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WISE River basin districts (RBDs)

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Created 16 Jun 2011 Published 01 Jul 2011 Last modified 03 Dec 2018
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Version 1.4 (06/2011) - River Basin Districts (RBDs) and/or their subunits (RBDSUs) are the main units for the management of river basins and have been delineated by Member States under Article 3 and updated by reporting to Article 13 of the Water Framework Directive.

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RBDs - Methodology
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information.png Reporting obligations (ROD)
information.png Scale of the data set:
1:250000
information.png 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 (https://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: Directorate-General for Environment (DG ENV).
information.png Methodology:

please refer to the file "River Basin Districts and subunits - description of dataset and processing.pdf"

information.png Coordinate reference system:
EPSG:3035
information.png 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.

information.png Owners:
Directorate-General for Environment (DG ENV)
information.png Processors:
European Environment Agency (EEA)

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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.

 

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Figure Potential for additional floodplains on the Rhône This map depicts the Rhone river basin land cover within France. This map was created in order to have a higher spatial resolution of this specific area.
Figure Land Use in the German Elbe Basin This map depicts the Elbe river basin land cover within Germany and the locations of German Elbe authorities.
Figure Potential for additional floodplains on the Elbe This map depicts the Elbe river basin land cover within Germany. This map was created in order to have a higher spatial resolution of this specific area.
Figure Potential for additional floodplains on the Vistula This map depicts the Vistula river basin land cover within Poland. This map was created in order to have a higher spatial resolution of this specific area.
Figure Map of RBDs and sea regions used in the report Extent of river basin districts

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