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

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ4263323 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Lisbon Agreement for the Protection of Appellations of Origin and their International Registration, signed on 31 October 1958, ensures that in member states, appellations of origin receive protection when they are protected in their country of origin. It lays down provisions defining what qualifies as an appellation of origin, sets out protection measures, and establishes an International Register of Appellations of Origin, administered 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 2026, the convention had 44 signatories, covering 73 countries, and 1000 appellations of origin have been registered.

Lisbon Agreement also establishes a Special Union under Article 19 of the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property (1883). Some aspects of the Agreement have been superseded by the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) adopted in 1994.

Geneva Act

In May 2015, the Geneva Act to the Agreement was adopted, formally extending protection to geographical indications and changing the name to the Geneva Act of the Lisbon Agreement on Appellations of Origin and Geographical Indications. The Act also 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 or accessions by five parties: Albania, Cambodia, the European Union, North Korea, and Samoa.

Editorial summary

“Lisbon Agreement for the Protection of Appellations of Origin and their International Registration” enters the record as treaty. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lisbon, Agreement and Protection can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1958, 1966, 1967, 1979—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Lisbon, Agreement and Protection.
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Why this record matters

“Lisbon Agreement for the Protection of Appellations of Origin and their International Registration” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Lisbon, Agreement and Protection provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4263323. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1958, 1966, 1967 and 1979.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lisbon Agreement for the Protection of Appellations of Origin and their International Registration” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.