# EU Surface Water Ecological Exemption Records — EEA WISE (`nexgensignal/eu-surface-water-ecological-exemption-records`) Actor

Keyless pay-per-record EEA WISE WFD surface-water ecological-status exemptions — water body, ecological status, exemption type/group and driving pressure, as filed. Required country partition. No person data. Gold $0.0335/record.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/nexgensignal/eu-surface-water-ecological-exemption-records.md
- **Developed by:** [NexGen Signal](https://apify.com/nexgensignal) (community)
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## Pricing

from $33.50 / 1,000 sw ecological exemption records

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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# README

## EU Surface Water Ecological Exemption Records — EEA WISE

**Keyless. Pay per record. Every ecological-status exemption and its driving pressure, surface water body by surface water body.**

This actor turns the **European Environment Agency (EEA) WISE Water Framework Directive (WFD) database** into clean, per-record data — the ecological-status exemption types and their associated pressures for Europe's surface water bodies. Each run reads the EEA's keyless DiscoData SQL service and delivers one row per exemption 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, a member state may claim an exemption from achieving good ecological status or potential for a surface water body, citing a type and a driving pressure. This actor reads that table and delivers one record per exemption: the country, river basin district and sub-unit, the water body (code, name, category), the ecological status label, and the ecological exemption TYPE, TYPE GROUP, PRESSURE, and pressure group — all carried as filed. It is the surface-water ECOLOGICAL exemption layer, distinct from the priority-substance CHEMICAL exemption regime.

### Who buys this and for what job

- **Regulatory-intelligence teams tracking ecological exemptions and the pressures behind them**
- **River-restoration and hydromorphology teams targeting the pressures driving exemptions**
- **Environmental NGOs and researchers analysing exemption use across basins and cycles**
- **Data engineers** who want the WISE WFD sw-ecological-exemption 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 an ecological-status exemption for a surface water body — a water body and its reported attributes, never a person. WISE WFD 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 labels, and the ecological exemption type and driving pressure. 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 required partition — this is a large dataset

The table holds **623,729 rows**, so this actor **requires a partition**: every run must set a `countryCode`. The country bounds the run; there is no unbounded all-Europe pull. An optional `year` (reporting cycle) filter narrows further, and `maxRecords` is the hard ceiling.

### A note on scale, honestly

The source table holds **623,729 rows** as verified by an exact `COUNT(*)` at build time. It carries both the 2016 and 2022 Water Framework Directive reporting cycles (the `reporting_year` field distinguishes them). This is the real, populated table for this category; where an index figure elsewhere suggested a smaller number, the live count above is authoritative.

### Pricing

| Event | Free plan | Bronze | Silver | Gold / Platinum / Diamond |
|-------|-----------|--------|--------|---------------------------|
| `sw_ecological_exemption_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 | — | `countryCode` is **required** — 2-letter country code (e.g. DE, FR). |
| `year` | integer | — | Optional WFD reporting cycle year to filter (e.g. 2016, 2022). |
| `maxRecords` | integer | 500 | Ceiling on records delivered and billed. |

