Bathing Water Directive - Status of bathing water

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The EU Bathing Waters Directive requires Member States to identify popular bathing places in fresh and coastal waters and monitor them for indicators of microbiological pollution (and other substances) throughout the bathing season which runs from May to September

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European data set

Bathing Water Directive - Status 1990 - 2007

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Field name	Field definition	Note	Data type	Primary key
Watertype	Type of bathing water sampled	1=sea; 2=river; 3=lake; 4=estuary	smallint(2)	No
Y1990	Status of bathing water for year 1990 - 2007	0=no data available; 1=compliant with the guide values of the Directive; 2=prohibited throughout the entire bathing season; 3=insufficiently sampled; 4=not compliant with the mandatory values of the Directive; 5=compliant with the mandatory values of the Directive; 6=not sampled.	smallint(2)	No
Y1991			smallint(2)	No
Y1992			smallint(2)	No
Y1993			smallint(2)	No
Y1994			smallint(2)	No
Y2007			smallint(2)	No
Y2001			smallint(2)	No
Y2002			smallint(2)	No
Y2003			smallint(2)	No
Y2004			smallint(2)	No
Y2005			smallint(2)	No
Y2006			smallint(2)	No
Y1995			smallint(2)	No
Y1996			smallint(2)	No
Y1997			smallint(2)	No
Y1998			smallint(2)	No
Y1999			smallint(2)	No
Y2000			smallint(2)	No
Latitude	Latitude value of station position in decimal degrees		decimal(9)	No
Longitude	Latitude value of station position in decimal degrees		decimal(9)	No
Numind	Code	primary key of the table	varchar(50)	Yes
Country_code	International Country Code (ISO 3166-1-Alpha-2 code elements)		varchar(2)	No
Country	Country name (ISO 3166-1)	official short name in English	varchar(50)	No
Seawater	Type of bathing water	O=seawater; N=freshwater	varchar(1)	No
Region	Region name reported by Member State		nvarchar(255)	No
Province	Province name reported by Member State		nvarchar(255)	No
Commune	Commune name reported by Member State		nvarchar(255)	No
Prelev	Bathing water name reported by Member State		nvarchar(255)	No

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Additional information

The data set presents the latest information as reported by the Member States (EU27) for the 2007 bathing season, as well as some historical data since 1990.
Status: 0: no data available; 1: compliant with the guide values of the Directive; 2: prohibited throughout the entire bathing season; 3: insufficiently sampled; 4: not compliant with the mandatory values of the Directive; 5: compliant with the mandatory values of the Directive; 6: not sampled.

Reporting obligations (ROD)

Bathing Water Directive 76/160/EEC Report

Publish date:: 05 Dec 2008
Temporal coverage:: 1990-2007
Last upload:: 03 Dec 2008
Geographical coverage:: EU25, EU27, EU12, EU15
Rights:: EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: Directorate-General for Environment.
Coordinate reference system:: EPSG:4326
Source:: The European Topic Centre on Water (Database version 1.0, 30 Oct 2008), national submissions to the Bathing Water Directive
Owners:: Directorate-General for Environment