Council Decision (EU) 2023/1051 of 22 May 2023 amending Decision (EU) 2019/1754 on the accession of the European Union to the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement on Appellations of Origin and Geographical Indications

Decision (EU) 2019/1754 is amended as follows: (1) Article 3 is replaced by the following: ‘Member States which were parties to the Lisbon Agreement on 26 February 2020, namely Bulgaria, Czechia, France, Italy, Hungary, Portugal and Slovakia, are hereby authorised, in full respect of the Union’s exclusive competence, to ratify or accede, alongside the Union, to the Geneva Act, strictly to the extent that their accession is necessary to preserve, in the interest of the Union, the seniority and continuity of the protection of the appellations of origin already registered by those Member States under the Lisbon Agreement and to comply with the obligations provided for by Article 11 of Regulation (EU) 2019/1753 of the European Parliament and of the Council . (2) in Article 4(1), the first subparagraph is replaced by the following: ‘In the Special Union, the Union and those Member States which have ratified or acceded to the Geneva Act pursuant to Article 3 of this Decision shall be represented by the Commission in accordance with Article 17(1) TEU. The Union shall be responsible for ensuring the exercise of the rights and fulfilment of the obligations of the Union pursuant to Article 3 of this Decision.’.

This Decision shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.