The paper analyses all forms of cooperation between states, which is
essential when it comes to the matters of management, utilisation and
protection of international watercourses. The most common way of cooperation
is the establishment and action of international river commissions. Other
forms of cooperation are manifested by holding of mutual consultations and
providing notifications on relevant facts and circumstances for specific
watercourse as well as by joint monitoring and evaluation of the conditions
and data which are relevant for the prevention of causing damages to another
state. In addition to the generalized presentation and analysis of the
elements and forms of cooperation between countries on the matter of use and
protection of international watercourses, the aim of the paper is to analyse
the practical aspects of such cooperation, too. Therefore, the paper will
analyse the work of the Sava Commission as an institutional framework within
which the countries that signed the Framework Agreement for the Protection of
the Sava River Basin cooperate with each other.