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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.