41Furthermore, it should be recalled that, in order to ensure that Member States attain the qualitative objectives pursued by the EU legislature, namely the preservation or restoration of good quantitative and chemical status of groundwater, Directive 2000/60 lays down a series of provisions, including Articles 5 and 11 and Annex V, establishing a complex process involving a number of extensively regulated stages, for the purpose of enabling the Member States to implement the necessary measures, on the basis of the specific features and the characteristics of the bodies of water identified in their territories (see, to that effect, judgment of 1 July 2015, Bund für Umwelt und Naturschutz Deutschland, C‑461/13, EU:C:2015:433, paragraphs 41 and 42).
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