Table of contents
- Executive summary
- Acronyms and abbreviations
- 1. Overview of EU water-related legislation to protect human health and the aquatic environment
- 2. Protecting surface waters from nutrient and organic pollution
- 3 Protecting drinking water and bathing water from microbial pollution
- 4 Information to the public
- 5 Conclusions
- References
- Annex: Results reported under the three water industry directives
- A1 Bathing Water Directive
- A2 Drinking Water Directive
- A3 Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive
Annex: Results reported under the three water industry directives
Since 2008 the EEA has assessed information under the BWD, since 2012 (for the seventh reporting cycle) it has assessed data under the UWWTD and in 2016 it can also document the information collected in the 2015 reporting cycle under the DWD.
The reporting cycles of the three water industry directives are different: the BWD reports every year, the UWWTD every second year and the DWD every third year. The commission together with EEA and consultancies developed assessments based on UWWTD and DWD water quality data in 2015 and 2016 and we can now present them together with the bathing water data from 2015. We also summarise the 2016 bathing water results in the context of the water industry directives; there is a more detailed stand-alone presentation on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the BWD (EEA, 2016).