CONTENTS

 

Preface 

Antecedents

Goals of the Joint Monitoring

Joint monitoring activities in the year 2002

Fulfilment of recommendations in the Joint Annual Report 2001

Part 1 

Surface water levels and discharges

1.1   Discharge into the Danube downstream of Čunovo

1.2   Discharge into the Mosoni branch of the Danube

1.3   Water distribution on the Hungarian territory

1.3.1   Water supply into the inundation area

1.3.2   Water supply into the Mosoni Danube

1.4   The Danube water level characteristics on the Čunovo-Vámosszabadi stretch

Part 2

Surface water quality

2.1   Basic physical and chemical parameters

2.2   Cations and anions

2.3   Nutrients

2.4   Oxygen and organic carbon regime parameters

2.5   Metals

2.6   Biological and microbiological parameters

2.7   Quality of sediments

2.8   Differences in the data measured by the Slovak and Hungarian Parties

2.9   Conclusions

Part 3

Ground water regime

3.1   Joint evaluation of the ground water regime

3.2   Conclusions

 Part 4

Ground water quality

4.1   Hungarian territory

4.2   Slovak territory

4.3.   Conclusions

 

Part 5

Soil moisture monitoring

5.1   Data collection methods

5.2   Data presentation methods

5.3   Evaluation of results on the Hungarian side

5.4   Evaluation of Slovak results

Part 6

Forest monitoring

6.1   The Slovak territory

6.2   The Hungarian side

 

Part 7

Biological monitoring

7.1   Phytocoenology

7.2   Terrestrial molluscs

7.3   Aquatic macrophytes

7.4   Aquatic molluscs

7.5   Dragonflies (Odonata)

7.6   Crustaceans (Cladocera, Copepoda)

7.7   Caddisflies and Mayflies (Trichoptera, Ephemeroptera)

7.8   Fish (Osteichtyes)

 

Part 8

8.1   Conclusion statements

8.2   Proposals

 

List of Appendices

A.1. Agreement between the Government of the Slovak Republic and Government of the Republic of Hungary concerning Certain Temporary Technical Measures and Discharges in the Danube and the Mosoni Branch of the Danube, signed on April 19, 1995

 

A.2. Statute on the Activities of the Nominated Monitoring Agents Envisaged in the “Agreement between the Government of the Slovak Republic and Government of the Republic of Hungary concerning Certain Temporary Technical Measures and Discharges in the Danube and the Mosoni Branch of the Danube”, signed on May 29, 1995