40That definition of services is not to be found in Directive 2004/35, which was adopted four years after Directive 2000/60 and does not contain any reference to it in that regard. The German version, moreover, does not refer to ‘Dienstleistung’, but rather to ‘Funktionen’, which does not presuppose human activity. Nor is it to be found in the concept of ‘ecosystem services’, which emerged long after Directive 2000/60.
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