6b7b7f62-659f-4df7-8b54-88c5113a9400 European Environment Agency Kongens Nytorv 6 Copenhagen K 1050 Denmark sdi@eea.europa.eu pointOfContact 2025-10-09T10:55:59.623756Z ISO 19119/19139 1.0 EPSG:4326 EPSG:3857 EPSG:102100 CRS:84 Bathing water quality in Europe 2020-06-08 publication 2021-09-20 revision eea_v_4326_250_k_wise-bwd-bathing-water-quality_service The bathing water quality data services include all coastal and inland bathing waters reported and assessed in the European Union Member States, Albania, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. The data is reported annually in the scope of the Bathing Water Directive (Directive 2006/7/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 February 2006, BWD) reporting obligations. The map services in https://water.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/BathingWater show the location of the bathing waters and the assessment of bathing water quality for the last reported bathing season, as well as for the ten previous bathing seasons. Each bathing water is assessed for three statuses: 1) monitoring calendar status, 2) management status, 3) bathing water quality status. The monitoring calendar status evaluates the implementation of the monitoring calendar in the last reported season (as defined in Annex IV of the Bathing Water Directive). The management status evaluates the management in the last assessment period, whether the bathing water was continuously monitored or not. The bathing quality status evaluates the quality of bathing waters according to the two microbiological parameters: Escherichia coli and Intestinal enterococci (as defined in Annexes I and II of the Bathing Water Directive). The bathing water quality is classified in one of four classes: “Excellent”, “Good”, “Sufficient” or “Poor”. The status “Not classified” is applied if there are not enough available samples to evaluate the water quality. The data service in https://discodata.eea.europa.eu/ contains the results of the bathing water status since 1990: [WISE_BWD].[latest].[assessment_BathingWaterStatus] It also contains the reported data in the following tables: [WISE_BWD].[latest].[timeseries_Characterisation] [WISE_BWD].[latest].[timeseries_SeasonalPeriod] [WISE_BWD].[latest].[timeseries_MonitoringResult] [WISE_BWD].[latest].[spatial_SpatialProtected] European Environment Agency Kongens Nytorv 6 Copenhagen K 1050 Denmark sdi@eea.europa.eu http://www.eea.europa.eu WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link European Environment Agency public website pointOfContact https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/public/catalogue-graphic-overview/6b7b7f62-659f-4df7-8b54-88c5113a9400.png water (geographic) inland water water bathing water coastal water lake water body surface water bathing water directive river transitional waters Water Framework Directive water resources management GEMET 2021-11-30 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.gemet Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.httpinspireeceuropaeutheme-theme United Kingdom EU27 (from 2020) Albania Switzerland Continents, countries, sea regions of the world. 2015-07-17T12:00:00 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.place.regions European Spatial scope 2019-05-22 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.httpinspireeceuropaeumetadatacodelistSpatialScope-SpatialScope Directive 2006/7/EC Directive 2000/60/EC Bathing water sites (Bathing Water Directive) Protected areas (Water Framework Directive) Bathing waters - recreational waters (Water Framework Directive) INSPIRE priority data set 2018-06-12T11:16:28 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.httpinspireeceuropaeumetadatacodelistPriorityDataset-PriorityDataset Water Environmental health impacts EEA topics 2020-09-24 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.eea-topics /Métropole /Métropole/Manche mer du Nord /Métropole/Mers Celtiques /Métropole/Golfe de Gascogne /Métropole/Méditerranée occidentale Sous-regions marines geonetwork.thesaurus.local.place.dcsmm.area /Activités et Usages/Loisirs Thématiques - SIMM geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.simm.thematiques /Etat du Milieu/Pollutions Thématiques - SIMM geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.simm.thematiques /Données dérivées/Indicateurs Type de jeux de donnée - ODATIS geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.type_jeux_donnee Directive Cadre sur l'Eau (DCE) Cadre Réglementaire - SIMM geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.simm.reglementaire Directive Eaux de baignade Cadre Réglementaire - SIMM geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.simm.reglementaire no limitations to public access No limitations in the use of this web service. utf8 environment inlandWaters geoscientificInformation -63.171087 55.854504 -21.40637 71.20219 2008-01-01 https://water.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/services/BathingWater/BathingWater_Dyna_WM/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS OGC:WMS https://water.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/BathingWater/BathingWater_Dyna_WM/MapServer ESRI:REST https://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/water/interactive/bathing/state-of-bathing-waters WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link State of bathing waters dashboard The dashboard shows bathing water locations and their quality for the latest as well as previous bathing seasons. All symbols are coloured according to achieved quality status in the most recent season. Data are presented on two levels: country (less detailed scales) and bathing water (more detailed scales) https://discodata.eea.europa.eu/#WISE_BWD_latest WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link DISCODATA Rest endpoint The DISCODATA Rest endpoint allow users to use SQL Queries over the [WISE_BWD] database to visualise and extract JSON data COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 976/2009 of 19 October 2009 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the Network Services 2010-12-08 publication See the referenced specification 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 2010-12-08 publication See the referenced specification For more information about the lineage of the datasets provided via this web service, please consult the associated metadata of the dataset.