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4. With respect to the cancellation procedure referred to in
paragraph 2 of Article 11.30 (Domestic Administrative Procedures
for the Protection of Geographical Indications), no Party shall
preclude the possibility that the protection of a geographical
indication may be cancelled, or otherwise cease, on the basis that
the protected term has ceased meeting the conditions upon which
the protection was originally granted in that Party.

Article 11.32: Multi-Component Terms

With respect to the procedures referred to in Article 11.30 (Domestic
Administrative Procedures for the Protection of Geographical
Indications) and Article 11.31 (Grounds for Opposition and
Cancellation), an individual component of a multi-component term that
is protected as a geographical indication shall not be protected in a Party
if that individual component is a term customary in the common language
as the common name for the associated good in the territory of that
Party.

Article 11.33: Date of Protection of a Geographical Indication

The protection of a geographical indication through a Party’s domestic
administrative procedures referred to in Article 11.30 (Domestic
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Administrative Procedures for the Protection of Geographical
Indications) shall commence no earlier than the filing date of the
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application for the protection in that Party or the registration date in that
Party, as applicable.

Article 11.34: Protection or Recognition of Geographical
Indications Pursuant to International Agreements

If a Party protects or recognises a geographical indication pursuant to
an international agreement involving a Party or a non-Party, and that
agreement is concluded after the date of entry into force of this
Agreement for that Party, and that geographical indication is not

29 For the purposes of this Article, “administrative procedures” include quasi-judicial
procedures.

30 For greater certainty, where a Party protects a geographical indication through its
trademark system, the filing date referred to in this Article includes, as applicable, the
priority filing date under the Paris Convention.

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