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REGUL ATIONS
COMMISSION DELEGA TED REGUL ATION (EU) 2022/891 
of 1 Apr il 2022
amending Delegated Regulation (EU) No 664/2014 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 of 
the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to the establishment of the Union symbols 
for protected designations of origin, protected geog raphical indications and traditional specialities 
guaranteed and with regard to certain rules on sourcing, certain procedural rules and certain 
additional transitional rules 
THE EUR OPEAN COMMISSION,
Havi ng regar d to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Havi ng regard to Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 November 2012 on 
quality schem es for agricultural products and foodstuffs (1), and in particular Article 53(3), first subparagraph, thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Regulation (EU) 2021/2117 of the European Parliament and of the Council (2)amended Article 53(2) of Regulation 
(EU) No 1151/2012 as rega rds the system of amendments to a product specifi cation. As from 8 June 2022 ‘non- 
minor ’ and ‘minor ’ amendments are replaced by ‘Union’ and ‘standard’ amendments, respectively , with diffe rent 
scope and procedures.
(2) Commission Delegat ed Regulation (EU) No 664/2014 (3)contains provisions that supplement the rules on non- 
minor and minor amendments. In order to ensure the functioning of the new system of amendments, the existing 
rules on non-minor and minor amendments in that Regulation should be replaced by new rules.
(3) For the efficiency of the procedure, rule on the admissibility of applications for approval of Union amendment 
should be established. For the same reasons, when an application for appro val of a Union amendment also contains 
standard amendments, standard amendments should be deemed as not existing and should not be considered as 
approved in the cont ext of the Union amendment.
(1)OJ L 343, 14.12.2012, p. 1.
(2)Regulation (EU) 2021/2117 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 2 December 2021, amending Regulations (EU) 
No 1308/2013 establishing a common organisation of the markets in agricultural products, (EU) No 1151/2012 on quality schemes 
for agricultural products and foodstuffs, (EU) No 251/2014 on the defin ition, descr iption, presentation, labelling and the prot ection of 
geographical indications of aromatised wine products and (EU) No 228/2013 laying down specific measures for agriculture in the 
outermost regions of the Union (OJ L 435, 6.12.2021, p. 262).
(3)Commission Delegat ed Regulation (EU) No 664/2014 of 18 December 2013 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 of the 
European Parliament and of the Council with regard to the establishment of the Union symbols for protect ed designations of origin, 
prot ected geographical indications and traditional specialities guaranteed and with regard to certain rules on sourcing, certain 
procedural rules and certain additional transitional rules (OJ L 179, 19.6.2014, p. 17).EN Offi cial Jour nal of the European Union 8.6.2022 L 155/3  (4) The procedure for the appro val of a standard amendment and a temporar y amendment should be established to 
allow Member States to carry out an appropr iate assessment of the applications and to guarant ee a consiste nt 
approach across Member States. The accuracy and exhaustiveness of the assessment by the Member States should 
be equivalent to the accuracy and exhaustiveness required for the assessment process within the procedure 
governing applications for registration of a geographical indication.
(5) It is necessar y to lay down rules to establish coordination between the procedures for amendments to a product 
specifi cation in cases where applications concer ning a Union amendment and a standard amendment are pending 
at the same time before the Commission and the Member State’s compet ent author ity, respectively . Since both 
applications amend the same product specifi cation, while followi ng two differ ent parallel procedures having a 
differ ent timing, rules should be laid down that avoid inconsiste ncies.
(6) Transitional rules should be adopt ed to ensure smooth transition from the current rules of Delegat ed Regulation (EU) 
No 664/2014 to the rules set out in this regulation.
