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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

| 165. | There are nevertheless limits. It is possible, for example, that a damaging occurrence will introduce micro-organisms into an area of surface water. While this may result in the impairment of a drinking water service, the damaging occurrence will fall outside the scope of water damage unless it can be shown that it will also adversely affect a status element. Such introduction of micro-organisms may, however, sometimes come within the scope of land damage (see the section of the present Guidelines devoted to land damage).

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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.