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7 June 2022  
(22-4298) Page: 1/3 
Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade  Original:  English  
 
  
NOTIFICATION  
The following notification is being circulated in accordance with Article 10.6  
 
1. Notifying Member:  EUROPEAN UNION  
If applicable, name of local government involved (Article 3.2 and 7.2):   
2. Agency responsible:  European Commission  
Name and address (including telephone and fax numbers , email and website 
addresses, if available) of agency or authority designated to handle comments 
regarding the notification shall be indicated if different from above:   
European Comm ission,  
EU-TBT Enquiry Point,  
Fax: +(32) 2 299 80 43,  
E-mail: grow-eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu  
Website: http://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools -databases/tbt/en/  
3. Notified under Article 2.9.2 [X], 2.10.1 [  ], 5.6.2 [  ], 5.7.1 [  ], 3.2 [  ], 7.2 [  ], 
other :  
4. Products covered (HS or CCCN where applicable, otherwise national tariff 
heading. ICS numbers may be provided in addition, where applicable):  Wine 
products, Agricultural products, Spirit drinks  
5. Title, number of pages and language(s) of the notified document:  Proposal for a 
Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on European Union geographical 
indications for wine, spirit drinks and agricultural products, and quality schemes for 
agricultural products, amending Regulations (EU) No 1308/2013, (EU) 2017/1001 and 
(EU) 2019/787 and repealing Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 (COM/2022/134 final) (77 
page(s) in English, 2 page(s) in English, 2 page(s) in English, 3 page(s) in English)  
6. Description of content:  Please note that only the provisions related to technical 
regulations fall under the scope of the TBT Agreement. Elements pertaining to intellectual 
property rights, in particular to the application and/ or implementation of Geographical 
Indications are included in this notification as part of the legislative propos al but clearly 
fall outside the scope of the TBT Agreement.  
The notified draft extends the scope of the original Regulation, better promotes 
sustainable -product designations linked to origin, reduces new forms of infringements 
(internet), improves enforcem ent and checks that consumers rely on, and modernises 
registration procedures. No changes are proposed to the fundamental structure of the GI 
systems in the European Union, thus maintaining: specificities of the schemes for GIs in 
the wines and spirit drin ks sectors; and national enforcement within the framework of the 
OCR tools.  
7. Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where 
applicable:  This Proposal has the objectives  
1) to create a unitary and exhaustive system of geographical indications, protecting the 
names of wine, spirit drinks and agricultural products having characteristics, attributes or G/TBT/N/EU/895  
 
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  reputation linked to their place of production thus contributing to the ob jectives to 
improve the response of EU agriculture to societal demands on food sustainable 
production in its three dimensions of economic, environmental and social value and 
strengthening the current systems of geographical indications (GIs);  
2) to improve  consumer information so that the consumer receives reliable information 
and a guarantee of authenticity of such products and can readily identify them in the 
marketplace including in e -commerce;  
3) to make the registration system of geographical indicatio ns more efficient;  
4) to achieve an effective enforcement and marketing throughout the Union and in e -
commerce ensuring the integrity of the internal market;  
5) to establish a scheme for traditional specialities guaranteed to safeguard traditional 
methods of production and recipes by helping producers of traditional product in 
marketing and communicating the value -adding attributes of their traditional recipes and 
products to consumers;  
6) to set out a scheme of Optional Quality Terms to facilitate the comm unication within 
the internal market on the value -adding characteristics or attributes of agricultural 
products by the producers.  
Consumer information, labelling; Prevention of deceptive practices and consumer 
protection; Quality requirements  
8. Relevant documents:  Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and 
of the Council of 17 December 2013 establishing a common organisation of the markets 
in agricultural products and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 922/72, (EEC) No 
234/79, (EC) No 1037/2001 and (EC) No 1234/2007 (OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 671 –854).  
http://eur -lex.europa.eu/legal -
content/EN/TXT/?qid=1502976703496&uri=CELEX:320 13R1308  
Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 
November 2012 on quality schemes for agricultural products and foodstuffs  
EUR-Lex - 32012R1151 - EN - EUR-Lex (europa.eu)  
Regulation (EU) 2019/787 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 
on the definition , description, presentation and labelling of spirit drinks, the use of the 
names of spirit drinks in the presentation and labelling of other foodstuffs, the protection 
of geographical indications for spirit drinks, the use of ethyl alcohol and distillates of 
agricultural origin in alcoholic beverages, and repealing Regulation (EC) No 110/2008  
EUR-Lex - 32019R0787 - EN - EUR-Lex (europa.eu)  
Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 
2017 on the European Union trade mark (Text with EEA relevance.)  
EUR-Lex - 32017R100 1 - EN - EUR-Lex (europa.eu)  
9. Proposed date of adoption:  End of 2023  
Proposed date of entry into force:  20 days from publication in the Official Journal of 
the EU  
10. Final date for comments:  90 days from notification  G/TBT/N/EU/895  
 
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  11. Texts available from:  National enquiry point [ ] or address, telephone and fax 
numbers and email and website addresses, if available , of other body:   
European Commission,  
EU-TBT Enquiry Point,  
Fax: + (32) 2 299 80 43,  
E-mail: grow-eu-tbt@ec.europa.eu  
The text is available on the EU -TBT Website : http://ec.europa.eu/growth/tools -
databases/tbt/en/  
EUR-Lex - 52022PC0134 - EN - EUR-Lex (europa.eu)  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2022/TBT/EEC/22_3943_00_e.pdf  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2022/TBT/EEC/22_3943_01_e.pdf  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2022 /TBT/EEC/22_3943_02_e.pdf  
https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2022/TBT/EEC/22_3943_03_e.pdf  
 