3. The State Registration of an Appellation of Origin
and the Granting of Exclusive Right to an Appellation of Origin

Article 1522. The Application for an Appellation of Origin
1. An application for state registration of an appellation of origin and for the granting of an exclusive right to such appellation of origin, and also an application for the granting of an exclusive right to an appellation of origin registered earlier (an application for an appellation of origin) shall be filed with the federal executive governmental body charged with intellectual property matters.

2. An application for an appellation of origin shall cover one appellation of origin.

3. The application for an appellation of origin shall comprise the following:
1) an application for state registration of the appellation of origin and for the granting of an exclusive right to the appellation of origin or only for the granting of an exclusive right to an appellation of origin that has been registered earlier, with an indication of the applicant, his/its place of residence/whereabouts;
2) the designation being declared;
3) an indication of the merchandise for which the state registration of the appellation of origin and the granting of an exclusive right to the appellation of origin is sought or only the grant of an exclusive right to an appellation of origin that has been registered earlier is sought;
4) an indication of the place of origin (production) of the merchandise (the boundary of the geographic object) whose natural conditions and/or human factors exclusively or predominantly define or can define the special properties of the merchandise;
5) a description of the special properties of the merchandise.

4. The application for an appellation of origin shall be signed by the applicant, or if the application is filed through a patent attorney or another representative, by the applicant or his/its representative who files the application.

5. If the geographic object whose name is being declared as an appellation of origin is located on the territory of the Russian Federation the application shall be accompanied by a statement of a body authorized by the Government of the Russian Federation to the effect that within the boundary of the given geographic object the applicant manufactures a merchandise whose special properties are exclusively or predominantly due to the natural conditional and/or human factors characteristic of the given geographic object.
Attached to the application for an exclusive right to an appellation of origin that has been registered earlier as the name of a place located on the territory of the Russian Federation shall be a statement of the competent body designated in the procedure established by the Government of the Russian Federation to the effect that within the boundary of the given geographic object the applicant manufactures a merchandise possessing the special properties specified in the State Register of Appellations of Origin of the Russian Federation (the State Register of Appellations of Origin) (Article 1529).
If the geographic object whose name is being declared as an appellation of origin for merchandise is outside of the Russian Federation the application shall be accompanied by a document confirming the applicant's right in the country of origin of the merchandise to the appellation of origin being declared.
Also attached to the application shall be a document confirming that a duty has been paid for the filing of the application at the established rate.

6. The application for an appellation of origin shall be filed in the Russian language.
The documents attached to the application shall be filed in the Russian or another language. If these documents are filed in another language, Russian translations thereof shall be attached to the application. A Russian translation may be submitted by the applicant within two months after a notice is sent thereto by the federal executive governmental body charged with intellectual property matters on the need for meeting this requirement.

7. The requirements applicable to the documents contained in an application for an appellation of origin or to the documents attached thereto (application documents) shall be established by the federal executive governmental body charged with normative legal regulation in the area of intellectual property.

8. The date of filing of the application for an appellation of origin is the date of receipt of the documents specified in Item 3 of the present article by the federal executive governmental body charged with intellectual property matters, or if these documents were not filed simultaneously, the date of receipt of the last document.