EU and Chile comprehensive and updated protection for wines and spirits’ names

Both EU and Chile have just modernised their agreements on wines and on spirits and aromatized wines, which enhances bilateral trade of these products playing a key role in agricultural trade for both parties that will benefit from reciprocal protection.

The currents agreements now in force, include:

- 1,573 wines and 235 spirit drinks and aromatised wines from the EU;

- 115 wines, and 10 spirit drinks and aromatised wines from Chile

The EU and Chile are among the world’s top-ten wine producers and exporters with France (1^st), Italy (2^nd), Spain (3^rd), Chile (4^th), Germany (8^th) and Portugal (9^th) ranking in the top ten of global wine exporters in terms of value.