EMODnet Human Activities, Environment, Status of Bathing Water
The dataset on status of bathing waters in the EU was created in 2015 by Cogea for the European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet). It is based on the dataset 'Bathing Water Directive - Status of bathing water' provided by The European Topic Centre on Water and made available by the European Environment Agency at https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/bathing-water-directive-status-of-bathing-water-13. 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. The dataset presents the latest information as reported by the Member States, Albania, Switzerland and the United Kingdom for the 2020 bathing season, as well as some historical data since 1990, and it is available for viewing and download on EMODnet - Human Activities web portal (www.emodnet-humanactivities.eu). Only coastal and transitional sites are shown on the viewer, while the dataset also contains lake and river sites. The geographic coverage is: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. More information is available at https://rod.eionet.europa.eu/obligations/787. Compared with the previous version, the dataset has been updated according to the latest EEA version.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2015-08-06
- Date (Revision)
- 2021-10-06
- Date (Creation)
- 2015-07-01
- Identifier
- EMODnet_HA_Environment_Bathing_Water_2021006
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GEMET - Themes, version 4.2.1, 1 Jun 2021
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Tourism
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GEMET - Themes, version 4.2.1, 1 Jun 2021
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Water
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GEMET - Concepts, version 4.2.1, 1 Jun 2021
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bathing water
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bathing seawater
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water analysis
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water monitoring
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water pollution
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water protection area
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water quality management
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recreational area
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mass recreation
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- Use limitation
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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
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no limitation
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 100000
- Metadata language
- English
- Topic category
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- Environment
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- Begin date
- 1990-01-01
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG:4326
- Reference system identifier
- ISO 19108 calendar
- Distribution format
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unknown
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unknown
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unknown
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unknown
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- Transfer size
- 0
- OnLine resource
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EMODnet Human Activities
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WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
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EMODnet Human Activities aims to facilitate access to existing marine data on activities carried out in EU waters, by building a single entry point for geographic information on human uses of the ocean.
- OnLine resource
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EMODnet_HA_Environment_Bathing_Water_20211006.zip
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WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
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ZIP (File Geodatabase / Shapefile)
- OnLine resource
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bathingwaters
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OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map
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State of Bathing Waters
- OnLine resource
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emodnet:bathingwaters
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OGC:WFS
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State of Bathing Waters
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2008-12-04
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
- Pass
- Yes
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2009-12-15
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
- Pass
- Yes
- Statement
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The dataset is originally provided as a set of XLSX files. We loaded the single spreadsheet into a feature class georeferencing bathing water stations. In the original data model, there is a separate field for each year of monitoring reporting bathing water status. In the EMODnet data model a 'Year' field has been created where years are available as attributes. Bathing water status is reported in a 'Status' field. A relationship class links the points vector data with the data attribute table.
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