7.1.2015 Official Journal of the European Union L 3/37 COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) 2015/11 of 6 January 2015 entering a name in the register of protected designations of origin and protected geographical indications (Kranjska klobasa (PGI)) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 November 2012 on quality schemes for agricultural products and foodstuffs (!), and in particular Articles 15(2) and 52(3)(b) thereof, Whereas: (1) Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 entered into force on 3 January 2013. It repealed and replaced Council Regulation (EC) No 510/2006 (3. (2)  Pursuant to the first subparagraph of Article 6(2), the Slovenian application to register the name Kranjska klobasa’ was published in the Official Journal of the European Union (). (3)  Germany on 3 July 2012, Croatia on 16 August 2012 and Austria on 17 August 2012, submitted oppositions to the registration under Article 7(1) of Regulation (EC) No 510/2006. (*) The oppositions were deemed admissible. (4) By letters dated 24 October 2012, the Commission invited the interested parties to engage in appropriate consult- ations to seek agreement among themselves within six months in accordance with their internal procedures. (5) Slovenia and Germany on one side, and Slovenia and Austria on the other side, reached an agreement. In contrast no agreement was reached between Slovenia and Croatia. (6)  Given that no agreement was reached between Slovenia and Croatia, the Commission should adopt a decision in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 52(3)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012. (7)  Concerning the alleged failure of compliance with Article 2(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 510/2006, replaced by Article 5(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012, in respect of the delimitation of the geographical area, i.e. that the product does not originate in a specific place, region or country or that the consumer is misled, no obvious error was identified. With regard to the alleged failure concerning use of the name of a country which was allowed in exceptional cases, Kranjska’ is not the name of a country but of a (former) region. Moreover, Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 does not foresee for protected geographical indications the use of the name of a country in exceptional cases only. Concerning the allegation that the geographical area has no natural character- istics distinguishing it from neighbouring areas, there is no need to assess the substance of this allegation as this is not required by Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012. (8) The terms‘Krainer’, ‘Kisekrainer’, ‘Schweinskrainer’, ‘Osterkrainer’ and ‘Bauernkrainer’ on the one hand, and the terms ‘Kranjska’ and ‘Kranjska kobasica’ on the other hand were found to be the names of similar sausages in German and Croatian language respectively and have common historic origins referring to the former Land of ‘Kranjska’ which no longer exists administratively today. As the names have common origins and given the visual similarities between the products, the application of the protection envisaged by Article 13 of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012, and in particular point (b) of paragraph (1) thereof, could have the result that ‘Kranjska klobasa’, if registered, would prevent producers not complying with the product specification of ‘Kranjska klobasa’ from using the terms ‘Krainer’, ‘Kdsekrainer’, ‘Schweinskrainer’, ‘Osterkrainer’, ‘Bauernkrainer’, ‘Kranjska’ and ‘Kranjska kobasica’. () OJL343,14.12.2012,p. 1. (*) Council Regulation (EC) No 510/2006 of 20 March 2006 on the protection of geographical indications and designations of origin for agricultural products and foodstuffs (O] L 93, 31.3.2006, p. 12). () O] C48,18.2.2012, p. 23. (*) Meanwhile replaced by points (a), (c) and (d) of Article 10 of Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012.