyriazopolou, Networking and Competence Centre, JASPERS / EIB – Implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD) in the Danube region regarding the navigation sector and river works- Article 4(7) WFD checklist tool
Gert-Jan Muilerman, Viadonau – Austria – Integrated River Engineering Project Catalogue of Measures for the Danube east of Vienna
Georgina Pavlina – Bulgaria, EAEMDR – FAST DANUBE “Technical Assistance for Revising and Complementing the Feasibility Study Regarding the Improvement of Navigation Conditions on the Romanian-Bulgarian Common Sector of the Danube and Complementary Studies”
Tomislav Strus – Croatia, Inland Navigation Directorate – Inland waterway on Sava river (km 300 –km 329)
Jasna Muskatirovic, Serbia, Directorate for Inland Waterways – Supervision and Environmental Monitoring of River Training and Dredging Works in Serbia
Roman Cabadaj – Slovakia, Ministry of Transport – Danube Waterway in the Slovak republic
Catalina Dumbrava and Romeo Soare – Romania, AFDJ, – IMPROVEMENT OF THE NAVIGATION CONDITIONS ON THE DANUBE BETWEEN CALARASI AND BRAILA, KM 375 – KM 175
Monica Matei, Madalina Boboc and György Deák INCDPM – WIN-WIN SOLUTION TO PROTECT STURGEON SPECIES AND TO ENSURE NAVIGATION CONDITIONS ON BALA BRANCH VS. OLD DANUBE IN THE CONTEXT OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN ROMANIA
Zeljko Milkovic – Sava Commission, ISRBC – Rehabilitation and Development of the Navigation and Transport on the SavaRiver Waterway-sector Novi Grad
Barbara Kéri – DanubeSediment Danube Sediment Management – Restoration of the Sediment
Paul Meulenbroek – Balance in the Danube River – MEASURES
Georg Frank – DANUBEParks CONNTECTED – NATURE CONSERVATION AND NAVIGATION alongside the DANUBE River
Jasna Muskatirovic and Georg Rast – METEET – Conclusions and results of first trainings in Croatia, Serbia and Slovakia including way forward
Gert-Jan Muilerman, EUSDR PA1a Technical Secretariat – EUSDR related developments – The Fairway Rehabilitation and Maintenance Master Plan for the Danube and its navigable tributaries/Revision of the EUSDR Action Plan
Robert Rafael, General Secretary Pro Danube International – Sustainable and efficient transport on the Danube – viewpoints from an industry association
Ana Leganel, Joint Secretariat-Danube Transnational Program – Interreg-Danube Transnational Program in 2019 and 2020-DTP 3
Manfred Seitz, DC – Discussion on key lessons learned and future steps in support of the implementation of the Joint Statement (DG MOVE, DG ENV, ICPDR, ISRBC, DC, stakeholders) – update the document

Meeting of experts on the security of inland water transport (EG SEC) (2 February 2019)

Pjotr S. Suvorov – Activities of the Danube Commission regarding security of navigation on the Danube
Tibor Mátyás – A company overview about IWT
Prof. Dr. Siegfried Voessner – Towards Transnational River Information Systems to Foster Commercial Logistics and Public Safety
Erich Kraus – Kooperative Zusammenarbeit Schiffskommando / EKO Cobra / Waterpolice
Laurențiu Petrache – AQUAPOL “Danube – Black Sea” HUB

2018

Expert Group Hydrotechnology (EG HYD) 18th – 19th September

Hristo Enchev – Contracting of dredging activitites on the Bulgarian section of the Danube River rkm 610 –rkm 374.100

Meeting of experts on the security of inland water transport (EG SEC) 7 February, 2018

Pjotr S. Suvorov – Activities of the Danube Commission regarding security of navigation on the Danube
Erich Kraus – PoRIS Potentiale transnationaler Binnenschifffahrts-Informationssysteme als Instrumente zur Gewährleistung der öffentlichen Sicherheit

2017

Joint PA1a & PA11 Working Group Meeting (Budapest, 24 October 2017)

