Well the Court of Cassation which censured the use of distinctive signs improperly referring to Made in Italy on packages of spaghetti of foreign origin. This is what Coldiretti affirms in commenting on the pronouncement of the Cassation which confirmed the violation of the rules on 'made in Italy', the maxi seizure in the port of Genoa of about one million kilos of spaghetti produced in Turkey for the Campania pasta factory 'L.Garofalo' in Gragnano.
In the opinion of the Cassation, in an "argued and logical" manner, the Review Court in freezing the huge load "deemed the indications affixed to the pasta to be fallacious, such as to deceive the consumer as to the origin of the goods and to integrate the criminal case" so long as the writing "made in Turkey" was barely visible and easily erasable, while the reference to Italy and Gragnano was in full view. The Supreme Court in the sentence 25030 rightly inaugurates a very strict line in terms of protection of Made in Italy which - concludes Coldiretti - represents an added value of the country to be defended and protected.
The decision of the Cassation - Coldiretti specifies - criminally condemns the explicit evocation of the Italian character of products of foreign origin and constitutes an important precedent that reforms the previous orientation which excluded the same contestation regarding the mere passage of pasta through customs Turkish origin directed to Africa and accompanied by an invoice showing that it was sold by a French company based in Paris to a company based in Mali (cf. Cass Section III Penale, 21/07/2016, n.31485). In fact, according to the Cassation, – concludes Coldiretti – even the mere custody in the customs area obliges the observance of the law of 24 December 2013, n. 350 and in art. 4, paragraph 49, plinks the import, export or marketing of products bearing false or misleading indications of provenance or origin.
