CELEX: 51992PC0032
Language: en
Date: 1992-02-25
Title: Amended proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) on the protection of geographical indications and designations of origin for agricultural products and foodstuffs

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                 COM(92) 32 final
                                                Brussels, 25 February 1992
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                                 Amended proposal for a
                                COUNCIt REGULATION (EEC)
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                 on the protection of geographical indications and
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                                    and foodstuffs
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                (presented by the Commission pursuant to Article 149(3)
                                   of the EEC-Treaty)
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                           EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
At  the  part-session   of   19 November    1991,   the   European   Parliament
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delivered an opinion    on the proposal for a Council Regulation on the
protection of geographical      indications and designations of origin for
agricultural  products and    foodstuffs presented      by  the Commission   in
                              2
document SEC(90) 2415 final .
This  amended  proposal   takes account    of   the  amendments    proposed  by
Parliament, which the Commission has endorsed.
1 OJ No C
2 OJ No C 30, 6.2.1991, p. 9.
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                          AMENDED PROPOSAL FOR A
                         COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC)
            on the protection of geographical     indications and
             designations of origin for agricultural products
                               and foodstuffs
In response to the opinion delivered by the European Parliament at the
part-session   of 19 November   1991 on    the proposal   for   a Regulation,
presented by the Commission to the Council on 25 January 1991, on the
protection of geographical    indications and designations of origin for
agricultural products and foodstuffs, and pursuant to Article 149(3) of
the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, the Commission
has decided to amend the abovementioned proposal as follows:
1.  In   the  seventeenth   recital    "the   geographical     indications  or
    designations of origin     issued"   is replaced   by   "the geographical
     indications or designations of origin protected".
2.  In Article 4(1) "With the exception of products with generic names,
    whose   links  with  their   region   of  origin   have   been   lost," is
    inserted at the beginning of the first sentence.
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3. In Article 4(2)(a) the following is added:
       "9. proof that the production or processing and preparation of
       the  product   took   place   within   the   geographical    area
       concerned."
4. Article 4(2)(b)(3) is replaced by the following:
       "3. the definition of the geographical area to be protected, in
       respect of both production of raw materials and the processing
       and preparation of the product;"
5. In Article 4(2)(b)(6) "production," is replaced by "production of
   the raw materials and the".
6. In Article 5(5) "The Member States shall check" is replaced by "The
   Member States shall, within three months, check".
7. In Article 5(6) "The Member    State shall  forward"  is replaced by
   "The Member State shall, without delay, forward".
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