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Public policy makers in Canada should expect the US to object to the extension of protection to EU GIs in the CETA. The … expected gains made in other areas of the CETA for agreeing to protect EU GIs need to be weighed carefully against the … challenge the negative impact of Canada granting intellectual property protection to GIs. …
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United States for many years. The essential difference is in how GIs should be protected, if they should be protected at all …. The US considers that they can be protected as a sub-set of Trade Marks. The EU considers that GIs are a distinct form of … Intellectual Property requiring a distinct system of law. The practical issue today is the extent to which EU GIs can be protected …
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One of the goals of geographical indications in the EU is to contribute to rural development of remote and less-favoured areas. On the base of a rough estimation of the uptake of geographical indications in mountain and island areas of the EU, it can be concluded that indeed agricultural and...
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Targeting has become the buzz word in the national agri-environmental policy reform in Finland. It is generally accepted that more environmental benefits could be reaped by implementing environmental protection measures where they have the biggest positive impact. However, considering one of the...
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Paper prepared for presentation at the 10th ICABR International Conference on Agricultural Biotechnology: Facts, Analysis and Policies Ravello (Italy), June 29th to July 2nd, 2006
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Currently there are proposals and negotiations regarding the strengthening of protection for geographic indicators (GIs …) in the WTO. A major proponent of stronger protection for GIs has been the European Union. One of the arguments it has put …
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The EU is currently struggling to implement coherent coexistence regulations on genetically modified (GM) and non-GM crops in all member states. While it stresses that any approach needs to be “proportionate to the aim of achieving coexistence”, very few studies have actually attempted to...
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