During a six-hour meeting held in the Slovene town of Otocec ob Krki, the commission discussed technical details of the dyke and the flooding regimes on either side of the Mura.
"It is our duty to protect the population against flooding and we have been working on that problem right from the start," said Marko Starman, a Slovene representative on the commission. "Border issues will be decided by the government," he added.
Zdravko Krmek, the state secretary in charge of water management at the Croatian Ministry of Agriculture, said that the commission would have concrete solutions after the information exchanged today was analysed by experts. He said that the commission might meet again in the next four or five days.
On Thursday, while opening a government session, Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader said that efforts would be made to settle the issue of construction of the dyke on the Mura in the spirit of cooperation and European solidarity. He added that he had agreed with his Slovene counterpart Janez Jansa that efforts would be made to find common ground.
The dispute arose on Monday when Slovene police raided the construction site of a protective embankment along the left bank of the Mura river near the Sveti Martin na Muri border crossing in the northernmost Croatian county of Medjimurje.
Slovene media reported on Friday morning that a Slovene special police unit had returned to the area near the border crossing from which it had withdrawn on Thursday evening.