Percentage of European inland bathing waters complying with mandatory value (or with at least sufficient quality) and meeting guide values (or with excellent quality) for the year 2012 by country

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Countries arranged by the percentage of compliance with mandatory value or at least sufficient quality. No inland bathing waters are reported from three Member States (Cyprus, Malta and Romania). The quality classes under the New Bathing Water Directive (2006/7/EC) are jointed with compliance categories under the Bathing Water Directive (76/160/EEC).

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Last upload:: 28 Aug 2013
Temporal coverage:: 2012
Tags:: water , csi
Geographic coverage:: Austria , Belgium , Bulgaria , Croatia , Czech Republic , Denmark , Estonia , Finland , France , Germany , Greece , Hungary , Ireland , Italy , Latvia , Lithuania , Luxembourg , Netherlands , Poland , Portugal , Slovakia , Slovenia , Spain , Sweden , Switzerland , United Kingdom
Units:: % of inland bathing water
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 Environment Agency (EEA).
Owners:: European Environment Agency (EEA)
Figure type:: Graph

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For 10 European countries (Austria, Bulgaria, France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, Slovenia, Switzerland and the United Kingdom) the assessment is done under the transition period rules. For 16 European countries (Belgium, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden) the assessment is done under the New Bathing Water Directive.