53Community legislation displays a general tendency to enhance the quality of products within the framework of the common agricultural policy, in order to promote the reputation of those products through, inter alia, the use of designations of origin which enjoy special protection. That general tendency has become apparent in the quality wines sector, as has been pointed out in paragraphs 14 and 17 of this judgment. It has also emerged in relation to other agricultural products, in respect of which the Council adopted Regulation (EEC) No 2081/92 of 14 July 1992 on the protection of geographical indications and designations of origin for agricultural products and foodstuffs (OJ 1992 L 208, p. 1). The eighth recital in the preamble to that regulation makes it clear that the latter is to apply without prejudice to existing Community legislation on wines and spirits, ‘which provide for a higher level of protection’.
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