Recital 21

(21) The procedures for registration, including opposition, amendment of the product specification, cancellation of the registration and appeal in respect of geographical indications originating in the Union should be carried out by the Member States and the Office and those procedures should fulfil transparency requirements. The Member States and the Office respectively should be responsible for the distinct phases of those procedures. Member States should be responsible for the national phase, which consists of receiving the application from the applicant, examining it, managing the national opposition procedure and, following the positive completion of the national phase, submitting the application to the Office to launch the Union phase. Member States should establish the detailed procedural arrangements for the national phase. Those arrangements should include consultations between the applicant and any national opponents, as well as the submission by the applicant of a report on the outcome of those consultations, and on any modifications made to the application. Moreover, the admissibility of the opposition and the reasons for refusing registration in the national phase should be aligned with those in the Union phase. The Office should be responsible for examining applications in the Union phase, managing the opposition procedure and granting or refusing registration. The Office should also carry out the corresponding procedures for third-country geographical indications.

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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.