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Article 5 of the WFD requires Member States to identify the location and boundaries of groundwater bodies that will be used for assessing progress with, and achievement of the WFDs Environmental Objectives.

Identifying the size of groundwater bodies was an important parameter that had implications on the design of the monitoring programmes and on the development of appropriate programmes of measures. For groundwater bodies, the WFD requires Member States to further characterise groundwater bodies at risk taking account of the relevant information listed in Annex II 2.2. Full identification should have been completed by 2010 for publication in the first RBMPs. The characterisation of groundwater bodies may have been reviewed and revised as part of the review and update (if necessary) of the Article 5 analysis, required by December 2013.

Article 5 of the WFD also requires Member States to analyse the characteristics of groundwater bodies and to provide a summary report on groundwater body characterisation.