EU-AUSTRALIA WINE DEAL EXPANDED TO PROTECT BULGARIAN AND ROMANIAN PRODUCERS
November 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has expanded the scope of the European Union's (EU) wine agreement with Australia to protect Bulgarian and Romanian producers. Because these countries joined the EU in January 2007, they were excluded from the agreement concluded later that year. Now it has been redrafted so Australia gives protection to Bulgarian and Romanian wine geographical indications. For Bulgaria, Australia will now recognise 51 traditional wine growing areas, preventing producers from outside these regions from using these names on bottles. For ...
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