Capón de Vilalba

Parameters

Scheme: PGI
Country: Spain
Status: Registered
Registered: 10/10/2017
File number: PGI-ES-01355
Class: 1.1 Fresh meat (and offal)

eAmbrosia, the EU geographical indications register, entry EUGI00000015884. Retrieved 2026-09-04. Register entry

Capón de Vilalba is protected across the European Union as a protected geographical indication. What that means in practice is that a document exists - the product specification - which fixes the area it may be made in, the raw material it may be made from and the method that may be used, and that a name outside those bounds may not be used on a label.

A protected geographical indication requires that at least one stage of production, processing or preparation happens in the defined area, which is a lower bar than a designation of origin.

Customs classification

02 - MEAT AND EDIBLE MEAT OFFAL||02 - MEAT AND EDIBLE MEAT OFFAL / 0207 - Meat and edible offal, of the poultry of heading 0105, fresh, chilled or frozen / 0207 11 - Not cut in pieces, fresh or chilled / 0207 11 10 - Plucked and gutted, with heads and feet, known as '83 % chickens'||02 - MEAT AND EDIBLE MEAT OFFAL / 0207 - Meat and edible offal, of the poultry of heading 0105, fresh, chilled or frozen / 0207 11 - Not cut in pieces, fresh or chilled / 0207 11 90 - Plucked and drawn, without heads and feet and without necks, hearts, livers and gizzards, known as '65 % chickens', or otherwise presented

Publications

Reference

Date

Official Journal C 188, 14.06.2017

2017-06-14

Official Journal L 260, 10.10.2017

2017-10-10

What this page does not have

The register records that a specification exists and where it was published. It does not publish the specification text through its API, so this site does not reproduce salting times, ageing minimums or any other production parameter for this product. Those are in the filed document, reachable through the publications above.

Capón de Vilalba

Customs classification

Legal instrument

Publications