While at the WTO, negotiations on GIs have not taken place since 2014, oriGIn remains a strong supporter of GIs in the context of an open and rules-based multilateral trading system.
- 17/06/2020 – Publication of the Appellate Body report in “Australia – Certain Measures Concerning Trademarks, Geographical Indications and Other Plain Packaging Requirements Applicable to Tobacco Products and Packaging”
- 17/07/2018 – WTO panel report on Australia tobacco plain packaging
- 30/10/2017 – Powerful combinations produce exponential results: oriGIn Worldwide Geographical Indications (GIs) Compilation
- 27-29/09/2016 – oriGIn @ the World Trade Organization (WTO) Public Forum, Geneva (Switzerland). Fatima AMHERI, President of Association Marocaine de l’indication Géographique de l’Huile d’Argane (AMIGHA) and President of oriGIn, will give a presentation in the Panel organized by International Trademark Association (INTA) on “Inclusive Business: Empowering Women in the World of Intellectual Property and Beyond”. Massimo Vittori, Managing Director of oriGIn, will give a presentation in the Panel organized by Chicza Rainforest Trade Pacts on “How WTO rules may enable SMEs owned by indigenous communities to take an active role in the global trading system – Chicza, a success story from Mexico”
- 12/12/2014 – WTO Members prepare for 200-day push on GI register portion of post-Bali programme
- 24/10/2014 – oriGIn views on the recent trends in bilateral, “plurilateral” and multilateral negotiations on GIs
- 20/05/2013 – oriGIn Members adopted the Declaration of Bordeaux
- 15/12/2011 – “GIs in Africa: State of the Art and Strategies for the Future” – side event within the framework of the 8th WTO Ministerial Conference
- 29/09/2011 – oriGIn Members adopted the Declaration of Guadalajara
- 09-10/05/2011- oriGIn at WTO for a more effective protection of GIs at the multilateral level
- 21/04/2011 – Documents from the negotiating chairs (WTO News)
- 2010/2011 – Series of Conferences on GIs, Geneva (Switzerland)
- 18/02/2010 –“La Genève Internationale” discusses the impact of GIs on sustainable development”(oriGIn Flash)
- 19/08/2009 – The Kona Coffee Farmers Association’s (KCFA) Resolution ENDORSING oriGIn’s “TERUEL DECLARATION”
- 26/06/2009 – oriGIn’s members adopted the “Teruel Declaration”
- 26/06/2009 – Over 150 GIs producers and specialists from some 40 countries gathered in Teruel (Spain) at the OriGIn fourth General Assembly and renewed their full support for the WTO “Majority Proposal” on GI Extension and the Multilateral Register
- 28/07/2008 – Global origin-based producers urge GI extension to be part of the Single Undertaking
- 21/05/2008 – At a crucial time of the WTO’s “Doha Development Round”, origin-based producers from all over the world invest in a Geneva-based organisation to secure effective protection of Geographical Indications at the global level
- 13/04/2008 – Letter to Mr. P.Lamy- Director General of WTO on GIs and Doha Development Agenda
- 01/06/2007 – Open letter of oriGIn on the ongoing WTO negotiations on Geographical Indications
- 15/11/2005 – The members of oriGIn adopted the “Hangzhou Declaration“
- 11/06/2003 – Geneva declaration
- 11/06/2003 – Producers’ message
