GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS – NON-EU COUNTRY REGISTRATION – SIMPLIFICATION
March 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
TRADITIONAL food and drink suppliers from non-European Union (EU) countries will be able to apply for protection of their geography-linked named in EU markets under reforms approved by the EU Council of Ministers. Following a World Trade Organisation case, which found the EU discriminating against the registration of non-EU traditional food and drink terms, ministers passed two reforms: they deleted a requirement that similar protection should be offered to EU food and drink producers in the exporter's home market; and also agreed that ...
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