1.   An application for registration shall be considered admissible if it has been submitted in accordance with Article 24 of Regulation (EU) 2019/787 and communicated to the Commission in accordance with Article 13(1) of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1236, including the single document drawn up in accordance with Article 3 of that Implementing Regulation, and if it is complete.

An application for registration shall be considered complete when it complies with Articles 22 and 23 of Regulation (EU) 2019/787 and Articles 2 and 3 of this Regulation.

2.   If the Commission considers that an application is inadmissible, it shall inform the authorities of the Member State or the third country concerned or the applicant established in a third country, as the case may be, of the reasons for the inadmissibility.

1.   To overcome temporary difficulties, with the long term objective of ensuring that all producers in the area concerned comply with the product specification, a Member State may grant a transitional period on condition that the operators concerned have legally marketed the spirit drink in question using the names concerned continuously for at least 5 years prior to the submission of the application to the authorities of the Member State and that those temporary difficulties had been raised in the national objection procedure referred to in Article 24(6) of Regulation (EU) 2019/787.

The transitional period shall start from the date on which the application dossier is submitted to the Commission and shall be as short as possible. It shall not exceed 10 years.

2.   Paragraph 1 shall apply mutatis mutandis to a geographical indication referring to a geographical area situated in a third country, with the exception of the national objection procedure.

3.   The transitional period referred to in paragraph 1 shall be indicated in the application dossier submitted to the Commission in accordance with Article 24(7) or (8), of Regulation (EU) 2019/787.

1.   Applications for approval of a Union amendment to a product specification shall be considered admissible if they have been submitted in accordance with Article 31 of Regulation (EU) 2019/787 and communicated to the Commission in accordance with Article 13(1) of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1236 and comply with Article 7 of that Implementing Regulation.

The approval by the Commission of an application for approval of a Union amendment to a product specification shall only cover the Union amendments set out in the application itself.

2.   If the Commission considers that an application is inadmissible, it shall inform the authorities of the Member State or the third country concerned or the applicant established in a third country, as the case may be, of the reasons for the inadmissibility.

1.   For the purposes of Article 31(5) of Regulation (EU) 2019/787, applications for approval of a standard amendment to a product specification shall be submitted to the authorities of the Member State in whose territory the geographical area of the product concerned is located. Applicants shall satisfy the conditions laid down in Article 24(1), (2) or (3) of Regulation (EU) 2019/787. If the application for approval of a standard amendment to a product specification does not come from the applicant that had submitted the application for protection of the name or names to which the product specification refers, the Member State shall give that applicant the opportunity to comment on the application, if that applicant still exists.

The application for approval of a standard amendment shall provide a description of the standard amendments and demonstrate that the proposed amendments qualify as standard in accordance with Article 31 of Regulation (EU) 2019/787. A summary of the reasons for which the amendments are required shall be added.

2.   Where the Member State considers that the requirements of Regulation (EU) 2019/787 and the provisions adopted pursuant to that Regulation are met, it may approve the standard amendment. The approval decision shall include the amended consolidated product specification and, where relevant, the amended consolidated single document.

The approval decision shall be made public. The approved standard amendment shall be applicable in the Member State concerned from the date on which the approval decision was made public. The Member State shall communicate approved standard amendments to the Commission not later than 1 month following the date on which the national approval decision was made public. The Member State shall communicate, without undue delay, to the Commission any final and unappealable national judgments annulling a decision approving a standard amendment.

3.   Decisions approving standard amendments concerning spirit drinks originating in third countries shall be communicated to the Commission by an applicant group having a legitimate interest, either directly to the Commission or via the authorities of the third country concerned, not later than 1 month following the date on which the relevant decision was made public.

4.   The communication of an approved standard amendment to the Commission shall be considered to be duly made when it complies with Article 8 of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1236.

5.   In the event that the standard amendment implies an amendment of the single document, the Commission shall publish the description of the standard amendment and the amended single document in the Official Journal of the European Union, C series, within 3 months from the date on which it has received the communication of that standard amendment.

In the event that the standard amendment does not imply an amendment of the single document, the Commission shall make public, via the digital systems referred to in point (a) of the first subparagraph of Article 13(1) of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1236, the description of the standard amendment within 3 months from the date on which it has received the communication of that standard amendment.

The sender of a communication of a standard amendment shall remain responsible for its content.

6.   Standard amendments shall be applicable in the territory of the Union from the date on which they have been published pursuant to the first subparagraph of paragraph 5 or made public pursuant to the second subparagraph of paragraph 5.

