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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

| 23. | Operators must also fulfil certain ancillary obligations. For example, where environmental damage has occurred, they must ‘without delay, inform the competent authority of all relevant aspects of the situation’ (45) and may be required to provide supplementary information. (46) They may be required to fulfil similar information obligations in respect of an imminent threat of environmental damage. (47) They may also be required to carry out their own assessment with regard to environmental damage and to supply any information and data necessary to the competent authority (48). Looking beyond the Environmental Liability Directive, operators may be required to provide relevant information to the authorities under other Union environmental legislation, for example the Industrial Emissions Directive (49) or Directive 2012/18/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 4 July 2012 on the control of major-accident hazards involving dangerous substances, amending and subsequently repealing Council Directive 96/82/EC (the ‘Seveso Directive’) (50).

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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.