{"id":14675,"date":"2019-06-11T12:09:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T10:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/exgdete.cluster028.hosting.ovh.net\/?p=14675"},"modified":"2026-09-19T22:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T20:20:12","slug":"european-bathing-water-quality-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.phytocontrol.com\/en\/regulatory-watch\/european-bathing-water-quality-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Quality of European bathing water in 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 6 June 2019, the European Environment Agency published its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phytocontrol.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Rapport-AEE.pdf\"><strong><u>report on the quality of European bathing water for 2018<\/u><\/strong>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This report was prepared based on reports from the 28 EU Member States as well as Albania and Switzerland.<br \/>\nDuring the bathing season, local authorities take water samples at listed bathing sites, which are analysed for E. coli and intestinal enterococci.<\/p>\n<p>Depending on the quantities detected, bathing water is classified into one of four categories: &#8220;Excellent quality&#8221;, &#8220;Good quality&#8221;, &#8220;Sufficient quality&#8221; or &#8220;Poor quality&#8221;.<br \/>\nDuring the 2018 bathing season, 22,131 bathing waters (coastal and inland waters) were monitored and 445 new sites identified.<\/p>\n<p>Under the Bathing Water Directive, the aim is for all bathing sites to be classified at least as &#8220;sufficient&#8221; quality.<br \/>\nIn 2018:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>95.4% of bathing sites met the minimum &#8220;sufficient&#8221; quality requirements (compared to 96% in 2017). This decrease is explained by the opening of new bathing sites for which an insufficient number of samples had been taken to classify water quality.<\/li>\n<li>85.1% of them met the stricter standards set by the Bathing Water Directive corresponding to &#8220;excellent&#8221; quality<\/li>\n<li>289 bathing sites (1.3%) were classified as &#8220;poor&#8221; quality (compared to 1.4% in 2017). Ingestion of this polluted water can affect human health, causing gastric disorders and diarrhoea.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The three countries with the highest number of poor-quality bathing sites are Italy (89 sites, or 1.6%), France (54 sites, or 1.6%) and Spain (50 sites, or 2.2%). Compared to the 2017 season, the number of poor-quality bathing sites in France decreased (from 80 in 2017 to 54 in 2018), while an increase in poor-quality bathing water was observed in Italy (from 79 to 89) and Spain (from 38 to 50).<\/p>\n<p>Your Phytocontrol laboratory is accredited for the detection of intestinal enterococci and Escherichia coli in fresh water, wastewater and saline and brackish water according to standards NF EN ISO 7899-1 and NF EN ISO 9308-3. You will find details of our scope of accreditation: No. 1-6066 on the COFRAC website.<\/p>\n<p>For any information, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phytocontrol.com\/contact-phytocontrol\/\">contact us<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 6 June 2019, the European Environment Agency published its report on the quality of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":551920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-regulatory-watch"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.4 (Yoast SEO v28.5) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Quality of European bathing water in 2018 - Phytocontrol<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Quality of European bathing water in 2018\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On 6 June 2019, the European Environment Agency published its report on the quality of&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dev.phytocontrol.com\/en\/regulatory-watch\/european-bathing-water-quality-in-2018\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Phytocontrol\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/laboratoirePHYTOCONTROL\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-06-11T10:09:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-09-19T20:20:12+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/dev.phytocontrol.com\/app\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Eaux-cotieres-3.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"700\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"L\u00e9a\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"L\u00e9a\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dev.phytocontrol.com\\\/en\\\/regulatory-watch\\\/european-bathing-water-quality-in-2018\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dev.phytocontrol.com\\\/en\\\/regulatory-watch\\\/european-bathing-water-quality-in-2018\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"L\u00e9a\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dev.phytocontrol.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/b6615d9f6255172ec54877731e3b62a5\"},\"headline\":\"Quality of European bathing water in 2018\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-06-11T10:09:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-09-19T20:20:12+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dev.phytocontrol.com\\\/en\\\/regulatory-watch\\\/european-bathing-water-quality-in-2018\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":312,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dev.phytocontrol.com\\\/en\\\/regulatory-watch\\\/european-bathing-water-quality-in-2018\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dev.phytocontrol.com\\\/app\\\/uploads\\\/2019\\\/06\\\/Eaux-cotieres-3.png\",\"articleSection\":[\"Regulatory watch\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/dev.phytocontrol.com\\\/en\\\/regulatory-watch\\\/european-bathing-water-quality-in-2018\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dev.phytocontrol.com\\\/en\\\/regulatory-watch\\\/european-bathing-water-quality-in-2018\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dev.phytocontrol.com\\\/en\\\/regulatory-watch\\\/european-bathing-water-quality-in-2018\\\/\",\"name\":\"Quality of European bathing water in 2018 - 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