Denmark has failed to fulfil its obligations under the 2012 Agricultural Products Market Regulation (1151/2012) by allowing its producers to continue exporting cheese under the protected designation of origin ‘feta’, the EU Court of Justice ruled on Thursday 14 July in a case involving Cyprus and Greece (Case C-159/20).
The opinion of the Advocate General is thus upheld (see EUROPE B12913A30).
‘Feta’ has been a protected designation at European level since 2002. In a 2005 judgment,...