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GI product stalls on Airports
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- Commerce Ministry is to prepare a policy to set up stalls of GI products at all the airports of the country
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- A Geographical Indication (GI) is primarily an agricultural, natural or a manufactured product (handicrafts and industrial goods) originating from a definite geographical territory.
- The move will help promote these products in the country.
- Typically, such a name conveys an assurance of quality and distinctiveness, which is essentially attributable to the place of its origin.
- Reviewing the agriculture sector of the Konkan region, the Minister directed officials to run campaigns on Geographical Indicators (GIs) so as to increase awareness about the benefits of this tag for the produce of this region.
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- Geographical Indications (GI) are one of the eight intellectual property items coming under WTO’s TRIPs (Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights).
- The GI provision allows member countries to protect products belongs to a specific territory against commercial exploitation by other parties.
- This can be done by including such products in a Geographical Indications Registry.
- Such a registry will protect that product from commercial utilization by others using a trade mark.
- India enacted the Geographical Indication of Goods (Registration and Protection) Act, 1999 which came into force with effect from September 15, 2003.
- The Geographical Indications Act was mainly an attempt to comply with India’s obligations under the TRIPS agreement.
Source
The Hindu