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WISE WFD Reference Spatial Datasets reported under Water Framework Directive 2016 - PUBLIC VERSION - version 1.4, Apr. 2020

The dataset contains information on the European river basin districts, the river basin district sub-units, the surface water bodies and the groundwater bodies delineated for the 2nd River Basin Management Plans (RBMP) under the Water Framework Directive (WFD) as well as the European monitoring sites used for the assessment of the status of the above mentioned surface water bodies and groundwater bodies.



The information was reported to the European Commission under the Water Framework Directive (WFD) reporting obligations.

The dataset compiles the available spatial data related to the 2nd RBMPs due in 2016 (hereafter WFD2016). See http://rod.eionet.europa.eu/obligations/715 for further information on the WFD2016 reporting.



Relevant concepts:



River basin district (RBD): 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 the main unit for management of river basins.



River basin: The area of land from which all surface run-off flows through a sequence of streams, rivers and, possibly, lakes into the sea at a single river mouth, estuary or delta.



Sub-basin: The area of land from which all surface run-off flows through a series of streams, rivers and, possibly, lakes to a particular point in a water course (normally a lake or a river confluence).



Sub-unit [Operational definition. Not in the WFD]: Reporting unit. River basin districts larger than 50000 square kilometre should be divided into comparable sub-units with an area between 5000 and 50000 square kilometre. The sub-units should be created using river basins (if more than one river basin exists in the RBD), set of contiguous river basins, or sub-basins, for example. If the RBD area is less than 50000 square kilometre, the RBD itself should be used as a sub-unit.



Surface water body: Body of surface water means a discrete and significant element of surface water such as a lake, a reservoir, a stream, river or canal, part of a stream, river or canal, a transitional water or a stretch of coastal water.



Surface water: Inland waters, except groundwater; transitional waters and coastal waters, except in respect of chemical status for which it shall also include territorial waters.



Inland water: All standing or flowing water on the surface of the land, and all groundwater on the landward side of the baseline from which the breadth of territorial waters is measured.



River: Body of inland water flowing for the most part on the surface of the land but which may flow underground for part of its course.



Lake: Body of standing inland surface water.



Transitional waters: 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.



Coastal water: Surface water on the landward side of a line, every point of which is at a distance of one nautical mile on the seaward side from the nearest point of the baseline from which the breadth of territorial waters is measured, extending where appropriate up to the outer limit of transitional waters.



Territorial sea: The territorial waters, or territorial sea as defined by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, extend up to a limit not exceeding 12 nautical miles (22.2 km), measured from the baseline. The normal baseline is the low-water line along the coast.



Territorial waters [Operational definition. Not in WFD.]: Reporting unit. The zone between the limit of the coastal water bodies and the limit of the territorial sea, geometrically subdivided in Thiessen polygons according to the adjacent coastal sub-unit (or using any alternative delineation provided by the national competent authorities), and assigned to an adjacent sub-unit for the purpose of reporting the chemical status of the territorial waters under the Water Framework Directive.



Groundwater body: 'Body of groundwater' means a distinct volume of groundwater within an aquifer or aquifers.



Groundwater: All water which is below the surface of the ground in the saturation zone and in direct contact with the ground or subsoil. Aquifer: Subsurface layer or layers of rock or other geological strata of sufficient porosity and permeability to allow either a significant flow of groundwater or the abstraction of significant quantities of groundwater.



