(1)

Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 entered into force on 3 January 2013. It repealed and replaced Council Regulation (EC) No 510/2006 of 20 March 2006 on the protection of geographical indications and designations of origin for agricultural products and foodstuffs (2).

(2)

Pursuant to Article 6(2) of Regulation (EC) No 510/2006, France’s application to register the name ‘Saint-Marcellin’ was published in the Official Journal of the European Union (3).

(3)

As no statement of opposition under Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 510/2006 has been received by the Commission, that name should therefore be entered in the register.

(4)

By letter received on 12 November 2010, the French authorities notified the Commission that the VALCREST company, which is established on their territory outside the geographical area concerned, had been legally marketing the product sold under the name ‘Saint-Marcellin’, using this name continuously for at least five years, and that this point had been noted in the national opposition procedure. The undertaking therefore met the requirements under the second subparagraph of Article 13(3) of Regulation (EC) No 510/2006 for the granting of a transitional period in which to make legal use of the sales name after registration.

(5)

The requirements laid down in the second subparagraph of Article 13(3) of Regulation (EC) No 510/2006 have been incorporated in Article 15(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012.

(6)

Since VALCREST meets the requirements laid down in Article 15(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012, it should be granted a transitional period of five years in which to use the name ‘Saint-Marcellin’.

(7)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Agricultural Product Quality Policy Committee,