Who can provide me with advice and guidance throughout the process? Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine Sharon Murphy / Tara Keogh Geographical Indications [email protected] Food Industry Development Division 6 West, Agriculture House Kildare Street Dublin 2 Protection of Food and Drink www.agriculture.gov.ie names Bord Bia Declan Coppinger [email protected] Clanwilliam Court Lower Mount Street Dublin 2 01 614 2202 www.bordbia.ie Food Industry Development Division Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine Bord Iscaigh Mara (BIM) August 2012 Catherine Morrison [email protected] Environment and Quality Section Head +353 (1) 2144 118 Making the link between www.bim.ie product and place Teagasc Pat Daly [email protected] Head of Food Industry Development http://www.agriculture.gov.ie/agri- foodindustry/geographicalindicationsprotectedfooda +353 1 8059500 nddrinknames/ www.teagasc.ie What are Geographical Indications? What kinds of GI Protection are there? Timoleague Brown Pudding - Brown pudding The Quality policy of the EU is based on the strong Protected Designations of Origin (PDO) made using a local traditional recipe within the link between the product and its territory. Product is wholly made within geographical area. Some ingredients are sourced the Geographical area. Product outside of the geographical area. Geographical Indications are a type of is produced, processed and intellectual property. PDO, PGI and TSG prepared within the defined Traditional Speciality Guaranteed (TSG) designations, linked to a region or to a geographical area. The product where the product must be production method, are protected from possesses characteristics are essentially due to traditional (25 years/handed imitation and misuse of the name. that area. down through generations) or established by custom. Who can use the name? Irish Example. Imokilly Regato – Produced in cork, the milk used in the cheese comes from Once a name is registered as a Protected Example: Pizza Napoletana – In the Imokilly Barony. The production of the Designation of Origin or Protected Geographical order to use the symbol the approved recipe cheese is located in Mogeely, also within the Indication only approved producers from within must be used and ‘Mozzarella di Bufala area. the defined region or area, following the specific Campana PGI” or ‘Mozzarella TSG” must be production method, can use that name. melted on the surface of the pizza. Production Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) can take place within or outside of the region. where the product must be If a product is registered as a Traditional produced or processed or Speciality Guaranteed any approved producer prepared in the geographical What is the required documentation may use the name as long as they follow the area and where a specific quality that I need in order to apply? specifications for that product. reputation or other characteristics are attributable to that area. What products are eligible? Specification In looking at local products it is important to Irish Examples: Connemara Hill Lamb – Lambs Sets out the method and process of producing evaluate the suitability of the product to the GI are born on the hills of Connemara (area the product. The specification also includes the scheme extends west of the corrib lake), their diet scientific or reputational basis of the 1. What is unique about the product? consists of mothers milk and mountain foliage. characteristics that are emparted by the area. i.e. Link. 2. What is special about the area? Slaughtering of the lambs can take place outside the Geographical area. Single Document 3. How do these affect the product? This is the EU application. It is a condensed The application must show how this product is Clare Island Salmon – this farmed salmon, from version of the Specification which contains the different to others and how this is due to the off the coast of Clare island is fed a specific diet Key elements of the specification that will be area it comes from. and is subject to atlantic sea conditions. Processing of the Salmon takes place outside of examined by the European Commission. the region..