EU River Basin Pollutant Threshold Records — EEA WISE

Keyless. Pay per record. River-basin-specific pollutant standards — matrix, value, and unit, basin by basin.

This actor turns the European Environment Agency (EEA) WISE (Water Information System for Europe) into clean, per-record data — the river-basin-specific pollutant (RBSP) environmental quality standards set for Europe's surface waters. Each run reads the EEA's keyless DiscoData SQL service and delivers one row per RBSP standard record, structured for environmental and water-management 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, member states set environmental quality standards for river-basin-specific pollutants — the substances that matter locally beyond the EU-wide priority list. This actor reads that table and delivers one record per standard: the country and river basin district, the pollutant, the MATRIX it applies to (water, biota, sediment), the standard type, the VALUE and UNIT in the source units verbatim, the scale, and the water-category applicability flags. It is the river-basin-specific standards layer of Europe's surface-water assessment.

Who buys this and for what job

• Water-quality analysts comparing river-basin-specific pollutant standards across basins and countries
• Regulatory and consultancy teams benchmarking local pollutant standards and matrices
• Researchers studying how member states set river-basin-specific quality standards
• Data engineers who want the WISE rbsp-threshold table 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 values and status labels as filed — not a compliance verdict.

Water-body grain — no person data

The unit of every record is a river-basin-specific pollutant standard — a water body or river basin and its reported attributes, never a person. WISE reporting is at water-body / river-basin level: there is no contact, operator, or responsible-person field in the source table, and none is selected or emitted — the query reads only the water-body identity, the status/flags, and the pollutant, matrix, standard value, and unit. A person-key guard runs on every record as a backstop. The file_url, where present, points to the official EEA/Eionet reporting file (an organisation reporting system), never a person.

A note on scale, honestly

The source table (SWMET_SWRBSP) holds 10,310 rows as verified by an exact COUNT(*) at build time — the real, populated RBSP standards table, carrying the 2016 and 2022 reporting cycles. This is the authoritative live count.

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": "AT1000:CAS_14797-65-0 - Nitrite:Unpopulated:2016",
  "reporting_year": 2016,
  "country_code": "AT",
  "country_name": "Austria",
  "eu_rbd_code": "AT1000",
  "rbd_name": "DANUBE",
  "rbsp_code": "CAS_14797-65-0 - Nitrite",
  "rbsp_other": null,
  "rbsp_matrix": "Unpopulated",
  "rbsp_category_rw": "Yes",
  "rbsp_category_lw": "Unpopulated",
  "rbsp_category_tw": "Unpopulated",
  "rbsp_category_cw": "Unpopulated",
  "rbsp_standard_type": "Unpopulated",
  "rbsp_value": "unpopulated",
  "rbsp_unit": "unpopulated",
  "rbsp_scale": "Unpopulated",
  "rbsp_tech_guidance": "Unpopulated",
  "rbsp_analytical_method": "Unpopulated",
  "file_url": "http://cdr.eionet.europa.eu/at/eu/wfd2016/districts/at1000/envwvttw/SWMET_AT_20170411.xml",
  "source": "EEA WISE Water Framework Directive (WFD) — surface-water river-basin-specific pollutant standards",
  "source_url": "https://discodata.eea.europa.eu/",
  "licence": "European Environment Agency (EEA) WISE (Water Information System for Europe) — surface-water river-basin-specific pollutant standards. 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 Information System for Europe).",
  "disclaimer": "Surface-water river-basin-specific pollutant (RBSP) environmental quality standards, at river-basin-district / pollutant / matrix / reporting-cycle grain from the EEA WISE Water Framework Directive database. Each record carries the pollutant, the MATRIX (water/biota/sediment), the standard TYPE, and the VALUE + UNIT in the SOURCE UNITS VERBATIM, plus the water-category applicability flags. River-basin grain — there is no contact, operator, or responsible-person field in the source, and none is selected or emitted; a person-key guard runs on every record as a backstop.",
  "observed_at": "2026-09-25T17:33:45Z"
}

Pricing

Event	Free plan	Bronze	Silver	Gold / Platinum / Diamond
rbsp_threshold_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 reporting cycle year to filter.
maxRecords	integer	500	Ceiling on records delivered and billed.

