The bathing water quality assessment was performed with statistical analysis, according to the provisions of article 4 and Annex I of the Directive 2006/7/EC, for the set of bathing water quality data compiled for 2018 in relation to that bathing season and the three preceding bathing seasons (2015‐2017).

 

From the 1598 bathing waters, 1568 were assessed, as 58 points were monitored for the first time during the period from 2017 to 2018 and 30 of them have not been evaluated for 2018, since the minimum number of samples required by the Directive 2006/7/EC has not yet been collected. However, from the preliminary results of 2017 and 2018 it is evident that the concentrations of microbiological parameters remain below the respective criteria values of excellent quality. For the remaining 1568 bathing waters, the classification results are the following: