22. Calls for the quality and level of the water in the border lakes Ohrid, Prespa and Dojran to be improved and preserved and for effective agreements on the matter with neighbours Albania and Greece; also welcomes the proposed draft law on water management and urges that it be considered by its Parliament without delay;

The project, of a total cost of € 26.91 million and Community assistance of € 20.18 million, included works for the creation and formation of a wetland, works for the improvement of hydrological characteristics of the lake, as well as specific treatment basins for the pre-treated liquid wastes of the industrial units of the area.

Is it right, then, when one community works to improve the water quality of its lakes, for parliamentarians to approve a project that provides for the transfer of phosphorous and nitrate contaminants from Devils Lake to Lake Winnipeg, through various tributaries, either the Sheyenne River or even the Red River?

Two of the projects are primarily aimed at managing and improving legal protection of such areas at Teici (45,400 ha), Katlesi (12,000 ha) and Zvarde (10,000 ha) in order to counteract threats from e.g. drainage and forestry. Habitats that will benefit include western taiga, bog woodland and active raised bogs. Lesser Spotted Eagle (Aquila pomarina) for which Latvia holds around 25 % of the European population outside Russia, is the most important species to get benefit. The third project aims at improving management (via e.g. reed cutting, grazing) and conservation of a complex of 10,000 ha of meadows, fens, sand dunes, swamp woods and bogs in Lake Engure N ...[+++]ational Park It tackles problems with overgrowth and uncontrolled cutting.

The project aims to set up the basis for a sustainable network of organisations related to lake activities in Turkey, to encourage partnerships between local players in order to improve the management, quality and protection of lakes and to promote the network by establishing a decentralised coordination body.

GUATEMALA - Development programme in the Lake Atitlan basin - ECU 8 500 000 The project, which is to be carried out over four years, is intended to improve the socio-economic situation and conserve the environment of the Lake Atitlan basin by means of number of rural development, infrastructure and conservation projects selected on the basis of requests from groups concerned.