Indication of origin marking on products
Briefing
06-05-2013
Non-food products imported into the EU currently require no labelling or marking of the country from which they originate. In January 2013, the European Commission made a new proposal to introduce obligatory indication of origin on non-food consumer products as part of the product safety and market surveillance package.
Briefing
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- certificate of origin
- consumer behaviour
- consumer information
- consumer movement
- consumption
- designation of origin
- EU customs procedure
- extra-European organisations
- INTERNATIONAL ORGANISATIONS
- international trade
- labelling
- marketing
- NAFTA
- PRODUCTION, TECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH
- research and intellectual property
- tariff policy
- traceability
- TRADE
- world organisations
- World Trade Organisation