49It would be otherwise only if acts adopted in the course of the preparatory proceedings were themselves the culmination of a special procedure distinct from that intended to permit the institution concerned to take a decision on the substance of the case (judgment of 11 November 1981, IBM v Commission, 60/81, EU:C:1981:264, paragraph 11).
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