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EU spirit drinks regulation (2008)

Regulation (EC) No 110/2008 of 15 January 2008 defined spirit-drink categories across the EU and listed geographical indications, including genever, Plymouth Gin and Gin de Mahón.

Location: Brussels, Belgium

15 January 2008

Annex III listed the protected juniper-spirit GIs: the genever family, Hasselt, Balegem, Steinhäger, Plymouth Gin, Gin de Mahón, Vilnius gin and others.

Why it mattered

To harmonise spirit definitions and protect geographical names.

Juniper spirits in the 2008 list

As adopted, Annex III of Regulation (EC) No 110/2008 listed under juniper-flavoured spirit drinks: Genièvre/Jenever/Genever, grain genever, jonge and oude jenever, Hasseltse jenever, Balegemse jenever, O' de Flander-Oost-Vlaamse graanjenever, Peket de Wallonie, Genièvre Flandres Artois, Ostfriesischer Korngenever, Steinhäger, Plymouth Gin, Gin de Mahón, Vilniaus džinas and several Slovak borovička names. In 2016 the Commission removed 87 GIs whose technical files had not arrived by 20 February 2015; Plymouth Gin was among the names no longer listed.

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