Do Geographical Indications Certify Origin and Quality?
Year: 2025

Geographical Indications (GIs) protect regional specialty foods such as lemons from Sorrento or Gouda from Holland. While the EU asserts that GIs certify and protect traditional high-quality products, the US sees them as protectionist. This chapter contributes to the debate by developing a conceptual framework of different quality attributes and analyzes how GIs may certify quality on those attributes. It argues that GIs always certify origin, although with some caveats. In terms of consumer val