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April 12, 2021 4:34 pm
There are plans to have all farms and seafood operators in quality assurance (QA) schemes under the 2030 Agri-Food Strategy, according to a draft document.
According to the strategy, which is set to go to public consultation imminently, the plan to have all farms under QA schemes is part of a wider effort to enhance the value of Irish agri-food produce.
Sectoral stakeholder groups will consider how to address barriers to entry to QA schemes for farmers, the strategy document says.
It also outlines that QA schemes will be continuously reviewed and updated so that they are in line with “enhanced expectations” in areas such as environmental performance; food safety standards; and animal health and welfare.
EU calls for comments on GI scheme review
27-01-2021
24-09-2018
The European Commission has launched a public consultation calling for views on how to strengthen the geographical indications system.
The goal of the consultation, announced on Monday, January 25, is to gather views on the major challenges that need to be addressed ahead of a planned revision of the system as well as their underlying causes.
The Commission will also use the consultation to research policy options that could address these challenges and the potential effects of these different options.
The European Union protects almost 3,400 names of specific products, including agricultural products and foodstuffs; fishery and aquaculture products; wines, spirit drinks and aromatised wine products.
Public consultation on how to strengthen GI system launched by commission
The European Commission has launched a public consultation on how to strengthen the geographical indications (GI) system.
It is inviting citizens and organisations as well as national and regional public authorities to contribute to the assessment.
The EU protects almost 3,400 names of specific products – agricultural products and foodstuffs, fishery and aquaculture products, wines, spirit drinks – under one of its quality schemes: GI; Protected Designations of Origin (PDO); Protected Geographical Indication (PGI); and Traditional Speciality Guaranteed (TSG).
The goal of the consultation is to gather views on the major challenges identified that would need to be addressed in the planned revision, as well as their underlying causes, the set of policy options that can be envisaged to address these challenges and the impacts stemming from these different options.
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A recent decision of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board (“TTAB”) highlights the overlap between trademark law and food regulatory law as well as the United States’ and Europe’s different approaches to Geographic Indications (“GIs”). GIs identify the particular location where an agricultural product (such as cheese, wine, or spirits) originates.
Interprofession du Gruyère, a Swiss association, and Syndicat Interprofessionnel du Gruyère, a French association, jointly filed a U.S. trademark application at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) on September 17, 2015 to register the term GRUYERE as a certification mark for cheese. The Swiss association already owned Registration Number 4,398,395 for the certification mark LE GRUYERE SWITZERLAND AOC and Design. In the new application, the French and Swiss associations sought to register the term GRUYERE as a word mark, meaning that they made no