EU River Basin Measure Inventory Records — EEA WISE

Keyless. Pay per record. Every coded intervention in Europe's river-basin Programmes of Measures.

This actor turns the European Environment Agency (EEA) WISE Water Framework Directive (WFD) database into clean, per-record data — the coded measures that member states put in place to restore their river basins, as reported in the Programme of Measures. Each run reads the EEA's keyless DiscoData SQL service and delivers one row per measure, structured for environmental and water-policy analysis, reusable with acknowledgement of the EEA, with no personal data of any kind.

What this is, in one paragraph

Under the Water Framework Directive, every river basin district reports a Programme of Measures — the interventions it will take to reach good water status, each classified against a standard list of Key Type Measures. This actor reads that measure inventory and delivers one record per measure: the country and river basin district, the KEY TYPE MEASURE (the coded intervention category), the national or RBD-specific MEASURE CODE, the measure TYPE (basic or supplementary), and the marine-strategy (MSFD) relevance flag — all carried as filed. It is the measure-inventory layer of Europe's water-restoration effort.

Who buys this and for what job

• Water-policy analysts benchmarking which Key Type Measures dominate a country's or basin's programme.
• Environmental consultancies mapping planned interventions against pressures and status.
• Marine-strategy teams using the MSFD relevance flag to find freshwater measures that also serve marine goals.
• Data engineers who want the WISE WFD measure inventory as clean rows from a keyless source.

EEA licence — reuse with acknowledgement

One licence rider travels on every record. EEA data may be reused, including commercially, provided the source is acknowledged: "Source: European Environment Agency (EEA)." Where third-party content is marked, it keeps its own terms. These are reported programme entries as filed — not a compliance verdict.

River-basin grain — no person data

The unit of every record is a measure for a river basin district — a coded intervention and its attributes, never a person. WISE WFD reporting is at river-basin level: there is no contact, operator, or responsible-person field in the source table, and none is selected or emitted. The free-text measure NAME and the conditional free-text "other key type measure" field are EXCLUDED at field selection — the query keeps only the coded category, the measure code, the type, and the MSFD flag. A person-key guard runs on every record as a backstop. The file_url, where present, points to the official EEA/Eionet reporting file, never a person.

A note on scale, honestly

The source table holds 59,689 rows; this actor delivers the rows that carry an actual measure code — an exact COUNT(*) of 59,669 at build time, which matches the planning index for this category. It carries both the 2016 and 2022 WFD reporting cycles (the reporting_year field distinguishes them). The live count above is authoritative.

Sample output

Real rows from a live run of this actor (first 5 rows, selected columns).

One full record from the same run, exactly as delivered:

{
  "record_id": "EL01:M01Σ0203:2016",
  "reporting_year": 2016,
  "country_code": "EL",
  "country_name": "Greece",
  "eu_rbd_code": "EL01",
  "rbd_name": "WESTERN PELOPONNESE",
  "rbd_area_km2": 8277.935,
  "key_type_measure": "KTM6 - Improving hydromorphological conditions of water bodies other than longitudinal continuity",
  "measure_code": "M01Σ0203",
  "measure_type": "Supplementary",
  "msfd_relevance": "No",
  "has_descriptive_data": 1,
  "file_url": "http://cdr.eionet.europa.eu/gr/eu/wfd2016/districts/el01/envxjvzfw/RBMPPoM_EL_20200130.xml",
  "source": "EEA WISE Water Framework Directive (WFD) — river basin Programme of Measures (Key Type Measures)",
  "source_url": "https://discodata.eea.europa.eu/",
  "licence": "European Environment Agency (EEA) WISE database under EU environmental reporting. Reuse is permitted, including for commercial purposes, provided the source is acknowledged: 'Source: European Environment Agency (EEA)'. Third-party content, where marked, keeps its own terms.",
  "attribution": "Source: European Environment Agency (EEA), WISE Water Framework Directive (WFD) database (discodata.eea.europa.eu).",
  "disclaimer": "Coded river-basin interventions from the EU Water Framework Directive Programme of Measures, at measure grain from the EEA WISE WFD database. Each record carries the country and river basin district, the KEY TYPE MEASURE (the coded intervention category), the national/RBD MEASURE CODE, the measure TYPE (basic or supplementary), and the marine-strategy (MSFD) relevance flag VERBATIM. The free-text measure NAME and the conditional free-text 'other key type measure' field are EXCLUDED at field selection. River-basin grain — there is no contact, operator, or responsible-person field selected or emitted, and a person-key guard runs on every record.",
  "observed_at": "2026-09-25T17:33:45Z"
}

Pricing

Event	Free plan	Bronze	Silver	Gold / Platinum / Diamond
river_basin_measure_record	$0.05	$0.045	$0.04	$0.0335

Delivered before charged. Blocked runs and empty results cost nothing.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
countryCode	string	—	Optional 2-letter country code (e.g. DE, FR).
year	integer	—	Optional WFD reporting cycle year (e.g. 2016, 2022).
maxRecords	integer	500	Ceiling on records delivered and billed.

