Water Damage
Water damage under the ELD is linked to the Water Framework Directive and, subsequently, the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (2008/56/EC; MSFD).
The Water Damage Threshold is
“any damage that significantly adversely affects:
- (i) the ecological, chemical or quantitative status or the ecological potential, as defined in [the WFD], of the waters concerned …; or
- (ii) the environmental status of the marine waters concerned, as defined in [the MSFD] in so far as particular aspects of the environmental status of the marine environment are not already addressed through [the WFD]”