7-8 October 2003, Hanoi: EU-ASEAN Workshop on Geographical Indications: A Way into the Market

EPO's Deputy Director for International Cooperation Johan Amand with participants from Thailand and Laos to the EU-ASEAN Workshop on Geographical Indications: A Way into the Market in Hanoi during a welcome dinner for ASEAN and European participants.

ECAP II Project Director Valentin Mir (centre) conversing during the welcome dinner with Deputy Director-General Suraphol Jaovisidha of DIP Thailand (right). At left is Denis Croze, Head of International Law Development Section, WIPO, one of the European experts speaking at the workshop.

Madam Tran Thi Dung, a key player in the Ministry of Fishery’s effort to establish GI protection for Phu Quoc fish sauce (second left) and her colleagues during a cocktail party with Mr Ambroise Auge, Deputy Director of Legal and International Affairs of Bureau National Interprofessionnel du Cognac, or BNIC.

Mrs Phan Thi Chinh, (second left) Director of Training at the National Office of Intellectual Property of Vietnam with her team from NOIP, lent excellent support to the ECAP event.

Mrs Nguyen Thi Hong Minh,Deputy Minister for Fishery, opened the two-day EU-ASEAN Workshop on Geographical Indications: A Way into the Market,᾿ in Hanoi on October 7, 2003.

Ambassador Markus Cornaro, Head of the EC Delegation in Vietnam, stressed the importance of GIs and IP protection during the opening ceremony for the EU-ASEAN Workshop on Geographical Indications: A Way into the Market.᾿