Output

One JSON object per measure. Representative example (values as reported):

{
  "record_id": "ES150:ES150_2_Ceuta0085:2022",
  "reporting_year": 2022,
  "country_code": "ES",
  "country_name": "Spain",
  "eu_rbd_code": "ES150",
  "rbd_name": "CEUTA",
  "rbd_area_km2": 60.187,
  "key_type_measure": "KTM7 - Improvements in flow regime and/or establishment of ecological flows",
  "measure_code": "ES150_2_Ceuta0085",
  "measure_type": "Supplementary - additional protection",
  "msfd_relevance": "No",
  "source": "EEA WISE Water Framework Directive (WFD) — river basin Programme of Measures (Key Type Measures)",
  "observed_at": "2026-08-27T00:00:00Z"
}

An unbilled RUN_RECEIPT records the robots check, the filters, rows seen and delivered, and whether charged equals delivered.

Field reference

Each record is one coded measure. Identity: record_id, country_code, country_name, eu_rbd_code, rbd_name, rbd_area_km2, and reporting_year. Measure: key_type_measure (the coded intervention category), measure_code, measure_type (basic or supplementary), and msfd_relevance. Plus has_descriptive_data and file_url. Provenance travels on every record: source, source_url, licence, attribution, disclaimer, and observed_at.

How a run works

A run first re-reads the source host's robots posture from your runtime — the EEA DiscoData host — and stops at the door if that ever changes. It pages the WISE WFD Key-Type-Measure inventory (always keeping only rows with a real measure code, plus your optional countryCode and year), ordered by the high-cardinality measure code, and flattens each row to one record — carrying every coded label verbatim, never anything person-shaped and never the free-text measure name — delivered before it is charged, so a blocked or empty run costs you nothing. The actor stops at your maxRecords ceiling and records charge_equals_delivered in the receipt.

Coverage and scope

The inventory holds 59,669 rows across reporting countries, river basin districts, Key Type Measures, and the 2016 and 2022 cycles. Because each record carries the country_code, the eu_rbd_code, the key_type_measure, and the reporting_year, segmenting by country, basin, measure type, or cycle is straightforward. Pull one country, one Key Type Measure, or the whole inventory to seed a water-policy warehouse.

Working with the data

The inventory is a planning layer, and the fields make it actionable. Because every record pairs a key_type_measure with a measure_type and the msfd_relevance flag, an analyst can count which intervention categories dominate a country's programme in one group-by, separate basic from supplementary measures, and isolate the freshwater measures a country counts toward its marine strategy — and track how programmes changed between the 2016 and 2022 cycles.

Cost guidance

One river_basin_measure_record per delivered row: cost = rows delivered × your plan's per-record price. Scope with countryCode and year to keep runs bounded. 1,000 rows is $50 (Free) / $33.50 (Gold).

Honest limitations

• As reported. Measure categories and types are as filed by member states for the WFD reporting cycle; this actor reformats, it does not audit or recompute.
• Codes, not narrative. The free-text measure name is excluded by design; this cell delivers the coded skeleton (category, code, type, MSFD flag), not the descriptive title.
• Two cycles merged. The reporting_year field distinguishes the 2016 and 2022 cycles — filter on it if you want a single cycle.
• Acknowledge the EEA, and note there is no person data of any kind.

Differentiation

It is the MEASURE (intervention) layer, distinct from the pressure, impact, status, and exemption cells, which describe the state of the water rather than the actions taken. Its specific job is the WFD river-basin Programme of Measures inventory.

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Source: European Environment Agency (EEA), WISE Water Framework Directive (WFD) database (discodata.eea.europa.eu). EEA data may be reused, including commercially, provided the source is acknowledged: "Source: European Environment Agency (EEA)"; marked third-party content keeps its own terms. River-basin grain; the free-text measure name is excluded; no contact, operator, or responsible-person field is selected or emitted, no natural-person data of any kind. Reported programme entries as filed, not a compliance verdict.