New Appellation of Origin

The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fishing, Food Products, has issued Resolution No. 986/2011, published in the Official Gazette on October 5, 2011 by which the Appellation of Origin (AO) "SALAME DE TANDIL" and its Production Protocol were registered and approved.

The product "salame" which is distinguished with the registered AO, is a home-made pork meat (chacinado) manufactured in the city of Tandil, Province of Buenos Aires.

This is the second AO that has been recognised for agricultural and food products since the passing of Law No. 25,380 (2001) as modified by Law No. 25,966 (2002) which established the system of protection of Geographical Indications (GI) and Appellations of Origin (AO) for those products.

The main terms of the Resolution are as follows:

1) The certificate evidencing the right to use the AO "SALAME DE TANDIL" is issued on behalf of the Regulatory Council of such AO.

2) The Resolution also approves the logos to commercialize the products protected by the AO, which must include the year and number of this resolution.

3) The products identified with the AO "SALAME DE TANDIL" must bear the Appellation of Origin distinctive sign approved by Resolution No. 546/2011 of the Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock and Fishing (please see "Geographical Indications for Agricultural and Food Products" published in Marval News # 109 of September 30, 2011).

4) According to the regulation of Law No. 25,380 and Law No. 25,966, the registration of AO will be published and notified to the National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI). INPI may publish such registration in the Trademark Bulletin. In this particular case, the corresponding resolution was published on October 12, 2011.

It is worth noting that on June 16, 2011 INPI and the Secretariat of Agriculture, Livestock and Fishing signed an institutional cooperation agreement aimed at developing their joint activities to promote the protection of Geographical Indications and Appellations of Origin in our country. Consequently, both entities are working together in this regard so we hope that it results in a fluent and non-conflicting interaction between the GI and AO system with our trademark system.