WISE WFD Reference Spatial Datasets reported under Water Framework Directive 2016 - PUBLIC VERSION - version 1.4, Apr. 2020

The dataset contains information on the European river basin districts, the river basin district sub-units, the surface water bodies and the groundwater bodies delineated for the 2nd River Basin Management Plans (RBMP) under the Water Framework Directive (WFD) as well as the European monitoring sites used for the assessment of the status of the above mentioned surface water bodies and groundwater bodies.



The information was reported to the European Commission under the Water Framework Directive (WFD) reporting obligations.

The dataset compiles the available spatial data related to the 2nd RBMPs due in 2016 (hereafter WFD2016). See http://rod.eionet.europa.eu/obligations/715 for further information on the WFD2016 reporting.



Relevant concepts:



River basin district (RBD): The area of land and sea, made up of one or more neighbouring river basins together with their associated groundwaters and coastal waters, which is the main unit for management of river basins.



River basin: The area of land from which all surface run-off flows through a sequence of streams, rivers and, possibly, lakes into the sea at a single river mouth, estuary or delta.



Sub-basin: The area of land from which all surface run-off flows through a series of streams, rivers and, possibly, lakes to a particular point in a water course (normally a lake or a river confluence).



Sub-unit [Operational definition. Not in the WFD]: Reporting unit. River basin districts larger than 50000 square kilometre should be divided into comparable sub-units with an area between 5000 and 50000 square kilometre. The sub-units should be created using river basins (if more than one river basin exists in the RBD), set of contiguous river basins, or sub-basins, for example. If the RBD area is less than 50000 square kilometre, the RBD itself should be used as a sub-unit.



Surface water body: Body of surface water means a discrete and significant element of surface water such as a lake, a reservoir, a stream, river or canal, part of a stream, river or canal, a transitional water or a stretch of coastal water.



Surface water: Inland waters, except groundwater; transitional waters and coastal waters, except in respect of chemical status for which it shall also include territorial waters.



Inland water: All standing or flowing water on the surface of the land, and all groundwater on the landward side of the baseline from which the breadth of territorial waters is measured.



River: Body of inland water flowing for the most part on the surface of the land but which may flow underground for part of its course.



Lake: Body of standing inland surface water.



Transitional waters: Bodies of surface water in the vicinity of river mouths which are partly saline in character as a result of their proximity to coastal waters but which are substantially influenced by freshwater flows.



Coastal water: Surface water on the landward side of a line, every point of which is at a distance of one nautical mile on the seaward side from the nearest point of the baseline from which the breadth of territorial waters is measured, extending where appropriate up to the outer limit of transitional waters.



Territorial sea: The territorial waters, or territorial sea as defined by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, extend up to a limit not exceeding 12 nautical miles (22.2 km), measured from the baseline. The normal baseline is the low-water line along the coast.



Territorial waters [Operational definition. Not in WFD.]: Reporting unit. The zone between the limit of the coastal water bodies and the limit of the territorial sea, geometrically subdivided in Thiessen polygons according to the adjacent coastal sub-unit (or using any alternative delineation provided by the national competent authorities), and assigned to an adjacent sub-unit for the purpose of reporting the chemical status of the territorial waters under the Water Framework Directive.



Groundwater body: 'Body of groundwater' means a distinct volume of groundwater within an aquifer or aquifers.



Groundwater: All water which is below the surface of the ground in the saturation zone and in direct contact with the ground or subsoil. Aquifer: Subsurface layer or layers of rock or other geological strata of sufficient porosity and permeability to allow either a significant flow of groundwater or the abstraction of significant quantities of groundwater.



Monitoring site: [Operational definition. Not in the WFD] Monitoring point included in a WFD surveillance, operational or investigative monitoring programme.

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Date (Creation)
2017-07-14
Date (Revision)
2020-03-23
Date (Publication)
2020-04-02
Edition

01.04
Citation identifier
eea_v_4326_250_k_wise-wfd2016_p_2016-2020_v01_r04
Citation identifier
DAT-30-en
Status
Superseded
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Website Role

European Environment Agency

sdi@eea.europa.eu

http://www.eea.europa.eu Point of contact

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Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

EEA topics

  • Water

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Environmental monitoring facilities

  • Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units

WISE metadata keywords, version 1.0, 2009-10-01

  • Water Information System for Europe (WISE)

  • Water Framework Directive (WFD)

  • River basin district

  • Sub unit

  • Monitoring station

  • Groundwater body

  • Surface water body

  • Surface water

  • Water body
Keywords
    Keywords

      Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

      • Slovakia

      • Malta

      • France

      • Greece

      • Belgium

      • Croatia

      • Norway

      • Romania

      • Poland

      • Ireland

      • Italy

      • Lithuania

      • Hungary

      • Slovenia

      • Germany

      • Austria

      • Iceland

      • Latvia

      • Czechia

      • Denmark

      • Estonia

      • Cyprus

      • Spain

      • Sweden

      • Portugal

      • Finland

      • Bulgaria

      • Luxembourg

      • Netherlands

      INSPIRE - Feature Concept Dictionary, version 3

      • River Basin

      • WFD Surface Water Body

      • WFD Ground Water Body

      • Surface Water

      • WFD Coastal Water

      • WFD Lake

      • WFD River

      • WFD Transitional Water

      GEMET

      • water (geographic)

      • groundwater

      • water resources management

      • aquifer

      • river basin

      • surface water

      • river basin management

      • monitoring station

      • water body
      Spatial scope

      INSPIRE priority data set

      • Groundwater bodies (Water Framework Directive)

      • River network (Water Framework Directive)

      • Coastal waters (Water Framework Directive)

      • Directive 2000/60/EC

      • River basin districts sub-units (Water Framework Directive)

      • Transitional waters (Water Framework Directive)

      • Monitoring stations (Water Framework Directive)

      • Water bodies (Water Framework Directive)

      • River basin districts (Water Framework Directive)

      • Rivers (Water Framework Directive)

      • Lakes (Water Framework Directive)

      • Surface water bodies (Water Framework Directive)
      Reporting obligations

      EEA Management Plan

      • 2020 1.5.5
      Access constraints
      Other restrictions
      Other constraints
      no limitations to public access
      Use constraints
      Other restrictions
      Other constraints

      For further information and specification regarding the use limitations and constraints please consult the file WISE_WFD_ReferenceSpatialDataSets_2020-04-02.pdf which is provided together with the data.

