---
id: "eu_bathing_water_id"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["environment", "geo"]
country: ["EU"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 90
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/eu_bathing_water_id"
---

# EU bathing water identifier (`eu_bathing_water_id`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Identifier of a bathing water (a beach or bathing site on the sea, a lake or a river) that a country reports to the European Environment Agency under the Bathing Water Directive 2006/7/EC. Bathing waters are registered as WFD protected areas, so the identifier has the EU code form, the two-letter country code (EL for Greece, UK for the former UK reports) followed by up to 40 upper-case letters, digits, hyphens or underscores (3 to 42 characters in all); the national part follows each country's own scheme.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Environment (protected areas, biodiversity, water, weather, emissions, waste) (environment), Geographic identifiers (geo)
- Countries: European Union (EU)
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^[A-Z]{2}[0-9A-Z](?:[0-9A-Z_-]{0,38}[0-9A-Z])?$
```

## Examples

- `NLBW59_5QMP01` — Milligerplas, Netherlands; Wikidata example
- `SE0441278000000136` — Torekovs strand, Sweden; Wikidata example
- `DEBW_PR_0048` — Titisee beach, Germany; Eionet WFD protected area vocabulary
- `DKBW1299` — Børsmose Strand, Denmark; Eionet WFD protected area vocabulary
- `debw_pr_0048` (invalid example) — Lower case; the register uses DEBW_PR_0048

## Mappings

- wikidata: `P9616`

## Translations

- ru: Идентификатор места купания ЕС: Идентификатор пляжа или места купания, о котором страна сообщает Европейскому агентству по окружающей среде по Директиве о водах для купания 2006/7/EC. Начинается с двухбуквенного кода страны.

## Sources

- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9616>
- doc: <https://dd.eionet.europa.eu/dataelements/latest/bathingWaterIdentifier>
- doc: <https://dd.eionet.europa.eu/vocabulary/wise/WFDProtectedArea/view>
- doc: <https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2006/7/oj>

## Quality

Score 90/100. Missing: detector coverage.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/eu_bathing_water_id.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/EU/environment/eu_bathing_water_id.yaml>