The 1994 Agreements Concerning the Protection of the Scheldt and Meuse Rivers

Gosseries, Axel [UCL]

(eng) An examination of the provisions of the agreements signed in 1994 at Charleville Mézières, France, between The Walloon and Brussels Regions of Belgium, the Netherlands and France, to protect the Meuse and Scheldt rivers; historical background; reasons the Flemish Region declined to sign; consequences of this non-signature; particular status of Brussels in the Meuse agreement; territorial scope of the agreements; the Commissions for the Meuse and the Scheldt; the tasks and limited powers of the Commissions; their composition and procedure; substantive provisions of the agreements; conclusion that the future of the agreements depends on the political will of the contracting parties.