5 Amendments of Inma RODRÍGUEZ-PIÑERO related to 2022/0115(COD)
Amendment 16 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 7
Recital 7
(7) Making geographically linked products is often based on local know-how and materials and follows local production methods that are rooted in the cultural and social heritage of the home region of such products. Efficient intellectual property protection has the potential to contribute to increased profitability and attractiveness of the traditional craft professions. Specific geographical indication protection is acknowledged so as to safeguard and develop cultural heritage both in the agricultural and the craft and industrial areas. Efficient procedures should be established for the registration of Union geographical indications protecting the names of craft and industrial products, which take into account regional and local specificities. The geographical indication system for craft and industrial products should ensure that the production and marketing traditions are maintained and enhanced.
Amendment 21 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 8
Recital 8
(8) It is therefore necessary to firstly, ensure fair competition for producers of craft and industrial products in the internal market; secondly, guarantee the availability to consumers of reliable information pertaining to such products; thirdly, safeguard and develop cultural and artistic heritage and traditional know-how; fourthly ensure an efficient registration of geographical indications for craft and industrial products both for the Union and at international level; fifthly provide for an effective enforcement of intellectual property rights throughout the Union and in electronic commerce within the internal market and by the means of trade agreements negotiated by the EU with third countries, and lastly, ensure the link with the international registration and protection system based on the Geneva Act.
Amendment 27 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) To provide for a full coverage of craft and industrial products eligible for GI protection (i.e. those having processing methods, characteristics, attributes or reputation linked to their place of production or manufacturing), the scope of this Regulation needs to be determined in line with the relevant international framework, namely, the World Trade Organization. Hence, the use of the Combined Nomenclature should be established through direct reference to Annex I to Council Regulation No 2658/8710 . This approach ensures coherence with the scope of the revised GI Regulation for agricultural products, foodstuff, wine and spirits. _________________ 10 Council Regulation (EEC) No 2685/87 of 23 July 1987 on the tariff and statistical nomenclature and on the Common Customs Tariff Regulation (OJ L 256, 7.9.1987 p.1).
Amendment 39 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 23
Recital 23
(23) The Union negotiates international agreements, including those concerning the protection geographical indications, with its trade partners. Protection of geographical indications for craft and industrial products throughout the Union can also stem from those agreements, irrespective of the international registrations provided under the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement on Appellations of Origin and Geographical Indications or the application and registration system set out in this Regulation. In its negotiating capacity the Commission should to extend protection of geographical indications pertaining to craft and industrial products with trade partners which are not party to the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement by agreements with third countries. In order to facilitate the provision to the public of information about the geographical indications protected in the Union either by virtue of the international registrations provided under the Geneva Act or by virtue of the international agreements with the Union trade partners, and in particular to ensure protection and control of the use to which those geographical indications are put, those geographical indications should be entered in the Union register of geographical indications for craft and industrial products.
Amendment 116 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 26 – paragraph 4
Article 26 – paragraph 4
4. Geographical indications concerning products from third countries that are protected in the Union under an international agreement to which the Union is a contracting party shall be entered in the Union register of geographical indications for craft and industrial products, which should be regularly updated. Geographical indications other than those protected in the Union pursuant to Article 7 Regulation EU 2019/5713 shall be registered by means of implementing acts adopted by the Commission in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 65(2).