GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS
March 1st, 2002
Keith NuthallBEER, cider and perry producers from outside the European Union will be able to oppose the registration of EU-made products on a Brussels register of geographical indications, under reforms to the system tabled by EU agriculture Commissioner Franz Fischler.If ministers agree, all citizens of World Trade Organisation member countries would have the right to oppose the inclusion of such terms as Newcastle Brown Ale, Bayrisches Bier and Cidre de Normandie, which prevents foreign rivals marketing products in the EU under these names.The idea, said Dr ...
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