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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

(69) In all Member States, ornithological NGOs play a very important role in collecting and collating records of bird distribution, for instance. The acknowledged scientific value of this information has been recognised by the Court of Justice, see Case C-3/96, Commission v Netherlands, paragraphs 68 to 70.

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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.