Guidance

Protecting geographical food and drink names if there’s no Brexit deal

How producers of food products with geographical indication (GI) protection would be affected if the UK leaves the EU with no deal.

• From: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
• Published: 24 September 2018
• Last updated: 19 December 2018 — See all updates

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Producing food products protected by a ‘geographical indication’ if there’s no Brexit deal

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If the UK leaves the EU in March 2019 without a deal, find out how this would affect producers of food products with GI protections. The UK currently has 86 products which have EU GI protection including foods, wines and spirits.

Published 24 September 2018

Last updated 19 December 2018 + show all updates

1. 19 December 2018

   Updated the technical notice introduction

2. 24 September 2018

   First published.