As of 1 December 2025, the new European recognition scheme for geographical indications of origin for craft and industrial (non-agricultural) products will be operational. The Ministry of Business and Made in Italy is working to ensure that the system is fully operational by adopting the transposition rules necessary to integrate the discipline into the Italian legal system, starting with the provisions contained in the Framework Law for Made in Italy, approved in December 2023.
In Rome, representatives of Confartigianato, CNA and Casartigiani met with Minister Adolfo Urso at the Ministry headquarters.
In fact, the Ministry of Business and Made in Italy is working with regions, municipalities, and trade associations on the preparatory activities for the implementation of the EU regulation. In this phase, it is necessary to stimulate the associationism between companies operating on the same product, to start a reconnaissance activity of the typical industrial and artisan products that can be elected as PGIs, but also to draw up the respective specifications, in addition to the possibility of offering non-repayable contributions for the preparation of the specifications themselves.
An innovation, this one of the geographical indications of origin, which may also attract more young people. Thus, it will be possible to register the geographical indications of artisan and industrial products, like those of food, adding them to a path of contrasting Italian sounding and its protection. The Ministry's Market and Protection Department has already mapped more than 200 products that could potentially be registered: from textiles to clothing, from footwear to ceramics, as well as glass, jewellery, and wood.