ITALY WINE QUALITY DESIGNATION ECJ CASE – WTO TRIPS AGREEMENT AUTHORITY
March 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN ATTEMPT by the Italian government to scrap 2004 reforms to European Union (EU) rules on using and protecting certain traditional wine marketing terms has been rejected by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) Court of First Instance. Rome claimed that the EU had illegally breached the World Trade Organisation's (WTO) Trade Related aspects of Intellectual Property rights (TRIPs) agreement. However, the court stressed the EU legislation would have to say it was implementing TRIPs for such arguments to hold true: not the case here. Specific ...
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