Judgment_paragraph 114 · Instituto Cervantes v European Commission (T-376/21)

114As regards the admissibility of this new line of argument relating to the first part of the fourth plea, raised in the context of the reply, it is necessary to examine whether it constitutes an amplification of a plea put forward previously, whether directly or by implication, in the original application, and which is closely connected with that plea, for the purposes of Article 84(1) of the Rules of Procedure. According to the case-law, in order to be regarded as an amplification of a plea or of a head of claim previously advanced, a new argument must, in relation to the pleas or heads of claim initially set out in the application, present a sufficiently close connection with the pleas or heads of claim initially put forward in the application in order to be regarded as forming part of the normal evolution of debate in proceedings before the Court (see judgment of 13 July 2022, Delifruit v Commission, T‑629/20, EU:T:2022:448, paragraph 20 and the case-law cited).