INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
- WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION http://www.wmo.ch
SINCE JANUARY 2008, DIRECTOR OF RHMS OF SERBIA, MILAN DACIĆ, HAS BEEN THE PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF SERBIA WITH WORLD METEOROLOGICAL ORGANIZATION
- WE PARTICIPATE IN THE FOLLOWING WMO COMMISSIONS:
- Basic Systems
- Instruments and Methods of Observations
- Climatology
- Atmospheric Science
- Aeronautical Meteorology
- Maritime Meteorology
- Agricultural Meteorology
- Hydrology
- WE PARTICIPATE IN THE FOLLOWING PROGRAMMES AND PROJECTS:
- World Weather Watch
- World Climate Programme
- Programme of Atmospheric and Enviromental Research
- Programme of Applied Meteorology
- Programme of Technical Cooperation
- Programme of Training and Education
- Regional and Bilateral Programmes
COOPERATION WITH INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS:
- EUMETSAT http://www.eumetsat.de
As cooperating member of "European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites-EUMETSAT" we have access to the following:- European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast http://www.ecmwf.int
As cooperating member of "European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast" we receive the following :BILATERAL COOPERATION
Mr Ivica Cacic, Director of NMHS of Croatia, was in Belgrade at the end of 2006 as a participant of XXIII Conference of the Danube countries on hydrological forecasts and hydrological basis of water management. On that occasion he visited our Service pursuant to the strengthening of bilateral cooperation of Croatian and Serbian Hydrometeorological Service. Mr. Pekka Plathan, Director of Finnish Hydrometeorological Service was in bilateral visit of our Service in October 2006.
REGIONAL COOPERATION
Activities in 2007:
During 2006, our delegates participated in the following sessions of constitutive bodies of WMO.
- 14th session of WMO Commission for Atmospheric Science (CAS), Cape Town, South Africa, 16-24 February 2006
- Extraordinary session of WMO Commission for Basic Systems, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 9-16 November 2006 and Technical Conference on WMO Information Systems (TECO-VIS), Seoul, Korea, 6-8 November 2006
- 13th session of WMO Commission for Aeronautical Meteorology, Geneva, Switzerland, 23 November-1 December 2006 and Technical Conference of WMO Commission for Aeronautical Meteorology, 21-22 November 2006, Geneva, Switzerland.
Representatives of RHMS of Serbia participated in the following sessions and conferences:
- XXV plenary session of Intergovernmental Panel of Experts for Climate Change, 25-29 April, Port Luis, Mauritius
- Meeting on the establishment of sub-regional drought center, 25-27 April, Sofia, Bulgaria
- VI Conference of Directors of National Hydrometeorological Services of Southeastern Europe, 2-5 May, Dubrovnik, Croatia
- Conference “Living with climate”, 16-22 July, Espo, Finland
- XXIII Conference of the Danube countries on hydrological forecasts and hydrological basis for water management, 28-31 August, Belgrade
- Technical conference on strategic planning in Regional Association VI, 6-7 November, Riga, Latvia
- Meeting of expert group for flood protection within International Commission for the Danube Protection, 28-31 March, Bucharest, Romania, and 27-30 September, Munich, Germany.
- Expert meeting for hydrological forecasts in the Mediterranean basin, 26-29 September, Saragosa, Spain.

