Road map to facilitate accession processes

The growing interest of some United Nations Member States in the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes (Water Convention) led to an increasing number of requests for clarification about the accession process to the Convention. This Road map, prepared by the Water Convention secretariat, aims to address these requests and to present the different steps of the accession process to the Water Convention. The Road map has a recommendatory character and is non-prescriptive in nature as each country has its own administrative organization and procedures that correspond to its domestic legal order. The different steps described in the Road map are drawn from good practices and the lessons learned from completed accession processes to the Water Convention.