The Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) presents his compliments to the Minister for Foreign Affairs and has the honor to notify the deposit by the European Union, on November 26, 2019, of its instrument of accession to the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement on Appellations of Origin and Geographical Indications (Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement), adopted at Geneva on May 20, 2015.
The said instrument contained the following declarations:
- that in accordance with Article 28(1)(iii) of the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement, the European Union has been duly authorized, in accordance with its internal procedures, to become party to the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement and that, under the constituting treaties of the European Union, legislation applies under which regional titles of protection can be obtained in respect of geographical indications; and
- that the European Union avails itself of the possibility provided for in Article 29(4) of the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement to extend by one year the time limit referred to in Article 15(1) of the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement, and the periods referred to in Article 17 of the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement, in accordance with the procedures specified in the Common Regulations.
The date of entry into force of the said Treaty is the subject of a separate notification (Lisbon Notification No. 43).
November 26, 2019