Kateryna Oliinyk, Mariia Baranovych, Maryna Akhtimirova

European Food and Feed Law Review, Volume 13 (2018), Issue 3, Page 241 - 249

The EU-Ukraine Association Agreement is one of the tools to protect EU geographical indications in Ukraine (inter alia, geographical indications for wines, foodstuffs and agricultural products, such as Champagne, Cognac, Madeira, Jeres, Marsala, Tokaj, Feta, Roquefort, Parmigiano Reggiano, etc.). The Agreement secures the protection of geographical indications without the procedure for registration of the qualified indications of origin indicating specific geographical place from which goods originate as provided for by the Law of Ukraine “On the Protection of Rights to Indication of Origin of Goods”. Even if currently certain geographical indications protected in the EU are not covered by the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement, there are other efficient tools to protect them in Ukraine, including applications to the Ukrainian Competition Authority (the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine).

Mariia Baranovych, Yevgeniya Ocheretko

European Food and Feed Law Review, Volume 12 (2017), Issue 1, Page 37 - 42

Ukraine is undergoing a process of reforming its legislation and aligning it with EU law in multiple spheres, including food safety law. The EU-Ukraine Association Agreement has become the key catalyst of the reform, as it stipulates a complex program for approximation of the Ukrainian legislation with the European one. In this article we review the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement from the perspective of its influence on the business relations between the parties, the steps that have been taken in Ukraine in order to reform its food safety legislation and improve the business climate, as well as the further steps that are planned to be taken in the near future.