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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

| 8. | The Environmental Liability Directive is based on, and is an expression of, the polluter pays principle (18). In addition, a common understanding of ‘environmental damage’ needs to draw on, as appropriate, other principles on which Union environmental policy is founded, namely the precautionary principle (19), and the principles that preventive action should be taken and that environmental damage should as a priority be rectified at source (20), these being relevant to its interpretation. General principles of Union law, such as the principle of proportionality, are also relevant to the 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.