Protection and Promotion of Agricultural and Food Products at European Union level through European Quality Schemes
Protection and Promotion of Agricultural and Food Products at European Union level through European Quality Schemes
Author(s): Laura Cătălina ŢIMIRAŞSubject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, Economy, National Economy, Agriculture, Economic policy, Environmental and Energy policy, International relations/trade, EU-Accession / EU-DEvelopment
Published by: Center for Studies in European Integration, Academy of Economic Studies of Moldova
Keywords: European quality schemes; geographical indications; traditional speciality guaranteed; European Union;
Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to highlight the use of European quality schemes at Community level to protect agri-food products, including alcoholic beverages. After highlighting the advantages granted to products by using these schemes to protect and, implicitly, promote those products having unique characteristics linked to their geographical origin or, as the case may be, the traditional production / processing system, the paper presents the situation at Community level from the point of view of the quantity of products protected through different quality schemes, by country and category of protected products. Among the quality schemes used at EU level for agri-food products, including alcoholic beverages in the present paper we referred to: "geographical indication" and "traditional specialty guaranteed". The paper is based on the information of European Commission in which protected products are registered through different quality schemes, through and the information contained in various scientific papers, normative acts and statistical databases.
Journal: Eastern European Journal for Regional Studies (EEJRS)
- Issue Year: 5/2019
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 78-95
- Page Count: 18
- Language: English