Darjeeling tea expects EU protection nod
India is likely to gain the coveted EU regional food certification for one of its key exports - tea from the famous Darjeeling region in West Bengal. The European Union's protected designation of origin status encompasses more than 800 regional foods and only allows products produced in the relevant regions according to traditional methods to carry respective local names. India will be only the second non-EU country to posses such protection after in was granted to Colombian coffee in 2007.