Judgment_paragraph 34 · Kakavetsos-Fragkopoulos AE Epexergasias kai Emporias Stafidas v Nomarchiaki Aftodioikisi Korinthias (C-161/09)

34It should be noted in that regard that European Union 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 (Case C-388/95 Belgium v Spain [2000] ECR I-3123, paragraph 53). That tendency manifested itself in the adoption of Council 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), which, according to its preamble, is intended, inter alia, to meet consumers’ expectations as regards products of quality and an identifiable geographical origin and to enable producers, in conditions of fair competition, to secure higher incomes in return for a genuine effort to improve quality (see Ravil, paragraph 48, and Consorzio del Prosciutto di Parma and Salumificio S. Rita, paragraph 63).

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