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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

| 54. | These three purposes are distinguishable, and, depending on the circumstances, some may be relevant and others not. For example, in situations of imminent threat, the sole purpose of the assessment will be to prevent a damaging occurrence from taking place. In situations where a damaging occurrence has already taken place, it may or may not be necessary to immediately manage the damage factors. For example, such immediate management may no longer be possible where the damage factors have already created adverse effects and are exhausted. All three purposes may, of course, become sequentially relevant, as where an imminent threat of a damaging occurrence becomes an actual damaging occurrence that requires immediate management of damage factors as well as subsequent remedial measures. The assessment of significance will, therefore, need to be adapted to the purposes which are relevant to the specific circumstances that have arisen.

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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.