European River Commissions

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• Danube Commission
  • Flag according official specifications
  • Flag shown in Album des Pavillons
  • Alternative flag
  • Former flag
• Central Commission of the Rhine
• Mosel Commission

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• European organizations and movements
• Rhine Customs Administration 1805-1806 (France and Germany)
• Rhine Police (The Netherlands)

Danube Commission

Flag according official specifications

Obverse and reverse of the flag by Željko Heimer

The flag of the Danube Commission is dark blue with a red stripe at bottom fimbriated white and with the emblem in the blue stripe next to the hoist. The emblem consists of a yellow wreath with a ribbon at the base encircling a white field containing the initials of the Commission.

According Flag Institute Specification Sheet 524 the Commission was established in 1949 and the flag on 14 December 1950. The proportions are given as 14:23, while the construction details (which according to the notes "follow official specifications") read as follows: for the hoist 32-2-16, and for the length 75. The emblem is "contained within a square of sides = 30% of flag width which is itself contained within a larger rectangle of sides = 25% of flag length and 35% of flag width". The illustrations show the flag with a symmetrical wreath.

Again according to the notes "these (specifications) provide for the initials to be in the Cyrillic alphabet on the obverse, and in Latin characters on the reverse".

Annexe 1, CD/SES 3/34, (To Article I of the Decision of the Third session of the Danube Commission on the ensign and seal - my translation), and an enlarged illustration of the flag appeared on the original letter from the Director of the Danube Commission to William Crampton. Unfortunately, the date is missing.

The "Description of the Flag" confirms the ('generally accepted' - généralement acceptées) proportions of 14:23 and the stripes at 64-4-32. It further states that the Cyrillic is on the obverse and the Latin inscription on the reverse - the French reads: ...les initiales de la Commission du Danube -"(caractères russes); à l'envers du pavillon la courenne de laurier encadre les caractères latins 'CD'.

The illustration on the letter sets the emblem unevenly as per the Flag Institute specification sheet, and the wreath is regular. The larger of the two rectangles thus alignes with the flag edges top