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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

| 155. | The Water Framework Directive requires surface and groundwater bodies to be classified in different status categories in accordance with Annex V of that directive. The classifications relate to the status elements that are to be the basis of both the estimation of the baseline condition and the measurement of adverse changes or possible adverse changes and impairments of services under the Environmental Liability Directive. Classifications already made under Annex V of the Water Framework Directive can therefore help to establish the condition of the area or areas of water adversely affected by a damaging occurrence. ‘The best information available’ is however not exclusively bound to information derived from the implementation of the Water Framework Directive.

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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.