On Thursday, 9 March, 200 EU wine appellations (in Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Austria, etc.) wrote MEPs to inform them that, in their opinion, the proposed reform of the rules on geographical indications (GIs) represented “a threat to the success of the policy on wine with a designation of origin”.
On one hand, these appellations oppose the European Commission’s proposal to “outsource the examination of our product specifications to an EU agency”, namely the European...