EU Member States on Monday 2 May mostly welcomed the proposal on the revision of the Geographical Indications (GI) Regulation.
At the meeting of the Special Committee on Agriculture (SCA), the representative of the European Commission presented the outline of the proposal on 31 March(see EUROPE B12929A14).
The proposal aims to strengthen protection (especially on the Internet) and to allow Member States that currently have a very low rate of GI use to increase this rate through a single and...