Po River District Basin Authority

Po River District Basin Authority
Autorità di bacino distrettuale del fiume Po
AbbreviationAdbPo
Formation18 May 1989 (public body)
25 October 2016 (basin authority [it])
TypeBasin authority
PurposeMaintenance and protection of the Po river
Headquarters75 Giuseppe Garibaldi, Parma, Province of Parma, Emilia-Romagna
AffiliationsMinistry of Ecological Transition
Websiteadbpo.it

The Po River District Basin Authority (Italian: Autorità di bacino distrettuale del fiume Po)—formerly the Po River Basin Authority (Autorità di bacino del fiume Po) and abbreviated AdbPo—is a statutory corporation responsible for the maintenance of the Po river and tributaries in Italy's sovereign territory. Established via decree on 18 May 1989, the public body is a basin authority [it] sponsored by the Ministry of Ecological Transition.[1] It was declared a basin authority on 25 October 2016 by the erstwhile Ministry for Environment, Land and Sea Protection.[2]

  1. ^ "Po river district Authority". Interreg Central Europe. European Regional Development Fund. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
  2. ^ "Decreto 25 ottobre 2016" [Decree 25 October 2016]. Gazzetta Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana (in Italian) (27): 2. 2 February 2017. Retrieved 7 September 2022.