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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

| 152. | This being said, the circumstances of a specific damaging occurrence may make it appropriate to apply the Environmental Liability Directive at the level of an entire delineated water body. For example, a toxic spillage may affect the entirety of a single lake. Or a body of groundwater may function as a distinct hydrological unit for purposes of quantitative status and the status elements relevant to this status category may need to be assessed in respect of the entire body of groundwater. Furthermore, much existing knowledge about the waters concerned may lie at the level of delineated water bodies, given that monitoring under the Water Framework Directive is organised in relation to such bodies.

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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.