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23 October 2026

AREPO General Assembly in Mantua: Adoption of the Mantua Declaration on Geographical Indications and First GI SMART Dissemination Webinar for Regional Actors

AREPO event

29 June 2026

From Recognition to Value: Strengthening GI Producers Groups Across the EU

AREPO event GI-SMART Quality policy

30 April 2026

6th AREPO European Event on Quality and Origin Products: Showcasing the Value of Geographical Indications across Europe

AREPO event GI-SMART

12 February 2026

The Liguria Region joins AREPO

New member

27 October 2025

AREPO calls for a CAP that meets the challenges of European agriculture

AREPO meeting CAP

15 October 2025

Producers’ Vision for the Future of GIs: AREPO, EFOW and oriGIn EU publish their GI conference report

AREPO event GI-SMART

26 June 2025

EU GI stakeholders unite in Brussels to shape the future of Geographical Indications

AREPO event GI-SMART

9 April 2025

Join the GI SMART Community Platform!

GI-SMART HorizonEurope

25 February 2025

International Conference on Geographical Indications 2025: Innovations and Traditions for Sustainability

GI-SMART Research and Innovation Sustainability

11 February 2025

AREPO welcomes ECOVALIA as an associate member!

Partnership Quality schemes Sustainability

6 February 2025

The Sardegna Region joins AREPO

New member

27 November 2024

A GI SMART perspective for “The Role of Origin in the Sustainability of Localised Food Systems”

AREPO participation GI-SMART Sustainability

13 November 2024

GI SMART Kick-Off Meeting held in Paris

GI-SMART HorizonEurope

5 November 2024

AREPO General Assembly in Thessaly: Election of the new Executive Board and Spotlight on Horizon Europe project “GI SMART”

AREPO meeting GI-SMART

20 June 2024

MOVING Final Conference charts future for mountain areas in post-2027 EU priorities

Mountain policy MOVING Sustainability

3 June 2024

Geographical Indications’ contribution to smart territorial development and sustainability: GI-SMART kicks off!

GI-SMART HorizonEurope

24 April 2024

Analysis of the implementation of the EU Optional Quality Term “mountain product”| MOVING

MOVING Quality schemes

11 April 2024

Signing of the new GI Regulation: GIs and Mountain products take center stage in Brussels

AREPO event MOVING Quality schemes

25 March 2024

Mountains of opportunity: MOVING Scientific Conference

Mountain policy MOVING Quality schemes

29 February 2024

The European Parliament approves the new GI and quality terms regulation

Quality policy Quality schemes

Events

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14.10.26
16.10.26

2nd AREPO General Assembly of 2026

09.00 am
Palazzo Ducale, Mantova, ITALY

03.10.26
04.10.26

13th Festival delle DOP Venete

10.30 am
Villa Contarini, Piazzola sul Brenta, ITALY

02.10.26

International Congress on the CAP post-2028

11.30 am
Porsche-Arena, Stuttgart, GERMANY

24.09.26
25.09.26

EU AgRI 2040 Conference

08.30 am
Charlemagne building, Brussels, BELGIUM

25.06.26

From Recognition to Value: Strengthening GI Producers Groups Across the EU

09.00 am
European Committee of the Regions, Brussels

11.05.26
14.05.26

Tuttofood Milano 2026

10.00 am
Fiera Milano, Rho, ITALY

23.04.26

6th AREPO European event on Quality and Origin products

02.00 pm
Common House of Emilia-Romagna, Hessen, Nouvelle-Aquitaine and Wielkopolska, Brussels

22.01.26
23.01.26

Horizon Europe info days | Cluster 6: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment

09.00 am
EC Charlemagne building, Brussels

20.11.25

SAFE annual conference 2025

09.00 am
Martin's Brussels EU, BELGIUM

03.11.25
05.11.25

Gastronomic Forum Barcelona 2025

10.00 am
Montjuïc Venue of Fira de Barcelona, SPAIN

It sets out a vision for Europe’s agri-food system for 2040 and beyond to secure its long-term competitiveness, attractiveness and sustainability. It also emphasizes a new way of working based on trust and dialogue across the agri-food system, both in the EU and globally, deepening engagement with farmers, food chain operators, and civil society at […]

EU Quality Policy

EU Quality Policy aims to protect the names and characteristics of European agricultural products specific to a territory in order to promote their unique characteristics resulting from natural factors and traditional know-how linked to their geographical origin. This policy is the core of AREPO’s activity and its defence is our main mission.

Common Agricultural Policy

After a long negotiation process started in 2018, the last reform of the Common Agricultural Policy entered into force in January 2023, following a two-year transition period. Discover AREPO actions to achieve a right recognition of quality and origin products in the new CAP.

EU Promotion Policy

EU Promotion Policy helps EU agri-food sector professionals to finance information and promotion campaigns for breaking into international markets and making consumers more aware of the efforts made by European farmers to provide quality products. This policy is fundamental for the promotion of EU quality schemes in the internal market and in third countries and AREPO is currently contributing to its review.