Output

One JSON object per RBSP standard record. Real example (values as reported):

{
  "record_id": "AT1000:CAS_14797-65-0 - Nitrite:Water:2016",
  "reporting_year": 2016,
  "country_code": "AT",
  "country_name": "Austria",
  "eu_rbd_code": "AT1000",
  "rbd_name": "DANUBE",
  "rbsp_code": "CAS_14797-65-0 - Nitrite",
  "rbsp_matrix": "Water",
  "rbsp_standard_type": "AA",
  "rbsp_value": "0.1",
  "rbsp_unit": "mg/L",
  "rbsp_scale": "National level",
  "source": "EEA WISE Water Framework Directive (WFD) \u2014 surface-water river-basin-specific pollutant standards",
  "observed_at": "2026-08-22T00:00:00Z"
}

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 RBSP standard. Identity: record_id, country_code, country_name, eu_rbd_code, rbd_name, and reporting_year. Pollutant and standard: rbsp_code, rbsp_other, rbsp_matrix, rbsp_standard_type, rbsp_value, rbsp_unit, and rbsp_scale. Applicability: rbsp_category_rw, rbsp_category_lw, rbsp_category_tw, and rbsp_category_cw. Method: rbsp_tech_guidance and rbsp_analytical_method. Plus 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 rbsp-threshold table (filtered to your optional countryCode and year), and flattens each row to one record — carrying every value and flag verbatim, never anything person-shaped — 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 table holds on the order of 10,310 rows. Because each record carries the country_code, the water-body identity, and the rbsp_code, rbsp_matrix, and rbsp_value, segmenting by country, basin, or year is straightforward. Pull one country, or the whole table to seed a water-analysis warehouse.

Identifiers and joins

Every record carries the eu_rbd_code, keying each standard to the fleet's other WISE cells for that river basin — the failing pollutants, the pressure-substance crosswalk, and the exemptions — so a buyer can compare a basin's local pollutant standards against the substances actually failing and the exemptions claimed there, on a shared identifier rather than a fuzzy name match.

Working with the data

The standards are a benchmark reference, and the fields make them comparable. Because every record carries an rbsp_code with an rbsp_value and rbsp_unit in the source units and the rbsp_matrix it applies to, an analyst can compare how strictly two basins regulate the same pollutant in the same matrix without unit-guessing, and the water-category flags show which water types each standard covers. The reporting_year frames each standard in its cycle.

Cost guidance

One rbsp_threshold_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. Values, flags, and status labels are as filed by member states; this actor reformats, it does not audit or recompute.
• A label, not a verdict. These are reported classifications, standards, exceedances, or linkages, not an independent compliance or hazard assessment.
• Acknowledge the EEA. The acknowledgement travels on every record.
• No person data of any kind.

Differentiation

It is distinct from eu-groundwater-threshold-value-records — that cell carries GROUNDWATER threshold values (TVs) by river basin, while this cell carries SURFACE-WATER river-basin-specific pollutant (RBSP) standards with their matrix and water-category applicability; different water compartment, different standard regime. It differs entirely from the Nitrates, Bathing Water, and Urban Waste Water directive cells. Its specific job is the WFD surface-water river-basin-specific pollutant standards.

The NexGen Signal family

Part of the NexGen Signal family of pay-per-record data products:

• EU Surface Water Failing Pollutant Records — EEA WISE
• EU Groundwater Threshold Value Records — EEA WISE
• EU Surface Water Chemical Exemption Records — EEA WISE
• EU Pesticide Water Monitoring Records — EEA
• EU Waterbody Quality Records — EEA

Source: European Environment Agency (EEA), WISE (Water Information System for Europe) (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. Water-body / river-basin grain; no contact, operator, or responsible-person field is selected or emitted, no natural-person data of any kind. Values and status labels as filed, not a compliance verdict.