Gert-Jan Muilerman, Simon Hartl, Ulf Meinel – EUSDR PA1a & PA11 working group meeting on administrative processes
Julia Sliwinski – Analysis of existing procedures and administrative processes
Rafael Róbert – State of play of the DANTE project and barrier reporting tool
Pjotr S. Suvorov – Activities of the Danube Commission regarding security of navigation on the Danube
Monika Kučerová – Outcomes of the 1st National Working Table Meetings

88th Session of the Danube Commission (2017 06 09)

Bernardo Urrutia – Developments in the EU Inland Navigation Policy
Horst Schindler – GRENDEL – GReen and EfficieNt DanubE fLeet”: Towards green, efficient and competitive river Danube transport

Workshop´17 (2017 06 08)

Dejan Trifunovic – GREEN DANUBE Integrated transnational policies and practical solutions for an environmentally-friendly Inland Water Transport system
Johan Boonen – Watertruck+
Mező Gergely – Danube STREAM
Rafael Róbert – DAPhNE Goals & StructureProject Environment
Horst Schindler – Study on Good Navigation Status
Rafael Róbert – DANTE Improving Administrative Procedures and Processes for Danube IWT
Bernardo Urrutia – Technical standards in the field of inland navigation Directive
Alexander F. Stemmer – METEET
Pjotr S. Suvorov – Activities of the Danube Commission regarding security of navigation on the Danube

Market Observation Meeting (2017 06 07)

Pjotr S. Suvorov – Market Observation for European inland navigation

Expert Group Hydrotechnology (EG HYD) 21 – 22 March 2017

Jasna Muskatirovic – The Upgrade of the Iron Gate I Navigational Lock

Meeting of experts on the security of inland water transport (EG SEC) (15 February 2017)

Pjotr S. Suvorov – Activities of the Danube Commission regarding security of navigation on the Danube
Erich Kraus – GEMEINSAM SICHER auf Schiffen und in Häfen
Kalmár Ádám – Results of the Joint Operations and trainings working group
Herczeg Mónika – FINAL RESULTS OF THE “Setting up the Structure of a Danube River Forum” DARIF
Szalma Botond – „Security of navigation = useable waterways”

2016

87^th Session of the Danube Commission (14 December 2016)

Désirée Oen, Dimitrios Theologitis, Bernardo Urrutia – Inland navigation developments in the EU 2016

Meeting of the Working Group on Technical Affairs (18 – 21 October 2016)

Theresia Hacksteiner LL.M. – Secretary General IVR CLNI 2012 CONVENTION AND ITS HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
dr. Zsolt Kovács – Workshop at the premises of the Danube Commission
Large Infrastructure Projects ltd. Sofia, Bulgaria – New Pan – European transport and water management project
Игорь Сенилов ЧАО “Украинское Дунайское пароходство” – Испытания катализатора топлива КТ- 6Д

7^th Workshop on the Follow-up of the Joint Statement on Guiding Principles on the Development of Inland Navigation and Environmental Protection in the Danube River Basin (15-16 September 2016)

Summary Report

Presentations

2015

Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy (Varna, 2015)

Nikola Vaptsarov Naval Academy

Workshop – Streamlining at the Danube (29 September 2015)

P.Margić: Danube Commission – Introduction
B.Szalma: The importance of the need of computability for proper waterways
M.Szűcs: EU funded Cross-border Co-operation at the Danube – Hungary-Croatia
L.Clinckers: Waterwegen en Zeekanaal NV (W&Z)
B.Kortschak: Timely Obstacles to Danube Shipping – Border Control and Customs and…

K.Gombás: FAIRway
K.Gombás: DANICE – DANube river basin ICE conveyance investigation and icy flood management – project proposal

Group of Experts on Hydrotechniques (23-24 September 2015)

P.Caky: NEWADA duo
J.Schiller: Vergleich der Schifffahrtsverhältnisse
J.Muškatirović: Network of Danube waterway administrations – Status quo report on shallow section

Technical Working Group Meeting (14 – 17 April 2015)

I. Kunc: Waterborne transport development strategy in the Republic of Serbia 2015 – 2025
C. Dutu: Newada duo – WP 3 – Harmonisation of basic data
M. Seitz: Masterplan for LNG on Rhine-Main-Danube Axis