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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 11609
SECTORAL POLICIES / Agriculture

Proposals on EU-Iceland agreement on geographical indications

The European Commission adopted two proposals on Wednesday 24 August on the agreement reached almost a year ago with Iceland on geographical indications. The texts have to be approved by the Council of the EU before the agreement can come into force.

On 17 September 2015, the Commission and Iceland initialled two agreements on the further liberalisation of trade in agricultural products and foodstuffs and one on the protection of geographical indications (EUROPE 11392).

Under the terms of...