ABSTRACT
Senegal is a member state of the African Intellectual Property Organization (OAPI). This organization is responsible for the registration and protection of GIs in its member states. OAPI has national liaison structures in its member states. The national liaison structure representing Senegal is the Senegalese Agency for Intellectual Property and Technology (ASPIT, Agence Sénégalaise de la Propriété Intellectuelle et de la Technologie), and responsibilities for the protection of GIs have recently been assigned to the Ministry of Industry. For Senegal, as for most member states of the OAPI, the legal framework for the protection of geographical indication is laid out in Annex VI of the Bangui Agreement establishing an African Organization of Intellectual Property. Annex VI, which focuses on geographical indications, has not been transposed into national law.
