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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8831

20 November 2004
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/wto/trade
Commission defends protection of geographical descriptions and declares itself ready to increase protection of imported products

Brussels, 19/11/2004 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission confirmed on Friday that the Community protection of geographical descriptions system conformed to WTO rules and that it would therefore be kept in spite of the conclusions of an interim (and still confidential) report by the WTO which this week had seemed to give ground to the USA and Australia. These two countries had complained to the WTO against the EU because, in their view, the European system does not protect geographical...

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