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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

(183) Article 4(1)(c) of Decision (EU) 2017/848 provides that threshold values shall, where appropriate, distinguish the quality level that reflects the significance of an adverse effect for a criterion and be set in relation to a reference condition. In this regard, Recital 13 of the Decision inter alia states: ‘Threshold values should reflect, where appropriate, the quality level that reflects the significance of an adverse effect for a criterion and should be set in relation to a reference condition.’ It is to be noted that the term ‘adverse effect’ is used in Commission Decision (EU) 2017/848 independently of the reference to ‘significantly adversely affects’ in the definition of ‘water damage’.

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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.