ABSTRACT
This chapter has been designed to comprise current legal aspects of governance systems applied or under development in the catchment areas (not withstanding the specific legal status of the areas declared) of several natural freshwater lakes in the southern part of the Balkan Peninsula, shared by littoral states. These are Skadar/Shkodra (shared by Albania and Montenegro), Ohrid (shared by Albania and Macedonia), Macro and Micro Prespa (shared by Albania, Greece and Macedonia) and Dojran (shared by Macedonia and Greece) lakes. All these lakes, except the Dojran Lake, are part of the Drin River basin, which, besides these four lake sub-basins comprises also the geographical areas (sub-basins) of the Black Drin River (Crn Drim/Drin i Zi), the White Drin River (Beli Drim/ Drin i Bardhë), the Drin River (Drim/Drini/Drin i madh) and the Bojana/ Buna River. The established denomination for the entire geographical area is “the Extended Transboundary Drin Basin”, is shown in Map 5.1.
