Finnish–Swedish Frontier River Commission – Effective water co-operation

The paper examines the structure and the competence of the Finnish–Swedish Frontier River Commission (the "FSFRC") as an example of close and very successful co-operation between two States, based on the approximation of national laws. This essay will also prove that the Agreement establishing this FSFRC has incorporated, already as early as 1971, the contemporary principles of water co-operation that were first incorporated to a certain degree in 1966 Helsinki Rules on the Uses of the Waters of International Water Basin, and later found their expression in the 1997 United Nations Convention on Non-Navigational Uses of International Watercourses.