On 22nd June 2012 a successful final conference of the project LABEL concluded, which was followed with great interest. Around 300 participants from Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary and Austria came together in the Chamber of the Saxon State Parliament to recognize the results of the project and discuss about the future of the Elbe catchment.

Several high-level political representatives from Germany, as the Prime Minister of the Free State of Saxony Stanislaw Tillich, from the neighboring countries Czech Republic and Poland as well as from Brussels were visiting the conference.

The speakers reminded of the disastrous Elbe flood 2002 and complimented the fruitful cooperation of the projects ELLA and LABEL in the Elbe catchment. “Successful cross-border cooperation is always due to many committed people on both sides of the border”, said Frank Kupfer, Saxon State Minister for Environment and Agriculture. According to Jan Mücke, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Transport, Building and Urban Development, the continuing cooperation to improve flood prevention is also in future a priority of the spatial development policy.

Pictures, the held presentations of the conference as well as the conference documentation (available soon) are available here.