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Lisbon Agreement for the Protection of Appellations of Origin and their International Registration

The Lisbon Agreement for the Protection of Appellations of Origin and their International Registration, signed on 31 October 1958, ensures that in member countries, appellations of origin receive protection when they are protected in their country of origin. It lays down provisions for what qualifies as an appellation of origin, protection measures, and establishes an International Register of Appellations of Origin, run by the World Intellectual Property Organization. The agreement came into force in 1966, and was revised at Stockholm (1967) and amended in 1979 and 2015. As of July 2022, 39 states are party to the convention, and 1000 appellations of origin have been registered.

Geneva Act
In May 2015, the Geneva Act to the Agreement was adopted, formally extending protection to Geographical Indication and changing the name to the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement on Appellations of Origin and Geographical Indications. The act furthermore allows intergovernmental organisations to become parties. On 21 May 2015, the Act was signed by 13 states: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Burkina Faso, Congo, France, Gabon, Hungary, Mali, Nicaragua, Peru, Romania, and Togo. It entered into force in 2020 following ratifications/accessions by 5 parties: Albania, Cambodia, the European Union, North Korea, and Samoa. As of 15 October 2025, the number of Parties is 26 (covering 61 countries). ==Parties==
Parties
The treaty applies mutually between the parties of the 1958 Lisbon Agreement and the 1967 Stockholm Act, but not between a party solely to the 1958 Agreement and another party solely to the 1967 Stockholm Act. The Geneva Act entered into force in 2020 and applies only between the parties to it. If a state is a party to multiple Lisbon instruments, then a registered appellation of origin registered under any of the instruments also applies to the parties to the other instruments to which the state is a party. ==See also==
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