Description: The bathing water protected areas are reported to the European Commission under the annual Bathing Water Directive reporting process. This web service includes information reported up to the 2023 season.The BWD data files were processed by the ETC/ICM and made available for inclusion in this dataset as of 2024-03-19.The BWD data includes bathing water protected areas in the EU Member States and the United Kingdom. It also includes information on the location of bathing waters in Switzerland, Albania and Montenegro.
Description: The bathing water protected areas are reported to the European Commission under the annual Bathing Water Directive reporting process. This web service includes information reported up to the 2023 season.The BWD data files were processed by the ETC/ICM and made available for inclusion in this dataset as of 2024-03-19.The BWD data includes bathing water protected areas in the EU Member States and the United Kingdom. It also includes information on the location of bathing waters in Switzerland, Albania and Montenegro.
Description: The designated waters were reported to the European Commission in the second River Basin Management Plans reporting (henceforth WFD2016).
The EU Member States, except Finland and Slovakia, and the United Kingdom have reported protected areas under WFD2016.
Iceland and Norway have have not reported protected areas.
Description: The drinking water protected areas were reported to the European Commission in the 2nd and 3rd cycle of the River Basin Management Plans reporting. The publicly available dataset excludes drinking area protected areas, if the Data Provider restricted access to the file delivered in the Central Data Repository.
Description: The drinking water protected areas were reported to the European Commission in the 2nd and 3rd cycle of the River Basin Management Plans reporting.The publicly available dataset excludes drinking area protected areas, if the Data Provider restricted access to the file delivered in the Central Data Repository.
Description: The drinking water protected areas were reported to the European Commission in the 2nd and 3rd cycle of the River Basin Management Plans reporting.The publicly available dataset excludes drinking area protected areas, if the Data Provider restricted access to the file delivered in the Central Data Repository.
Description: The drinking water protected areas were reported to the European Commission in the 2nd and 3rd cycle of the River Basin Management Plans reporting.The publicly available dataset excludes drinking area protected areas, if the Data Provider restricted access to the file delivered in the Central Data Repository.
Description: The urban wastewater sensitive areas were reported to the European Commission under the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive 91/271/EEC reporting process.
Description: The urban wastewater sensitive areas were reported to the European Commission under the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive 91/271/EEC reporting process.
Description: The urban wastewater sensitive areas were reported to the European Commission under the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive 91/271/EEC reporting process.
Description: The urban wastewater sensitive areas were reported to the European Commission under the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive 91/271/EEC reporting process.
Description: The nitrates vulnerable zones were reported to the European Commission under the Nitrates Directive 91/676/EEC reporting process, for the reference period 2016-2019.The Nitrates2019 files were processed by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) and made available for inclusion in WFDProtectedArea dataset in 2021-06-17.According to the European Commission implementation report (https://ec.europa.eu/environment/water/water-nitrates/pdf/nitrates_directive_implementation_report.pdf): "When establishing the nitrates vulnerable zones, the Member States may, instead of designating specific zones, opt to apply an action programme throughout the entire agricultural land. Austria, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Romania, Slovenia, the Region of Flanders and Northern Ireland have followed this approach."For the 11 EU Member States that apply Article 3(5) of the Nitrates Directive across their entire agricultural land, the dataset does not include spatial information. For the remaining 17 EU Member States and the United Kingdom, the dataset includes a single aggregated polygon per country. The data pertaining to Croatia, Greece and Portugal was reported in the reference period 2012-2015.For the purposes of inclusion in the dataset, each country polygon was given an identifier, formed by the concatenation of the country code with the suffix 'NVZ'.