Until a few years ago the Friulano vine took the historical and famous name of Tocai Friulano. Some agreements between Italy and the European Union of 1993 have forbidden the use of the name "Tocai" from March 2007, because it is too similar to that of the Hungarian controlled denomination of origin of Tokaji wine and the homonymous production area. The similarity is relative only and exclusively to the name since the Tocai Friulano and the Hungarian Tokaji are completely different as wines for color, aroma, taste and production methods, and as vines (Tokaji wine is typically produced from the Furmint vines, Hárslevelü and Sárgamuskotály, which is a Muscat Blanc à Petits Grains). It should also be considered that the Hungarian Tokaji is not a single wine, but various wines from the same area of the city of Tokaj as it is a PDO with different types of wine.
