Abstract
The Danube Commission is an international intergovernmental organization, set up by the
Convention regarding the regime of navigation on the Danube signed in Belgrade on 18 August 1948.
As a result of the Danube River Conference of 1948, the river system was divided into three
administrations — the regular River Commission (which had existed in one form or another since 1856), a bilateral Romania-USSR administration between Braila and the mouth of the Sulina channel, and a bilateral Romania-Yugoslavia administration at the Iron Gate. Both of the latter were technically under the control of the main commission, members of which were — at the beginning — Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, the USSR, and Yugoslavia.