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30° E

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Madeira (PT)

Canaries (ES)

Guadeloupe (FR)

Martinique (FR)

French Guiana (FR)

Reunion (FR)

Azores (PT)

Madeira (PT)

Canaries (ES)

Guadeloupe (FR)

Martinique (FR)

French Guiana (FR)

Reunion (FR)

Mayotte (FR)

Malta

Map of National and International River Basin Districts Version 29 October 2012

North-umbria

SolwayTweed

Scotland

Humber

N orth

West

AnglianThamesSouth EastSouth West

DeeWestern

Wales Severn

SouthWestern

SouthEastern

WesternEastern

Shannon

NeaghBann

UKIE

IE

CELTIC SEA

English Channel

IRISH SEA

NORTH SEANorthWestern

ES

Loire

Adour-GaronneMinho

EbroDou ro

Cantabrico OccidentalGalician

Coast

ES

ES

ES

ESPT

PT

PT

PT

Ta g u s

G u a d i a n a

Vouga, Mondego,Lis and West Rivers

Sadoand

Mira

Cavado,Ave and

Leca

AlgarveBasins

CantabricoOriental

GuadalquivirTinto,Odieland

PiedrasAndalusia

Mediterranean Basins

Guadaleteand

Barbate

Segura

Jucar

InternalBasins ofCatalonia

Balearic Islands

NorthEastern

Sardinia

MiddleAppenines

Sicily

SerchioNorthern

Appenines

Corsica

ESFR FR

PoBasin

IT

CH

R h o n e

CH

NorthernAppenines

SouthernAppenines

EL

EastAegean

CreteEastern

Peloponnese

WesternPeloponnese

NorthernPeloponnese

WesternStereaEllada

Epirus

WesternMacedonia

Central Macedonia

West Aegean

ELEL

EL

EL

AL

MK

Thessalia

Aegean Islands

TR

BG

BG

RS

AL

BlackSea

ROHU

BG

UA

MD

MD

UAUA

UA

ME

BA

HRSISIIT

CHCH AT

DE

AT

DER h i n e

FRFR

FR

DEBE

MeuseNL

S ch e l d tNL

BEFR

D a n u b e

NLNL

DE

Ems Weser

Warnow/Peene

E l b e

DE

CZ

Eider Schlei/Trave

Jutlandand

Funen Zealand

DEDE

Vidaa-KrusaaDK

Bornholm

O d e r V i s t u l aDE

CZCZ SK

SK

PL D n i e s t e r

PLPL

Pregolya

PL

RU

BY

BY

JarftSwieza

UckerPL

PLRU

Lielupe

LTLTLT

LV LVLV

LVVenta

LT

EEGaujaD a u g a v aBY

N e m u n a s

RU

East Estonia

RU

EEWest

Estonia

Kymijoki-

Gulf of Finland

V u o k s iFI

RU

Kokemaenjoki-

Bothnian SeaArchipelago Sea-

OulujokiFI

K e m i j o k iFI RU

Teno,Naatamojoki,Paatsjoki

FIRUFinnmark

NONO

Troms

Nordl

and

NO

Tornionjoki

TorneRiver

Bothnian Bay

FI

FI

SE

BothnianSea

SE

NO

Troen

delagNOMoere

andRomsdal

Sognand

Fjordane

Rogaland

Hordaland

Agder

WestBay North

Baltic

SouthBaltic

GlommaNO NO

Skag

errak

and K

atteg

at AlandIslands

SEBALTIC

SEA

Gulf o f Fin land

Gu l

f o f

Bo t

h ni a

Kattegat

Skagerrak

NORWEGIANSEA

Bay ofBiscay

M E D I T E R R A N E A N S E A

Ty r r h e n i a n S e a

A d r i a t i c S e a

EasternStereaEllada

Aegean Sea

B L A C KS E A

Mediterranean Sea

MozambiqueChannel

IndianOcean

AtlanticOcean

CaribbeanSea

CaribbeanSea

Guadeloupe Passage

AtlanticOcean

Atlantic Ocean

Atlantic Ocean

PL

Attica

AD

UKIEIE

AT

LA

NT

IC

O

CE

AN

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National and International River Basin DistrictsInternational River Basin DistrictsCompiled from data reported to WISE by EU Member States

Compiled from data reported to WISE by AD, CH, LI MC and NO, supplementedwith CCM2 Seaoutlets and ICPDR data

Approximate extent of International River Basin Districtsoutside of the EU

EU27 extent

National River Basin DistrictsCompiled from data reported to WISE by EU Member StatesNational River Basin Districts outside of the EUCompiled from data reported to WISE by NO

Map produced by WRc plc on behalf of the European Commission , DG Environment, 2012c

Coastal watersCountry borders

Footnotes1) The boundaries of the National River Basin Districts are displayed using version 1.5 ofthe Water Information System for Europe (WISE) River Basin Districts dataset availablefrom the European Environment Agency:http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/wise-river-basin-districts-rbds-1.This dataset is based on data reported to WISE by EU Member States, Andorra,Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Monaco and Norway.

5) The international river catchments outside of the EU are displayed using data from anumber of sources:- Data reported to WISE by Andorra, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Monaco and Norway.- Seaoutlets data from the Catchment Characterisation Modelling (CCM2) databasedeveloped by the Joint Research Centre to show the approximate extent of international catchments in Belarus, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine, Macedonia, Albania and Turkey.- Data provided by the International Commission for the Protection of the Danube Riverto show the extent of the Danube International River Basin District in the Balkans.6) Coastal waters are defined in the Water Framework Directive as extending 1 nauticalmile from the coastline. Some Member States included a larger part of their coastalwaters within their River Basin District boundaries.4) Country border data was provided by Eurostat and is derived from EGM at a scale of

1:3 million.

2) The boundary of the Mayotte RBD (France) is displayed using the country borderdataset.3) The boundaries of the International River Basin Districts are derived from the WISERiver Basin Districts dataset.

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Malta

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Adriatic

EasternAlps