Extra virgin olive oil certified PDO "Terra d'Otranto"

What differenziates and makes more expensive the extra virgin olive oil PDO certified from the normal extra virgin olive oil is the fact that it must fully comply with the production disciplinary recognized from European Community as PDO ‘’ Protected Denomination of Origin’’ (Reg.C.E. N° 644/98). This disciplinary includes all olive oil production steps from the cultivation of olive trees to harvesting and crushing of olives, extraction of olive oil, analysis of the final product which must comply with several and stringent analytical characteristics, packaging of the product. The control of the compliance with this disciplinary is performed by an external Authority named by Italian Ministry of Agriculture and it’s guaranteed from the same Ministry (Art.10 Reg. C.E.510/2006).