EEA geospatial data catalogue
Bathing Water Directive - Status of bathing water, 2023
The EU Bathing Waters Directive (Directive 2006/7/EC) requires Member States to annually identify all bathing waters (inland, transitional and coastal) and define the length of the bathing season. Member States are also requested to monitor indicator parameters linked to microbiological health risk.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2024-05-24
- Date (Publication)
- 2024-05-24
- Edition
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01.00
- Citation identifier
- eea_t_bathing-water-status_p_1990-2023_v01_r00
- Citation identifier
- DAT-17-en
Identifier
- Status
- Superseded
- Point of contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact
- Topic category
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- Environment
Extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 1990-01-01 2023-12-31
- Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
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Switzerland
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EU27 (from 2020)
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Albania
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- Reporting obligations
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Bathing Water Directive - Identification of Bathing Waters
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Bathing Water Directive - Monitoring and Classification of Bathing Waters
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- EEA Management Plan
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2024 1.1.8
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Resource constraints
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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License CC-BY 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Copyright holder: Directorate-General for Environment (DG ENV), European Environment Agency (EEA).
- Language
- English
- Additional Information
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The data set presents the latest information as reported by the Member States for the 2023 bathing season, as well as some historical data since 1990.
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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Microsoft Excel (.xls, .xlsx)
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- Distributor contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role EEA
eea.europa.eu
- OnLine resource
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https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_t_bathing-water-status_p_1990-2023_v01_r00/
- OnLine resource
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Direct download
Resource lineage
- Statement
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Shortly before the start of and during the bathing season, competent authorities designated by MS take bathing water samples and analyse them for the types of bacteria associated with microbiological health risk and indicating pollution from e.g. sewage and livestock breeding. Polluted water can have impacts on human health, causing stomach upsets and diarrhoea if swallowed. Infections of the ears, eyes and upper respiratory tract are also possible and more serious infectious diseases can occasionally be contracted. Based on the levels of bacteria detected, bathing water quality is then classified as ‘excellent’, ‘good’, ‘sufficient’ or ‘poor’.
Member States establish their respective monitoring calendars, which must follow the provisions of Annex IV to the Bathing Water Directive:
- One sample is to be taken shortly before the start of the bathing season; no fewer than four samples (including the pre-season sample) are to be taken and analysed per bathing season; only three samples need be taken and analysed per bathing season in the case of a bathing water that either has a bathing season not exceeding eight weeks or is situated in a region subject to special geographical constraints.
- Sampling dates are to be distributed throughout the bathing season, with the interval between sampling dates never exceeding one month.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- 8476280e-7bed-457c-8c2b-a5e9aa451091
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource type
- Non geographic dataset
- Name
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Tabular dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/8476280e-7bed-457c-8c2b-a5e9aa451091
- Date info (Creation)
- 2024-05-24T07:03:57.458719Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-10-09T11:01:02.753587Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115/19139
- Edition
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1.0
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