List of Italian DOP cheeses

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This List of DOP Italian cheeses includes all the Italian cheeses which have Denominazione di Origine Protetta ("Protected Designation of Origin"), or DOP, status under European Union regulations. All of the existing "DO" cheeses were registered by the EU as "DOP" cheeses during the course of 1996.

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 Convention of 1958, and the modifications made to it at Stockholm in 1967, and by the TRIPS accord of 1994.

List

The following table indicates for each cheese the year in which it acquired DO status (where applicable), the year of DOP registration and the approximate area within which the regulations permit it to be produced.

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]
• Squacquerone di Romagna, a cows’ milk cheese from the region of Emilia-Romagna in the provinces of Ravenna, Forli-Cesena, Rimini and Bologna, and in part of the Province of Ferrara.^[22] The application was submitted on 4 December 2009.^[23]

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

See also

• List of Italian cheeses

Notes

References

• Useful sources for the dates of recognition and copies of the production regulations for many of these cheeses include:
  • www.formaggio.it, Formaggi Italiani DOP e STG
  • European Commission DOOR database

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