41It follows from Article 84(1) and (2) of the Rules of Procedure of the General Court that pleas put forward for the first time in the reply and which are not based on matters of law or of fact which came to light in the course of the procedure must be declared inadmissible. However, the Court of Justice has already held in that regard that a plea or argument which may be regarded as amplifying a plea put forward previously in the application must be regarded as admissible (see, to that effect, judgment of 26 April 2007, Alcon v OHIM, C‑412/05 P, EU:C:2007:252, paragraphs 38 to 40 and the case-law cited). Accordingly, such a plea cannot be declared inadmissible on the ground that it was raised with undue delay.
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