10 Amendments of Daniel BUDA related to 2015/2053(INI)
Amendment 2 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 10 a (new)
Citation 10 a (new)
– having regard to the Geneva Act to the Lisbon Agreement for the Protection of Appellations of Origin of 31 October 1958, revised at Stockholm on 14 July 1967 and 28 September 1979, regarding intellectual property and guaranteeing the protection of products marketed internationally and widely reputed for the characteristics of their specific geographical area of origin,
Amendment 6 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas high-quality traditional European products form part of the EU’s cultural heritage and are central to the economy and society in many of Europe’s regions in that they reflect their level of know-how and generate activities directly linked to local ways of life, especially in rural areas;
Amendment 9 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas Europe’s regions can boast a wealth of non-agricultural products resting on a very high standard of traditional know-how that helped to build their reputation;
Amendment 12 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas because traditional European products are of high quality, and are consequently sought after, their names are open to misuse, to the detriment of both consumers and business undertakings;
Amendment 18 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital H
Recital H
H. whereas the national laws currently protecting non-agricultural products give rise to different degrees of protection in Member States and whereas that fact poses a difficulty to effective protection in Europe as a whole, reflecting the need for a single system for the protection of geographical indications throughout the EU, given the inadequacy of existing legal instruments for national and European producers;
Amendment 20 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I a (new)
Recital I a (new)
Ia. whereas one-third of Member States have developed specific legislation assimilating geographical indications with intellectual property rights;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I b (new)
Recital I b (new)
Ib. whereas the purpose of protected geographical indications is to prevent fraudulent use of such designations on the market;
Amendment 23 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Maintains that a link with the territory of production is essential in order to identify the special know-how and designate the quality and characteristics of the product;
Amendment 35 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Considers that there should be different ways of expressing thate link: when it is between a product and the place of origin: where possible to, a distinguishction should accordingly be made between the fact of making things in a protected area out of raw materials from that area and the mere fact of making something there, that distinction should be made;