In a judgment handed down on Wednesday 12 July (Case T-34/22), the General Court of the European Union has ruled that the European Commission has a margin of independent discretion to verify that an application for the registration of a PGI name meets the eligibility conditions laid down in Regulation (EC) No 1151/2012 on quality schemes for agricultural products and foodstuffs.
In France, the union that holds the specifications for three PDOs (‘Jambon sec de Corse’, ‘Lonzo de...