Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive, Treatment plants reported under UWWTD data call 2021 - INTERNAL VERSION, Jan. 2023 (Spatial data)

UWWTD Treatment Plants, Jan. 2023 is one of the datasets produced within the frame of the reporting under 12th UWWTD Art.15 reporting period (UWWTD data call 2021).



The Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (UWWTD) (91/271/EEC) obliges Member States to report data on the implementation of the Directive upon request from the European Commission bi-annually. Reported data include receiving areas as designated under UWWTD, agglomerations, urban waste water treatment plants serving the agglomerations and points of discharges.



Dataset UWWTD_TreatmentPlants contains urban waste water treatment plants and collecting systems without UWWTP, including their coordinates, capacity and actual load treated, type of treatment and data on the performance of plants.



This metadata refers to the internal version of the dataset, which contains all reported treatment plants, including inactive or not connected ones. Treatment plants with obviously wrong coordinates were excluded only.

The public dataset is available under "Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive, Treatment plants reported under UWWTD data call 2021 - PUBLIC VERSION, Jan. 2023": ( https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/catalogue/inspire-pds/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/3a69dbaf-15d8-443d-a0ff-fa2c4bb8ab0d).



The published output contains data reported in 2022. Current output is provisional, as it is subject to the Commission's compliance check, following which some records may be amended and further information will be added.



The dataset is provided in GeoPackage and ESRI File geodatabase formats.



The published output contains data reported in 2022. Current output is provisional, as it is subject to the Commission's compliance check, following which some records may be amended and further information will be added.



IMPORTANT NOTE: Public access to this data set is restricted due to intellectual property rights. It shall only be used internally by the EEA, its ETCs and subcontractors working on behalf of the EEA.

Simple

Identification info

Date (Creation)
2022-11-15
Date (Publication)
2023-02-06
Edition

08.00

Citation identifier
eea_v_4258_100_m_uwwtd-tp_i_2019-2020_v08_r00

Status
Superseded
Spatial representation type
Vector

Spatial resolution

Spatial resolution
100 m
Topic category
  • Environment

Extent

N
S
E
W




Temporal extent

Time period
2019-01-01 2020-12-31

Extent

Maintenance and update frequency
Biannually
GEMET
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

  • Iceland

  • EU27 (from 2020)

Spatial scope
INSPIRE priority data set

  • Urban waste-water treatment plants (Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive)

  • Directive 91/271/EEC

EEA topics
Reporting obligations

Resource constraints

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
public access limited according to Article 13(1)(e) of the INSPIRE Directive

Resource constraints

Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

The dataset contains parts which should not be made available for public access.

Associated resource

Association Type
Revision Of
Metadata Reference
Language
English
Additional Information

The directive imposes different reporting obligations (Situation report according to Article 16 and implementation programme according to Article 17). The data presented in the UWWTD Waterbase pertains to Articles 15 and 17 of the Directive, which stipulates that discharges from urban waste water treatment plants and amounts and composition of sludges disposed to surface waters must be monitored to verify the compliance with specific provisions of the Directive.



Some technical insight and familiarity with the terms and contexts used for the implementation of the UWWTD is required to make use of the tables.



By linking the information in the tables on agglomerations, UWWTPs, discharge points and receiving areas it is possible to obtain a complete picture showing what type of treatment is applied to treat waste water generated in specific agglomeration, what is the character of the area (e.g. water body) receiving discharges from waste water treatment plans or collecting systems without treatment.



The content of the table with additional data can be used for further quantitative analyses on emissions from UWWTPs with different types of treatment and various size categories. A QA-document describes a flagging of some of the provided data according to certain criteria. These flags should be considered by the user for specific purposes.



All the tables from Waterbase can be downloaded for use by all stakeholders according to below Rights. Lists and explanation of codes can also be shown and downloaded from Additional information - Code Lists. Link to further details on reporting guidelines is given from below Reporting Obligations.

Distribution Information

Distribution format

  • GDB

  • Geopackage

OnLine resource

Direct download (Eionet authentication)

OnLine resource

WISE GIS Guidance, version 7.0.6

OnLine resource

EEA website

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

Treatment plants data were reported by Member states in tabular format. Spatial position of individual treatment plants was specified by the geographical coordinates fields (longitude, latitude). These tabular data were checked, grouped into a common Pan-European dataset and transformed to the spatial data layer in GIS software. Treatment plants with obviously wrong coordinates (e.g. [0,0]) were removed.

If the treatment plant coordinates were not reported, given treatment plant was not excluded (= missing information, coordinates are unknown); on the transformation from reported tabular format to the spatial point layer in ArcGIS, records with missing coordinates were not transferred to the points visible in the data layer, of course, but they are available in the attribute table and their coordinates uwwLatitude and uwwLongitude in the attribute table are NULL.



Tabular information is accessible here: https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/data/0d0c9029-735e-4968-a577-9c22fcf7b2b0/Tabular/

Data definition and documentation is accessible under 'Links'.

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Reference System Information

Reference System Information

Code
EPSG:4258

Metadata

Metadata identifier
0d0c9029-735e-4968-a577-9c22fcf7b2b0

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/catalogue/srv/api/records/0d0c9029-735e-4968-a577-9c22fcf7b2b0

Date info (Creation)
2023-01-06T16:22:02.573Z
Date info (Revision)
2025-10-09T10:36:26.123332Z

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115/19139

Edition

1.0

 
 
Access to the catalogue

Overviews

Spatial extent

Keywords

EEA topics

Water
GEMET

Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive urban waste water urban waste water treatment waste water waste water treatment waste water treatment plant water quality
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Utility and governmental services
INSPIRE priority data set

Directive 91/271/EEC Urban waste-water treatment plants (Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive)
Reporting obligations

Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive - Implementation Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive - National Implementation Programme
Spatial scope

European


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