{"id":544622,"date":"2026-08-27T02:25:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T00:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.phytocontrol.com\/uncategorized\/european-bathing-water-quality-in-2020\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T22:20:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T20:20:15","slug":"european-bathing-water-quality-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.phytocontrol.com\/en\/regulatory-watch\/european-bathing-water-quality-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"European bathing water quality in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On 1 June 2021, the European Environment Agency published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eea.europa.eu\/themes\/water\/europes-seas-and-coasts\/assessments\/state-of-bathing-water\/state-of-bathing-waters-in-2020\"><strong>its <\/strong><strong>report on European bathing water quality for 2020<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the bathing season, local authorities take water samples at registered bathing sites, which are analysed for E.coli and intestinal Enterococci.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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;.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the 2020 bathing season, 22,276 bathing waters (coastal and inland waters) were monitored.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under the Bathing Water Directive, the aim is for all bathing sites to be classified as at least of sufficient quality.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2020:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>92.6% of bathing sites met the minimum &#8220;sufficient&#8221; quality requirements (compared to 95.4% in 2019).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>82.18% met the stricter standards set by the Bathing Water Directive, corresponding to &#8220;excellent&#8221; quality (compared to 84.6% in 2020)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>1.3% of sites showed poor quality<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Results in France:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>95.1% of sites are of sufficient quality, of which 77.7% are of excellent quality<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>2.3% are of poor quality<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Please note that 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 can find the details of our accreditation scope: No. 1-6066 on the COFRAC website.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For any further information, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phytocontrol.com\/contact-phytocontrol\/\">contact us<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 1 June 2021, the European Environment Agency published its report on European bathing water&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-544622","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>European bathing water quality in 2020 - 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=\"European bathing water quality in 2020\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"On 1 June 2021, the European Environment Agency published its report on European bathing water&hellip;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dev.phytocontrol.com\/en\/regulatory-watch\/european-bathing-water-quality-in-2020\/\" \/>\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=\"2026-08-27T00:25:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-09-19T20:20:15+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=\"1 minute\" \/>\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-2020\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dev.phytocontrol.com\\\/en\\\/regulatory-watch\\\/european-bathing-water-quality-in-2020\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"L\u00e9a\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dev.phytocontrol.com\\\/en\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/b6615d9f6255172ec54877731e3b62a5\"},\"headline\":\"European bathing water quality in 2020\",\"datePublished\":\"2026-08-27T00:25:32+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-09-19T20:20:15+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dev.phytocontrol.com\\\/en\\\/regulatory-watch\\\/european-bathing-water-quality-in-2020\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":212,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dev.phytocontrol.com\\\/en\\\/regulatory-watch\\\/european-bathing-water-quality-in-2020\\\/#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-2020\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dev.phytocontrol.com\\\/en\\\/regulatory-watch\\\/european-bathing-water-quality-in-2020\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/dev.phytocontrol.com\\\/en\\\/regulatory-watch\\\/european-bathing-water-quality-in-2020\\\/\",\"name\":\"European bathing water quality in 2020 - 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