d8937e8d-b28d-4084-9ec6-7f7ab9d8c3b6 English Environmental Protection Agency Scientific Officer +353-53-9160600 +353-53-9160601 PO Box 3000 Johnstown Castle Estate Wexford Co. Wexford Ireland gis@epa.ie http://gis.epa.ie 2025-11-26T15:19:01.3409702Z COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) Nº 1205/2008 of INSPIRE Directive TG 2.0 EPSG:29902 (TM65 / Irish Grid)) EPSG:4258 (ETRS89 geographical coordinates) INSPIRE Water Framework Directive River Basin Districts INSPIRE WFD River Basin Districts 2003-01-31 2020-08-11 2003-01-31 AM.IE.EPA.WFD_RiverBasinDistricts EPA AM.RiverBasinDistrict EPA The Water Framework Directive (WFD) is a key initiative aimed at improving water quality throughout the EU. It applies to rivers, lakes, groundwater, and coastal waters. The Directive requires an integrated approach to managing water quality on a river basin basis; with the aim of maintaining and improving water quality. The Directive requires that management plans be prepared on a river basin basis and specifies a structured approach to developing those plans. Cycle 2 identified six RBDs on the island of Ireland. Two of these are shared with Northern Ireland (Neagh Bann and North Western), one is wholly within the state (Ireland) and three are wholly within Northern Ireland (Neagh Bann NI, North East NI and North Western NI). Cycle 1 identified eight river basin districts (RBDs) on the island of Ireland for the purpose of implementing the Directive. Three of these were shared with Northern Ireland (Shannon, Neagh Bann and North Western), four RBDs were wholly within the state (Eastern, South Eastern, South Western and Western) and one was wholly within Northern Ireland (North Eastern). Development of the river basin management plans has involved a coordinated effort across a wide range of organisations, including a high level of coordination with the authorities in Northern Ireland in relation to the cross-border RBDs. A key requirement of the Directive is public participation and a number of major public consultations have contributed towards development of the plans. River monitoring and water quality management for the EU Water Framework Directive. Environmental Protection Agency Data Manager +353-53-9160600 +353-53-9160601 PO Box 3000 Johnstown Castle Estate Wexford Co. Wexford Ireland gis@epa.ie http://gis.epa.ie aaa Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 River basin districts (Water Framework Directive) INSPIRE priority data set 2018-04-04 National Spatial scope 2019-05-22 river basin management administrative boundary General Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus - Concepts, version 4.1.3 GEMET 2019-01-28 river basin district wfd hydrography water quality monitoring water protection Environmental Protection Agency EPA 2014-06-23 Ireland High Value Dataset HVD Category: Environmental Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units INSPIRE Environmental Protection Agency gis@epa.ie no limitations to public access no conditions to access and use CC BY 4.0 This layer is published under the terms of the license Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). [ https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ ] 50000 English environment -10.47472 -6.01306 51.44555 55.37999 gml+xml 3.2 D2.8.III.11 Data Specification on Area Management/Restriction/Regulation Zones and Reporting Units – Technical Guidelines Environmental Protection Agency Data Manager +353-53-9160600 +353-53-9160601 PO Box 3000 Johnstown Castle Estate Wexford Co. Wexford Ireland gis@epa.ie http://gis.epa.ie https://www.inspire.gov.ie/geoserver/inspire_epa/wms?service=wms&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities OGC Web Map Service View Service DHLGH Ireland INSPIRE View Service WMS Access point https://epa-inspire-atom.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files/atomEPA_INSPIRE_Ireland.xml ATOM Syndication Format Download Service DHLGH Ireland INSPIRE Download Service ATOM Access point Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2014-12-31 This data set is conformant with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules for the interoperability of spatial data sets and services true Commission Regulation (EC) No 1205/2008 of 3 December 2008 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards metadata 2008-12-24 Conformant true Current river basin district boundaries for cycle 2, updated June 2018. The EPA must be notified if any errors or omissions are found. It is not permitted to distribute electronic copies of this data to any other party without the prior consent of the data holders (Environmental Protection Agency). The data source must be appropriately acknowledged.