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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-251/article-21",
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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/21",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "21",
  "heading": "Register",
  "text": "(1.) The Secretary of State must establish and maintain an electronic register of geographical indications protected under this Regulation for aromatised wine products which shall be publicly accessible.\n2. Where the Secretary of State publishes a decision notice giving notice of the Secretary of State's decision to confer protection on a geographical indication, the Secretary of State must, as soon as possible after the notice period for the notice has expired:\n(a) record the following data in the register:\n(i) the registered name (or names) of the product;\n(ii) the date of protection;\n(iii) an indication that the name is protected as a geographical indication;\n(iv) an indication of the permitted country or countries of origin;\n(b) attach a copy of the product specification for the geographical indication to the register.\n3. An entry for a geographical indication recorded in the register pursuant to paragraph 2(a) confers the protection provided for in Article 20 and that protection runs from immediately after:\n(a) the entry is recorded in the register, and\n(b) the product specification referred to in paragraph 2(b) has been attached to the register.\n4. Where the Secretary of State publishes a decision notice giving notice of the Secretary of State's decision to approve an amendment to a product specification for a geographical indication that is not minor and the amendment includes a change that affects the information recorded in the register for the geographical indication pursuant to paragraph 2, the Secretary of State must as soon as possible after the notice period for the decision notice has expired:\n(a) delete the original data, and record the new data, in the register, and\n(b) replace the copy of the product specification attached to the register with a copy of the approved amended product specification.\n5. The new data recorded in the register pursuant to paragraph 4(a) and the provisions in the approved amended product specification attached to the register pursuant to paragraph 4(b) come into force immediately after:\n(a) the new data is recorded in the register, and\n(b) the copy of the amended product specification is attached to the register.\n6. Where the Secretary of State publishes a decision notice giving notice of the Secretary of State's decision to approve an amendment to a product specification for a geographical indication that is not minor and the change in the product specification does not affect the information recorded in the register pursuant to paragraph 2, the Secretary of State must replace the copy of the product specification attached to the register with a copy of the approved amended product specification as soon as possible after the notice period for the decision notice has expired.\n7. The approved amended product specification attached to the register pursuant to paragraph 6 comes into force immediately after it is attached to the register.\n8. Where the Secretary of State publishes a decision notice giving notice of the Secretary of State's decision to approve a change in a product specification for a geographical indication that is minor, the Secretary of State must replace the copy of the product specification attached to the register with a copy of the approved amended product specification as soon as possible after the notice period for the notice has expired.\n9. The approved amended product specification attached to the register pursuant to paragraph 8 comes into force immediately after it is attached to the register.\n10. Where the Secretary of State publishes a decision notice giving notice of the Secretary of State's decision to cancel the protection of a geographical indication, the Secretary of State must delete the entry relating to the geographical indication in the register as soon as possible after the notice period for the cancellation decision notice has expired. The cancellation takes effect immediately after the entry is removed from the register.\n(11.) Geographical indications pertaining to products of third countries that are protected in Great Britain pursuant to an international agreement to which the United Kingdom is a contracting party may be entered in the register referred to in paragraph 1 as geographical indications protected under this Regulation.\n12. An entry recorded on the register pursuant to paragraph 11 comes into force (and confers the protection provided by Article 20):\n(a) in a case where the register is established by the Secretary of State after IP completion day but before the end of the day following the day on which IP completion day falls and the entry is recorded on the register as established during that period, on IP completion day;\n(b) in any other case, immediately the entry is recorded on the register.\n13. In this Article:\n(a) ‘decision notice’:\n(i) in paragraph 2 means a notice published under the second paragraph of Article 16;\n(ii) in paragraphs 4 and 6 means a notice published under the second paragraph of Article 16 as it applies to an application for an amendment to a product specification that is not minor by virtue of Article 24(2);\n(iii) in paragraph 8 means a notice published under Article 24(3);\n(iv) in paragraph 10 means a notice published under the second paragraph of Article 16 as it applies to cancellations by virtue of the second paragraph of Article 25;\n(b) in relation to a notice referred to in this Article, ‘notice period’ means the period of 20 days from the day on which the relevant notice is published by the Secretary of State, beginning with the day on which the notice is published.\n14. In this Article a reference to ‘the information recorded in the register pursuant to paragraph 2’ means the information recorded in the register pursuant to paragraph 2 or, where that information has been amended, that information as amended from time to time.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "text": "Words in Art. 21 renumbered as Art. 21(1) (31.12.2020) by The Agricultural Products, Food and Drink (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1637), regs. 1(7), 21(20)(a)"
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      "text": "Words in Art. 21(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Agricultural Products, Food and Drink (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1637), regs. 1(7), 21(20)(c)"
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      "text": "Art. 21(2)-(10) 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. 4"
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      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 21 renumbered as Art. 21(11) (31.12.2020) by The Agricultural Products, Food and Drink (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1637), regs. 1(7), 21(20)(b)"
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      "text": "Words in Art. 21(11) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Agricultural Products, Food and Drink (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1637), regs. 1(7), 21(20)(e)(i)"
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      "text": "Words in Art. 21(11) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Agricultural Products, Food and Drink (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1637), regs. 1(7), 21(20)(e)(ii)"
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      "text": "Words in Art. 21(11) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Agricultural Products, Food and Drink (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1637), regs. 1(7), 21(20)(e)(iii)"
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      "text": "Art. 21(12)-(14) 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(20)(f)"
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