@Hanna – Thanks so much for sharing your perspective, that’s really interesting and also sad to hear that it’s excluded small businesses and I have no doubt that grandmas make the best St. Martin’s Croissants. Interesting that there’s also a protected cheese. Thank you for sharing your opinion!

However, personally I think that it’s one of the most stupid things EU did. Because it’s not easy to get a certificate that your company can produce rogal or oscypek. You have to be already a big company and comply with standards of EU. And now imagine that your grandma made oscypek or rogal marciński at home through all her life and sold it to tourists, and now she cannot produce it only because she doesn’t have a stupid paper from EU. Oh, no, sorry. She CAN produce it still but she CANNOT call it oscypek or rogal marciński. So for example in the mountains you can find scypek instead of oscypek, which taste is the same, but tourist will not buy it because it’s NOT ORIGINAL.
Isn’t it stupid? A law that was suppose to protect a traditional product is in fact a problem for normal people.

That is just my opinion that I wanted to share with you. 🙂 But, both – rogan and oscypek – are delicious! Doesn’t matter how they’re called! 🙂