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With regard to the pre-trial proceedings and the powers of the pre-trial judge, the major innovation of the reform of civil procedure remains the new power conferred by Article 789-9°, namely the obligation for the pre-trial judge to rule on inadmissibility. Another new feature is the temporality of his intervention, which also profoundly changes things. Since until the reform came into force, the pre-trial judge was competent until the closing order. After the entry into force of this text, he is now competent until the opening of the debates, and here too, this poses difficulties.