This agreement puts an end to a dispute that has been pending before the Paris Court of Justice for several years, concerning the use by Rhonéa companies, a major Rhône Valley wine group, of verbal elements (notably the term "Pope" and other references to the Papacy) and figurative elements (the papal headdress and intertwined keys), which, according to the ODG, the Syndicat and the INAO, were likely to evoke the Châteauneuf-du-Pape PDO to designate wines not benefiting from this appellation.

As part of its mission to defend quality and origin identification signs, the INAO intervened in the proceedings to support the claims of the ODG and Syndicat, which were contested by the Rhonéa companies.

The agreement reached provides for reciprocal concessions between the parties, in particular an undertaking by the Rhonéa companies to cease all evocation of the Châteauneuf-du-Pape PDO and the withdrawal of the INAO, Syndicat and ODG from their action.