Aim of the study The aim of the paper is to assess changes in organization and supervision of bathing areas and sites occasionally used for bathing in Poland after the implementation of the Bathing Water Directive 2006/7/EC. Material and methods The study is based on the law regulation published in the Journal of Laws and Polish Monitor - Official Journals of the Republic of Poland). Also, Chief Sanitary Inspectorate annual reports and Bathing Web Service (www.sk.gis.gov.pl) were used in the investigation. The analysis of the number of bathing waters covers the period of 2010–2019, while the quality of bathing waters was analysed in the period of 2014–2018. Results and conclusions In terms of quality, the highest number of evaluations of water unsuitability for bathing in 2011–2018 was given due to cyanobacteria blooms (the highest in 2018). The assessment of water quality carried out in 2018 (being the mean from 2015–2018), similarly to the assessment from 2014 (the mean from 2011–2014), indicated the excellent quality of more than 70% of bathing waters, about 10% were sufficient and only 3 inland bathing waters (1%) were found to have poor quality. According to data from 2018, Poland ranks 22nd among EU countries in terms of the number of bathing waters with excellent water quality. Despite the constantly growing tendency to improve the quality of bathing waters, when compared to other EU countries, Poland still lacks a lot to the European average of 85% of bathing areas with excellent water quality.
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