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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

(184) See Recitals 14 and 15 of Decision (EU) 2017/848. It is noted that, in accordance with Article 1(3) of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive, the collective pressure of human activities needs to be kept within levels compatible with the achievement of good environmental status, ensuring that the capacity of marine ecosystems to respond to human-induced changes is not compromised; and that this may entail, where appropriate, the threshold values for certain pressures and their environmental impacts are not necessarily achieved in all areas of Member States’ marine waters, provided that this does not compromise the achievement of the objectives of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive, while enabling the sustainable use of marine goods and services.

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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.