INSPIRE Water Framework Directive Coastal Waterbodies

Water Framework Directive (WFD) Coastal Waterbody unit within Irish waters. According to the WFD Article 2(7) “‘Coastal water’ means surface water on the landward side of a line, every point of which is at a distance of one nautical mile on the seaward side from the nearest point of the baseline from which the breadth of territorial waters is measured, extending where appropriate up to the outer limit of transitional waters.”

Alternate title: INSPIRE WFD Coastal Waters

Date (Creation): 2015-01-01

Date (Revision): 2022-11-18

Date (Publication): 2015-01-01

Citation identifier: EPA / AM.IE.EPA.WFD_CoastalWaterbodies

Citation identifier: EPA / AM.WaterBodyForWFD

Purpose: Water Framework Directive administrative unit for coastal waters.

Status: On going

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Environmental Protection Agency		gis@epa.ie	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units

INSPIRE priority data set

Coastal waters (Water Framework Directive)

Spatial scope

National

General Multilingual Environmental Thesaurus - Concepts, version 4.1.3

coastal water
administrative boundary

Environmental Protection Agency

coastal waterbody
wfd
hydrography
water quality monitoring
surface water

Place

Ireland

Specific usage: Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units INSPIRE

User contact info

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Environmental Protection Agency		gis@epa.ie	User

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: no limitations to public access

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: no conditions to access and use

Other constraints: CC BY 4.0

Other constraints: 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/ ]

Spatial representation type: Vector

Denominator: 50000

Language: English

Character set: UTF8

Unique resource identifier: EPSG:29902 (TM65 / Irish Grid))

Unique resource identifier: EPSG:4258 (ETRS89 geographical coordinates)

Distribution format

Name	Version
gml+xml	3.2

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Environmental Protection Agency		gis@epa.ie	Point of contact

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
OGC Web Map Service	https://www.inspire.gov.ie/geoserver/inspire_epa/wms?service=wms&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities	DHLGH Ireland INSPIRE View Service WMS
ATOM Syndication Format	https://epa-inspire-atom.s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files/atomEPA_INSPIRE_Ireland.xml	DHLGH Ireland INSPIRE Download Service ATOM