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COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU / Agriculture

Denmark must stop exporting domestically produced products of registered name ‘Feta’ outside EU, says Advocate General of CJEU

In her Opinion, delivered on Thursday 17 March in case C-159/20, the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU,) Tamara Ćapeta, considered that Denmark is in breach of the 2012 Agricultural Products Market Regulation (1151/2012) by exporting cheese produced in Denmark and bearing the designation ‘Feta’ out of the EU. 

The Commission, supported by Greece and Cyprus, referred the matter to the CJEU in 2020. It accused Denmark of not respecting the rules on...

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AGRICULTURE: European Commission proposes to mobilise, at this stage, €1.5 billion for farmers in crisis 
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COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE EU
AGRICULTURE: Denmark must stop exporting domestically produced products of registered name ‘Feta’ outside EU, says Advocate General of CJEU
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