{"id":139074,"date":"2019-11-28T10:10:13","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T10:10:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/commission-takes-denmark-to-court-over-fake-feta-cheese\/"},"modified":"2019-11-28T10:10:13","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T10:10:13","slug":"commission-takes-denmark-to-court-over-fake-feta-cheese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/commission-takes-denmark-to-court-over-fake-feta-cheese\/","title":{"rendered":"Commission takes Denmark to court over fake feta cheese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission announced Wednesday it will drag Denmark to the European Court of Justice over the sale of fake feta cheese outside the EU.<\/p>\n<p>The cheese \u2014 typically made of sheep or sheep and goats milk \u2014 is <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/agriculture\/quality\/door\/registeredName.html?denominationId=876\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">protected<\/a> under the EUs lucrative system of geographical indications, meaning it can only be labeled as feta when produced under certain conditions in Greece, where it has been made for thousands of years.<\/p>\n<p>But Denmark has \u201cfailed to prevent or stop\u201d Danish companies from labeling cheese as feta and exporting it outside the EU, the Commission said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/commission\/presscorner\/detail\/en\/IP_19_6312\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis conduct not only violates current EU law, but it is also likely to frustrate the ongoing negotiations between the European Union and third countries for the conclusion of bilateral agreements that ensure the protection of European PDOs [protected designations of origin] and the promotion of EU quality products outside the EU,\u201d the Commission said.<\/p>\n<p>Denmarks Minister for Food Mogens Jensen said he could not comment on the fairness of his countrys referral to the EU court until he received all the legal papers from the Commission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere should be no doubt that I am concerned about looking after Danish jobs, but at the same time I also believe that we must comply with the rules that we have committed to in the EU. The final trade-off can only be made when we receive the application,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The crumbly cheese is the subject of decades of legal wrangling between Brussels and EU countries that want to call their own cheese feta.<\/p>\n<p>In 1999, Germany, France and Denmark \u2014 all big cheese producers \u2014 won an appeal at the European Court <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/commission-takes-denmark-to-court-over-fake-feta-cheese\/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&amp;utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More \u2013 Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Commission announced Wednesday it will drag Denmark to the European Court of Justice ov..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139075,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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