30The link thereby ensured between the substantive legal basis of decisions adopted under the procedure laid down in Article 218(9) TFEU and the applicable voting rule for adopting those decisions helps, moreover, to preserve symmetry between procedures relating to internal activity of the European Union and procedures relating to its external activity, in compliance with the institutional balance established by the framers of the Treaties.
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