50In that connection, it must be noted, first of all, that in the vast majority of the language versions, the wording of Article 10(1) of Regulation No 6/2002, like that of Article 9(1) of Directive 98/71, indicates that the issue is one of a ‘different overall impression’. Two language versions (namely the French and Romanian language versions) in the case of Article 10 of Regulation No 6/2002, and one language version (namely the French language version) in the case of Article 9 of Directive 98/71, state that the issue is one of a ‘different overall visual impression’. However, since, under Article 3(a) of Regulation No 6/2002 and Article 1(a) of Directive 98/71, a design is only the appearance of the whole or a part of a product, it must be found that the overall impression to which Article 10(1) of Regulation No 6/2002 and Article 9(1) of Directive 98/71 refer must be a visual one. Thus, the difference in wording between the language versions does not confer a different meaning in that respect on that provision.
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