This article discusses the exhaustive nature of EU protection of geographical indications and designations of origin and the related impact on international registrations of appellations of origin under the Lisbon Agreement. Relevant case law of the Court of Justice is mentioned. The solution to this problem is the accession of the EU to the Geneva Act to the Lisbon Agreement. For this purpose, the EU has adopted Regulation 2019/1753.In the text of this article, this Regulation is analysed in terms of the solution of the protection of appellations of origin already registered under the Lisbon Agreement.