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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

| 36. | As will be clear from later sections of these Guidelines, the assessment of the significance of environmental damage generally requires information about the state of the receiving environment. Some state-of-the-environment information will be directly linked to the damaging occurrence – for example, records of fish mortality in a river recently adversely affected by a polluting emission. But other relevant state-of-the-environment information will consist of records and information gathered for other purposes – to determine the general conservation status of a protected species, for instance, or the condition of a protected nature site, such as a Natura 2000 site. Much relevant state-of-the-environment information will derive from state-of-the-environment monitoring carried out by national administrations. Of particular relevance will be information gathered and collated under the four directives mentioned in paragraph 7 above. This may be supplemented by other relevant information of acknowledged scientific value – for example, an environmental non-governmental organisation (NGO) may provide extensive information through citizen science (69).

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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.