(7) Since amendments to a product specifi cation introduced by Regulation (EU) 2021/2117 apply from 8 June 2022 , 
this Regulation should apply from the same date,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGUL ATION:
Article 1
Amendments to Delegated Regulation (EU) No 664/2014
Delegat ed Regulation (EU) No 664/2014 is amended as follows:
(1) Article 6 is replaced by the followi ng:
‘Article 6
Applications for Union amendments to a product specif ication
For the purposes of Article 53 of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012, an application for approval of a Union amendment 
to a product specifi cation shall contain Union amendments only . If an application for approval of a Union amendment 
also contains standard or temporar y amendments, the procedure for a Union amendment shall apply only to the Union 
amendment. Standard or temporar y amendments included in the application shall be deemed as not submitte d.’;
(2) the following Articles 6a to 6d are inser ted:
‘Article 6a
Admissibility of applications for appro val of Union amendments
1. Applications for approval of a Union amendment to a product specifi cation shall be considered admissible if they 
have been submitte d in accordance with Article 53 of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 and communicate d to the 
Commission in accordance with Article 12(1) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 668/2014 (*) and 
compl y with Article 10 of that Implementing Regulation.
The approval by the Commission of an application for approval of a Union amendment to a product specif ication shall 
only cover the Union amendments set out in the application.
2. If the Commission considers that an application is inadmissible, it shall inform the author ities of the Member 
State or the third countr y concer ned or the applicant established in a third countr y, as the case may be, of the reasons 
for the inadmissibility .EN Offi cial Jour nal of the European Union L 155/4 8.6.2022  Article 6b
Standard amendments to the product specif ication of a protected designation of origin or protected 
geog raphical indication
1. For the purposes of Article 53 of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012, applications for appro val of a standard 
amendment to a product specification shall be submitte d to the author ities of the Member State in whose territory the 
geographical area of the product concer ned is locat ed. If the application for approval of a standard amendment to a 
product specifi cation does not come from the applicant group that had submitted the application for prot ection of the 
name or names to which the product specifi cation refers, the Member State shall give that applicant group the 
oppor tunity to comment on the application, if that applicant group still exists.
The application for approval of a standard amendment shall provid e a descr iption of the standard amendments and 
demonstrate that the proposed amendments qualify as standard in accordance with Article 53(2) of Regulation (EU) 
No 1151/2012. A summar y of the reasons for which the amendments are required shall also be provided.
2. Where the Member State considers that the requirements of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 and of the 
provi sions adop ted pursuant to that Regulation are met, it may approve the standard amendment. The approval 
decision shall include the amended consolidated product specification and, where relevant, the amended consolidat ed 
sing le document or shall include the electronic referen ce to the published version of the consolidated product 
specification and, where relevant, sing le document.
The approval decision shall be made public. The approved standard amendment shall be applicable in the Member 
State concer ned from the date on whic h the approval decision was made public. The Member State shall communicate 
appro ved standard amendments to the Commission not later than 1 month follo wing the date on which the national 
appro val decision was made public. The Member State shall communicat e, without undue dela y, to the Commission 
any final and unappealable national judgments annulling a decision appro ving a standard amendment.
3. Decisions approvi ng standard amendments concer ning products originating in third countr ies shall be 
communicat ed to the Commission by an applicant group having a legitimate interest, either directly or via the 
author ities of the third countr y concer ned, not later than 1 month following the date on which the relevant decision 
was made public.
4. The communication of an approved standard amendment to the Commission shall be considered to be duly 
made when it compl ies with Article 10a of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 668/2014.
5. In the event that the standard amendment implies an amendment of the sing le document, the Commission shall 
publish the descr iption of the standard amendment and the amended sing le document in the Official Journal of the 
European Union, C series, within 3 months from the date on whic h it has received the communication of that standard 
amendment.
In the event that the standard amendment does not imply an amendment of the sing le document, the Commission shall 
mak e public, via the digital systems referred to in Article 12(1), first subparagraph, point (a), of Implementing 
Regulation (EU) No 668/2014, the descr iption of the standard amendment within 3 months from the date on whic h it 
has received the communication of that standard amendment.
The national author ity refer red to in paragraphs 2 and 3 or the applicant group refer red to in paragraph 3 that 
communicat ed a standard amendment to the Commission shall remain responsible for its cont ent.
6. Standard amendments shall be applicable in the territory of the Union from the date on whic h they were 
published pursuant to paragraph 5, first subparagraph, or made public pursuant to paragraph 5, second subparagraph.
