Pecorino Sardo PDO/DOP
Mozzarella 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

This list is complete and up to date as of October 2011.

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

List of DOP/PDO Italian cheeses
Name and styles DO DOP/PDO Milk Production zone
Provinces
Asiago
 Asiago d'allevo "mezzano"
 Asiago d'allevo "vecchio"
 Asiago pressato 		1978 1996 Cow Veneto Padua (part), Treviso (part), Vicenza
Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol Trentino
Bitto 1995 1996 Cow (80%)
Goat (20%) 		Lombardy Bergamo, Sondrio
Bra
 dura
 tenera
 di Alpeggio 		1982 1996 Cow Piedmont Cuneo, Turin
Caciocavallo Silano 1993 1996 Cow Apulia Bari, Taranto, Brindisi
Calabria Crotone, Catanzaro, Cosenza
Campania Avellino, Benevento, Caserta, Naples
Molise (Entire territory)
Basilicata Matera, Potenza
Canestrato Pugliese 1985 1996 Sheep Apulia (Entire territory)
Casatella Trevigiana 2008 Cow Veneto Treviso
Casciotta d'Urbino[1] 1982 1996 Sheep (70%–80%)
Cow (20%–30%) 		Marche Province of Pesaro and Urbino
Castelmagno 1982 1996 Cow
Sheep and/or Goat (optionally a little) 		Piedmont Cuneo
Fiore Sardo[2] 1955 1996 Sheep Sardinia Cagliari, Nuoro, Oristano, Sassari
Fontina 1955 1996 Cow Aosta Valley (Entire territory)
Formaggella del Luinese 2011 Goat Lombardy Varese (Alpine foothills in the north of the province)[3]
Formaggio di Fossa di Sogliano[4] 2009 Sheep and/or Cow Emilia-Romagna Bologna (part), Forlì-Cesena, Ravenna, Rimini
Marche Ancona, Ascoli Piceno, Macerata, Pesaro-Urbino
Formai de Mut from Alta Valle Brembana 1985 1996 Cow Lombardy Bergamo
Gorgonzola 1955 1996 Cow Piedmont Novara, Vercelli,
Lombardy Bergamo, Brescia, Como, Cremona, Lodi, Milan, Pavia
Grana Padano 1955 1996 Cow Lombardy Lodi, Bergamo, Brescia, Como, Cremona, Mantova (to the north of the Po), Milan, Pavia, Sondrio, Lecco, Varese
Piedmont Alessandria, Asti, Cuneo, Novara, Turin, Vercelli
Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol Trento
Veneto Padua, Rovigo, Treviso, Venice, Verona, Vicenza
Emilia-Romagna Bologna (east of the Reno), Ferrara, Forlì-Cesena,

Piacenza, Ravenna, Rimini

Montasio[5] 1986 1996 Cow Friuli-Venezia Giulia Udine, Pordenone, Gorizia, Trieste
Veneto Belluno, Treviso, Padua, Venice
Monte Veronese 1993 1996 Cow Veneto Verona
Mozzarella di Bufala Campana 1993 1996 Italian buffalo Apulia Province of Foggia
Campania Province of Caserta, Province of Salerno, Province of Naples, Province of Benevento
Lazio Province of Frosinone, Province of Latina, province of Rome
Molise Venafro
Mozzarella di Gioia del Colle 1950 2020 Cow Apulia

Basilicata

Province of Bari

Province of Taranto

Province of Matera

Murazzano 1982 1986 Sheep (60%–100%)
Cow (0%–40%) 		Piedmont Province of Cuneo
Parmigiano-Reggiano 1955 1996 Cow Emilia‑Romagna Modena, Parma, Reggio Emilia, Bologna (west of the Reno)
Lombardy Mantova (south of the Po)
Pecorino di Filiano 2007 Sheep Basilicata Potenza
Pecorino Romano 1955 1996 Sheep Lazio Rome
Tuscany Grosseto
Sardinia (Entire Region)
Pecorino Sardo 1991 1996 Sheep Sardinia Cagliari, Nuoro, Oristano, Sassari
Pecorino Siciliano 1955 1996 Sheep Sicily (Entire territory)
Pecorino Toscano[6] 1986 1996 Sheep Tuscany Arezzo, Pisa, Massa Carrara, Livorno, Grosseto, Firenze, Prato, Lucca, Pistoia, Siena
Pecorino di Crotone 2014 Sheep Calabria Province of Crotone
Piacentinu Ennese[7] 2011 Sheep Sicily Enna (only within the commune of Enna)
Piave[8][9] 2010 Cow Veneto Province of Belluno
Provolone del Monaco[10] 2010 Cow Campania Naples
Provolone Valpadana 1993 1996 Cow Lombardy Bergamo, Brescia, Cremona, Mantova, Milan
Veneto Padua, Rovigo, Verona, Vicenza
Emilia‑Romagna Piacenza
Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol Trento
Puzzone di Moena 2014 Cow Trentino-Alto

