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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

| 135. | In the context of the Environmental Liability Directive, the five reference concepts relate to the same waters concerned, i.e. those waters covered by the Water Framework Directive, but serve a different purpose, i.e. they are the benchmarks for assessing water damage, i.e. damage that significantly adversely affects the quality elements defining these reference concepts.

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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.