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WISE River basin districts (RBDs)

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River Basin Districts (RBDs) are the main units for the management of river basins and have been delineated by Member States under Article 3 of the Water Framework Directive

Themes
Water Water

GIS data

Zipped personal geodatabase with transitional waters, version 1.0, polygon, vector
Zipped personal geodatabase with RBDs, version 1.3, polygon, vector
Zipped personal geodatabase with coastal waters, polygon, vector

NOTE: this version is preliminary, 0.1.

Zipped shapefile with Coastal waters, vector

Shapefile extracted from the WISE Coastal waters version 0.1 geodatabase. NOTE: this version is preliminary

Zipped shapefile with RBDs, version 1.3, polygon, vector

Shapefile extracted from the WISE RBDs version 1.3 geodatabase

Zipped shapefile with Transitional waters, vector

Shapefile extracted from WISE Transitional waters version 1.0 geodatabase

Additional information

WISE RBD attribute description, excel format
WISE RBDs version 1.3 attributes
WISE RBDs version 1.3 attributes

Additional information

The geographic area of some RBDs span more than one country (such as the Danube) and these are known as International RBDs. Others are contained completely within a country and are known as National RBDs. River basin districts are defined as the area of land and sea, made up of one or more neighbouring river basins together with their associated groundwaters and coastal waters, which is identified under Article 3(1) as the main unit for management of river basins. Coastal waters are defined as one nautical mile from the coastline and extending, where appropriate, up to the outer limit of transitional waters. Coastal waters are included in RBDs, but this is not consistenly reported by Member States. Transitional waters are defined as bodies of surface water in the vicinity of river mouths which are partly saline in character as a result of their proximity to coastal waters but which are substantially influenced by freshwater flows. For more information about European waters, please visit the WISE portal.

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Publish date:
27 Jun 2008
Last upload:
27 Jun 2008
Geographical coverage:

EU15, EU25, EU27, Norway, Switzerland

 
Geographic information quality label:
Completeness:
        
Good
Logical consistency:
        
Excellent
Position accuracy:
        
Excellent
Temporal accuracy:
        
Excellent
Thematic accuracy:
        
Good
Geographic accuracy:
500 m
Tags:
administrative | coast | geospatial data | marine | RBD | river | transitional water | WISE
Scale of the data set:
1:1000000
Methodology:

The national data sets were border harmonised using EuroGlobalMap 1:1 000 000 boundaries. The feature layer can be split into four RBD groupings by using the following queries: EU Member States RBDs: [EU_MS] = Y; non-EU Member State RBDs: [EU_MS] = N AND [intCode] = (empty); EU Member State international RBDs: [INTERNATIONAL] = Y AND [EU_MS] = Y; non-EU Member States international RBDs: [EU_MS] = N AND [INTERNATIONAL] = Y.

Coordinate reference system:
EPSG:3035
Source:

Data reported by EU Member States, Norway and Switzerland under the Water Framework Directive, Article 3. The country borders were harmonised with EuroGlobalMap, EuroGeographics, www.eurogeographics.org. Catchments in non-EU Member States were extracted from CCM1, JRC.

Owners:
European Environment Agency
Processors:
The European Topic Centre on Water
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