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

**Interinstitutional File:**

**2018/0189 (COD)**

**'I/A' ITEM NOTE**

**Brussels, 30 September 2019**
**(OR. de, en)**

**12464/19**
**ADD 2**

**CODEC 1417**
**PI 132**

From: General Secretariat of the Council

To: Permanent Representatives Committee/Council

Subject: Draft Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the
action of the Union following its accession to the Geneva Act of the Lisbon
Agreement on Appellations of Origin and Geographical Indications **(first**
**reading)**

           - Adoption of the legislative act

= Statements

**Statement by Germany, France and Portugal**

We support the European Union’s planned accession to the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement

on Appellations of Origin and Geographical Indications (GIs), in order for it to properly exercise its

exclusive competence for appellations of origin and geographical indications in the Lisbon system.

Upon accession, the EU will undertake to recognise a protection system which covers

non-agricultural products, too. It is therefore essential that designations for non-agricultural

products be afforded protection in the EU as soon as possible. We ask the Commission to submit a

proposal for a regulation to this effect shortly after the EU’s accession to the Geneva Act.

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**Statement by Denmark and Sweden**

Denmark and Sweden support the objective of ensuring a high level of protection and enforcement

of intellectual property rights, though the primary focus should be on the fundamental intellectual

property rights. We are still not convinced as to the potential of the EU’s accession to the Geneva

Act of the Lisbon Agreement on Appellations of Origin and Geographical Indications. Denmark

and Sweden can however accept the present compromise proposal, as the proposal does not go

beyond the scope of the current protection under EU law.

**Statement by the Netherlands**

The Netherlands supports the European Union’s planned accession to the Geneva Act of the Lisbon

Agreement on Appellations of Origin and Geographical Indications (GIs), in order for it to properly

exercise its exclusive competence for appellations of origin and geographical indications in the

Lisbon system. The Netherlands accepts the present compromise proposal, as the proposal does not

go beyond the scope of the current protection under EU law.

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