Four New Products Added to Hungaricum List

Tuesday’s meeting of the Hungaricum Committee in Székesfehérvár saw the addition of four new products to the list of Hungaricums: the Csaba sausage, goose liver products, Tokaji Aszú wine and Béres Drops dietary supplement preparation. The Committee also came to a decision on the winning design for the Hungaricum trademark.

In addition to the Hungaricum Collection, which includes the most outstanding Hungarian products, new additions have also been made to the Hungarian Value Repository, a registry for national values. The life’s work of footballer Ferenc Puskás, soda-water, KÜRT data recovery, the Hungarian operetta and the spritzer have been included in the Repository, announced Minister for Rural Development Sándor Fazekas, Chairman of the Hungaricum Committee.

The Committee also chose the winner of the competition to find a design for the Hungaricum trademark.. The trademark represents the highest level of achievement of the Hungarian peoples, the 1100 years spent in the Carpathian Basin and Hungarian creations. It will also help to label and increase public awareness of Hungaricums, the Minister said. Sándor Fazekas informed the press that prior to the decision on the new Hungaricums, the submitted entries and suggestions were examined and those found potentially suitable were presented to the Committee with comments and recommendations. Together with its four new additions, the Collection now has twenty members. Commissioner for Repository Coordination Zsolt Horváth indicated that county repositories have been established in every county over the past year and value committees are also at work. The Hungaricum Club movement, in which private individuals, groups of friends and non-governmental organisations search for values, is also helping the discovery and designation of possible additions, delegating them to local and county value repositories or the Hungaricum Collection, he added.