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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

| 32. | As noted at paragraph 23 above, operators have duties under the Directive to inform the competent authorities about damaging occurrences and related environmental damage. As also noted, operators may have separate duties to provide information about damaging occurrences to competent authorities under other Union environmental legislation. It cannot be excluded, however, that some operators will fail to report. Damaging occurrences and environmental damage causally linked to clandestine illegal activities or illegal or negligent acts or omissions within authorised activities, for example, are unlikely or less likely to be reported.

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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.