Press Release: Commission presses Germany to respect protection of ‘Parmigiano Reggiano’

The European Commission has sent a final written warning (reasoned opinion) to the German Government over failure to apply to the name 'Parmigiano Reggiano' the Union's legislation on protected designations of origin (PDO). It calls on Germany to give full protection to this PDO within its territory. Use of the name, registered at Union level since 1996, is by law exclusively reserved to producers within a delimited geographical area in Italy who make the cheese in line with a binding specification.