National delegations from EU member states are making progress on the regulation on the protection of geographical indications for industrial and craft products, according to several documents seen by EUROPE.
The Member States have little to do with the substance of the text, but rather with the modalities of implementation. They make the scope of the Regulation somewhat more flexible, for example. In its proposal (see EUROPE B12932A1), the Commission had indicated that the list of artisanal...