# Directive 2013/30/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 June 2013 on safety of offshore oil and gas operations and amending Directive 2004/35/EC (Text with EEA relevance), Article 38: Amendment to Directive 2004/35/EC

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. In Article 2(1) of Directive 2004/35/EC, point (b) shall be replaced by the following:
(b) ‘“water damage”, which is any damage that significantly adversely affects:
(i) the ecological, chemical or quantitative status or the ecological potential, as defined in Directive 2000/60/EC, of the waters concerned, with the exception of adverse effects where Article 4(7) of that Directive applies; or
(ii) the environmental status of the marine waters concerned, as defined in Directive 2008/56/EC, in so far as particular aspects of the environmental status of the marine environment are not already addressed through Directive 2000/60/EC;’.
2. Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with paragraph 1 by 19 July 2015. They shall forthwith inform the Commission thereof.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2013/30/article/38 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2013-30/article-38
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