GIview is the search portal for geographical indications protected in the European Union. Responsibility for the underlying registers is split: the European Commission registers geographical indications for agricultural products, wines and spirit drinks, while the EU Intellectual Property Office is responsible for those covering craft and industrial products.
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Not established The overall access position has not been established from an official source. It is recorded as unknown rather than assumed to be open.
Hosting
This registry is a distinct system hosted on the shared tmdn.org platform.
Assessment
Strengths
It brings EU geographical indications into one search rather than requiring a reader to know which authority protects which category.
It is operated within the official EU intellectual property network rather than by a commercial aggregator.
It is scoped to geographical indications, which keeps a distinct right from being folded into trade mark tooling.
Limitations
It is a search portal over registers whose responsibility is split between the Commission and the intellectual property office; it is not itself the constitutive register for either.
The portal is a client-rendered application that could not be exercised, so its search behaviour and coverage were not observed.
A geographical indication is not a trade mark. An entry says nothing about whether any brand using the name is registrable or lawful.
Submission guidance
Records are created through incorporation, registration, filing, or statutory processes.
Submission difficulty
Unknown
Typical listing quality
High
Typical approval time
Unknown
Review process
Unknown
Best for
Checking whether a product name is protected in the EU as a geographical indication or designation of origin.
Finding which EU protection applies to a food, wine, spirit or craft and industrial product name.
Not recommended for
Trade mark searching. A geographical indication protects origin, not a trader’s brand, and the two are separate rights on separate registers.
Assuming one authority is behind everything shown, because responsibility for EU geographical indications is split by product category.
Preparation checklist
No checklist recorded yet.
Common mistakes
No common mistakes recorded yet.
Establishing required submission assets requires submitting a listing and observing the result. That has not been done for any directory in this dataset, so it is not published rather than estimated.
What this directory accepts
Startups
Unknown
SaaS products
Unknown
Enterprises
Yes
Agencies
Unknown
Freelancers
Unknown
Local businesses
Yes
Developer tools
Unknown
Open-source projects
Unknown
Non-profits
Unknown
AI products
Unknown
Mobile apps
Unknown
Ecommerce stores
Unknown
Recommended industries
Producers and users of EU protected geographical indications
How the PetroHrys Score was reached
Editorial trust 15%
9 / 10How far the entries a directory publishes can be relied on as accurate.
Business usefulness 15%
7 / 10How much practical use a listing there is to the business being listed.
Verification quality 12%
8 / 10How thoroughly the directory establishes that an entry is genuine before publishing it.
Platform reputation 10%
9 / 10How the platform is regarded in its field. Deliberately not a popularity, traffic or recognition measure.
Spam resistance 10%
10 / 10How well the directory keeps low-quality and promotional entries out.
Industry importance 10%
7 / 10How central the directory is to its sector, independently of how useful one listing is.
Long-term stability 10%
8 / 10How likely the directory is to still exist, and to still carry the entry, years from now.
Submission quality 8%
5 / 10What the submission process asks for and how workable it is for the business submitting.
Transparency 5%
8 / 10How openly the directory states its rules, costs and criteria.
Moderation quality 5%
8 / 10How the directory maintains entries after publication.
The PetroHrys Score is a first-party editorial assessment, not a third-party
authority metric. It is the weighted sum of the ten factors above, divided by ten, so the number
on this page is reproducible from the values shown. Each factor is scored from 0 to 10 by a human reviewer and weighted as shown. The definitions describe what was weighed, not a rubric: no threshold or formula maps a directory onto a value, and two reviewers could reach different numbers. The score is reproducible from the factors shown on every record, but it is an editorial judgement, not a measurement.