Bathing Waters

General Information

North Sea

Baltic Sea

Clyde Marine Region

Adriatic Sea

Eastern Mediterranean Sea

Bathing Waters

Layer Info
Category	Activities
Sub-category	Recreational

Description

Bathing waters with indication of water quality.

MSP Challenge

Bathing waters is a static layer. This adds no pressure on the ecosystem.

Return to recreational

Not applicable. This layer is not available in the North Sea Edition.

Types

• Poor Quality
• Moderate Quality
• Good Quality

Metadata

Data Source

HELCOM HOLAS II Dataset: Bathing waters (2017)

Original Title

Bathing sites

Description

"Constructed from EEA data on the status of bathing water. Downloaded from EEA homepage (http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/bathing-water-directive-status-of-bathing-water-7). Contains information on the location and water quality of bathing sites 2011-2014.

No data from Russia."

Description retrieved from HELCOM's metadata page for this resource (15-07-2021), to note that there has been an update in 2018 but the data currently in the platform is from 2016.

Creation Date

N.A. Publication date: 2016-04-06

Methodology

Implemented to show only the classifications for 2014.

Western Baltic Sea

The Bathing Waters layer in the Western Baltic Sea Edition remains consistent with that featured in the Baltic Sea edition.

Not applicable. This layer is not available in the Clyde Marine Region Edition.

Types

• Excellent
• Good
• Sufficient
• Poor
• Not classified

Metadata

Data Source

Emodnet human activities for Italy and "monitoring morskodobro" for the other countries.

Original Title

Emodnet: State of Bathing Water

Description

Emodnet: "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-14. 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 2021 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)."

monitoring morskodobro: not available

Creation Date

Emodnet: Created on 2015-07-01, retrieved on 2021-02-10.

monitoring morskodobro: not available

Methodology

Not available.

Not applicable.

This layer is not present in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea.