103The Parliament, the Council and the parties intervening in support of them observe that the Community legislature clearly set out the grounds which prompted it to adopt the Directive, in particular in the first, second, fourth, fifth and sixth recitals in the preamble, and that the duty to state reasons does not require every relevant point of fact and law to be gone into (see, to this effect, Case 87/78 Welding [1978] ECR 2457, paragraph 11, and British American Tobacco (Investments) and Imperial Tobacco, paragraph 165).
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