EMODnet Human Activities, Environment, Status of Bathing Water
The dataset on the status of bathing waters in the European seas was created in 2015 by Cogea for the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet). It is based on data from (i) the 'Bathing Water Directive - Status of bathing water, 2022' provided by The European Topic Centre on Water and made available by the European Environment Agency (EEA) for the EU countries, Albania and Switzerland, (ii) the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs of the Environment Agency for the England, (iii) the Gibraltar Environmental Agency, (iv) the Department of Agriculture, Environment, and Rural Affairs for the Northern Ireland, (v) the Scottish Environment Protection Agency for the Scotland, (vi) the Natural Resources Wales Government Sponsored Body. It is available for viewing and download on EMODnet web portal (Human Activities, https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/en/human-activities). The EU Bathing Water 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. More information are available at https://rod.eionet.europa.eu/obligations/787. The dataset presents information on bathing water identifier and name, county code and name, latitude and longitude of sites, specialized zone type (coastal, lake, river, transitional), link to the national sources website, bathing water quality status (0 - Not classified, 1 - Excellent, 2 - Good, 3 - Good or Sufficient, 3 - Sufficient, 4 - Poor, Closed, Insufficiently Sampled, New), year (1990-2023, where available). Only coastal and transitional bathing waters are shown on the viewer, while the dataset also contains lake and river ones. Geographic coverage: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom (England, Gibraltar, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales). Classifications were not made for some of the UK sites for the 2020 season due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the sampling programme. Compared with the previous version, the dataset has been updated according to the latest version published by the resource providers in the 2023 and 2024 for the 2023 bathing water season.
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 2015-08-06
- Date (Revision)
- 2024-07-19
- Date (Creation)
- 2015-07-01
- Citation identifier
- EMODnet_HA_Environment_Bathing_Water_20231011
- Point of contact
-
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Cogea srl
Author European Environment Agency (EEA)
Resource provider Directorate-General for Environment (DG ENV), European Environment Agency (EEA)
Resource provider UK England - Environment Agency, Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs
Resource provider UK Gibraltar - Environmental Agency Gibraltar
Resource provider UK Northern Ireland - Department of Agriculture, Environment, and Rural Affairs
Resource provider UK Scotland - Scottish Environment Protection Agency
Resource provider UK Wales - Natural Resources Wales
Resource provider
-
GEMET - Themes, version 4.2.1, 1 Jun 2021
-
-
Tourism
-
-
GEMET - Themes, version 4.2.1, 1 Jun 2021
-
-
Water
-
-
GEMET - Concepts, version 4.2.1, 1 Jun 2021
-
-
bathing water
-
bathing seawater
-
water analysis
-
water monitoring
-
water pollution
-
water protection area
-
water quality management
-
recreational area
-
mass recreation
-
- Use limitation
-
Re-use of content for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the sources (both EMODnet - Human Activities, and primary sources) are acknowledged. EMODnet - Human Activities accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever for the re-use of content accessible on its website.
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
-
no limitation
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 100000
- Language
- English
- Topic category
-
- Environment
))
- Begin date
- 1990-01-01
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG:4326
- Reference system identifier
- ISO 19108 calendar
- Distribution format
-
Name Version unknown
unknown
- Transfer size
- 0
- OnLine resource
-
Protocol Linkage Name WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
https://emodnet.ec.europa.eu/en/human-activities EMODnet Human Activities
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/8d85660c-7930-40dc-8733-96abdcf4bca7/attachments/EMODnet_HA_Environment_Bathing_Water_20240719.zip EMODnet_HA_Environment_Bathing_Water_20240719.zip
OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map
https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/wms? bathingwaters
OGC:WFS
https://ows.emodnet-humanactivities.eu/wfs? emodnet:bathingwaters
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2008-12-04
- Explanation
-
See the referenced specification
- Pass
- Yes
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
-
See the referenced specification
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2009-12-15
- Explanation
-
See the referenced specification
- Pass
- Yes
- Statement
-
Data were retrived from different sources. Validation and quality assurance remain up to primary data sources, while harmonization is carried out by Cogea. For further information on validation and quality assurance, it is suggested that primary data sources are contacted. Generally speaking data are to be considered very reliable, because they come from national sources officially in charge for their collection. The harmonisation process consisted of identifying a set of attributes common to all the different datasets, thus creating a single data model. Cogea has georeferenced the sites using the reported longitude and latitude values. In the EU original data model, there is a separate field for each year of monitoring reporting bathing water status. In the EMODnet data table a 'Year' field has been created where years are available as attributes. Bathing water status is reported in the 'Status' field. A relationship class links the points vector data with the data attribute table.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 8d85660c-7930-40dc-8733-96abdcf4bca7 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-07-30T10:35:29.02708Z
- Metadata standard name
-
ISO19115
- Metadata standard version
-
2003/Cor.1:2006
- Metadata author
-
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Cogea srl
Point of contact
Overviews
Spatial extent
Provided by
