Ferri (PPE-DE), in writing. – (IT) I would like to draw attention to the need for the Community legislation on PDO and PGI products to be revised.

Although good, the Fruteau report, on which we are about to vote and which we will support, does not contain major amendments proposed and justified by a number of Italian Members in the Parliamentary Committee on Legal Affairs and the Internal Market and the Parliamentary Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development. In the case in point, major amendments have not been included on the possibility of registering PDOs and PGIs in Brussels when products have already been registered which, for a different reason – as in the case of a plant variety – are designated by the same geographical term as that requested, which might be the name of a town, for example.

I am therefore going to send a letter to the Italian Permanent Representation in Brussels to call upon Italy to adopt a clear position on this issue in the Council. I will send the letter to the Italian Members of Parliament too and invite them to support the initiative.

I would stress that this is not just an Italian question: it concerns the protection of all European typical products. I therefore call upon the non-Italian Members as well to see this as a question of the legal protection of typical products.