bathing water

(1) Bathing water means all running or still fresh waters or parts thereof and sea water, in which: - bathing is explicitly authorised by the competent authorities of each member State, or - bathing is not prohibited and is traditionally practised by a large number of bathers. (2) Water identified as bathing water includes all running and still inland surface waters, transitional waters and coastal waters that are actively promoted - locally, regionally, nationally or internationally - for bathing (or which are likely to be so promoted in the foreseeable future) and/or are regularly used by the local and/or visitor populations for bathing.