EU GIs Protection System

In a long-term agricultural production process European countries formed acontent-rich with local characteristics of agricultural products, food and otherproducts, which bring local farmers, production, processing, vendors objectiveinterests, but also to bring this country richprofits and good reputation.In order toensure the quality and special reputation of these products, a unique system ofprotection of geographical indications has been developed by EU.The system of protection of geographical indications in EU was historic andsophisticated for other coutries in the word learned by. EU protection ofgeographical indications system is developed from the basis of the domestic law ofeach member. Since the system of protection of geographical indications mutualsurvival differences for the smooth progress of the process of economic integration inthe European Union, the European Union make many directives and regulations forthe protection of geographical indications and coordination between MemberStates.EU made spedial law for the protection of geographical indications ofagricultural products and foodstuffs as well as the protection of geographicalindications for wines and spirits system.,playing an important role for promotingworld development of the system. and the EU is also actively promoting trade-relatedknowledge property agreement the scope of protection of geographical indications.Protection of geographical indications system in the member of EU was stilldifferent,though special law and protected from other legistation. China started theprotection late, rapid development, there are some imperfections, and learn from thesystem of protection of geographical indications in the EU helpful for theImprovement of the protection of geographical indications system. In particular,improve the system of protection of geographical indications help to improve thereputation of China’s agricultural products in the international market, driven by thedevelopment of China’s agricultural economy.In this paper, a comparative study of the organization EU and its Member Statesdomestic law of geographical indications protection system, a detailed description ofthe coherence between the development of the EU system of protection ofgeographical indications, characteristics and law. Raised the status quo of China’sprotection of geographical indications system problems and suggestions for improvement.