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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

| 3. | The present Guidelines for the common understanding of environmental damage address a need identified in an evaluation of the Directive carried out by the Commission in 2016 (‘the evaluation’). (10) The evaluation concluded that the Directive’s implementation was hampered by significant lack of uniform application of key concepts, in particular concepts related to environmental damage (11). Hence the Commission engaged a contractor to prepare, together with the Environmental Liability Directive government experts group and the relevant Commission service, a Common Understanding Document based on research and consultations (12). Although it resulted in neither a Commission document nor a document agreed with the Member States, this ground-work has helped to prepare the way for these Guidelines.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-25 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.