70In that regard, the Member States must be allowed a certain margin of discretion for determining whether a specific project is of such interest. Directive 2000/60, which was adopted on the basis of Article 175(1) EC (now Article 192(1) TFEU), establishes common principles and an overall framework for action in relation to water protection and coordinates, integrates and, in a longer perspective, develops the overall principles and the structures for protection and sustainable use of water in the European Union. Those principles and that framework are to be developed subsequently by the Member States by means of the adoption of individual measures. Thus, the directive does not seek to achieve complete harmonisation of the rules of the Member States concerning water (judgments of 30 November 2006 in Commission v Luxembourg, C‑32/05, EU:C:2006:749, paragraph 41; 11 September 2014 Commission v Germany, C‑525/12, EU:C:2014:2202, paragraph 50; and of 1 July 2015 Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland, C‑461/13, EU:C:2015:433, paragraph 34).
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