Under the Law of Georgia "On Appellations of Origin and Geographical Indications of Goods”, the basis for the protection of appellations of origin and geographical indications in Georgia is their registration at Sakpatenti or an interstate

agreement. This law in fact came into effect in 2005, along with this, its application became possible only with respect to wines, spirits and mineral waters, as the subordinate legislation adopted in 2003 by the Ministry of Agriculture and Foodstuffs and being in force by this period provided only for the study and determination of the link of characteristics of wines, wine brandies and mineral waters with the geographical place, specification of the borders of a geographical place, registration of relevant appellations of origin and control of their use.

On December 10, 2007, 11 appellations of origin of Georgian wines were registered in the State Register of Sakpatenti, in particular: "Vazisubani”, Kardenakhi”, "Tibaani”, "Tvishi”, "Qvareli”, "Atenuri (Ateni)”, "Kakheti”, "Sviri”, "Kotekhi”, "Teliani” and "Napareuli”. According to the data of January 1, 2008, 18 appellations of Georgian wines were registered in the State Register.

Under the Lisbon Agreement for the Protection of Appellations of Origin and their International Registration, the following appellations of Georgian wines were submitted for registration to the International Bureau on January 3, 2007, and were recorded in the International Register on January 10: "Vazisubani” (Reg. N 871), "Kardenakhi” (Reg.N 872), "Tibaani” (Reg.N 873), "Manavi” (Reg. N 874), "Tvishi” (Reg.N 875), "Qvareli” (Reg.N 876), "Atenuri” (Reg.N 877), "Sviri” (Reg.N 878), "Kotekhi” (Reg.N 879) and "Kakheti” (Reg.N 880). It should be noted that the abovementioned appellations of origin of Georgian wines were not refused protection in any country party to the Lisbon Agreement, except Bulgaria, the Patent Office of which refused to grant protection to the appellation of origin "Tvishi” with the motive that the trademark of the same name was already registered by the Office. On the basis of the Lisbon Agreement in 2007 protection was granted on the territory of Georgia to 5 appellations of origin, of which 1 appellations is from

Moldova, 1 – from Bulgaria, 1 – from Portugal and 2 – from Korea.