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River Basin Districts and subunits - description of dataset and processing.pdf
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Reporting obligations (ROD)
Scale of the data set:
Rights:
Methodology:
please refer to the file "River Basin Districts and subunits - description of dataset and processing.pdf"
Coordinate reference system:
Data sources
Data reported by EU Member States, Norway and Switzerland under the Water Framework Directive, Article 13.
The country borders were harmonised with EuroGlobalMap, EuroGeographics, www.eurogeographics.org.
Catchments in non-EU Member States were extracted from CCM1, JRC.
Owners:
Processors:
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 (http://water.europa.eu).
Note: due to DBF format limitations, attribute table field names are truncated to 8 char lenght.
For references, please go to https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/wise-river-basin-districts-rbds-1 or scan the QR code.
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