35The question whether the Directive applies only where the discharge of nitrogen compounds of agricultural origin makes a significant contribution to the pollution must be answered in the affirmative, given the objective of the Community legislature, namely to reduce and prevent water pollution caused or induced by nitrates from agricultural sources, and the scope of the measures envisaged for that purpose by Article 5.
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