Anastasiia Kyrylenko, ESR 10, has won the 2020 AIPPI Essay Prize in the student category. The subject of this year’s competition was COVID-19 and its impact on the world of IP. Anastasiia’s essay, “COVID-19 and Geographical Indications: Is the Promise of ‘Quality’ in ‘Quality Schemes’ Undermined?”, analyses whether lockdown measures and the resulting changes in the methods of PDO/PGI production negatively affected the so-called ‘promise of quality’, as regulated under the EU’s regime for protection of geographical indications.

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