Australian Geographical Indications Directory for Crafts, Industrial Products, and Cultural Works

Australia’s provisional registry of origin-linked goods and practices eligible for Geographical Indication (GI) protection — covering Crafts, Industrial Products, and Cultural Works.

It functions as Australia’s cultural practitioner register under UNESCO ICH Article 2, and as the evidentiary foundation for GI applications as Australia’s domestic framework develops following the Australia-European Union (AU-EU) Free Trade Agreement.

A Craft and Industrial Geographical Indication — referred to internationally as a CIGI — is a legally protected name for a product that has a strong connection to its geographical origin. A quality, reputation, or characteristic linked to a specific place, region, or country, where at least one stage of production occurs in that area.

The European Union extended this protection to craft and industrial products for the first time in December 2025, under EU (European Union) Regulation 2023/2411. Textiles, ceramics, leather, glass, jewellery, woodwork, lace, stone, porcelain, and cultural works — goods made by hand, in a named place, by a skilled person — now carry the same legal standing as the world’s most recognised origin-linked products.

This Directory maps to the EU’s two registration pathways. An individual maker registering their Unique Provenance Identifier (UPI) is the equivalent of a single-producer GI application. A guild or studio registering through the Untitled Works programme is the equivalent of a producers’ group applying for GI protection for a named regional product.

Every registration builds the evidentiary record that a formal GI application will require — named maker, named place, documented practice, verified provenance chain.