Monitoring site: [Operational definition. Not in the WFD] Monitoring point included in a WFD surveillance, operational or investigative monitoring programme.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2017-07-14
Date (Revision)
2020-03-23
Date (Publication)
2020-04-02
Edition

01.04

Citation identifier
eea_v_4326_250_k_wise-wfd2016_p_2016-2020_v01_r04

Citation identifier
DAT-30-en

Status
Superseded
Point of contact
Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role

European Environment Agency

sdi@eea.europa.eu

http://www.eea.europa.eu

Point of contact
Spatial representation type
Vector

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
250000
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Inland waters
  • Geoscientific information

Extent

N
S
E
W




N
S
E
W




N
S
E
W




Extent

Temporal extent

Time period
2016-05-05 2020-02-12
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
EEA topics
  • Water

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Environmental monitoring facilities

  • Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units

WISE metadata keywords, version 1.0, 2009-10-01
  • Water Information System for Europe (WISE)

  • Water Framework Directive (WFD)

  • River basin district

  • Sub unit

  • Monitoring station

  • Groundwater body

  • Surface water body

  • Surface water

  • Water body

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
  • Slovakia

  • Malta

  • France

  • Greece

  • Belgium

  • Croatia

  • Norway

  • Romania

  • Poland

  • Ireland

  • Italy

  • Lithuania

  • Hungary

  • Slovenia

  • Germany

  • Austria

  • Iceland

  • Latvia

  • Czechia

  • Denmark

  • Estonia

  • Cyprus

  • Spain

  • Sweden

  • Portugal

  • Finland

  • Bulgaria

  • Luxembourg

  • Netherlands

INSPIRE - Feature Concept Dictionary, version 3
  • River Basin

  • WFD Surface Water Body

  • WFD Ground Water Body

  • Surface Water

  • WFD Coastal Water

  • WFD Lake

  • WFD River

  • WFD Transitional Water

GEMET
  • water (geographic)

  • groundwater

  • water resources management

  • aquifer

  • river basin

  • surface water

  • river basin management

  • monitoring station

  • water body

Spatial scope
  • European
INSPIRE priority data set
  • Groundwater bodies (Water Framework Directive)

  • River network (Water Framework Directive)

  • Coastal waters (Water Framework Directive)

  • Directive 2000/60/EC

  • River basin districts sub-units (Water Framework Directive)

  • Transitional waters (Water Framework Directive)

  • Monitoring stations (Water Framework Directive)

  • Water bodies (Water Framework Directive)

  • River basin districts (Water Framework Directive)

  • Rivers (Water Framework Directive)

  • Lakes (Water Framework Directive)

  • Surface water bodies (Water Framework Directive)

Reporting obligations
  • Water Framework Directive - Characterisation of River Basin Districts
  • Water Framework Directive - River Basin Management Plans - 2016 Reporting
  • Water Framework Directive - River Basin Management Plans - 2016 Spatial data
  • Water Framework Directive - River Basin Districts and Competent Authorities
  • Water Framework Directive - Monitoring Programmes
  • Water Framework Directive - River Basin Management Plans - 2010 Reporting
  • Water Framework Directive - River Basin Management Plans - 2016 RBDSUCA XML data
  • Water Framework Directive - River Basin Management Plans - 2016 RBD XML data
EEA Management Plan
  • 2020 1.5.5

Resource constraints

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
no limitations to public access

Resource constraints

Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

For further information and specification regarding the use limitations and constraints please consult the file WISE_WFD_ReferenceSpatialDataSets_2020-04-02.pdf which is provided together with the data.

Associated resource

Association Type
Cross reference
Metadata Reference
  • WISE WFD Reference Spatial Datasets reported under Water Framework Directive 2016 - INTERNAL VERSION - version 1.4, Apr. 2020

Associated resource

Association Type
Revision Of
Metadata Reference
  • WISE WFD Reference Spatial Datasets reported under Water Framework Directive 2016 - PUBLIC VERSION - version 1.3, Apr. 2019
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distribution format
  • SHP

  • Geopackage

OnLine resource

https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_v_4326_250_k_wise-wfd2016_p_2016-2020_v01_r04/

OnLine resource

Direct download

OnLine resource

0

GroundWaterBody

OnLine resource

0

MonitoringSite

OnLine resource

2

SurfaceWaterBody_line

OnLine resource

1

SurfaceWaterBody_polygon

Data quality info

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Report

Result

Title
Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Explanation

See the referenced specification

Resource lineage

Statement

1) Data model



The data set follows the WISE spatial data model described in the WISE GIS guidance, available at http://cdr.eionet.europa.eu/help/WFD/WFD_521_2016/GISGuidance/WISE_GISGuidance.pdf



