WISE WFD protected area spatial data sets

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Created 18 Oct 2019 Published 21 Nov 2019 Last modified 21 Nov 2019

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Topics: Water and marine environment ,

The Water Framework Directive (WFD) protected area data sets include information about European drinking water protected areas, designated waters such as fish protected areas and shellfish protected areas, nitrates vulnerable zones, urban waste water sensitive areas and bathing water protected areas. The protected areas are part of the Water Framework Directive register of protected areas and were reported in second River Basin Management Plans (RBMP) or under other related reporting obligations. The data sets are part of the Water Information System for Europe (WISE), and compile information reported by the EU Member States, Iceland, Norway and Switzerland to the European Commission (EC) and the European Environment Agency (EEA).

European data

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The WISE WFD protected area data is published in two formats: Shapefile and OGC Geopackage (SQLite) format. The files contain information about drinking water protected areas, designated waters such as fish protected areas and shellfish protected areas, nitrates vulnerable zones, urban waste water sensitive areas and bathing water protected areas.

WISE WFD Protected Area under the Water Framework Directive 2016 - PUBLIC VERSION - version 1.0, Oct. 2019
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WISE WFD Protected Area under the Water Framework Directive 2016 - METADATA - version 1.0, Oct. 2019
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Metadata

Reporting obligations (ROD)

Relation:

Parent data set: WISE WFD reference spatial data sets

Parent data set: WISE WFD Database (Water Framework Directive Database)

Parent data set: Waterbase - UWWTD: Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive – reported data

Parent data set: Bathing Water Directive - Status of bathing water

Derived data set: Environmental Accounting Reference Layers - SDI

Temporal coverage:

2016 , 2019

Geographic coverage:

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

Tags:

designated areas , nitrates directive , wise , urban waste water , urban waste water treatment directive , bathing water directive , drinking water , water framework directive , bathing water , drinking water directive , designated waters

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 (https://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Commission.

Data sources

Please refer to the INSPIRE compliant metadata set associated with each data set for detailed information about source, lineage and data compilation methodology.

Owners:

European Commission

Processors:

European Commission

European Environment Agency (EEA)

Related content

Based on external data

Waterbase - UWWTD: Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive – reported data Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive concerns the collection, treatment and discharge of urban waste water and the treatment and discharge of waste water from certain industrial sectors. The objective of the Directive is to protect the environment from the adverse effects of the above mentioned waste water discharges.

Bathing Water Directive - Status of bathing water 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

WISE WFD reference spatial data sets The Water Framework Directive (WFD) reference spatial data sets include information about European river basin districts, river basin district sub-units, surface water bodies, groundwater bodies and monitoring sites used in the first and second River Basin Management Plans (RBMP). The data sets are part of the Water Information System for Europe (WISE), and compile information reported by the EU Member States, Norway and Iceland to the European Commission (EC) and the European Environment Agency (EEA) since 2010.

WISE WFD Database (Water Framework Directive Database) The WISE WFD database contains data from the 1st and 2nd River Basin Management Plans reported by EU Members States according to article 13 of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). The database includes information about surface water bodies (number and size, water body category, ecological status or potential, chemical status, significant pressures and impacts) and about groundwater bodies (number and size, quantitative status, chemical status, significant pressures and impacts). The information is presented by country, river basin district (RBD) and river basin district sub-unit (where applicable).

Derived dataset

Environmental Accounting Reference Layers - SDI This is a collection of the geospatial Environmental Accounting Reference Layers of the Integrated Data Platform published on the website and registered in EEA`s Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI). The link under "GIS data" points to the SDI thematic node on Environmental Accounting Reference Layers.

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