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COMMISSION NOTICE Guidelines providing a common understanding of the term ‘environmental damage’ as defined in Article 2 of Directive 2004/35/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council on environmental liability with regard to the prevention and remedying of environmental damage · European Union

| 95. | As regards geographical scope, some protected species, for example cetaceans, and some natural habitats, for example reefs, are found off-shore. The Environmental Liability Directive applies to these in respect of the following: internal waters and the territorial sea; the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) and/or to other areas where Member States are exercising equivalent sovereign rights; and, for species and habitats on or depending on the sea-bed, for example sea-turtles, the continental shelf (115).

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