Official, even Campania now has its IGP oil

Also the Campania has his own IGP oil. It was in fact published on the European Official Journal the Implementing Regulation of the European Commission by which the geographical name is registered.
“Today is a great day for olive growing in our region,” he exclaimed Raffaele Amore, national vice president of Italia Olivicola, regional president of CIA and of the brand promoting committee, which will now have to deal with the delegation to the third body for the certification of productions.
“From today we are starting to take the path of valorising over 40% of the extra virgin olive oil of our region - adds Amore - and at the same time we are enabling the olive groves and olive growers to take full advantage of the Community Agricultural Policy which from 2023 the award coupled only to olive groves aimed at quality productions”.
An important result of a process started by the Promoting Committee in 2019, with 240 associates, including olive growers, millers and processors who have seen in the single regional brand a tool that will allow them to compete more effectively on the markets to affirm the value of the extra virgin olive oil produced in Campania.
Campania, which could already count on for extra virgin olive oil five Dop (Cilento, Salerno Hills, Irpinia – Ufita Hills, Sorrento Peninsula and Terre Aurunche) has an solive surface over 72.000 hectares. The most widespread varieties are the Rotondella, the Carpellese, the Nostrale, the Salella, the Biancolilla and the Pisciottana in the province of Salerno which is the province where half of the regional production is recorded, the Ortice, the Ortolana and the Racioppella in province of Benevento which follows albeit at a safe distance and then the Ogliarola, the Marinese and the Ravece in the province of Avellino, the Asprinia, the Tonda, the Caiazzana and the Sessana in the province of Caserta and the oil olive tree (called also Cecinella or Minucciolo) in the Sorrento peninsula.
In the campaign just ended le harvested olives have been just under 70 thousand tons, production in oil it was around 10 thousand tons.