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4.3.1 Data

As seen in the reporting on past floods in the PFRA (and in the EFID database) (*), data on the environmental impacts of floods are scarce. The subtypes of consequences foreseen in the reporting for the floods directive (affecting water body status, affecting protected areas and pollution sources) (EC 2013a) seem to cover the most important aspects with the exemption of a subtype on erosion and/or sedimentation.

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Where floodplains are approximated by the areas with alluvial soil, wetlands, of the hydraulic floodplain for a given return period, it already becomes clear that data on delineations of floodplains are incomplete. At European scale, the data must not be as detailed as for the planning of measures and development of specific areas, but actual data availability does not allow a proper status and trends assessment of Europe’s floodplains.