Recital 17

(17) The production step or production steps indicated in the product specification are those which confer a given quality, reputation or other characteristic on the product. Human or natural factors, or a combination of those factors, determine if a production step is relevant for it to be included in the product specification. Products primarily produced outside the given geographical area and only transported there for packaging or for a production step that could be carried out elsewhere without entailing a significant difference in the given quality, reputation or other characteristic of the product, should not qualify for protection. That principle would make it possible to prevent low-quality products without unique characteristics and produced almost entirely outside the given geographical area from being sold as products designated by a geographical indication.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-10-12 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.