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Water Framework Directive

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Summary

Water Framework Directive is a directive of the European Union[1]. It draws 599 Wikipedia views per month (directive of the european union category, ranking #17 of 105).[2]

Key Facts

  • Publication date: 2000[3]
  • Point in time: 2000[4]
  • Topic's main category: Q141748207[5]
  • Main subject: water quality[6], water management[7]
  • Work available at URL: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/eudr/2000/60[8], https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:32000L0060[9]
  • Applies to jurisdiction: European Union[10]
  • Title: Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy[11]

Why It Matters

Water Framework Directive has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] It is known by 41 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . legislation.gov.uk. legislation.gov.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . EUR-Lex. eur-lex.europa.eu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . legislation.gov.uk. legislation.gov.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 19h ago · Samoasambia · 2026-10-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
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    Topic's main category → Q141748207
    Instance of → directive of the European Union
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'ca', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'et', 'eu', 'fa', 'fi', 'fr', 'hr', '
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