The U.S. Dairy Export Council, an active member of the international Consortium for Common Food Names, in February briefed U.S. and EU negotiators in Brussels on deep-set concerns with the EU’s current approach to protections for geographical indications (GIs). The presentation was made during the stakeholder briefings here in conjunction with U.S.-EU talks on the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).
USDEC’s Brussels Representative Maike Moellers made three central points to negotiators. The first was that the approach to GIs used in the EU-Canada agreement is wholly unacceptable to producers that use common food names.