Recital 8

(8) Uniform protection throughout the Union for intellectual property rights related to geographical indications can create incentives for the production of quality products, contribute to the fight against counterfeiting, ensure the wide availability of quality products for consumers and contribute to the creation of valuable and sustainable jobs, including in rural and less-developed regions, which would help counter depopulation trends. In particular, in view of the potential of such protection to contribute to the creation of sustainable and highly skilled jobs in rural and less-developed regions, producers should aim at creating a substantial proportion of the value of the product designated by a geographical indication within the defined geographical area. The requirements that a given quality, reputation or other characteristic of a product is to be essentially attributable to its geographical origin and that the product is to originate in a defined geographical area, as established in this Regulation, reinforce the understanding that a substantial proportion of the value of the product designated by the geographical indication is to be created inside the given geographical area. Those requirements should ensure that only products with a strong link to the geographical area can benefit from the protection provided for in this Regulation.

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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.