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Craft and Industrial Geographical Indications Regulation In force since 1 December 2025

REGULATION (EU) 2023/2411 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 18 October 2023 on the protection of geographical indications for craft and industrial products and amending Regulations (EU) 2017/1001 and (EU) 2019/1753
32023R2411 · official text on EUR-Lex

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Articles

• Article 1 — Subject matter
• Article 2 — Objectives
• Article 3 — Scope
• Article 4 — Definitions
• Article 5 — Data protection
• Article 6 — Requirements for a geographical indication

Chapter 1 General provisions

• Article 7 — Registration procedure
• Article 8 — Applicant
• Article 9 — Product specification
• Article 10 — Single document
• Article 11 — Documentation accompanying the application

Chapter 2 National phase

Section 1 Procedures at national level

• Article 12 — Designation of the competent authority
• Article 13 — Submission of the application
• Article 14 — Examination of the application by the competent authority
• Article 15 — National opposition procedure
• Article 16 — National phase decision
• Article 17 — Efficiency of procedures
• Article 18 — Temporary national protection

Section 2 Derogation and direct registration

• Article 19 — Derogation from the national phase
• Article 20 — Direct registration

Chapter 3 Procedures at Union level and tasks of the Office

Section 1 Procedures at Union level

• Article 21 — Registration
• Article 22 — Submission of applications to the Office
• Article 23 — Examination of the application and publication for the purposes of opposition
• Article 24 — Challenges to the national phase decision
• Article 25 — Opposition procedure at Union level
• Article 26 — Admissibility and grounds for opposition
• Article 27 — Notice of comments procedure
• Article 28 — Transitional periods for the use of a geographical indication
• Article 29 — Decision of the Office on the application
• Article 30 — Decision of the Commission on the application
• Article 31 — Amendment of the product specification
• Article 32 — Cancellation
• Article 33 — Appeal

Section 2 Organisation and tasks of the Office

• Article 34 — Geographical Indications Division for craft and industrial products
• Article 35 — Advisory Board
• Article 36 — Boards of Appeal
• Article 37 — Union register of geographical indications for craft and industrial products
• Article 38 — Extracts from the Union register
• Article 39 — Technical support
• Article 40 — Protection of geographical indications
• Article 41 — Parts or components in manufactured products
• Article 42 — Generic terms
• Article 43 — Homonyms
• Article 44 — Relationship between geographical indications and trade marks
• Article 45 — Tasks of producer groups
• Article 46 — Protection of geographical indication rights in domain names
• Article 47 — Right to use
• Article 48 — Union symbol, indication and abbreviation
• Article 49 — Scope
• Article 50 — Designation of competent authorities
• Article 51 — Verification of compliance based on self-declaration
• Article 52 — Verification of compliance by a competent authority or by product certification bodies or natural persons
• Article 53 — Verification of compliance of products originating in a third country
• Article 54 — Monitoring of the use of geographical indications in the market
• Article 55 — Delegation of control tasks
• Article 56 — Obligations of product certification bodies and natural persons
• Article 57 — Obligations of the delegating competent authorities
• Article 58 — Public information on competent authorities, product certification bodies and natural persons
• Article 59 — Accreditation of product certification bodies
• Article 60 — Orders to act against illegal content online
• Article 61 — Penalties
• Article 62 — Mutual assistance and cooperation
• Article 63 — Amendments to Regulation (EU) 2017/1001
• Article 64 — Amendments to Regulation (EU) 2019/1753
• Article 65 — Fees
• Article 66 — Procedural languages
• Article 67 — IT system
• Article 68 — Committee procedure
• Article 69 — Exercise of the delegation
• Article 70 — Existing names and transitional protection
• Article 71 — Member States’ reporting obligations
• Article 72 — Review
• Article 73 — Entry into force