31Thus, regarding, first, the arguments based on recitals 14 and 19 in the preamble to Regulation No 6/2002, which use the expressions ‘the existing design corpus’ and ‘in comparison with other designs’, it should be borne in mind that the preamble to a Community act has no binding legal force and cannot be relied on either as a ground for derogating from the actual provisions of the act in question or for interpreting those provisions in a manner clearly contrary to their wording (Deutsches Milch-Kontor, C‑136/04, EU:C:2005:716, paragraph 32 and the case‑law cited).
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