Bathing Water Directive - Status of bathing water

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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

European data

Bathing Water Directive - Status 1990 - 2010

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Field name	Field definition	Note	Data type	Primary key
Latitude	Latitude value of station position in decimal degrees		decimal(9)	No
Longitude	Longitude value of station position in decimal degrees		decimal(9)	No
Numind	Code	primary key of the table	varchar(20)	Yes
cc	International Country Code (ISO 3166-1-Alpha-2 code elements)		varchar(2)	No
geographic	Geographic region name		varchar(50)	No
Watertype	Type of bathing water sampled	C=sea; RV=river; LK= lake; estuary=estuary	nvarchar(255)	No
Seawater	Type of bathing water	O=seawater; N=freshwater	nvarchar(1)	No
Region	Region name reported by Member State		nvarchar(255)	No
Y2005	Status of bathing water for year 2005		varchar(5)	No
Y2006	Status of bathing water for year 2006		varchar(5)	No
Y2007	Status of bathing water for year 2007		varchar(5)	No
Y2008	Status of bathing water for year 2008		varchar(5)	No
Y1999	Status of bathing water for year 1999		varchar(5)	No
Y2000	Status of bathing water for year 2000		varchar(5)	No
Y2001	Status of bathing water for year 2001		varchar(5)	No
Y2002	Status of bathing water for year 2002		varchar(5)	No
Y2003	Status of bathing water for year 2003		varchar(5)	No
Y2004	Status of bathing water for year 2004		varchar(5)	No
Y1993	Status of bathing water for year 1993		varchar(5)	No
Y1994	Status of bathing water for year 1994		varchar(5)	No
Y1995	Status of bathing water for year 1995		varchar(5)	No
Y1996	Status of bathing water for year 1996		varchar(5)	No
Y1997	Status of bathing water for year 1997		varchar(5)	No
Y1998	Status of bathing water for year 1998		varchar(5)	No
Province	Province name reported by Member State		nvarchar(255)	No
Commune	Commune name reported by Member State		varchar(255)	No
Prelev	Bathing water name reported by Member State		nvarchar(255)	No
Y1990	Status of bathing water for year 1990		varchar(5)	No
Y1991	Status of bathing water for year 1991		varchar(5)	No
Y1992	Status of bathing water for year 1992		varchar(5)	No
Y2009	Status of bathing water for year 2009		varchar(5)	No
Y2010	Status of bathing water for year 2010		varchar(5)	No

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Reporting obligations (ROD)

Temporal coverage:

1990-2010

Last upload:

09 Jun 2011

Geographic coverage:

Austria , Belgium , Bulgaria , Croatia , Cyprus , Czech Republic , Denmark , Estonia , Finland , France , Germany , Greece , Hungary , Ireland , Italy , Latvia , Lithuania , Luxembourg , Malta , Montenegro , Netherlands , Poland , Portugal , Romania , Slovakia , Slovenia , Spain , Sweden , Switzerland , United Kingdom

Tags:

point data , geospatial data , bathing water

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 (DG ENV).

Coordinate reference system:

EPSG:4258

Data sources

The European Topic Centre on Water (Database June 2011), national submissions to the Bathing Water Directive

Owners:

Directorate-General for Environment (DG ENV)

Additional information

The data set presents the latest information as reported by the Member States (EU27) for the 2010 bathing season, as well as some historical data since 1990.
CG: compliant with the mandatory and the guide values of the Directive; CI: compliant with the mandatory values of the Directive; B: banned or closed (temporarily or throughout the season); NC: not compliant with the mandatory values of the Directive; NF: insufficiently sampled; NS: not sampled; Others or blank: Unknown.