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      Association Type
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      Aggregate Datasetindentifier
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      Association Type
      revision of
      Spatial representation type
      Vector
      Denominator
      250000
      Language of dataset
      English
      Character set
      UTF8
      Topic category
      • Environment
      • Inland waters
      • Geoscientific information
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      Begin date
      2016-05-05
      End date
      2020-02-12
      Coordinate reference system identifier
      EPSG:4326
      Distribution format
      • SHP ( 1.0)

      • Geopackage ( 1.0)

      OnLine resource
      Protocol Linkage Name

      EEA:FOLDERPATH

             		https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_v_4326_250_k_wise-wfd2016_p_2016-2020_v01_r04/

      WWW:URL

             		https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/data/1f91bcac-2d39-4ce3-b684-8612e4b3ed1b

      Direct download

      OGC:WMS

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      OGC:WMS

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      OGC:WMS

             		https://water.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/services/WISE_WFD/WFD2016_SurfaceWaterBody_WM/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS

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      OGC:WMS

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      1
      Hierarchy level
      Dataset

      Conformance 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
      Statement

      1) Data model



      The data set follows the WISE spatial data model described in the WISE GIS guidance, available at http://cdr.eionet.europa.eu/help/WFD/WFD_521_2016/GISGuidance/WISE_GISGuidance.pdf



      The formal specification is available at http://cdr.eionet.europa.eu/help/WFD/WFD_521_2016/UML/GML_Schemas_6.0.6.zip

      The shapefile templates are available at http://cdr.eionet.europa.eu/help/WFD/WFD_521_2016/Shapes/Shapefiles_6.0.6.zip



      Refer to the WISE GIS guidance for the mapping between the GML elements in the XML schema and the corresponding fields in Shapefile format.



      Refer to the Technical Report which accompanies the data set for information on the additional fields present in the shapefiles: cYear, country, lat, lon, statusCode, statusDate, remarks and qcCheck.



      2) Data sources



      For the 2nd River Basin Management Plans, spatial data was reported under the "Water Framework Directive - River Basin Management Plans - 2016 Spatial data" (hereafter WFD2016). See http://rod.eionet.europa.eu/obligations/717 for further information on the reporting.



      Refer to the Technical Report which accompanies the data set the full list of CDR data sets.



      3) Data processing



      Refer to the Technical Report which accompanies the data set for further information.



      4) Data quality



      No geometric or topological error correction was performed.

      Basic automated editing of string values (upper-casing, trimming, removal of invalid characters or values) was performed.



      Refer to the Data Quality report of the CDR deliveries ( http://rod.eionet.europa.eu/obligations/717/deliveries) for further information.



      5) WISE registers



      For river basin districts and sub-units, the register of WISE thematic identifiers is kept in http://dd.eionet.europa.eu/vocabulary/wise/SpatialUnit



      For surface water bodies and groundwater bodies, the register of WISE thematic identifiers is kept in http://dd.eionet.europa.eu/vocabulary/wise/WaterBody



      For monitoring sites, the register of WISE thematic identifiers is kept in http://dd.eionet.europa.eu/vocabulary/wise/MonitoringSite

      Metadata

      File identifier
      1f91bcac-2d39-4ce3-b684-8612e4b3ed1b XML
      Metadata language
      English
      Character set
      UTF8
      Hierarchy level
      Dataset
      Date stamp
      2024-10-21T18:44:51.052333Z
      Metadata standard name

      ISO 19115/19139
      Metadata standard version

      1.0
      Metadata author
      Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Website Role

      European Environment Agency

      sdi@eea.europa.eu

      		Point of contact
       
       
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      Overviews

      overview

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      Keywords

      EEA Management Plan

      2020 1.5.5
      EEA topics

      Water
      GEMET

      aquifer groundwater monitoring station river basin river basin management surface water water (geographic) water body water resources management
      GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

      Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units Environmental monitoring facilities
      INSPIRE priority data set

      Coastal waters (Water Framework Directive) Directive 2000/60/EC Groundwater bodies (Water Framework Directive) Lakes (Water Framework Directive) Monitoring stations (Water Framework Directive) River basin districts (Water Framework Directive) River basin districts sub-units (Water Framework Directive) River network (Water Framework Directive) Rivers (Water Framework Directive) Surface water bodies (Water Framework Directive) Transitional waters (Water Framework Directive) Water bodies (Water Framework Directive)
      Reporting obligations

      Water Framework Directive - Characterisation of River Basin Districts Water Framework Directive - Monitoring Programmes Water Framework Directive - River Basin Districts and Competent Authorities Water Framework Directive - River Basin Management Plans - 2010 Reporting Water Framework Directive - River Basin Management Plans - 2016 RBD XML data Water Framework Directive - River Basin Management Plans - 2016 RBDSUCA XML data Water Framework Directive - River Basin Management Plans - 2016 Reporting Water Framework Directive - River Basin Management Plans - 2016 Spatial data
      Spatial scope

      European


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