Examples of using Guide values in English and their translations into Slovenian
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The tendency for guide values was mixed.
Guide values: two teaspoons of flour and one teaspoon of eggshell crumbs per piece of chalk.
Compliance with the guide values was 50%(40% in 2003).
However, in freshwater zones compliance is low, with 55.6%of sites meeting the mandatory values and only about 27.8% complying with the guide values.
Compliance with the guide values decreased from 66.5% to 63.1%.
Slight decrease(- 0.7%) in compliance with the more stringent guide values to 88.4% in 2006;
The rate of guide values decreased to 88.9%(100% in 2003).
In freshwater an increase of bathing sites complying with the guide values could be noted(+ 0.7%).
This rate of compliance with the guide values is high and can be compared with the value of the 2003 season.
Of the newly reported bathing areas 192 complied with at least the mandatory values while113 also complied with the more stringent guide values.
Compliance with the guide values rose to 91.3% in coastal areas from 82.7%, and at inland sites to 83% from 80.4%.
In 539 coastalbathing areas the quality decreased from compliance with the guide values to compliance with the mandatory level only.
Compliance with the guide values was low, at 73.9% in coastal areas(77.6% in 2003) and 58.7% at inland sites(59.1% in 2003).
Of the 248 new coastal bathing areas monitored during the 2005bathing season complied with the mandatory values or the more stringent guide values.
Compliance with the guide values averaged 88.5% at coastal sites(89.3% in 2003) and 66.4% at inland areas(67.9% in 2003).
Cyprus was the star performer,with 100% of its bathing water sites meeting strict guide values, followed by Croatia(97.3%), Malta(95.4%), Greece(94.2%) and Ireland(90.1%).
The EU Bathing Water Directive lays down two sets of bathing water quality standards: minimum imperative values, with which compliance is mandatory,and stricter guide values.
Compliance with the mandatory and guide values was 75% and 37.5% respectively in coastal zones, and 60% and 53.3% respectively in freshwater areas.
Freshwater bathing areas that had been complying with the mandatory values during the2005 season complied with the more stringent guide values during the 2006 season.
In the‘new' Member States compliance with the guide values increased by 19.1% to 74.6% for the coastal waters and with 21.3% for the freshwater areas.
In the freshwater areas, the percentage complying with the mandatory values remained excellent(98.2%, after 98.6% in 2003),but compliance with the guide values remained rather low at 62.9%(63.4% in 2003).
The number of rivers and lakes achieving the guide values fell by 10.2%, although compliance with the mandatory values was almost stationary.
On the other hand 562(sum of the brown cells) coastal bathing areas reported a decrease in their average water quality,129 of them falling from compliance to non-compliance and 399 from compliance with the guide values to compliance with the mandatory values. .
For the 15‘old' MemberStates we note a small decrease in compliance with the guide values of 1.1% to 88.8% for the coastal bathing areas and a more important decrease of 3.2% for the freshwater areas to 65.5%.
The results improved in 790(sum of the blue cells) of the 14 050 coastal zones which have been monitored in 2005, 168 of which moved up from failing to comply with the mandatory values and586 from complying with the mandatory values to complying with the guide values.
Compliance with the guide values in coastal areas was also good at 86.5%(90.1% in 2003) but very low at 21.9% for freshwater sites, although this represented a modest recovery from just 10.9% in 2003.
Reviewing these trends it can be noted that a larger number of bathing areas registered show adecline of the bathing water quality from compliance with guide values to compliance with mandatory values only(585) or from compliance to noncompliance(164) when compared to the number where an improvement of the water quality(511+ 138) is registered.
Identify its guiding values.
The WHO Night Noise Guidelines for Europe6, propose a guide value for night-time levels as low as 40 decibel(dB, Lnight).