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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-251/article-10",
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  "legislation": "eur/2014/251",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) No 251/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on the definition, description, presentation, labelling and the protection of geographical indications of aromatised wine products and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 1601/91",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-251",
  "path": "article/10",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Content of applications for protection",
  "text": "1. Applications for the protection of names as geographical indications shall include a technical file containing:\n(a) the name to be protected;\n(b) the name and address of the applicant;\n(c) a product specification as referred to in paragraph 2; and\n(d) a single document summarising the product specification referred to in paragraph 2.\n2. To be eligible for a geographical indication protected under this Regulation a product shall comply with the corresponding product specification which shall include at least:\n(a) the name to be protected;\n(b) a description of the product, in particular its principal analytical characteristics as well as an indication of its organoleptic characteristics;\n(c) where applicable, the particular production processes and specifications as well as the relevant restrictions on making the product;\n(d) the demarcation of the geographical area concerned;\n(e) the details bearing out the link referred to in point (3) of Article 2;\n(f) the applicable requirements ..., having regard to the fact that such requirements shall be objective, and non-discriminatory and compatible with assimilated law;\n(g) an indication of the main raw material from which the aromatised wine product is obtained;\n(h) the name and address of the authorities or bodies verifying compliance with the provisions of the product specification and their specific tasks.\n3. In this Article:\n(a) ‘the applicable requirements’ means:\n(i) where the geographical area concerned is located in, or partly in, Great Britain, provisions in any enactment regulating the use of the geographical indication in Great Britain;\n(ii) where the geographical area concerned is located in, or partly in, Northern Ireland, requirements laid down in law regulating the use of the geographical indication in Northern Ireland, including, so far as it applies to Northern Ireland, any legislation that forms part of domestic law of Northern Ireland by virtue of section 7A of the EUWA and the Protocol on Ireland/Northern Ireland in the EU withdrawal agreement;\n(iii) where the geographical area concerned is located in, or partly in, a third country:\n(aa) requirements laid down in law regulating the use of the geographical indication in the third country in which the relevant geographical area is located or partly located, and\n(bb) where they must be complied with in the third country in which the relevant geographical area is located, or partly located, provisions laid down by an organisation that manages the geographical indication regulating the use of the geographical indication in that country;\n(b) ‘enactment’ means the following legislation whenever passed or made:\n(i) an Act, and an enactment contained in any Order in Council, order, rules, regulations or other instrument made under an Act, except to the extent that they extend to Northern Ireland;\n(ii) assimilated direct legislation, except to the extent that it extends to Northern Ireland;\n(iii) an Act of the Scottish Parliament, and an enactment contained in an instrument made under an Act of the Scottish Parliament;\n(iv) a Measure or Act of Senedd Cymru and an enactment contained in an instrument made under a Measure or Act of Senedd Cymru.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 10(2)(f) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Agricultural Products, Food and Drink (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1637), regs. 1(7), 21(9)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in Art. 10(2)(f) substituted (27.2.2025) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/82), reg. 1(2), Sch. 15 para. 108(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 10(3) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Agricultural Products, Food and Drink (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1637), regs. 1(7), 21(9)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 10(3)(b)(ii) substituted (27.2.2025) by The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Act 2023 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/82), reg. 1(2), Sch. 15 para. 108(3)(a)"
    }
  ],
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  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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