In December 2017, the EU and Japan agreed on the terms for a free trade agreement – the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).
On GIs, the EPA provides a high level of protection for more than 200 EU GIs in Japan, as well as for a number Japanese GIs in the EU (Annex XY – List of Geographical Indications), see articles 22 to 26, and enforcement mechanisms (see article 28 and articles 40 to 51).
This summary has been extracted from an “oriGIn Alert”, which is a service reserved exclusively to oriGIn members.
