75However, it should also be borne in mind that, as the Court held in paragraph 57 of its judgment of 15 October 2015 in Commission v Greece (C‑167/14, EU:C:2015:684), the extent of the harm to the environment is dependent, to a large extent, on the number of agglomerations covered by the infringement complained of. It should be noted that, in the present case, the number of agglomerations in respect of which the Portuguese Republic had not provided, on the day of the hearing before the Court, proof of existence of urban waste water treatment systems complying with that directive — just one — is clearly lower than the number of agglomerations not having such installations mentioned in the judgment of 7 May 2009 in Commission v Portugal (C‑530/07, EU:C:2009:292), namely 15. Therefore, it must be found that that harm is less extensive than that resulting from the initial infringement established in that judgment. The Portuguese Republic has thus considerably reduced the additional harm to the environment resulting from the infringement established by the judgment of 7 May 2009 in Commission v Portugal (C‑530/07, EU:C:2009:292).
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