### Output

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

```json
{
  "record_id": "FRSW001:Article 4(4):Hydromorphological:2022",
  "reporting_year": 2022,
  "country_code": "FR",
  "country_name": "France",
  "eu_rbd_code": "FR1000",
  "rbd_name": "SEINE",
  "eu_surface_water_body_code": "FRSW001",
  "surface_water_body_name": "Example River",
  "surface_water_body_category": "RW",
  "ecological_status_or_potential_value": "3",
  "ecological_exemption_type": "Article 4(4)",
  "ecological_exemption_pressure": "Hydromorphological",
  "source": "EEA WISE Water Framework Directive (WFD) \u2014 surface-water ecological-status exemptions",
  "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 ecological exemption. Identity: `record_id`, `country_code`, `country_name`, `eu_rbd_code`, `rbd_name`, `eu_sub_unit_code`, `sub_unit_name`, `eu_surface_water_body_code`, `surface_water_body_name`, `surface_water_body_category`, and `reporting_year`. Status: `ecological_status_or_potential_value`. Exemption: `ecological_exemption_type`, `ecological_exemption_type_group`, `ecological_exemption_pressure`, and `ecological_exemption_pressure_group`. 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 sw-ecological-exemption table (filtered to your optional `countryCode` and `year`), and flattens each row to one record — carrying every status label and value **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 **623,729 rows** across reporting countries, river basin districts, and the 2016 and 2022 WFD reporting cycles. Because each record carries the `country_code`, the water-body identity, and the `reporting_year`, segmenting by country, basin, or cycle is straightforward. Pull one country, or the whole table to seed a water-status warehouse.

### Working with the data

The exemptions are a river-management signal, and the fields make them actionable. Because every record pairs an `ecological_exemption_type` with an `ecological_exemption_pressure`, an analyst can see which pressures (hydromorphology, diffuse pollution, abstraction) drive the most ecological exemptions in a basin in a single group-by, and the `reporting_year` tracks how exemption use shifted between cycles.

### Cost guidance

One `sw_ecological_exemption_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.** Status labels and values are as filed by member states for the WFD reporting cycle; this actor reformats, it does not audit or recompute.
- **A status label, not a verdict.** These are reported classifications and exemptions, not an independent compliance assessment.
- **Two cycles merged.** The table carries both the 2016 and 2022 reporting cycles; the `reporting_year` field distinguishes them — filter on it if you want a single cycle.
- **Acknowledge the EEA.** The acknowledgement travels on every record.
- **No person data** of any kind.

### Differentiation

This is a **net-new** category for the NexGenData fleet. It is distinct from **eu-surface-water-chemical-exemption-records** — this cell is the ECOLOGICAL-status exemption regime (quality elements and their pressures), while that cell is the priority-substance CHEMICAL exemption regime; the two are separate WFD exemption tracks. It differs entirely from the Nitrates, Bathing Water, and Urban Waste Water directive cells. Its specific job is the **WFD surface-water ecological-status exemptions and pressures**.

### The NexGen Signal family

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

- [EU Waterbody Quality Records — EEA](https://apify.com/nexgensignal/eu-waterbody-quality-records)
- [EU Bathing Water Quality Records — EEA](https://apify.com/nexgensignal/eu-bathing-water-quality-records)
- [EU Nitrate Monitoring Records — EEA](https://apify.com/nexgensignal/eu-nitrate-monitoring-records)
- [EU Wastewater Compliance Records — EEA UWWTD](https://apify.com/nexgensignal/eu-wastewater-compliance-records)
- [EU Pesticide Water Monitoring Records — EEA](https://apify.com/nexgensignal/eu-pesticide-water-monitoring-records)

*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. Water-body grain; no contact, operator, or responsible-person field is selected or emitted, no natural-person data of any kind. Status labels and values as filed for the WFD reporting cycle, not a compliance verdict.*

# Actor input Schema

## `countryCode` (type: `string`):

REQUIRED 2-letter country code (e.g. DE, FR) — this table is large and cannot be pulled unbounded.

## `year` (type: `integer`):

Optional reporting cycle year to filter (e.g. 2016, 2022).

## `maxRecords` (type: `integer`):

Maximum records delivered and billed.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "countryCode": "DE",
  "maxRecords": 500
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Delivered records.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "countryCode": "DE",
    "maxRecords": 500
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("nexgensignal/eu-surface-water-ecological-exemption-records").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "countryCode": "DE",
    "maxRecords": 500,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("nexgensignal/eu-surface-water-ecological-exemption-records").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "countryCode": "DE",
  "maxRecords": 500
}' |
apify call nexgensignal/eu-surface-water-ecological-exemption-records --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,nexgensignal/eu-surface-water-ecological-exemption-records"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/lL4CU0CDd7m8SfwwH/builds/9g24cVSuqTgIE7EXG/openapi.json