Protected Designations of Origin and Geographical Indications, ordered by type, by Spanish Regions and in alphabetical order of the 350 products.

What is:
The Protected Designation of Origin (D.O.P.) is one of the quality regimes in the European Union. There are other types of appellations of origin (D.O.) regulated both locally and nationally throughout the world, which are types of protection within the scope of industrial property based on the indication of origin, applied to a food product (generally of origin). agricultural). In this type of protection, it is assumed that the quality and characteristics of a product are due, fundamentally and exclusively, to the geographical environment in which it is produced, transformed, processed or packaged. It distinguishes and protects it from identical or similar food products that could be produced in other regions of the world by replacing stages of the original production process through industrialization techniques for mass consumption, or by changing some of the raw materials for another with similar characteristics.