Recital 51

(51) In order to ensure that there is consumer trust in the specific characteristics of craft and industrial products designated by a geographical indication, producers should be subject to a system based on a producer’s self-declaration that verifies compliance with the product specification before and after the product is placed on the market. For the purposes of controls, each Member State should designate competent authorities for the verification of compliance and monitoring. It should be possible to have one competent authority designated for the national phase and a different competent authority designated for the controls, should a Member State so decide. The respective competent authority should be allowed to delegate certain control tasks to product certification bodies or natural persons.

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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.