With regard to the implementation of the Water Framework Directive, specific types of watercourses have been designated for Luxembourg. As in the context of various works the German stream types (LAWA types) are used, these have also been assigned to the Luxembourgish surface water bodies.

This dataset was reported by the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg under the following obligation: "Water Framework Directive - River Basin Management Plans - 2016 Reporting". For operational purposes, the following obligations are part on the 2016 WFD RBMP reporting process: - "Water Framework Directive - River Basin Management Plans - 2016 Spatial data" - "Water Framework Directive - River Basin Management Plans - 2016 RBDSUCA XML data" - "Water Framework Directive - River Basin Management Plans - 2016 RBD XML data" This reporting obligation is an Eionet core data flow This dataset is one element of these.