Bilateral Cooperation Agreement Minutes between Egypt and Libya on the establishment of the Joint Authority for the Study and Development of Groundwater of the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System.

The Egypt-Libyan Joint High Committee during the First Session held in Tripoli on 6-8 July 1991 agreed on the following: (a) to establish a Joint Authority for the Study and Development of Groundwater of the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System represented for Libya by the General Popular Committee for Agricultural Reform and Land Reclamation and the General Authority for Water, and for Egypt by the Ministry of Works and Water Resources, Water Research Centre and Groundwater Research Centre; (b) the Authority shall study, develop, exploit, protect and preserve the Groundwater of the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer System as well as the use it for the economic development of the two countries; (c) the competences of the Authority shall be to gather information and study results, prepare and carry out the necessary complementing studies, and to lay down programmes and plans for the exploitation of the water; (d) management and organization of the Authority; and, (e) to implement the Regulation of this Authority.