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

UWWTD Discharge Points, 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_DischargePoints contains information on individual points of discharge from urban waste water treatment plants or collecting systems, including their coordinates of discharge, link to specific treatment plant, type of receiving area into which the effluent / wastewater is discharged, related waterbody (or river basin), information on the discharge on land and potential reuse of the treated waste water.



This dataset includes the reported discharge points which are 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 discharge points 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 Discharge Points dataset attributes (fields) is available on the link https://dd.eionet.europa.eu/datasets/latest/UWWTDArt15/tables/DischargePoints

The full (internal) dataset including inactive discharge points is available under "Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive, Discharge points reported under UWWTD data call 2021 - INTERNAL VERSION, Jan. 2023" ( https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/catalogue/inspire-pds/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/e68d4c7c-9273-4cea-a4e6-b48abd980c83).



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-disc-pts_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Superseded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
Maintenance and update frequency
Biannually
GEMET

  • urban waste water

  • waste water discharge

  • waste water treatment

  • water quality

  • urban waste water treatment

  • waste water

  • Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive

  • waste water treatment plant

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Utility and governmental services

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

  • Iceland

  • EU27 (from 2020)

Spatial scope
INSPIRE priority data set

  • Discharge points to receiving waters (Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive)

  • Directive 91/271/EEC

EEA topics

  • Water

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

  • Geopackage

  • GDB

OnLine resource

https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_v_4258_100_m_uwwtd-disc-pts_p_2019-2020_v08_r00/

GPKG and GDB

OnLine resource

Direct download

OnLine resource

EEA online map viewer

OnLine resource

UWWTD/SDI_DischargePoints_public_ETRS89_v1 (MapServer)

OnLine resource

EEA website

OnLine resource

WISE GIS Guidance, version 7.0.6

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

Discharge points data were reported by Member states in tabular format. Spatial position of individual discharge points 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 discharge points and discharge points 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
fb78cfb7-dc6f-4294-95e9-e67f96b285c5

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/fb78cfb7-dc6f-4294-95e9-e67f96b285c5

Date info (Creation)
2023-01-07T20:06:39.812Z
Date info (Revision)
2025-10-09T11:24:48.868715Z

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 discharge 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 Discharge points to receiving waters (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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