Seminar Programme - IOC

PRESENTATIONS

• Introduction by Mohammed Ouhmad Sbitri, Executive Director, IOC (version en français).
• Introduction by Mohammed Ouhmad Sbitri, Executive Director, IOC (English version).
• Opening remarks by Marcello Zimbone, Preside, Facoltà di Agraria, Università Mediterranea della Calabria, Italy.
• Market for origin-labelled olive oils and table olives by Marina Testu, Chef de Groupe Marketing Développement RHF, Lesieur, France.
  
  

1ST PANEL – Legal protection of olives and table olives with a GI in the main producing and consuming markets:

Presentation of the main elements of the IOC-commissioned study on the legal framework for the protection of GIs by David Thual, Insight Consulting, Belgium.

* International and bilateral framework for the protection of GIs

• Multilateral negotiations at WTO by Antony Taubman, Director, Intellectual Property Division, WTO.
• Multilateral negotiations at WIPO by Matthijs Geuze, Head, International Appellations of Origin Registry, WIPO.
• GIs from the point of view of Argentina by Gabriela Catalani, Asesora Técnica, Dirección de Relaciones Agroalimentarias Internacionales, Argentina.
• GIs from the point of view of the EU by Pavlos Dimitriou, European Commission, EU.

2ND PANEL – How GIs are implemented in the olive oil and table olive sector:

Presentation of the findings of the IOC-commissioned study on existing and potential GIs by David Thual and Fanny Lossy, Insight Consulting, Belgium.

* Case studies:

• EU experience: GIs produced in a small and large geographical area by José Manuel Bajo Prados, Coordinador, Sectorial Nacional del Aceite de Oliva Virgen con DO, Spain.
• Morocco’s experience in protecting an olive oil GI by Khadija Bendriss, Chef de la Division de la Labellisation, Morocco.
• Turkey’s experience in protecting an olive oil GI by Hakan Kiziltepe, trademark examiner, Turkey
• Tunisia’s work in establishing GIs in the olive sector by Samira Sifi, Chargée des dénominations d’origine, Tunisia.
• Establishing GIs in Israel’s olive sector: now and in the future by Zohar Kerem, food chemist, Israel.
• Establishing GIs in Albania’s olive sector: now and in the future by Elena Kokthi, Head of Analyses, Monitoring and Evaluation, Albania.

CONCLUSIONS

TECHNICAL-LEGAL STUDY ON GEOGRAPHICAL DESIGNATIONS FOR OLIVE OIL AND TABLE OLIVES:

Technical-legal study on GIs

Annex I - Bilateral and multilateral negociations on GIs

Annex II - Aims of protection

Annex III - Summary of the legislations

Annex IV - List of protected GIs and ID card

Annex V - review of the specifications - France

Annex V - review of the specifications - Greece

Annex V - review of the specifications - Italy

Annex V - review of the specifications - Morocco

Annex V - review of the specifications - Portugal

Annex V - review of the specifications - Slovenia

Annex V - review of the specifications - Spain

Annex V - review of the specifications - Turkey

Annex VI - List Potencial Members

Annex VI - List of potential GIs in non IOC members