"preliminary procedure" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a process that must be completed before the main stage of an activity or task. For example, "The preliminary procedure must be completed before we begin the project."
As part of the preliminary procedure, NGOs in each examined country can submit critiques of domestic problems.
An experiment was conducted in our laboratory to verify the preliminary procedure.
Austria reformed its composition act in 1982 by adding a preliminary procedure, resembling the old German management supervision order, to facilitate voluntary reorganization, especially refinancing.
In addition to the danger of equating the 'good faith' determination with the appeal itself, there are other disadvantages inherent in compelling the parties to go through the preliminary procedure permitted by § 1915.
A preliminary procedure to measure the reflectance of solar mirror materials has been proposed in the SolarPaces reflectance measurement guideline [1].
On Monday, the Sao Paulo-based institute admitted that a "preliminary procedure" was under way, but said it was not yet a formal investigation and that the inquiry may "simply be archived".
At a brief hearing, a judge set Sept. 9, 2013, as the starting date for a full trial after other preliminary procedures.
The purpose of this clinical report is to illustrate how the use of 3-dimensional (3-D) photography, computer technology, and additive manufacturing can extensively reduce many of the preliminary procedures currently used to create an auricular prosthesis.
After these preliminary procedures, PCA is conducted using these six transformed parameters (Eq. 10).
After the above preliminary procedures, the shutter was turned off and a deposition was carried out for 20 min on the sitall substrate at room temperature.
Exclusion criteria were having had surgery in a previously injured area, preliminary procedures for treating chondral injuries, osteoarthritis (OA) of two or more knee compartments, and refusal of the proposal and evaluation technique.