7. Where the geographical area covers more than one Member State , each Member State concer ned shall apply the 
procedure for standard amendments separate ly. The standard amendment shall be applicable in the territory of the 
Member States concer ned only after the last national appro val decision becomes applicable. The Member State being 
the last to appro ve the standard amendment shall send the Commission the relevant communication not later than 1 
month followi ng the date on which its appro val decision was made public.EN Offi cial Jour nal of the European Union 8.6.2022 L 155/5  If one or more of the Member States concer ned do not adopt the national approval decision referred to in the first 
subparagraph, any of the Member States concer ned may submit that application under the Union amendment 
procedure.
8. Paragraph 7 shall apply mutatis mutandis where a part of the geographical area concer ned is located in the 
territory of a third countr y.
Article 6c
Relationship betw een Union and standard amendments
1. Where a standard amendment implying an amendment of the sing le document is approved, while an application 
for approval of a Union amendment is pending with the Commission, the Member State concer ned shall update the 
sing le document included in the application for approval of a Union amendment according ly. If the pending Union 
amendment has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union, for opposition, the update d version of the 
sing le document shall be published in the Official Journal of the Europ ean Union, L series, as an annex to the 
implementing regulation approving the Union amendment.
2. Where the amended version of the sing le document included in an application for standard amendment 
appro ved at national level does not take into account the lates t Union amendments that have been approved , that 
standard amendment shall not be published in the Official Journal of the Europ ean Union. The Member State that had 
appro ved that standard amendment shall send to the Commission the consolidated version of the sing le document as 
amended by both the Union and the standard amendments for publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Article 6d
Temporar y amendments to a product specif ication of a protected designation of origin or protected 
geog raphical indication
1. Temporar y amendments to a product specifi cation shall be appro ved and made public by the Member State in 
whose territory the geographical area of the product concer ned is located. Temp orar y amendments shall be 
communicat ed to the Commission together with the reasons suppor ting them not later than 1 month following the 
date on which the national approval decision was made public. A temporar y amendment shall be applicable in the 
Member State concer ned from the date on whic h the decision approving the amendment was made public.
2. Where the geographical area covers more than one Member State , each of the Member States concer ned shall 
apply the procedure for temporar y amendments refer red to in paragraph 1 separate ly.
3. Temporar y amendments concer ning products originating in third countr ies shall be communicat ed to the 
Commission, together with the reasons suppor ting them, by an applicant group having a legitimate interest, either 
directly or via the author ities of that third countr y, not later than 1 month following their approval.
4. The communication of an appro ved temporar y amendment to the Commission shall be considered to be duly 
made when it compl ies with Article 10b of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 668/2014.
5. The Commission shall make public the communication of temporar y amendments via the digital syste ms 
referred to in Article 12(1), first subparagraph, point (a), of Implemen ting Regulation (EU) No 668/2014 within 3 
months from the date on which it has received the communication of a temporar y amendment. A temporar y 
amendment shall be applicable in the territory of the Union from the date on whic h it was made public by the 
Commission.
The national author ity refer red to in paragraphs 1 and 3 or the applicant group refer red to in paragraph 3 that 
communicat ed a temporar y amendment to the Commission shall remain responsible for its cont ent.
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(*) Commission Imple menting Regulation (EU) No 668/2014 of 13 June 2014 laying down rules for the application of 
Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council on quality schem es for agricultural 
products and foodstuffs (OJ L 179, 19.6.2014, p. 36).’.EN Offi cial Jour nal of the European Union L 155/6 8.6.2022  Article 2
Transitional rules
Article 6 of Delega ted Regulation (EU) No 664/2014, in its version before the date of application of this Regulation, shall 
continue to apply to applications for non-minor and minor amendments, as well as to the communications of temporar y 
amendments, to the product specifi cation of prote cted designations of origin, protect ed geographical indications and 
traditional specialities guarant eed pending with the Commission before 8 June 2022 .
Article 3
Entr y into force and application
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European 
Union.
It shall apply from 8 June 2022 .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 1 Apr il 2022 .
For the Commission
The President
Ursula VON DER LEYENEN Offi cial Jour nal of the European Union 8.6.2022 L 155/7