2ATIKOVIZIG, Directorate for Environmental Protection and Water Management of

The project “Sustainable development of Hungarian – Serbian transboundary aquifer (SUDEHSTRA)” started in June 2007 and is completed in August 2008. It is one of the Cross-border cooperation programmes fully funded by the European Agency for Reconstruction (EAR). Experts from leading national institutions of the two countries have jointly drafted and worked on this important “mirror ” project aiming at improving the management of common groundwater resources. This initiative is fully in line with the EU Water Frame Directive (EC2000/60) and EU Groundwater Daughter Directive targets. Groundwater (GW) resources are vital for the economy and the society, as well as for the development of large flat parts with very thick Tertiary deposits between the Danube and Tisza Rivers in both countries: that is, th