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- The top five countries by number of registered names are Italy, France, Spain, Greece and Portugal. Non-EU countries can also protect their products through the EU scheme. China is the highest non-EU country by number of registrations and the eighth-highest overall.
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This is a list of Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) products by country. Protected Designation of Origin is a Geographical Indication under EU and UK law. Applications can be made both for EU/UK product designation and for other territories.
The United Kingdom and the Crown dependencies together have a total of 94 products with protected status. This is relatively few when compared with Portugal (195 protected status products), France (758) and Italy (882).
ProductDesignation (system)Year AwardedNotesPGI (UK) [a]2021Limited to meat from lambs born, reared ...PDO (UK, EU)2021A type of salt marsh lamb (Agneau de ...PDO (UK, EU) [b]2008Limited to products produced, processed ...PDO (UK, EU)2013Limited to products produced, processed ...- Protection and Enforcement
- Objectives of The Protection
- General Regime
- Description of The Regimes
- Relationship to Trademark Law
- Special Regimes
- Within The European Union
- Outside The European Union
- List of Products with PDO/PGI/TSG Classifications
- Criticisms of Protected Geographical Status Framework
In countries where laws on protected geographical status are enforced, only products which meet the various geographical and quality criteria may use the protected indication. It is also prohibited to combine the indication with words such as "style", "type", "imitation", or "method" in connection with the protected indications or to do anything wh...
The preambles to the regulations cite consumer demand for quality foodstuffs, and identify a number of goals for the protection regimes: 1. the promotion of products with specific characteristics, particularly those coming from less-favoured or rural areas; 2. the improvement of the income of farmers, in return for a "genuine effort to improve qual...
The general regime governs the use of protected designations of origin (PDO) and protected geographical indications (PGI) for food and certain other agricultural products. There are separate regimes for spirits and for aromatised drinks (geographical designations) as well as for wines (geographical indications, often referred to as appellations). T...
Protected designation of origin
The protected designation of origin is the name of an area, a specific place or, in exceptional cases, the name of a country, used as a designation for an agricultural product or a foodstuff, 1. which comes from such an area, place or country, 2. whose quality or properties are significantly or exclusively determined by the geographical environment, including natural and human factors, 3. whose production, processing and preparation takes place within the determined geographical area. In othe...
Protected geographical indication
The protected geographical indication is the name of an area, a specific place or, in exceptional cases, the name of a country, used as a description of an agricultural product or a foodstuff. 1. which comes from such an area, place or country, 2. which has a specific quality, goodwill or other characteristic property, attributable to its geographical origin, 3. at least one of the stages of production, processing or preparation takes place in the area. In other words, to receive the PGI stat...
Traditional specialities guaranteed
The TSG quality scheme aims to provide a protection regime for traditional food products of specific character. Differing from PDO and PGI, this quality scheme does not certify that the protected food product has a link to specific geographical area and a product can thus be produced outside the area or country from which it originates. To qualify for a TSG a food must be of "specific character" and either its raw materials, production method or processing must be "traditional". Under Art. 3...
In principle, a similar protection to a geographical indication could be obtained through a collective trademark. Indications which serve exclusively to identify the place of origin of goods are not registrable as trademarks under Art. 6quinquies.B.2 of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (Paris Convention), which has eff...
The protection of geographical indications for wines and other alcoholic drinks was historically the first to be developed at both national and Community level. It is also the only protection which is recognised by the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS), administered by the World Trade Organization, although ...
Article 13 of this legislation states that registered designations are protected against: This legislation expanded the 1951 Stresa Convention, which was the first international agreement on cheese names. Seven countries participated: Austria, Denmark, France, Italy, Norway, Sweden, and Switzerland. Selected products include Prosciutto Toscano (PDO...
There is no automatic protection for these names on products both made and sold outside the EU, except for Northern Ireland, where the relevant regulation applies. However, there are a number of bilateral agreements with the EU for some level of enforcement. Agreements of this type exist between the EU and Australia (wine, 1994) (but not cheese), C...
The register of wines, agricultural products and spirits with a European Union Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) or Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) is in eAmbrosia, Traditional Specialities Guaranteed (TSG) have a separate register. Both are at the European Agriculture site. Note that the database contains both approved designations (st...
Somewhat paradoxically the PGS framework can be posited as both a protectionist move against global agro-economic policy, and a market-based neoliberal tool of agricultural governance. This makes it an equally important battle-ground for both the anti-globalization movement, and the free-trade proponents of Australia and the United States, and a nu...
Find protected food and drink names in the official GB registers published by Defra. Find out more about the UK’s protected food and drinks schemes.
The names of various products (wine, food and spirit drinks) produced in several countries outside the EU, such as Colombia or South Africa, have been protected. GIs applied for and entered in the Union registers may be consulted on eAmbrosia (the official database of EU GI registers), while both EU and non-EU GIs protected under agreements can ...
Feb 23, 2023 · Agri-food products and wines can be protected as Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) and Protected Geographical Indication (PGI), and spirit drinks as Geographical Indications (GI). EU symbols have been established to publicise these products.
An outline of EU quality schemes, how protected designation of origin and geographical indications safeguard and promote agricultural products.