The formal specification is available at http://cdr.eionet.europa.eu/help/WFD/WFD_521_2016/UML/GML_Schemas_6.0.6.zip

The shapefile templates are available at http://cdr.eionet.europa.eu/help/WFD/WFD_521_2016/Shapes/Shapefiles_6.0.6.zip



Refer to the WISE GIS guidance for the mapping between the GML elements in the XML schema and the corresponding fields in Shapefile format.



Refer to the Technical Report which accompanies the data set for information on the additional fields present in the shapefiles: cYear, country, lat, lon, statusCode, statusDate, remarks and qcCheck.



2) Data sources



For the 2nd River Basin Management Plans, spatial data was reported under the "Water Framework Directive - River Basin Management Plans - 2016 Spatial data" (hereafter WFD2016). See http://rod.eionet.europa.eu/obligations/717 for further information on the reporting.



Refer to the Technical Report which accompanies the data set the full list of CDR data sets.



3) Data processing



Refer to the Technical Report which accompanies the data set for further information.



4) Data quality



No geometric or topological error correction was performed.

Basic automated editing of string values (upper-casing, trimming, removal of invalid characters or values) was performed.



Refer to the Data Quality report of the CDR deliveries ( http://rod.eionet.europa.eu/obligations/717/deliveries) for further information.



5) WISE registers



For river basin districts and sub-units, the register of WISE thematic identifiers is kept in http://dd.eionet.europa.eu/vocabulary/wise/SpatialUnit



For surface water bodies and groundwater bodies, the register of WISE thematic identifiers is kept in http://dd.eionet.europa.eu/vocabulary/wise/WaterBody



For monitoring sites, the register of WISE thematic identifiers is kept in http://dd.eionet.europa.eu/vocabulary/wise/MonitoringSite

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Reference System Information

Reference System Information

Code
EPSG:4326

Metadata

Metadata identifier
1f91bcac-2d39-4ce3-b684-8612e4b3ed1b

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role

European Environment Agency

sdi@eea.europa.eu

Point of contact

Type of resource

Resource type
Dataset
Metadata linkage

https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/1f91bcac-2d39-4ce3-b684-8612e4b3ed1b

Date info (Creation)
2020-04-21T12:29:32Z
Date info (Revision)
2025-10-09T10:39:48.586764Z

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115/19139

Edition

1.0

 
 
Access to the catalogue
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Overviews

Spatial extent

Keywords

EEA Management Plan

2020 1.5.5
EEA topics

Water
GEMET

aquifer groundwater monitoring station river basin river basin management surface water water (geographic) water body water resources management
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units Environmental monitoring facilities
INSPIRE priority data set

Coastal waters (Water Framework Directive) Directive 2000/60/EC Groundwater bodies (Water Framework Directive) Lakes (Water Framework Directive) Monitoring stations (Water Framework Directive) River basin districts (Water Framework Directive) River basin districts sub-units (Water Framework Directive) River network (Water Framework Directive) Rivers (Water Framework Directive) Surface water bodies (Water Framework Directive) Transitional waters (Water Framework Directive) Water bodies (Water Framework Directive)
Reporting obligations

Water Framework Directive - Characterisation of River Basin Districts Water Framework Directive - Monitoring Programmes Water Framework Directive - River Basin Districts and Competent Authorities Water Framework Directive - River Basin Management Plans - 2010 Reporting Water Framework Directive - River Basin Management Plans - 2016 RBD XML data Water Framework Directive - River Basin Management Plans - 2016 RBDSUCA XML data Water Framework Directive - River Basin Management Plans - 2016 Reporting Water Framework Directive - River Basin Management Plans - 2016 Spatial data
Spatial scope

European


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