2012 marks the start of two years of a French Presidency for the Central Commission, with Ms Edwige Belliard, member of the French Council of State and Director of Legal Affairs at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, taking up her post on 1 January.
To mark its tenth anniversary, the European Barge Union (EBU) held its annual seminar on 17 January in Strasbourg, at the headquarters of the Central Commission for the Navigation of the Rhine.
For information of international experts, the Secretariat of the CCNR has translated the interim report (summary) by the commission of the Waterways and Shipping Directorate Southwest (Wasser- und Schifffahrtsdirektion Südwest) concerning the investigation into the accident of the motor tanker Waldhof on the Middle Rhine on 13 January 2011.
