Links to the national and regional flood risk management plans

The links below refer to national or regional, more detailed flood risk management plans in the Rhine catchment. These plans are related to the Second International Flood Risk Management Plan of the International River Basin District Rhine (A level).

The Netherlands: https://www.helpdeskwater.nl/onderwerpen/wetgeving-beleid/europese-richtlijn-overstromingsrisico/overstromingsrisicobeheerplannen/

Germany: 

River Basin Community Rhine (Flussgebietsgemeinschaft Rhein - FGG Rhein): http://fgg-rhein.de/servlet/is/87720/ 

Additional links:

• https://geoportal.bafg.de/karten/HWRM/
• http://www.hochwasserzentralen.de 
• https://www.bmu.de/download/nationales-hochwasserschutzprogramm/
• https://www.kliwa.de/hydrologie.htm

France: http://www.grand-est.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/bassin-rhin-meuse-r6723.html

Luxembourg: https://eau.gouvernement.lu/fr/administration/directives/directiveinondation/2ieme-cycle/ProjektDesZweitenHochwasserrisikomanagementplans.html  

Belgium (Wallonia):  https://inondations.wallonie.be         

Liechtenstein: Information available here: info.abs@llv.li ; http://geodaten.llv.li/geoportal/naturgefahren.html,   https://www.llv.li/#/12004/naturgefahren

Austria: https://www.bmlrt.gv.at/wasser/wisa/hochwasserrisiko.html  

Switzerland:

• Strategy “Dealing with natural hazards in Switzerland - Strategy 2018”: www.planat.ch (more information in English here: https://www.bafu.admin.ch/bafu/en/home/topics/natural-hazards/info-specialists/risk-management/where-are-we-today.html)  
• Report of the Federal Council “Dealing with natural hazards in Switzerland” 2016: https://www.bafu.admin.ch/bafu/de/home/themen/naturgefahren/dossiers/naturgefahren-sicherheit.html
• Targets and Focal Points of Action of the Federal Office for the Environment FOEN when dealing with natural hazards of 2011: https://www.bafu.admin.ch/bafu/en/home/topics/natural-hazards/publications-studies/publications/living-with-natural-hazards.html  

Planning, implementation and financing of flood protection measures are regulated by:

• The Federal Law of 21 June 1991 on hydraulic engineering: http://www.admin.ch/opc/de/classified-compilation/19910136/index.html
• The corresponding regulation of 2 November 1994 on hydraulic engineering (Regulation on Hydraulic Engineering/Wasserbauverordnung, WBV): http://www.admin.ch/opc/de/classified-compilation/19940305/index.html
• The guidance Flood control at rivers and streams: https://www.bafu.admin.ch/bafu/en/home/topics/natural-hazards/publications-studies/publications/flood-control-at-rivers-and-streams.html
• The manual Programme Agreements concerning the Environment: https://www.bafu.admin.ch/bafu/de/home/themen/recht/publikationen-studien/publikationen/handbuch-programmvereinbarungen-im-umweltbereich-2020-2024.html   

Within supra-cantonal major projects development concepts fulfil a function comparable that of the EU Management Plans. Examples:

• Alpine Rhine: https://www.alpenrhein.net/Projekte/Generationen-Projekt 
• Thur

Cooperation and coordination in sub-basins

The transboundary coordination in the sense of the FD is not only taking place within the ICPR (part A, catchments > 2,500 km²) but is also secured in sub-basins (parts B, C) based on bilateral/multilateral coordination and agreement. The following organisations or commissions based on corresponding agreements confirm the long-lasting and close international cooperation - among others with respect to flood risk management - in the IRBD Rhine:

• Internationale Regierungskommission Alpenrhein (IRKA) (AT, CH, FL)
• Internationale Rheinregulierung (IRR) der gemeinsamen Rheinkommission (GRK) (AT, CH)
• Koordinierungsgruppe (Alpenrhein/Bodensee) der Internationale Gewässerschutzkommission für den Bodensee (IGKB) (AT, DE, CH, FL)
• Ständige Kommission für den Ausbau des Oberrheins zwischen Straßburg / Kehl und Lauterbourg / Neuburgweier (The A-Committee is in charge of the sections upstream of Strasbourg) (FR, DE)
• Working group flood protection and hydrology (IH) of the International Commissions for the Protection of the Moselle and Saar (ICPMS) (FR, DE, LU, Region Wallonia (BE)); Link to the Flood Risk Management Plan of the IRBD Moselle-Saar (International Commissions for the Protection of the Moselle and Saar (ICPMS) http://www.iksms-cipms.org/servlet/is/20074/
• Permanent German-Dutch transborder river commission (DE, NL)
• German-Dutch Working Group Floods (DE, NL)
• International Working Group / Steering Group Delta Rhine (AGDR/SGDR) (DE, NL)