Foodlaw-Reading
Dr David Jukes, The University of Reading, UK
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Commission Consultation, 9 Feburary 2022
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Commission Consultation: Draft COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION amending Delegated Regulation (EU) No 664/2014 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to the establishment of the Union symbols for protected designations of origin, protected geographical indications and traditional specialities guaranteed and with regard to certain rules on sourcing, certain procedural rules and certain additional transitional rules A copy of the draft Regulation is available on this site (click on image) |
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Commission Consultation: Draft COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 668/2014 laying down rules for the application of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council on quality schemes for agricultural products and foodstuffs A copy of the draft Regulation is available on this site (click on image). Also available is the Annex to the draft Regulation - see: Commission Proposal - Annex. |
The two related consultations are available on the Commission site - see: Consultation: Protection of geographical indications (delegating rules) and Consultation: Protection of geographical indications (implementing rules). The consultations both close 9 March 2022. The following is the first section of the Explanatory Memorandum from the document first document - this provides information relevant to both consultations:.
Context of the Delegated Act
Regulation (EU) 2021/2117 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 2 December 20211 has amended the system of the amendments to the product specification of Protected Designation of Origin, Protected Geographical Indications and Traditional Specialities Guaranteed provided for in Article 53 of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 November 2012 on quality schemes for agricultural products and foodstuffs. ‘Non-minor’ and ‘minor’ amendments have been replaced by ‘Union’ and ‘Standard’ amendments, with different scopes and procedures.
Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 empowers the Commission to adopt delegated and implementing acts supplementing the existing rules and setting out the procedures for the approval of Union and Standard amendments to the product specification of Protected Designation of Origin, Protected Geographical Indications and Traditional Specialities Guaranteed in the food sector.
Delegated Commission Regulation (EU) No 664/2014 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 with regard to several subjects, contains rules on amendments which refer to the ‘non-minor’ and ‘minor’ amendments.
The purpose of this delegated act is therefore to amend the existing Delegated Commission Regulation (EU) No 664/2014 in order to adapt it to the new rules on Union and Standard amendments ad allow the system of amendments functioning properly.
