Technical reports

The water quality of the Rhine and its tributaries is constantly monitored as part of the surveillance monitoring at the international monitoring sites. For the identification of the development of the Rhine water quality, these data are regularly compiled, validated and…

The report is only available in German, French and Dutch.

The Rhine Monitoring Programme Biology 2024/2025 records the joint monitoring on the main stream of the Rhine of the quality components phytoplankton, macrophytes / phytobenthos, macrozoobenthos and fish. Among others it includes the lists of monitoring stations and contacts, the…

In the Plenary Session, the President of the ICPR annually reports on the most important activities of the Commission in the past year.

This report is now available in English.

The report is only available in German, French and Dutch.

In the Plenary Session, the President of the ICPR annually reports on the most important activities of the Commission in the past year.

This report is available in German, French and Dutch.

The programme "Rhine 2040", which was adopted by the Conference of Rhine Ministers on 13.02.2020, states that the "influx of micropollutants into waters from municipal waste water collection and treatment systems, industry and commerce as well as agriculture is to be reduced by…

This report provides an overview of chloride concentrations and dischargers in the Rhine catchment (2018). The reason for this were low discharges in the Rhine catchment in 2018, which were related to high chloride concentrations.

The report is only available in German, French…

The report is only available in German, French and Dutch.

The new ICPR programme "Rhine 2040", adopted at the 16^th Conference of Rhine Ministers in 2020, has set the goal to preserve, protect and restore Rhine-typical habitats by 2040. The biotope network on the Rhine has to improve considerably due to the expansion of core areas and…