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A blue and yellow ring for place-linked food.
Also known as: IGP mark, Geographical indication symbol
The European Union mark identifying a food whose reputation is tied to a named place, where one production stage occurs there.
Identifies a food registered as having a reputation or quality attributable to a named geographical origin.
Contexts: Packaging, Public information
Requires only that one stage of production happens in the named place, where the stricter designation-of-origin scheme requires all of them — which is why two similar-looking rings on a shelf mean materially different things.
Contexts: Packaging, Public information
The scheme protects the name rather than the recipe: anyone may make the product, but only a producer in the region may call it by the registered name.
Contexts: Packaging, Public information
A circular emblem of interlocking blue and yellow segments forming a ring, with the scheme name around it.
The geographical-indication ring requires one production stage in the region; the designation-of-origin ring requires all of them.