63It is apparent from the case-law that, having regard to the wording of Article 61 of Regulation No 6/2002, the Court’s review of the legality of a decision of the Board of Appeal must relate to the issues of law raised before the Board of Appeal. Therefore, it is not the Court’s function to examine new pleas introduced before it or to review the facts in the light of evidence adduced for the first time before it. To allow the examination of those new pleas and to admit such evidence would be contrary to Article 135(4) of the Rules of Procedure, according to which the parties’ pleadings may not change the subject-matter of the proceedings before the Board of Appeal (see, by analogy, ELIO FIORUCCI, paragraph 35 above, paragraphs 21 and 22 and the case-law cited).
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