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WISE WFD protected area spatial data sets

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Prod-ID: DAT-221-en

Created 30 Jun 2021 Published 01 Oct 2021 Last modified 04 Oct 2021

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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, Albania, Iceland, Norway, Montenegro, Switzerland and the United Kingdom to the European Commission (EC) and the European Environment Agency (EEA).

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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 3.0, Sep. 2021
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WISE WFD Protected Area under the Water Framework Directive 2016 - METADATA - version 3.0, Sep. 2021
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Reporting obligations (ROD)

Relation:

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

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

Parent data set: WISE WFD reference spatial data sets

Parent data set: WISE Water Framework Directive Database

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)

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Older versions

08 Dec 2020 - WISE WFD protected area spatial data sets

21 Nov 2019 - WISE WFD protected area spatial data sets

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