2021 Abstract: Contemporary water management incorporates number of criteria merged in a way to target economic development, social equity, and development In the recent decades, Integrated Water Resources Management paradigm is incorporated in the polices and legislation with the Europe and Globally. Under the EU's WFD, the ICPDR is the platform for coordination for the implementation of the provisions of the Directive between Danube countries (including non-EU Member States and takes an active role in sub-basin planning. Transboundary cooperation within the Tisza River Basin generates the Updated ITRBMP 2019 that elaborates significant water management issues, water quantity and quality issues relevant for Tisza River Basin. To improve the synergy between EU WFD and EU FD objectives Tisza countries identified flood risk management measures that support EU WFD environmental based on commonly agreed methodology and official national data. Brief overview presented in this paper indicates that Tisza countries support natural water retention measures as a win-win measures for flood risk management that support WFD environmental objectives and address water quantity and water quality issues interlinkage of relevance for Tisza River Basin and integrated water resources management. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/356254424_Natural_Water_Retention_Measures_Contribution_to_Integrated_Transboundary_Tisza_River_Basin_Management-Environmental_and_Flood_Risk_Management_Objectives_Synergy EU WFD environmental objectives, flood risk management, integrated water resources management, natural water retention measures, Tisza River basin, transboundary water management eng Natural water retention measures contribution to integrated transboundary Tisza river basin management - environmental and flood risk management objectives synergy https://unilib.phaidrabg.rs/o:5760 ISBN: 978-86-6022-367-0 application/pdf 26444498 bytes International Symposium Water Resources Management: New Perspectives and Innovative Practices, 23-24 September 2021, Novi Sad startpage: 113 endpage: 117 info:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceProceedings All rights reserved Matić, Branislava Perović, Marija Vulić, Dragica University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Faculty of Technical Sciences