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**Council of the**
**European Union**

**Interinstitutional File:**

**2022/0372(NLE)**

**LEGISLATIVE ACTS AND OTHER INSTRUMENTS**

**Brussels, 28 March 2023**
**(OR. en)**

**7424/23**

**PI 37**
**AGRI 133**
**COMPET 206**
**MI 194**
**IND 109**

Subject: COUNCIL DECISION amending Decision (EU) 2019/1754 on the
accession of the European Union to the Geneva Act of the Lisbon
Agreement on Appellations of Origin and Geographical Indications

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**COUNCIL DECISION (EU) 2023/…**

**of …**

**amending Decision (EU) 2019/1754**

**on the accession of the European Union to the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement**

**on Appellations of Origin and Geographical Indications**

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and in particular Article 207

in conjunction with Article 218(6), point (a), thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the European Commission,

Having regard to the consent of the European Parliament,

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Whereas:

(1) The Lisbon Agreement for the Protection of Appellations of Origin and their International

Registration of 31 October 1958 (‘the Lisbon Agreement’) is a treaty administered by the

World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). By virtue of Council Decision

(EU) 2019/1754 **[1]**, on 26 November 2019 the Union acceded to the Geneva Act of the

Lisbon Agreement on Appellations of Origin and Geographical Indications **[2]** (‘the Geneva

Act’), with effect from 26 February 2020. The Geneva Act itself entered into force on

26 February 2020.

(2) Under Article 4(1) of Decision (EU) 2019/1754, the Commission is to be the Competent

Authority referred to in Article 3 of the Geneva Act, responsible for the administration of

the Geneva Act in the territory of the Union and for communications with the International

Bureau of the WIPO under the Geneva Act and the Common Regulations under the Lisbon

Agreement and the Geneva Act.

**1** Council Decision (EU) 2019/1754 of 7 October 2019 on the accession of the European
Union to the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement on Appellations of Origin and
Geographical Indications (OJ L 271, 24.10.2019, p. 12).
**2** OJ L 271, 24.10. 2019, p. 15.

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(3) With a view to the administration at Union level of the registration of geographical

indications for craft and industrial products provided for in Regulation (EU) …/… of the

European Parliament and of the Council **[1+]**, and in line with the amendments introduced by

that Regulation to Regulation (EU) 2019/1753 of the European Parliament and of the

Council **[2]**, the European Union Intellectual Property Office should be the Union’s

Competent Authority in respect of geographical indications for craft and industrial

products under the Geneva Act.

(4) Decision (EU) 2019/1754 should therefore be amended accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

**1** Regulation (EU) …/… of the European Parliament and of the Council of … on geographical
indication protection for craft and industrial products (OJ…).
**+** OJ: please insert number, date of adoption and OJ reference of the Regulation under
2022/0115(COD).
**2** Regulation (EU) 2019/1753 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October
2019 on the action of the Union following its accession to the Geneva Act of the Lisbon
Agreement on Appellations of Origin and Geographical Indications
(OJ L 271, 24.10.2019, p. 1).

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_Article 1_

In Article 4(1) of Council Decision (EU) 2019/1754, the following subparagraph is added:

‘In respect of geographical indications protecting craft and industrial products within the meaning

of Regulation (EU) …/… of the European Parliament and of the Council **[*+]**, the European Union

Intellectual Property Office shall be designated as the Competent Authority referred to in Article 3

of the Geneva Act and shall be responsible for the administration of the Geneva Act in the territory

of the Union and for notifications and communications with the International Bureau of the WIPO

under the Geneva Act and the Common Regulations.

_______________

***** Regulation (EU) …/… of the European Parliament and of the Council of … on
geographical indication protection for craft and industrial products (OJ …).’.

**+** OJ: please insert number, date of adoption and OJ reference of the Regulation under
2022/0115(COD).

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_Article 2_

This Decision shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the

_Official Journal of the European Union_ .

Done at …

_For the Council_

_The President_

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