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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

(7) Article 12 of the Directive. The right extends to ‘preventive action’ where a Member State did not decide in its national transposition of the Directive to avail of the possibility given in Article 12(5) to not apply that right to cases of imminent threat of 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.