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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

| 28. | Competent authorities must establish the operator who has caused environmental damage or the imminent threat of damage (61). By implication, the competent authorities must know about the existence of the environmental damage or the threat; otherwise the duty of establishing the operator has no meaning.

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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.