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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

| 212. | As for the manner in which contamination arises, the reference to ‘the … introduction, in, on or under land’, points to a wide range of possibilities, including the following: — The contamination may arise from substances found in situ. This may be the case where a mining or extraction operation brings to the land surface heavy metals found under the surface and leaves them to rest there in an unsafe manner. — The contamination may arise from a one-off accident or incident, for example linked to onsite transport of dangerous substances in pipelines or road transport of dangerous goods or polluting goods (188); — The contamination may arise from a continuous known or unknown cause (for example, a ruptured pipe that continues to leak dangerous substances).

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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.