{"id":468149,"date":"2026-10-15T17:10:41","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T15:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/10\/15\/il-capocollo-di-martina-franca-ottiene-la-certificazione-indicazione-geografica-protetta-igp-dellue\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T17:21:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T15:21:56","slug":"capocollo-di-martina-franca-has-been-awarded-the-eu-protected-geographical-indication-pgi-certification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/10\/15\/capocollo-di-martina-franca-has-been-awarded-the-eu-protected-geographical-indication-pgi-certification\/","title":{"rendered":"Capocollo di Martina Franca has been awarded the EU Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) certification"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 Italian culinary traditions and food specialities have once again come to the fore: today (15 October), the European Commission has approved<\/a> the registration of the Protected Geographical Indication (PGI)<\/a> for the Capocollo di Martina Franca (Puglia). This is a meat product made from the upper part of the pig\u2019s neck, linked to the traditional pork-curing practices of the Itria Valley. <\/p>\n

This cured meat is renowned for the use of cooked wine \u2013 made from Verdeca and Bianco d\u2019Alessano grapes \u2013 for being smoked using wood and dried fragno leaves, and for the use of natural pig casings in its preparation. The Berlaymont Building states in its press release that the product has also been registered because \u201cits distinctive qualities are linked to a long-established artisanal production method, in which all stages are carried out by hand.\u201d <\/p>\n

In addition to the capocollo di Martina Franca, the following have also been registered today as PGI products: \u010depinski kupus<\/strong>, a vegetable product originating from the Osijek-Baranja County in Croatia, French \u201cdes Landes\u201d honey<\/strong>, and a type of Guatemalan coffee, \u201ccaf\u00e9 Antigua<\/strong>\u201d. A press release from the Italian government states that \u201cwith this new designation, the number of PDO \u2013 Protected Designation of Origin – and PGI Italian agri-food products registered at the European level rises to 332.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 Italian culinary traditions and food specialities have once again come to the fore: today (15 October), the European Commission has approved the registration of the Protected Geographical Indication (PGI) for the Capocollo di Martina Franca (Puglia). This is a meat product made from the upper part of the pig\u2019s neck, linked to the traditional […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7908,"featured_media":468104,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25709,25774],"tags":[25871,35217,36229],"class_list":["post-468149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agrifood-en","category-in-brief","tag-palazzo-berlaymont","tag-regione-puglia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7908"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=468149"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468150,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468149\/revisions\/468150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}