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'Designations of Origin and Geographical indications' are natural gums and
resins, hay, essential oils, cork, flowers and ornamental plants, cotton, wool,
wicker, scutched flax, leather, fur and feather.
2. Excluded products
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Recital (16) states that the rules provided for in the Regulation should apply
without affecting existing Union legislation on wines, aromatised wines, spirit
drinks, product of organic farming, or outermost regions.
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Consequently, Art 2(2) excludes from the Regulation 'spirit drinks, aromatised
wines or grapevine products as defined in Annex XIb to Regulation (EC) No
1234/2007, with the exception of wine-vinegars'.
3. Related provisions
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Article 2(3) provides that the Regulation 'shall apply without prejudice to other
specific Union provisions relating to the placing of products on the market and,
in particular, to the single common organisation of the markets, and to food
labelling'.
4. Excluded provisions
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Article 2(4) of Directive 98/34/EC of the European Parliament and of the
Council of 22 June 1998 laying down a procedure for the provision of
information in the field of technical standards and regulations and of rules on
Information Society services
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shall not apply to the quality schemes estab-
lished by this Regulation.
E. DEFINITIONS
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Article 3 provides that for the purposes of this Regulation the following
definitions shall apply:
(1) 'quality schemes' means the schemes established under Titles II, III and IV;
(2) 'group' means any association, irrespective of its legal form, mainly composed of
producers or processors working with the same product;
(3) 'traditional' means proven usage on the domestic market for a period that allows
transmission between generations; this period is to be at least 30 years;
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OJ L 204, 21.7.1998, p. 37.
