Article 4

In order to appear in the register referred to in Article 3, an agricultural product or foodstuff shall either be produced using traditional raw materials or be characterised by a traditional composition or a mode of production and/or processing reflecting a traditional type of production and/or processing. Registration shall not be permitted in the case of an agricultural product or foodstuff the specific character of which is due to its provenance or geographic origin. The use of geographic terms shall be authorised in a name without prejudice to Article 5(1). To be registered, the name shall: be specific in itself, or express the specific character of the agricultural product or foodstuff. A specific name as referred to in paragraph (2)(a) shall be traditional and comply with national provisions or be established by custom. A name expressing specific character, as referred to in paragraph (2)(b), may not be registered if: it refers only to claims of a general nature used for a set of agricultural products or foodstuffs, or to those provided for by particular Community legislation; it is misleading, a particular example being a reference to an obvious characteristic of the product or one that does not correspond to the specification and is therefore likely to mislead the consumer as to the product's characteristics.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-08 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.