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Notwithstanding the guideline's lack of formal status, its work on rules governing international rivers was pioneering. [2] It led to the creation of the United Nations' Convention on the Law of Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses. In 2004, it was superseded by the Berlin Rules on Water Resources.
The International Law Commission (ILC) was requested by the United Nations in 1970 to prepare viable international guidelines for water use comparable to The Helsinki Rules on the Uses of the Waters of International Rivers, which had been approved by the International Law Association in 1966 but which failed to address aquifers that were not connected to a drainage basin.
Georgia Basin-Puget Sound International Airshed Strategy, Vancouver, Statement of Intent, 2002 [8] U.S.-Canada Air Quality Agreement (bilateral U.S.-Canadian agreement on acid rain ), 1986 Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer , Vienna, 1985, including the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer , Montreal ...
Also, this Working Group prepares periodic assessments on the status of transboundary waters and international lakes in the UNECE region. It encourages Parties to inform each other and the general public about any critical situation that may have a transboundary impact and to make available the results of water and effluent sampling.
The Canada Water Act (French: Loi sur les ressources en eau du Canada) is a statute of the Government of Canada.It specifies the framework for cooperation between the provinces and territories of Canada and for the development and use of Canada's water resources.
The Canadian Council on International Law (CCIL) is a not-for-profit organization founded in 1972 by Sir Ronald St. John Macdonald. The mandate of the organization is to further the worldwide discussion of international legal issues including public and private international law.
The Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA) is a non-profit, public interest organization established in 1970 to use existing laws to protect the environment and to advocate environmental law reforms. It is also a free legal advisory clinic for the public, and will act at hearings and in courts on behalf of citizens or citizens' groups ...
The Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII; French: Institut canadien d'information juridique) is a non-profit organization created and funded by the Federation of Law Societies of Canada in 2001 on behalf of its 14 member societies.