1. Where, on the basis of the information available to the Office from the examination carried out pursuant to Article 23, the Office considers that any of the requirements referred to in that Article is not fulfilled, it shall reject the application.
2. Where, on the basis of the information available to the Office from the examination carried out pursuant to Article 23, the Office considers that the requirements of this Regulation are met and no admissible opposition has been received, the Office shall register the geographical indication.
3. Where the Office has received an admissible opposition, and an agreement has been reached following the consultations referred to in Article 25(4), the Office, after checking that the agreement complies with the Union law, shall register the geographical indication. If necessary, in the event of non-substantive modifications to the information published pursuant to Article 23(7), the Office shall update that information.
4. Where the Office has received an admissible opposition, but no agreement has been reached following the consultations referred to in Article 25(4), the Office shall examine whether the opposition is well-founded. The Office shall assess the grounds for the opposition in relation to the territory of the Union. Based on that assessment, the Office shall either reject the opposition and register the name as a geographical indication, or reject the application.
5. Decisions of the Office in accordance with paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of this Article shall, where appropriate, specify any conditions applicable to the registration and, in the event of non-substantive modifications, the Office shall republish, for information purposes, the information published pursuant to Article 23(7).
6. Decisions adopted by the Office shall be published in the Union register in all the official languages of the Union. A reference to the decision published in the Union register shall be published in all the official languages of the Union in the
Official Journal of the European Union
.
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