The True Neapolitan Pizza Association (Associazione Verace Pizza napoletana, AVPN) is a non-profit organization and was founded in June 1984 in Naples with its legal and operational headquarters. Its mission is to promote and protect the true Neapolitan pizza, i.e. the typical product made in accordance with the characteristics described in the AVPN International Regulations for obtaining a collective brand mark True Neapolitan Pizza, in force since 1984, edited and registered by AVPN.
The International Regulation is a set of codified rules, orally transmitted by neapolitan’s generation of pizzamaker, passed down from father to son.