61That autonomy, enshrined in the first paragraph of Article 152 TFEU, means, as the General Court correctly stated in paragraph 86 of the judgment under appeal, that, during the stage of negotiation of an agreement by the social partners, which ‘exclusively involves’ the latter, they may engage in dialogue and act freely without receiving any order or instruction from whomsoever and, in particular, not from the Member States or the EU institutions.
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