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‘Taking back control’: Developing Protected Food Names post-Brexit: What can we learn from GI use internationally?

Published: 2 March 2021

Policy Briefing

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The phrase ‘taking back control’ has been part of the rhetoric of the Brexit debate in the UK conveying the notion of sovereignty regained. However, in terms of Geographical Indications of Origin (GIs) for food and drink products, the post-EU era will actually be the first time that the UK has had the opportunity to develop an independent national policy approach. Here, we draw on the literature on international policy transfer and global experience of implementing GI policies to identify lessons for the new Protected Food Names scheme in the UK and other economies developing GIs for the first time.

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