[Reproduced from the English translation of the official French text in Documents du Conseil Regional Wallon, Session 1994-1995, 330, No. 1, pp. 11-26. The official Dutch versions may be found at Tractatenblad van het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden, 1994, No. 149, No. 150. The Introductory Note was prepared for International Legal Materials by Jean Milner, LL.M. Candidate in Environmental Law at The American University, Washington, D.C. The translation was provided to International Legal Materials by Marc Pallemaerts, Legal Adviser to the Flemish Minister of Environment and Housing and member of the Flemish delegation to the negotiations, and by Fernando Gonzalez-Martin, Legal Consultant, Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization.

[The Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes, done at Helsinki on March 17, 1992, can be found at 31 I.L.M. 1312 (1992). The Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic, concluded in Paris on September 22, 1992, is reproduced at 32 I.L.M. 1069 (1993).

[Further information concerning these agreements may be obtained from: The French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 37, Quai d'Orsay, 75700 Paris, France (tel: (33) (1) 431 75 353).]