10 Amendments of Anne SANDER related to 2021/2007(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Stresses the significant role played by geographical indications (GI) and traditional specialities guaranteed (TSG) in enhancing and protecting the reputation and intellectual property rights of the EU food and drink sector in the single market and international markets; recalls that the EU protects 3 295 products with GIs and 64 products with TSGs, and that, despite the fact that theyse products only represent 7 % of total EU food and drink sales, they account for 15.4 % of the volume of EU exports;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
Amendment 22 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Considers that the issue overburdening producers with administration in connection with the registration, amendment and management of GI and TSG product specifications should be at the heart of future discussions; recalls that the procedures for amending the specifications for GI products have been simplified and made more efficient for wine and agri-food products as part of the review of the common agricultural policy reform, and that this approach should be strengthened in future;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3b. Stresses the need to enhance the role of GI producer groups; considers, in this regard, that extending to all agricultural and wine sectors the supply management tools applied to cheeses and hams with protected designation of origin and protected geographical indication, agreed as part of the reform of the common agricultural policy, is an important step towards meeting this objective; calls on the Commission to make additional proposals to enable producer groups to better manage the reputation and marketing of their products and to strengthen their influence in the value chain;
Amendment 27 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 c (new)
Paragraph 3 c (new)
3c. Supports the Commission’s desire to rationalise and harmonise the rules on GIs, which are currently set out in four European regulations (three regulations following the reform of the common agricultural policy), while stressing the need to maintain a specific, but coherent, framework for wine products and spirits;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 d (new)
Paragraph 3 d (new)
3d. Notes the Commission’s objective of encouraging producers of GI products to market sustainable products in order to meet society’s demands and consumers’ expectations; stresses that, at Parliament’s initiative, a possibility has been introduced, as part of the reform of the common agricultural policy, for producers to include in the specifications, on a voluntary basis, the contribution made by their products to sustainable development; considers that such a possibility should be consolidated in future Commission initiatives;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 e (new)
Paragraph 3 e (new)
3e. Stresses that GIs are, above all, a means of protecting intellectual property and demonstrating authenticity by indicating a product’s origin; calls for future Commission initiatives not to undermine GIs and TSGs directly or indirectly through measures that could be detrimental to them; stresses, in particular, the need to find a balanced solution in terms of nutrition labelling in the context of future initiatives under the farm to fork strategy;
Amendment 30 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes the great potential of the online market for GIs and TSGs, but stresses that it can only be achieved if intellectual rights are better protected; calls on the Commission to be at the forefront of online protection by including it in on the internet; considers that such online protection requires the protection of GIs to apply to goods sold via e-commerce and for procedures to be made available to GIs to prevent bad faith registration of domain names which undermine the protection of GIs; recalls that Parliament made proposals to this effect as part of the reform of the common agricultural policy and that the Commission undertook to assess the feasibility of strengthening such rules and to make proposals to improve the protection of GIs in order to strengthen online protection in the internal market and on the international market in the context of bilateral and multilateral trade agreements;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Welcomes the fact that, as part of the ‘Action Plan on Intellectual Property to strengthen the EU’s economic resilience and recovery’, the Commission wishes to explore the feasibility of a GI protection system for non-agricultural products at EU level; considers that such an initiative would enable European operators to take full advantage of the opportunities offered by the international system of the Geneva Act for the international registration of appellations of origin and geographical indications, managed by the World Intellectual Property Organisation.
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Notes that, in the context of the stakeholder consultation on the initial impact assessment carried out by the Commission with a view to establishing a system of GI protection for non- agricultural products, there was broad support for such a European initiative, highlighting the potential benefits for the products concerned in terms of international trade, transparency and identification of origin for consumers and economic development for SMEs and Europe’s rural areas;