ICPR – International Commission for the Protection of the Rhine

Technical reports


Since modifications of climate values impact the hydrological processes as well as the water regime, the Conference of Rhine Ministers charged the ICPR in 2007 to draft a scenario study for the flow regime of the Rhine.

The ICPR has immediately started work on this issue in its…

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Biological assessment of the Rhine – main stream – 2006 / 2007

During the last years, an extensive biological survey of the Rhine has been carried through.
Due to today’s good quality of Rhine water and the already implemented measures targeted at improving river continuity and…

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Salmon: Improve access to habitats and reduce illegal catches

Based on a comprehensive fish-ecological analysis including priority measures for the further development and spreading of the stock of salmon, sea trout, allice shad and lamprey, the ICPR presents new proposals for…

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The WAP distinguishes between warnings, information and search reports.

The International Main Alert Centres (IHWZ) issue warnings in cases of water pollution incidents implying substances noxious to water, if the amounts or concentrations concerned may detrimentally impact the…

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Dieses Messprogramm gilt für das Messjahr 2007 und vermittelt einen Ausblick bis 2012. Es ist möglich, auf der Grundlage der gewonnenen Erkenntnisse die Messkenngrößen, -frequenzen und -zyklen jährlich anzupassen und jedes Jahr das Messprogramm für das neue Messjahr rechtzeitig…

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Preface Atlas

The ICPR programme “Rhine 2020” targeted at the sustainable development of the Rhine, aims, among other things, at improving the Rhine ecosystem and at restoring the biotope network along the Rhine.

The ICPR-atlas on the biotope network along the Rhine presents…

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Preface

Among other things, the ICPR programme "Rhine 2020" aims at improving the Rhine ecosystem and restoring the biotope network.

The report on the “Network of Biotopes along the Rhine” and the associated ICPR-Atlas on a scale of 1:100,000 for 35 sections of the Rhine from…

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Summary

In 1999, the ICPR Plenary Assembly invited the working group ‘Ecology’ to draft a description of the river structure and to map it on a scale of 1:100,000. This description complements the biological surveys of the Rhine carried through in 2000. It underpins the efforts…

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In close cooperation with the BfG and its UNDINE portal, the ICPR has developed a low water monitoring system.

With the uniform Rhine-wide low water monitoring system, current low water events can be directly compared and classified and possible changes in the low water…

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The target of the workshop, jointly staged by the ICPR Working Groups B and H and in which some 30 participants from the states in the Rhine catchment took part, was to reveal deficits, their reasons but also winning formulas when implementing integrated measures aimed at flood…

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