Technical reports

In 2013, the Conference of Rhine Ministers charged the ICPR to present a provisional strategy on adapting to climate change for the Rhine catchment in 2014, which was to be based on the assessment of existing studies on the discharge regime (floods and low flow) and on water…

In the Plenary Session, the President of the ICPR annually reports on the most important activities of the Commission in the past year.

On 12 September 2013, the "International RiverFoundation" awarded the first IRF - European Riverprize to the ICPR.

The objective of the Warning and Alarm Plan (WAP) is, to pass on reports on sudden pollutions with substances noxious to water in the Rhine catchment if the amount and concentration may detrimentally impact the water quality and/or biocoenosis of the Rhine and to warn the…

The "<link file:604 _blank download den einer>Report on the Pollutant Contamination in the Rhine Catchment" presents the results of on-going and accomplished investigations in the Rhine bordering countries during 2000 to 2010.

The present proposal for a "First Joint Analysis Programme on the Pollutant Contamination of…

The choice of substances figuring in the List of Rhine Substances 2014 may shortly be described as follows:

- Substances figuring on the List of Rhine Substances 2007 and 2011 with an annual parameter below half of the value of the EQS of the Directive 2008/105/EC or the value of…

For the first time the ICPR has presented a report on the estimation of the effects of climate change on future Rhine water temperature development in the near future (2021-2050) and the far future (2071-2100). This estimation is based on the air temperature development as…

For the first time the ICPR has presented a report on the estimation of the effects of climate change on future Rhine water temperature development in the near future (2021-2050) and the far future (2071-2100). This estimation is based on the air temperature development as…

Report on the State of Implementation by End 2013

Human interference with the river bed and the alluvial areas (construction of impoundments and dikes) has sustainably changed the sediment budget of the Rhine. During the past decennia, not only quantitative aspects of sediment…

At times of cultivation of fields for winter cereals, distinctly detectable isoproturone and chlorotolurone pollutions of the Rhine occur, when application periods of the herbicides are followed by days with heavy rainfall. This also applies to the cultivation of fields for…

Report issued by the President of the ICPR

Preparation of the conference of Ministers 2013
Upon invitation of the Swiss government, the 15th Conference of Rhine Ministers will be staged in Basel on 28 October 2013 in order to draw a balance of activities so far and to determine…