Bathing Water Directive - Status of bathing water, 2011

The EU Bathing Waters Directive requires Member States to identify popular bathing places in fresh and coastal waters and monitor them for indicators of microbiological pollution (and other substances) throughout the bathing season which runs from May to September

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2016-06-28T15:58:04+00:00
Date (Publication)
2016-06-28T15:58:04+00:00
Citation identifier
eea_t_bathing-water-status_p_1990-2011_v01_r00

Citation identifier
DAT-17-en

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Superseded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

European Environment Agency

 Point of contact

European Environment Agency

http://www.eea.europa.eu#organization

Publisher

European Environment Agency

http://www.eea.europa.eu

Processor
Topic category
  • Environment

Extent

Temporal extent

Time period
1990-01-01 2011-12-31
Maintenance and update frequency
Reporting obligations
EEA Management Plan

  • 2012 1.4.1

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

  • Croatia

  • Slovenia

  • Spain

  • Germany

  • France

  • Czechia

  • Belgium

  • Lithuania

  • Austria

  • Denmark

  • Latvia

  • Finland

  • Estonia

  • Bulgaria

  • Italy

  • Cyprus

  • Luxembourg

  • Romania

  • Portugal

  • Hungary

  • Malta

  • Poland

  • Slovakia

  • Montenegro

  • Sweden

  • Netherlands

  • Greece

  • Switzerland

  • Ireland

  • United Kingdom

EEA topics

  • Bathing water quality

Resource constraints

Use limitation

License CC-BY 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA), Directorate-General for Environment (DG ENV).

Resource constraints

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
No limitations to public access
Language
English
Additional Information

The data set presents the latest information as reported by the Member States (EU27) for the 2011 bathing season, as well as some historical data since 1990.



* CG: compliant with the mandatory and the guide values of the Directive; 



* CI: compliant with the mandatory values of the Directive; 



* B: banned or closed (temporarily or throughout the season); 



* NC: not compliant with the mandatory values of the Directive; 



* NF: insufficiently sampled; 



* NS: not sampled; 



* Others or blank: unknown.

Distribution Information

Distribution format

  • Microsoft Excel (.xls, .xlsx)

OnLine resource

https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_t_bathing-water-status_p_1990-2011_v01_r00/

OnLine resource

Direct download

Resource lineage

Statement

The European Topic Centre on Water (Database May 2012), national submissions to the Bathing Water Directive

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Metadata

Metadata identifier
53ef1ba4-4aff-4bf3-9509-de5a43f4e15f

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
Non geographic dataset
Name

Tabular dataset

Metadata linkage

https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/catalogue/srv/api/records/53ef1ba4-4aff-4bf3-9509-de5a43f4e15f

Date info (Creation)
2023-03-28T09:36:32.335Z
Date info (Revision)
2025-10-09T10:50:46.465629Z

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-3:2018

Edition

1.0

 
 
Access to the catalogue

Overviews

Spatial extent

Keywords

EEA Management Plan

2012 1.4.1
EEA topics

Bathing water quality
Reporting obligations

Bathing Water Directive - Monitoring and Classification of Bathing Waters (until 2019) Bathing Water Directive - Report


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