Section 4, Article 24 · Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1956

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Article 24Communication of temporary amendments#

1.The communication of an approved temporary amendment to the product specification shall contain:

(a)the reference to the protected name to which it relates;

(b)the name of the Member State or third country communicating the temporary amendment to the Office;

(c)a description of the approved temporary amendment together with the reasons supporting it;

(d)decision of the authorities formally recognising a natural disaster or adverse weather conditions, or a man-made disaster, such as a war, a threat of war or a terrorist attack, or, when applicable, the imposition of obligatory sanitary and phytosanitary measures;

(e)the decision approving the temporary amendment or the electronic publication reference.

2.Where the communication is made by the competent authority of a Member State, it shall include a declaration referred to in Article 22(1), point (c) of Regulation (EU) 2023/2411.

3.In the case of geographical indications originating in third countries, the communication shall include proof that the amendment is applicable in the third country. It shall include the national decision approving the temporary amendment as made public instead of the electronic reference to the publication reference thereto.

4.A communication of an approved temporary amendment shall be drawn up in accordance with the form made available online by the Office and submitted to the Office using the digital system.

5.The contact details of the competent authorities of the Member State or third country, shall be communicated separately. The contact details of the competent authorities shall not be published as part of the communication. Their names, however, shall be published.

6.The communication of an approved temporary amendment to the Office shall be considered duly made when it complies with this Article. The Office shall not publish a communication of approval of a temporary amendment which has not been duly made in accordance with this Article. The Office shall inform the competent authority and the applicant, where applicable, that the communication of the temporary amendment is not duly made within 3 months. Where no response has been received within 2 months from the date of receipt of the letter of the Office, the incorrectly made communication shall be deemed as not filed.

7.The competent authority that communicated the content to the Office, shall remain responsible for its content.

8.This Article does not apply to procedures referred to in Article 21, point (b) of Regulation (EU) 2023/2411.