Adige/Südtirol

Val di Fassa

Moena

Val di Fiemme (district)

Valle di Primiero

Quartirolo Lombardo 1993 1996 Cow Lombardy Bergamo, Brescia, Como, Cremona, Lodi, Milan, Pavia, Varese
Ragusano 1995 1996 Cow Sicily Ragusa, Syracuse
Raschera 1982 1996 Cow
Sheep and/or Goat (optionally a little) 		Piedmont Cuneo
Ricotta Romana[11] 2005 Lazio (Entire territory)
Robiola di Roccaverano 1979 1996 Cow (max 85%)
Sheep and/or Goat (min 15%) 		Piedmont Provinces of Alessandria, Asti
Salva Cremasco[12] 2011 Cow Lombardy Lowlands of Cremasco, Bergamo and Brescia
Spressa delle Giudicarie[13] 2003 Cow Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol Western Trentino
Stelvio or Stilfser 2007 Cow Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol South Tyrol
Taleggio[14] 1988 1996 Cow Lombardy Bergamo, Brescia, Como, Cremona, Lodi, Milan, Pavia
Veneto Treviso
Piedmont Novara
Toma Piemontese[15] 1993 1996 Cow Piedmont Alessandria, Asti, Biella, Cuneo, Novara, Turin, Vercelli
Valle d'Aosta Fromadzo
(or Vallée d'Aoste Fromadzo)[16] 		1995 1996 Cow Aosta Valley (Entire territory)
Valtellina Casera 1995 1996 Cow Lombardy Province of Sondrio
Vastedda della valle del Belìce[17] 2010 Sheep Sicily Agrigento (part), Trapani (part), Palermo (part)

Applications under consideration

Applications have been made for DOP status in the case of the following cheeses:

See also

Notes

  1. ^ www.formaggio.it, Casciotta d'Urbino
  2. ^ www.formaggio.it, Fiore Sardo
  3. ^ Official Journal of the European Union, C 220/18, 14 August 2010.
  4. ^ Official Journal of the European Union, C 108/15, 12 May 2009
  5. ^ For DO date see DPR 10.3.86, quoted in www.formaggio.it, Montasio
  6. ^ www.formaggio.it, Pecorino Toscano
  7. ^ 'Piacentinu di Enna Piacentinu Ennese Dop', Atlante dei prodotti tipici, Formaggi tipici italiani
  8. ^ Official Journal of the European Union, C 234/20, 29 September, 2009 2010.
  9. ^ 'Piave DOP', Atlante dei prodotti tipici: Formaggi tipici italiani, Agraria.it
  10. ^ 'Provolone del Monaco DOP', Atlante dei prodotti tipici: Formaggi tipici italiani, Agraria.it
  11. ^ www.agraria.org, Ricotta Romana
  12. ^ 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)]
  13. ^ http://www.agraria.org, Spressa delle Giudicarie
  14. ^ For DO date see www.formaggio.it, Taleggio which quotes from DPR 15.9.88
  15. ^ DPCM 10.5.93, quoted in www.formaggio.it, Toma Piemontese
  16. ^ 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
  17. ^ Vastedda della Valle del Belice DOP', Atlante dei prodotti tipici: Formaggi tipici italiani, Agraria.it
  18. ^ 'Disciplinare di Produzione della Denominazione di Origine Protetta «Nostrano di Valle Trompia»', Ministero delle politiche agricole alimentari e forestali.
  19. ^ DOOR database entry
  20. ^ 'Disciplinare di Produzione della Denominazione di Origine Protetta "Pecorino di Picinisco D.O.P.', Ministero delle politiche agricole alimentari e forestali.
  21. ^ DOOR database entry.
  22. ^ Disciplinare di produzione Squacquerone di Romagna DOP, Ministero delle politiche agricole alimentari e forestali.
  23. ^ DOOR database entry.

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