Around 85% of swimming sites across Europe monitored in 2017 met the European Union`s highest and most stringent `excellent` quality standards for waters mostly free from pollutants, according to the latest annual European bathing water quality report published today. Cyprus comes third with 97.3%, after Luxembourg (100%) and Malta (98.9%), followed by Greece (95.9%).
More specifically, in Cyprus 113 coastal bathing waters were checked, 991 samples taken and 98% of them were of “good or excellent quality”. In practice there were no sites that did not meet the criteria, but two specific cases could not be classified.
According to the country data, almost all 21.801 bathing water sites monitored last year across Europe, of which 21.509 were in the 28 EU Member States (95.9%), met the minimum quality requirements under EU rules according to t
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