Pecorino Sardo PDO/DOPMozzarella di Bufala Campana ("Campana buffalo mozzarella") PDO/DOP)
This List of Italian PDO/DOP cheeses includes all the Italian cheeses which have protected designation of origin (denominazione di origine protetta, or DOP/PDO), status under European Union regulations. All of the formerly existing "DO" cheeses (protected under Italian law) were registered in the EU as "PDO/DOP" cheeses during the course of 1996. They have the Italian abbreviation for PDO (DOP) written on the cheese.
Prior to 1996 when the PDO system came into operation, many Italian cheeses were regulated under a denominazione di origine (DO) system, which arose out of the 1951 Stresa Conference and was established under the Italian law 125/54. These appellations of origin were recognized in a number of European countries with which Italy had bilateral agreements. The international framework of recognition was further developed, and extended from cheese to include other agricultural products, by the Lisbon Agreement for the Protection of Appellations of Origin and their International Registration, and the modifications made to it at Stockholm in 1967. Italian cheeses protected under this agreement remain protected. Geographical indications are also protected through the TRIPS Agreement of 1994.
Italian PDO/DOP cheeses
The following table indicates for each cheese the year in which it acquired DO status (where applicable), the year of PDO/DOP registration and the approximate area within which the regulations permit it to be produced.
Key to acronyms
DO: Denominazione di Origine (Appellation of Origin)
DOP: Denominazione di Origine Protetta (PDO, or Protected Designation of Origin)
DPR: Decreto del Presidente della Repubblica (Presidential Decree)
DPCM: Decreto del Presidente del Consiglio (Prime-ministerial Decree)
PDO: Protected Designation of Origin
Applications under consideration
Applications have been made for DOP status in the case of the following cheeses:
Nostrano di Valle Trompia, a cows' milk cheese, coloured with saffron, produced in the Valle Trompia region of the province of Brescia (Lombardy).[18] The application was submitted on 22 September 2010.[19]
Pecorino di Picinisco, a sheep's milk cheese (with the optional inclusion of up to 25% goats' milk), produced in the Valle di Comino region of the province of Frosinone (Lazio).[20] The application was submitted on 28 February 2011.[21]
^Official Journal of the European Union, C 220/18, 14 August 2010.
^Official Journal of the European Union, C 108/15, 12 May 2009
^For DO date see DPR 10.3.86, quoted in www.formaggio.it, Montasio
^www.formaggio.it, Pecorino Toscano
^'Piacentinu di Enna Piacentinu Ennese Dop', Atlante dei prodotti tipici, Formaggi tipici italiani
^Official Journal of the European Union, C 234/20, 29 September, 2009 2010.
^'Piave DOP', Atlante dei prodotti tipici: Formaggi tipici italiani, Agraria.it
^'Provolone del Monaco DOP', Atlante dei prodotti tipici: Formaggi tipici italiani, Agraria.it
^www.agraria.org, Ricotta Romana
^Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1377/2011 of 20 December 2011 entering a name in the register of protected designations of origin and protected geographical indications [Salva Cremasco (PDO)]
^http://www.agraria.org, Spressa delle Giudicarie
^For DO date see www.formaggio.it, Taleggio which quotes from DPR 15.9.88
^DPCM 10.5.93, quoted in www.formaggio.it, Toma Piemontese
^www.formaggio.it, Valle d'Aosta Fromadzo, www.milkonline.com, Disciplinari Archived 17 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine and www.inalto.org, Vallée d'Aoste Fromadzo DOP Archived 8 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine seem to be correct in dating the DO to 1995. www.formaggio.it, Formaggi Italiani DOP e STG, however, has 1955
^Vastedda della Valle del Belice DOP', Atlante dei prodotti tipici: Formaggi tipici italiani, Agraria.it
^'Disciplinare di Produzione della Denominazione di Origine Protetta «Nostrano di Valle Trompia»', Ministero delle politiche agricole alimentari e forestali.
^DOOR database entry
^'Disciplinare di Produzione della Denominazione di Origine Protetta "Pecorino di Picinisco D.O.P.', Ministero delle politiche agricole alimentari e forestali.
^DOOR database entry.
^Disciplinare di produzione Squacquerone di Romagna DOP, Ministero delle politiche agricole alimentari e forestali.
^DOOR database entry.
References
Useful sources for the dates of recognition and copies of the production regulations for many of these cheeses include:
