craft and industrial products — products: produced either entirely by hand or with the aid of manual or digital tools, or by mechanical means, whenever the manual contribution is an important component of the finished product; or produced in a standardised way, including serial production and by using machines (1)

generic term — a name of a product which, although relating to the place, region or country where the product was originally produced or marketed, has become the common name of the product in the Union; a common term in the Union which is descriptive of the type of product or of the product attributes; or a term that does not refer to a specific product (6)

notice of comments — a written observation lodged with the Office indicating inaccuracies in the application without triggering an opposition procedure (10)

producer — an operator engaged in one or more production steps for craft and industrial products (2)

producer group — any association, irrespective of its legal form, mainly composed of producers working with the same product (3)

product certification body — a body, irrespective of its legal form, which is entrusted with the task of certifying that products designated by a geographical indication comply with the product specification (7)

production step — any stage of production, including manufacturing, processing, obtaining, extracting, cutting or preparation, up to the point where the product is in a form such that it can be placed on the market (4)

self-declaration — a document in a harmonised form, as set out in Annex I, in which producers, which can be represented by an authorised representative, indicate on their sole responsibility that the product is compliant with the corresponding product specification and that all necessary controls and checks for the proper determination of conformity have been carried out in order to demonstrate the lawful use of the geographical indication to the competent authorities of Member States (8)

the Office — the European Union Intellectual Property Office established by Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 (9)

the Office — the European Union Intellectual Property Office, established under Article 2 of Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council (*3). (*3) Regulation (EU) 2017/1001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2017 on the European Union trade mark (OJ L 154, 16.6.2017, p. 1) (b)