The European Union has approved the new regulation for quality seals that protect European agri-food products. In this way, the Protected Denominations of Origin (PDO), the Protected Geographical Indications (PGI) as well as the Traditional Specialties Guaranteed (TSG) will be protected as intellectual property rights.
The same standard voluntarily values and focuses on its environmental sustainability. Also social and economic. It gives more power to the associations or managers of these quality seals and gives them more legal protection on their internet domains.
These quality seals will protect the production of more than 300 thousand farmers in Spain. Currently, Spain is the third country with these quality seals behind Italy and France. In Spain alone they cover 381 differentiated agri-food products. They mainly represent products such as wines, cheeses, oils, meats, legumes, and distillates with a value of more than 7 billion annually. Furthermore, these quality seals represent a country value that helps to be more demanding and facilitates the letter of presentation in export.
But what are DOP geographical indications, PGI and ETG?
Protected Designation of Origin (DOP) products are those whose quality or characteristics are due to the geographical environment with its natural and human factors. Furthermore, their production, transformation and elaboration always take place in that delimited geographical area from which they take their name.
Products with a Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) possess some certain quality or reputation or other characteristic that can be attributed to a geographical origin. Its production, transformation or elaboration takes place in the delimited geographical area from which it takes its name.
Traditional Specialties Guaranteed (TSG) are products with specific features that differentiate them from other foods in the same category. These are produced from traditional raw materials, or have a traditional composition, method of production or transformation.
