Articles by Melina A Campos

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About Melina A Campos

Melina A. Campos is an independent consultant and researcher active in Central America. Her specialization in Sustainable International Agriculture with a focus on Agribusiness and Rural Development is coupled with over 15 years of work experience in trade relations between the European Union and Central America in the fields of agribusiness, energy topics, and sustainable mobility.

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CAP and E-Commerce: Are Quality Schemes Protected?

October 18, 2022 Melina A Campos

EU agri-food products protected by quality schemes can face counterfeiting and usurpations in third countries, resulting in significant economic losses for EU producers. The same can happen in the other direction, and with the expansion of e-commerce platforms, these market dynamics have found new avenues to occur. The reform post-2022 of the CAP’s Common Market Organisation has extended the protection of quality schemes’ intellectual property (IP) rights to e-commerce platforms. […]

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Webinar: La Política Agrícola Común más allá de la Unión Europea: Consideraciones para Centroamérica

November 18, 2021 Melina A Campos

Este webinar tiene como objetivo presentar cómo las políticas, legislaciones y sistemas de ejecución europeos desempeñan un papel en obstaculizar o promover la sostenibilidad de los productos agrícolas y alimenticios de Centroamérica (CA), y de terceros países comercializados dentro del mercado de la Unión Europea (UE), especialmente tomando en cuenta las disposiciones legales de la regulación del Organización Común de los Mercados (OCM) y su interrelación con los Acuerdos de Asociación. […]