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| 192. | Compared to MSFD assessments, the assessment of damage to marine waters under the Environmental Liability Directive requires a more specific procedure, determined by the need to establish the baseline condition of the area of marine waters affected by the damaging occurrence, as well as the changes to the environmental status of the area of marine waters affected and any impairment of the services provided by that area. This being said, MSFD assessments address the environmental status of the wider marine waters in which the marine waters affected by damage are located. In this way, MSFD assessments should provide information relevant for an estimation of the baseline condition. Furthermore, MSFD assessments and the criteria and methodological standards that the Marine Strategy Framework Directive requires to be used in order to determine the characteristics of good environmental status facilitate the assessment of adverse changes and impairments under the Environmental Liability Directive. This is because they enable a deeper understanding of the constituent elements of environmental status that are relevant for such assessment, as well as a deeper understanding of the changes and impairments that are likely to matter.

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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.