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@@ -227,9 +227,21 @@ SHOULD warn the user. Compose implementations MAY offer options to ignore unknow
 
 ## Name top-level element
 
-Top-level `name` property is defined by the specification as project name to be used if user don't se one explicitly. 
+Top-level `name` property is defined by the specification as project name to be used if user doesn't set one explicitly. 
 Compose implementations MUST offer a way for user to override this name, and SHOULD define a mechanism to compute a
-default project name, to be used only if the top-level `name` element is not set.
+default project name, to be used if the top-level `name` element is not set.
+
+Whenever project name is defined by top-level `name` or by some custom mechanism, it MUST be exposed for 
+[interpolation](#Interpolation) and environment variable resolution as `COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME`
+
+```yml
+services:
+  foo:
+    image: busybox
+    environment:
+      - COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME
+    command: echo "I'm running ${COMPOSE_PROJECT_NAME}"
+```
 
 ## Services top-level element