80To that end, the applicant argued at the hearing that the necessity of the transfer of personal data had to be assessed in the light of Article 9 of Directive 95/46, which laid down specific rules where the processing of such data was being carried out for journalistic purposes, because Article 4(1)(b) of Regulation No 1049/2001 referred to EU legislation regarding the protection of personal data without giving further details. However, it is apparent from the provisions of Article 76(d), in conjunction with Article 84(1), of the Rules of Procedure of the General Court that the application initiating proceedings must state the subject-matter of the proceedings and contain a summary of the pleas in law relied on, and that no new plea in law or argument may be introduced in the course of proceedings unless it is based on matters of law or of fact which come to light in the course of the procedure (judgment of 21 October 2010 in Umbach v Commission, T‑474/08, EU:T:2010:443, paragraph 60) or it is a plea or an argument that amplifies a plea put forward previously, whether directly or by implication, in the original application, and which is closely connected therewith (see judgment of 29 November 2012 in Thesing and Bloomberg Finance v ECB, T‑590/10, EU:T:2012:635, paragraph 24 and the case-law cited). That is not the case in this instance, and that argument, belatedly put forward, must be rejected as inadmissible.
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