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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

| 29. | Competent authorities must also assess the significance of the environmental damage (62). Once again, the duty of assessing significance only makes sense if the authorities know about the existence of the damage or the threat.

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