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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

| 136. | As will be further demonstrated below, the five reference concepts themselves refer to multiple further concepts in the Water Framework Directive. Depending on the waters adversely affected, these further concepts will need to be taken into account when implementing the definition of ‘water damage’. For purposes of the Environmental Liability Directive, the five concepts can be usefully divided between those that refer to surface water, namely ecological status, ecological potential and surface water chemical status, and those that refer to groundwater, namely groundwater chemical status and quantitative status.

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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.