European Union court adviser default Denmark for misusing
FETA name of cheese exports. Denmark has
breached EU laws by failing to prevent local companies from making and exporting
outside the EU white cheese labeled as FETA an adviser to Europe’s top court
said on Thursday.
The opinion by Advocate General, Tamara Capeta, at the
Luxembourg-based Court of Justice of the European Union three years after the European
Commission, the EU’s executive blamed Denmark over the issue. FETA has been a registered Protected Designation
of Origin since 2002 in the EU and it can only be produced in Greece according
to a set of production specifications.
Greece says feta is its cultural heritage because it has made
the sheep’s and goats’ milk cheese for over 6.000 years.
“By failing to stop the use by Danish producers of the
registered name FETA for cheese intended for export to third countries, Denmark
has failed to fulfill its obligations under the EU law,” Capeta said.
She dismissed Denmark’s arguments that an export ban could
be seen as an obstacle to trade. “The
main idea behind the regulation is the improvement of the situation of EU
agricultural producers through providing intellectual property protection to products
involving traditional ways of production,” Capeta said.
The Court of Justice of the European Union which will rule
in the coming months follows such non-binding recommendations in four out of
five cases.
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