Article 2 Definitions
United Kingdom
For the purpose of this Regulation, the following definitions apply:
- (1)
‘sales denomination’ means the name of any of the aromatised wine products laid down in this Regulation;
- (2)
‘description’ means the list of the specific characteristics of an aromatised wine product;
- (3)
‘geographical indication’ means an indication which identifies an aromatised wine product as originating in a region, a specific place, or a country, where a given quality, reputation or other characteristics of that product is essentially attributable to its geographical origin.
- (4)
F1‘EU Regulation 251/2014’ means Regulation (EU) No 251/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the definition, description, presentation, labelling and the protection of geographical indications of aromatised wine products as it had effect before IP completion day;
- (4a)
F2‘an application to register a trade mark’ means an application to register a trade mark made under the TMA;
- (5)
‘an Article 16 approval notice’ means a notice published under the second paragraph of Article 16 relating to a decision of the Secretary of State to grant an application to protect a geographical indication;
- (5a)
F3‘bridging arrangements’ has the meaning given in Article 19c(2)(b);
- (6)
‘constituent nation’ means England, Northern Ireland, Scotland or Wales;
- (7)
‘country’, in relation to the United Kingdom, means the United Kingdom as a whole and does not mean an individual constituent nation forming part of the United Kingdom;
- (8)
‘enters into force’, in relation to a reference to an international agreement, includes, where the provisional application of that agreement is agreed between the parties before it enters into force, the provisional application of the agreement and ‘entry into force’ is to be construed accordingly;
- (9)
‘established protected geographical designation’ means a geographical indication within the meaning of Article 2(3) to which Article 54(2) of the EU withdrawal agreement applies;
- (10)
‘EUIA’ means an international agreement made between the European Union and a third country that provides for the protection of a geographical indication of the third country in the European Union;
- (11)
‘EUWA’ means the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018;
- (12)
‘FTT’ means the First-tier Tribunal;
- (13)
‘Great Britain's GIs Register’ means the register established and maintained by the Secretary of State pursuant to Article 21;
- (14)
‘the original applicant’, in a case where an appeal has been made in respect of a decision made by the Secretary of State in relation to a geographical indication under Article 25, or following the submission of an application under Article 11, 13a or 24, or a request submitted under Article 25, means the person who submitted the application or request;
- (15)
‘the relevant period’ means the period beginning on IP completion day and expiring at the end of the day that falls nine months after the day on which IP completion day falls;
- (16)
‘F4assimilated law’ has the meaning given in section 6(7) of the EUWA but does not include any legislation so far as it extends to Northern Ireland;
- (17)
‘third country’ means—
- (a)
for the purposes of the definition of ‘EUIA’ in point (10), Article 19c and Annex 2A, any country other than:
- (i)
any part of the British Islands, or
- (ii)
a member State;
- (i)
- (b)
for all other purposes, any country other than the United Kingdom, and includes:
- (i)
the Bailiwick of Guernsey;
- (ii)
the Bailiwick of Jersey;
- (iii)
the Isle of Man;
- (i)
- (a)
- (18)
‘the TMA’ means the Trade Marks Act 1994;
- (19)
‘the Types Table’ means the table in Part C of Annex 2A.
Annotations
Textual amendments
- F1
Art. 2(4)-(19) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Agricultural Products, Food and Drink (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1637), reg. 1(7), Sch. 4 Pt. 1 (as amended by S.I. 2020/1661, regs. 1(2)(b), 16(9)(a))
- F2
Art. 2(4a) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Agricultural Products, Food and Drink (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1661), regs. 1(3), 7(2)(a)
- F3
Art. 2(5a) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Agricultural Products, Food and Drink (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1661), regs. 1(3), 7(2)(b)
- F4
Word in Art. 2(16) 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)(a)