Food Labelling

In the framework of the Farm to Fork strategy, the European Commission is considering options for several new food labelling initiatives to empower consumers to make healthy and sustainable food choices.

Organic Agriculture

Organic farming is a well-known and EU regulated food production system that contributes to deliver the ecosystem services needed for reaching EU Farm to Fork and Biodiversity targets. As such, it is considered a major pillar of the F2F strategy for a transition towards a European sustainable food system.

EU Trade Policy

The benefits of Geographical Indications (GIs) are particularly important from an international trade perspective as they can provide an export promotion mechanism through which the EU can compete on quality rather than price, due to their specificities attributable, at least in part, to their territories of origin and their inherent natural and human factors.

Research and Innovation

Adding value to products of origin through the development of sustainable GIs requires multi-disciplinary research, innovation and education in order to exploit their potential and respond rapidly to current challenges. Research and innovation should support the improvement of those products and use them as case study to extend good practices to other sectors.

Geographical indications for craft and industrial products

The first EU regulation on the protection of geographical indications for craft and industrial products has officially entered into force on 16 November 2023. Driven by a vision of GIs as tools for rural development and territorial planning, AREPO supported the creation of an EU-wide protection scheme for craft and industrial GIs.

Farm to Fork Strategy

The Farm to Fork strategy is the European roadmap to address the challenge of designing a fair, healthy and environmentally-friendly food system. Since it should set out the regulatory and non-regulatory measures needed to achieve this goal, several actions proposed by the Commission under this framework directly interest the EU quality schemes.

EU projects

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GI SMART

Selected under the call “HORIZON-CL6-2023-COMMUNITIES: Investigating the contribution of geographical indications (GIs) to sustainable development and optimizing support for newly established schemes”, the project officially began on June 1st, 2024. With a total budget of € 2,554,531.67, GI SMART aims at investigating the state of the art of research on the impacts of Geographical Indications […]

MOVING

MOVING (MOuntain Valorization through INterconnectedness and Green growth) is a Horizon 2020 project (2020-2024) coordinated by the University of Córdoba, gathering 23 partner organisations. The project will build capacities and co-develop policy frameworks across Europe. It will establish new or upscaled value chains to contribute to the resilience and sustainability of mountain areas to climate change.

AGROSMARTglobal

AGROSMARTglobal is a 3.5 year EU co-funded project that started in October 2019 and ended in March 2023. It aimed to support the digital internationalisation of agri-food cooperatives in the Sudoe and to promote and protect quality and origin products on the international digital market. AREPO was involved in this project as an internal partner with a key role in the activities of GI protection on the Internet.

Strength2food

Strength2Food is a 5-year EU-funded project that started in March 2016. It aims to provide the EU and its Member States with evidence-based recommendations on the implementation of quality policy. AREPO has been invited to participate in the project as an expert member of the Stakeholder Advisory Board (SAB).

AGROSMARTcoop

AGROSMARTcoop was a 2.5 year EU co-funded project that ended in December 2018. It aimed to strengthen the economic development of rural areas belonging to the Sudoe through the research of efficient transnational solutions to support the competitiveness of agri-food cooperatives. AREPO was involved in this project as an internal partner with a key role in the results dissemination.

Association of European Regions

for Products of Origin

News

AREPO General Assembly in Mantua: Adoption of the Mantua Declaration on Geographical Indications and First GI SMART Dissemination Webinar for Regional Actors

From Recognition to Value: Strengthening GI Producers Groups Across the EU

6th AREPO European Event on Quality and Origin Products: Showcasing the Value of Geographical Indications across Europe

The Liguria Region joins AREPO

AREPO calls for a CAP that meets the challenges of European agriculture

Producers’ Vision for the Future of GIs: AREPO, EFOW and oriGIn EU publish their GI conference report

EU GI stakeholders unite in Brussels to shape the future of Geographical Indications

Join the GI SMART Community Platform!

International Conference on Geographical Indications 2025: Innovations and Traditions for Sustainability

AREPO welcomes ECOVALIA as an associate member!

The Sardegna Region joins AREPO

A GI SMART perspective for “The Role of Origin in the Sustainability of Localised Food Systems”

GI SMART Kick-Off Meeting held in Paris

AREPO General Assembly in Thessaly: Election of the new Executive Board and Spotlight on Horizon Europe project “GI SMART”

MOVING Final Conference charts future for mountain areas in post-2027 EU priorities

Geographical Indications’ contribution to smart territorial development and sustainability: GI-SMART kicks off!

Analysis of the implementation of the EU Optional Quality Term “mountain product”| MOVING

Signing of the new GI Regulation: GIs and Mountain products take center stage in Brussels

Mountains of opportunity: MOVING Scientific Conference

The European Parliament approves the new GI and quality terms regulation

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Food Labelling

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Geographical indications for craft and industrial products

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MOVING

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Strength2food

AGROSMARTcoop

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