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Definitions For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions apply:

(1) ‘craft and industrial products’ means products:

(a) produced either entirely by hand or with the aid of manual or digital tools, or by mechanical means, whenever the manual contribution is an important component of the finished product; or (b) produced in a standardised way, including serial production and by using machines;

(2) ‘producer’ means an operator engaged in one or more production steps for craft and industrial products;

(3) ‘producer group’ means any association, irrespective of its legal form, mainly composed of producers working with the same product;

(4) ‘production step’ means any stage of production, including manufacturing, processing, obtaining, extracting, cutting or preparation, up to the point where the product is in a form such that it can be placed on the market;

(5) ‘traditional’, in relation to a product originating in a geographical area, means there is proven historical usage by producers in a community for a period that allows transmission between generations;

(6) ‘generic term’ means:

(a) a name of a product which, although relating to the place, region or country where the product was originally produced or marketed, has become the common name of the product in the Union;

(b) a common term in the Union which is descriptive of the type of product or of the product attributes; or (c) a term that does not refer to a specific product;

(7) ‘product certification body’ means a body, irrespective of its legal form, which is entrusted with the task of certifying that products designated by a geographical indication comply with the product specification;

(8) ‘self-declaration’ means a document in a harmonised form, as set out in Annex I, in which producers, which can be represented by an authorised representative, indicate on their sole responsibility that the product is compliant with the corresponding product specification and that all necessary controls and checks for the proper determination of conformity have been carried out in order to demonstrate the lawful use of the geographical indication to the competent authorities of Member States;

(9) ‘the Office’ means the European Union Intellectual Property Office established by Regulation (EU) 2017/1001;

(10) ‘notice of comments’ means a written observation lodged with the Office indicating inaccuracies in the application without triggering an opposition procedure;

(11) ‘national specific protection for geographical indications for craft and industrial products’ means an intellectual property title under national, regional or local law specifically protecting names that identify craft and industrial products with a given quality, reputation or other characteristic linked to their geographical origin, with the exception of trade marks.