Right to use the schemes
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
- The Secretary of State must ensure compliant operators can use quality schemes and must remove discriminatory barriers Crown / Minister / Government department
Retained EU Law
2012
United Kingdom
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
At a glance
What's here
1 compliance obligation
Who this Act binds
Plus 1 non-business duty on Crown ministers, regulators, local authorities or tribunals — shown collapsed under each section below.
What this Act requires
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Objectives
Scope
Definitions
Definitions: types of designation of origin and geographical indication
Objective
Requirements for designations of origin and geographical indications
Generic nature, conflicts with names of plant varieties and animal breeds, with homonyms and trade marks
Product specification
Content of application for registration
Transitional national protection
Grounds for opposition
Register of protected designations of origin and protected geographical indications
Names, symbols and indications
Protection
Relations between trade marks, designations of origin and geographical indications
Transitional provisions: relations between trade marks, designations of origin and geographical indications
Application and modification of trade mark provisions
Third Country designations of origin and geographical indications covered by bridging arrangements
Transitional provisions: relations between trade marks, designations of origin and geographical indications when bridging arrangements are in effect
Transitional periods for use of protected designations of origin and protected geographical indications
Transitional provisions
Objective
Criteria
Product specification
Content of application for registration
Grounds for opposition
Register of traditional specialities guaranteed
Names, symbol and indication
Restriction on use of registered names
Transitional provisions
Simplified procedure
Objective
Existing enactments
Optional quality terms
Reservation and amendment
Mountain product
Product of island farming
Restrictions on use
Monitoring
Scope
Content of official controls
Verification of compliance with product specification
Surveillance of the use of the name in the market place
Delegated bodies performing controls in Northern Ireland and third countries
Planning and reporting of control activities
Generic terms
Plant varieties and animal breeds
Relation to intellectual property
Protection of indications and symbols
Role of groups
Fees
Scope of application processes
Application for registration of names
Scrutiny by the Secretary of State and publication for opposition
Opposition procedure
Decision on registration
Applications pending on IP completion day
Amendment to a product specification
Cancellation
Appeals: general
Secretary of State decision to consider a decision afresh and the effect of that decision on an appeal
Reporting on local farming and direct sales
Regulations
Committee procedure
Repeal
Entry into force
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