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This Law establishes legal grounds for regulating, unification, use, registration and protection of geographic indication and re-naming geographic objects and geographic indications that make part of national cultural and historical heritage, except for cases, pertaining to the competence of local self-government. The Act consists of 5 Sections divided into 16 articles: (1) general provisions; (2) competence of state bodies in the sphere of geographic indications; (3) state regulation; (4) liabi