Regulation (EU) 2019/1753 on the action of the Union following its accession to the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement on Appellations of Origin and Geographical Indications

What it is

to establish a legal framework guaranteeing the effective participation of the Union in the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) Lisbon Union once the Union becomes a Contracting Party to the Geneva Act on appellations of origin and geographical indications. PROPOSED ACT: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council. ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: the European Parliament decides in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure and on an equal footing with the Council. BACKGROUND: this proposal is related to the Commission proposal for a Council Decision on the Union's accession to the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement on appellations of origin and geographical indications. The Committee on Legal Affairs adopted the report by Virginie ROZIÈRE (S&D, FR) on the proposal for a 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. on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on action by the European Union following its accession to the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement on designations of origin and geographical indications. As a reminder, the proposal aims to establish a legal framework ensuring the effective participation of the European Union in the Lisbon Union of the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) on the day it becomes a Contracting Party to the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement on Appellations of Origin and Geographical Indications. The Lisbon Agreement for the Protection of Appellations of Origin and their International Registration is a 1958 treaty, which offers means of obtaining protection for appellations of origins in its Contracting Parties. The Agreement has currently twenty-eight Contracting Parties including seven Member States. The committee recommended that the European Parliament's position adopted at first reading under the ordinary legislative procedure should amend the Commission's proposal as follows. International registration of geographical indications following accession Members suggested that the Commission submit to the WIPO International Bureau an application for entry in the International Register of a list of geographical indications originating in the Union and protected on its territory, in close cooperation with the Member States, trade associations and producers concerned. The list of geographical indications adopted by the Commission by means of an implementing act should contain all of the European geographical indications, which have already been registered in the International Register by those Member States who were contracting parties of the Special Union before the accession of the Union to the Geneva Act. By six months from the entry into force of this Regulation, an authority of a Member State, or an interested group of producers or a single producer using a geographical indication protected and registered in the Union, shall notify the Commission of the names of the geographical indications they wish to have included in the list of geographical indications. The…

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