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
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  1. 19 December 2018

     Updated the technical notice introduction

  2. 24 September 2018

     First published.

This publication was withdrawn on 7 February 2019

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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.