WISE River basin districts (RBD) - version 1.3, Jun. 2008

Water Framework Directive (WFD) Article 3 river basin districts (RBDs) v1.3. Definition in WFD: River basin district means the area of land and sea, made up of one or more neighbouring river basins together with their associated groundwaters and coastal waters, which is identified under Article 3(1) as the main unit for management of river basins. MS did not consistently include coastal waters in the RBD deliveries. Geographical coverage: EU Member States + Norway + Switzerland + neighbouring, international RBDs in non-EU Member States (derived from CCM1 catchments, JRC). The feature layer can be divided into four groupings by the following queries (in ArcGIS: copy and paste the query into the 'Definition Query' window in the layer properties): EU Member State RBDs: [EU_MS] = 'Y'; non-EU Member State RBDs: [EU_MS] = 'N' AND [intCode] = ''; EU Member State international RBDs: [INTERNATIONAL] = 'Y' AND [EU_MS] = 'Y'; Non-EU Member State international RBDs: [EU_MS] = 'N' AND [INTERNATIONAL] = 'Y'.