Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive, Treatment plants reported under UWWTD data call 2021 - PUBLIC 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 dataset includes the reported treatment plants displayed on the UWWTD maps ( https://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/water/european-waters/water-use-and-environmental-pressures/uwwtd/interactive-maps/urban-waste-water-treatment-maps-3). The active and connected treatment plants with correct coordinates in the reported data were selected from the source European UWWTD tabular dataset which is available on the download link https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/waterbase-uwwtd-urban-waste-water-treatment-directive-9 .

The definition of the UWWTD Treatment Plants dataset attributes (fields) is available on the link: https://dd.eionet.europa.eu/datasets/latest/UWWTDArt15/tables/UWWTPs

The full dataset, including non active and non connected treatment plants are available under "Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive, Treatment plants reported under UWWTD data call 2022 - INTERNAL VERSION, Jan. 2023" ( https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/catalogue/inspire-pds/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/0d0c9029-735e-4968-a577-9c22fcf7b2b0).



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.

Simple

Identification info

Date (Creation)
2022-11-15
Date (Publication)
2023-01-15
Edition

08.00

Citation identifier
eea_v_4258_100_m_uwwtd-tp_p_2019-2020_v08_r00

Citation identifier
DAT-106-en

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Superseded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
EEA topics

  • Water

GEMET

  • Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive

  • waste water treatment plant

  • urban waste water

  • waste water

  • urban waste water treatment

  • waste water treatment

  • water quality

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Utility and governmental services

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

  • EU27 (from 2020)

  • Iceland

Spatial scope
INSPIRE priority data set

  • Directive 91/271/EEC

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

Reporting obligations

Resource constraints

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
no limitations to public access

Resource constraints

Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

License CC-BY 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).

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

Distributor contact
Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role
Title

Geopackage

Date
OnLine resource

https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_v_4258_100_m_uwwtd-tp_p_2019-2020_v08_r00/

GPKG and GDB

OnLine resource

Direct download

OnLine resource

EEA online map viewer

OnLine resource

UWWTD/SDI_TreatmentPlants_public_ETRS89_v1 (MapServer)

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. Inactive or disconnected treatment plants and treatment plants without coordinates or with obviously wrong coordinates were removed.



Tabular data is accessible here: https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/data/3a69dbaf-15d8-443d-a0ff-fa2c4bb8ab0d/Tabular/

Description of dataset and definition is acccessible under 'Links'.

Hierarchy level
Dataset
Source

Reference System Information

Reference System Information

Code
EPSG:4258

Metadata

Metadata identifier
3a69dbaf-15d8-443d-a0ff-fa2c4bb8ab0d

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/3a69dbaf-15d8-443d-a0ff-fa2c4bb8ab0d

Date info (Creation)
2023-01-06T15:03:55.233Z
Date info (Revision)
2025-10-09T10:45:36.329354Z

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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