76It follows that the General Court was correct to hold that the Commission was entitled to consider, in general terms, that full disclosure of the contested studies which, when the express decision was adopted, had already been placed in a file relating to the pre-litigation stage of infringement proceedings opened with the sending of a letter of formal notice to the Member State concerned, under the first paragraph of Article 258 TFEU, would have undermined the protection of that purpose.
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