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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

| 4. | Against this background, the Guidelines consider all aspects of the definition of ‘environmental damage’. The term is content-rich, referring to or embedding several other terms and concepts. The Guidelines encompass these, since they are necessary to the term’s understanding. With regard to structure, the Guidelines begin by looking at the legal and wider regulatory context in which the definition is relevant. They then look in turn at the definition of ‘damage’ and the complete text of the definition of ‘environmental damage’, before examining in detail the three separate categories of environmental damage comprised in it, i.e. ‘damage to protected species and natural habitats’, ‘water damage’ and ‘land damage’. Overall conclusions are presented at the end.

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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.