422014 Official Journal of the European Union L 33/1 II (Non-legislative acts) REGULATIONS COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 97/2014 of 3 February 2014 amending Annex III to Regulation (EC) No 110/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the definition, description, presentation, labelling and the protection of geographical indications of spirit drinks THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, (3)  In accordance with Article 17(7) of Regulation (EC) No 110/2008, France and several French producers of rum submitted objections to the registration of Ron de Guatemala’ as a geographical indication on the grounds that the specifications of the product and the definition Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European of rum under Guatemalan law, which the technical file Union, refers to, would not be in line with the definition of rum under category 1 of Annex II to that Regulation and with the other requirements of that Regulation, mainly as regards the prohibition to use flavourings, colorants and sweeteners for the production of rum, the rules on Having regard to Regulation (EC) No 110/2008 of the European the raw materials to be us.ed,. on the quality Of. the Water Parliament and of the Council of 15 January 2008 on the to be. aflded and on -the 1nd1cathn of the ageing in the definition, description, presentation, labelling and the protection description, presentation or labelling of the product. of geographical indications of spirit drinks and repealing Council Regulation (EEC) No 1576/89 ('), and in particular Article 17(8) thereof, (4)  The application for the registration of Ron de Guatemala’ includes a detailed description of the product, which is in line with the definition of rum under category 1 of Whereas: Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 110/2008 and the other requirements of that Regulation. This description shows that the rules concerning production which apply to ‘Ron de Guatemala’ are stricter than those applying to the standard rum produced in that country. (1) The Asociacién Nacional de Fabricantes de Alcoholes y Licores, a Guatemalan body established in accordance with Guatemalan law, applied for the registration of ‘Ron de Guatemala’ as a geographical indication in Annex I1I to Regulation (EC) No 110/2008 in accordance (5)  The application for the registration of ‘Ron de Guatemala’ with the procedure laid down in Article 17(1) of that as a geographical indication satisfies the conditions laid Regulation. Ron de Guatemala’ is rum that is tradi- down in Article 17 of Regulation (EC) No 110/2008. tionally produced in Guatemala. The Commission considers that, according to the specifi- cations of the technical file, the product complies with the relevant requirements of Union law. (2)  Pursuant to Article 17(6) of Regulation (EC) No 110/2008, the main specifications of the technical file for ‘Ron de Guatemala’ were published in the Official (6)  In the light of the above, the Commission has considered () ) 0] 0] Journal of the European Union (%) for the purposes of the objection procedure. L 39, 13.2.2008, p. 16. C 168, 14.6.2012, p. 9. that the grounds provided in the oppositions to the regis- tration of the geographical indication ‘Ron de Guatemala’ in Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 110/2008, concerning the non-fulfilment of the conditions provided in the said Regulation, are not founded.