7.   Where the geographical area covers more than one Member State, the Member States concerned shall apply the procedure for standard amendments separately for the part of the area which falls within their territory. The standard amendment shall be applicable in the territory of the Member States concerned only after the last national approval decision becomes applicable. The Member State being the last to approve the standard amendment shall send the Commission the relevant communication not later than 1 month following the date on which its approval decision was made public.

If one or more of the Member States concerned do not adopt the national approval decision referred to in the first subparagraph, any of the Member States concerned may submit that application under the Union amendment procedure.

8.   Paragraph 7 shall apply mutatis mutandis where a part of the geographical area concerned is located in the territory of a third country.

1.   Where a standard amendment implying an amendment of the single document is approved while an application for approval of a Union amendment is pending, the Member State concerned shall update the single document included in the application for approval of a Union amendment accordingly. If the pending Union amendment has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union, C series, for opposition, the updated version of the single document shall be published in the Official Journal of the European Union, L series, as an Annex to the Implementing Regulation approving the Union amendment.

2.   Where the amended version of the single document included in a standard amendment application approved at national level does not take into account the latest Union amendments that have been approved, that standard amendment shall not be published in the Official Journal of the European Union. The Member State that had approved that standard amendment shall send to the Commission the consolidated version of the single document as amended by both the Union and the standard amendments for publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

1.   Temporary amendments to product specifications shall be approved and made public by the Member State in whose territory the geographical area of the product concerned is located. Temporary amendments shall be communicated to the Commission together with the reasons supporting them not later than 1 month following the date on which the national approval decision was made public. A temporary amendment shall be applicable in the Member State concerned from the date on which the decision approving the amendment was made public.

2.   Where the geographical area covers more than one Member State, the procedure for temporary amendments shall apply separately in the Member States concerned for the part of the area which falls within their territory.

3.   Temporary amendments concerning spirit drinks originating in third countries shall be communicated to the Commission, together with the reasons supporting them, by an applicant group having a legitimate interest, either directly or via the authorities of that third country, not later than 1 month following their approval.

4.   The communication of an approved temporary amendment to the Commission shall be considered to be duly made when it complies with Article 9 of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1236.

5.   The Commission shall make public the communication of temporary amendment via the digital systems referred to in point (a) of the first subparagraph of Article 13(1) of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1236 within 3 months from the date on which it has received the communication of that temporary amendment. A temporary amendment shall be applicable in the territory of the Union from the date on which it was made public by the Commission.

The sender of a communication of a temporary amendment shall remain responsible for its content.

1.   For the purposes of the first subparagraph of Article 32(1) of Regulation (EU) 2019/787, a request to cancel the registration of a geographical indication may be submitted by Member States on their own initiative.

2.   The Commission shall publish the cancellation requests submitted pursuant to the first subparagraph of Article 32(1) of Regulation (EU) 2019/787 in the Official Journal of the European Union, C series.

1.   For the purposes of Article 32(1) and (2) of Regulation (EU) 2019/787, a cancellation request shall be considered admissible if:

2.   If the Commission considers that the cancellation request is inadmissible, it shall inform the authorities of the Member State or the third country concerned or the natural or legal person that submitted the request, as the case may be, of the reasons for the inadmissibility.

3.   Reasoned statements of opposition as regards cancellation shall be admissible only where they show commercial use of the registered name by the interested person.

1.   The electronic register of geographical indications of spirit drinks referred to in Article 33 of Regulation (EU) 2019/787 (‘the register’) shall be established. It shall be based on digital systems managed by the Commission and accessible to the public.

2.   Upon the entry into force of a legal instrument conferring protection on the name of a geographical indication, the Commission shall record the following data in the register:

3.   Where the Commission approves a Union amendment to a product specification or receives a communication of an approved standard amendment to a product specification that entails a change to the information recorded in the register, it shall record the new data with effect from the date of application of the amendment in the Union. Data concerning temporary amendments shall also be recorded.

4.   Where the registration of a geographical indication has been cancelled, the Commission shall delete the name from the register from the date on which the relevant implementing act pursuant to Article 32 of Regulation (EU) 2019/787 takes effect and shall maintain a record of the cancellation.

5.   The geographical indications protected by implementing regulations adopted between 8 June 2019 and the date of application of this Regulation shall be entered in the register.

6.   The Commission shall retain documentation related to the registration of a geographical indication in digital or paper form for the period of validity of the geographical indication, and in case of cancellation for 10 years thereafter.