EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUMEconomic Partnership Agreement • August 18th, 2017
Contract Type FiledAugust 18th, 2017The CARIFORUM – EU Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), under Chapter 2, Section 2 ‘intellectual property’, Article 1451, establishes the level of protection of geographical indications, terms of protection and other parameters. However, no list of protected geographical indications has been established under this Agreement. For this reason, the EPA also contains in its Article 145 a rendezvous clause requiring the parties to complete the provisions on geographical indications and to establish the list of protected geographical indications.