Commission Regulation (EC) No 1576/2000 of 19 July 2000 supplementing the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 2400/96 on the entry of certain names in the 'Register of protected designations of origin and protected geographical indications' provided for in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2081/92 on the protection of geographical indications and designations of origin for agricultural products and foodstuffs
Date: 2000-07-19
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agricultural product, designation of origin, foodstuff, location of production

20.7.2000

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Official Journal of the European Communities

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1576/2000

of 19 July 2000

supplementing the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 2400/96 on the entry of certain names in the
‘Register of protected designations of origin and protected geographical indications’ provided for
in Council Regulation (EEC) No 2081/92 on the protection of geographical indications and designa-
tions of origin for agricultural products and foodstuffs

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2081/92 of 14
July 1992 on the protection of geographical indications and
designations of origin for agricultural products and food-
stuffs (1), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No
1509/2000 (2), and in particular Article 6(3) and (4) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Under Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 2081/92,
Germany and Sweden have sent
the Commission
applications for the registration of names as geograph-
ical

indications.

In accordance with Article 6(1) of that Regulation, the
applications have been found to meet all the require-
ments laid down therein and in particular to contain all
the information required in accordance with Article 4
thereof.

Statements of objection have been received by the
Commission pursuant to Article 7 of Regulation (EEC)
No 2081/92 in respect of the names listed in the Annex
to this Regulation, following their publication in the
Official Journal of the European Communities (3), but those
objections are deemed unfounded and thus inadmissible,

the
since they do not sufficiently demonstrate that
names fail to meet the criteria laid down in that Regula-
tion.

The names should therefore be entered in the ‘Register
of protected designations of origin and protected
geographical
and hence be protected
throughout the Community as protected geographical
indications.

indications’

The Annex to this Regulation supplements the Annex to
Commission Regulation (EC) No 2400/96 (4), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1338/2000 (5),

(4)

(5)

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The names in the Annex hereto are added to the Annex to
Regulation (EC) No 2400/96 and entered as protected
geographical
in the ‘Register of protected
designations of origin and protected geographical indications’
provided for in Article 6(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 2081/92.

indications (PGI)

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publica-
tion in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 19 July 2000.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 208, 24.7.1992, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 174, 13.7.2000, p. 7.
(3) OJ C 263, 17.9.1999, p.4; 2.9.1999, p.3.

(4) OJ L 327, 18.12.1996, p. 11.
(5) OJ L 154, 27.6.2000, p. 5.

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PRODUCTS LISTED IN ANNEX I TO THE EC TREATY, INTENDED FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION

ANNEX

Bread, pastry, cakes, confectionery, biscuits and other baker's wares

GERMANY

Meißner Fummel (PGI)

SWEDEN

Skånsk spettkaka (PGI)