WISE River basin districts (RBDs)

Data

Prod-ID: DAT-30-en

Created 16 Jun 2011 Published 01 Jul 2011 Last modified 08 Jan 2013

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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.

GIS data

River Basin Districts

WFD_RBD_f1v4.zip (ZIP archive)
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River Basin Districts Subunits

WFD_RBDSU_f1v4.zip (ZIP archive)
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European data (XML)

INSPIRE compliant metadata set

1a8341df70e6c1faefee3fed3d50c2fa.xml (Extensible Markup Language (XML))
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Additional information

RBDs - Methodology

River Basin Districts and subunits - description of dataset and processing.pdf (PDF document)
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Additional files

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Encoding (Plain Text)
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etrs_1989_laea_l52_m10.prj (Plain Text)
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Metadata

Reporting obligations (ROD)

Water Framework Directive - River Basin Management Plans - 2010 Report ...

Temporal coverage:

2011

Last upload:

01 Jul 2011

Geographic coverage:

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

Tags:

vector data , geospatial data , Water Information System for Europe

Scale of the data set:

1:250000

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).

Methodology:

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

Coordinate reference system:

EPSG:3035

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:

Directorate-General for Environment (DG ENV)

Processors:

European Environment Agency (EEA)

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 (http://water.europa.eu).

Note: due to DBF format limitations, attribute table field names are truncated to 8 char lenght.