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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

| 134. | Under the Water Framework Directive, the five reference concepts are principally used in relation to water bodies delineated pursuant to that directive and assessed on the basis of monitoring programmes that leave a margin of discretion to Member States in terms of frequencies and monitoring sites. Within this legal framework, the concepts, and the concept of delineated water bodies, are principally used for the purpose of achieving long-term objectives, through appropriate river basin management and planning of measures. In this respect, Guidance document No.2 Identification of Water Bodies (142), a non-binding reference document developed under the Common Implementation Strategy for the Water Framework Directive, notes that the concept of water bodies is used for reporting and assessing compliance with the Directive’s principal environmental objectives; however, the delineation of a water body is a tool and not an objective in itself.

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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.