Research on the Core Element of Geographical Indication Product Standards
The core element of geographical indication(GI)product standard is the quality requirement.This paper distinguishes the quality requirements into safety requirement and characteristic requirement,and discusses the core components for improving GI product standards.To promote the high-quality domestic development and higher level opening-up of GI product,the GI product standards,on one hand,need to improve safety indicators,thus overcoming the technological barriers in international trade.On the other hand,it is necessary to strictly define the characteristic related requirements of GI product,such as the geographical protection scope and the feature quality,to avoid weakening the correlation between the quality and the geographical origin,and to solve the problem of GI dilution.