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PDO & PGI

PDO and PGI products represent excellence in European food production. They are the result of a unique combination of
human and environmental factors characteristic of a certain geographical area.

As a result, the European Union mandates precise regulations for their safeguarding, providing for specific quality norms
that protect consumers and provide producers with concrete instruments to better identify and promote products with
specific characteristics and protect them from illegal practices.
Only those products that demonstrate a consolidated and codified production tradition, an inseparable tie with the area
of origin, an appropriate socio-entrepreneurial fabric and which succeed in achieving high qualitative levels, certified by
external bodies of control, may obtain and retain the sought-after European Community designations and inscription of
PDO and PGI products.

Protected Designation of Origin Protected Geographical Indication

The PDO (Protected Designation of Origin) mark identifies The PGI (Protected Geographical Indication) mark
a product originating in a specific place, region or designates a product originating in a specific place,
country. Its quality or characteristics are essentially or region or country. Its given quality, reputation or other
exclusively due to a particular geographical environment characteristic is essentially attributable to its
with its inherent natural factors (raw materials, geographical origin, and at least one of the production
environmental characteristics, location) and human steps, which takes place in the defined geographical
factors (traditional and artisanal production) regarding area.
the production, processing and preparation steps. All of
these take place in the defined geographical area and in
line with the strict production regulations established.