Chapter II, Article 13 · Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/26

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Article 13Communication of approval of a temporary amendment#

1.The communication of an approved temporary amendment to the product specification, referred to in Article 7(2) and (5) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/27, shall contain:

(a)the protected name to which the temporary amendment relates, with the indication of the type of geographical indication and sector (agricultural products, wines or spirit drinks);

(b)the Member State or third country to which the geographical area belongs;

(c)the name of the Member State or third country authorities or producer group established or resident in a third country communicating the temporary amendment to the Commission;

(d)a description of the approved temporary amendment together with the reasons supporting it, as referred to in Article 7(2) and (5) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/27.

The contact details of the producer group and of the authorities of the Member State or third country referred to in the first subparagraph, point (c), shall be communicated separately. The contact details of such producer groups and authorities shall not be published as part of the communication. Their names, however, shall be published.

2.Where the communication is made by a Member State, it shall include:

(a)the declaration confirming that the approval and the communication of the temporary amendment meets the conditions for approval of a temporary amendment under Regulation (EU) 2024/1143 and the provisions adopted pursuant thereto;

(b)the national decision approving the temporary amendment as published at national level;

(c)the decision or act of the competent authorities imposing obligatory sanitary or phytosanitary measures or formally recognising a natural disaster or adverse weather conditions or significant market disturbances due to exceptional circumstances, including geopolitical events, affecting the supply of raw materials or the respective electronic reference to the publication at national level.

3.Communications of approval of a temporary amendment concerning products originating in third countries shall be accompanied by the following:

(a)the decision approving the temporary amendment taken in the third country;

(b)the decision or act of the competent authorities imposing obligatory sanitary or phytosanitary measures or formally recognising a natural disaster or adverse weather conditions or significant market disturbances due to exceptional circumstances, including geopolitical events affecting the supply of raw materials, as published at national level;

(c)proof that the amendment is applicable in the third country.

4.A communication of an approved temporary amendment by a Member State shall be drawn up in accordance with the form made available in the Commission’s digital system referred to in Article 14(1) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1143.

5.For communications from third countries the form set out in Annex VI to this Regulation shall be used. The information supplied may be entered by the Commission into its digital system referred to in Article 14(1) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1143.