We have controversy mounted on the issue of the etConfusing labels on non-OD products, after the case resolved in favor of the PDO Manchego Cheese by the Court of Justice of the European Union. Its Regulatory Council sued the company Cuquerella Cheese Factory for selling three cheeses with images that reflect the origin of a non-existent Denomination of Origin. Without having the seal, it was a illicit evocation which finally corroborated the YOUR. Now, there are several companies with products of DO who could file their complaints. Among them, those of rice or the Valencian tigernut.
Other cases of confusing labels on products without OD
After that ruling of the European justice, we observe how there are other similar cases, where some competitor brands in the same product resort to erroneous evocations. Because they are marketed with several designs indicating geographic origin, even if they don't have the original stamp. This is the only one that guarantees its real and unequivocal provenance.
This is the case with horchata, where the image of a fallera, Jaume I or el Micalet are protagonists in the packaging, despite not having the DO Chufa from Valencia. Likewise, in the Valencian rice there are pictures of the lagoon or tents without that specific brand having the DO Arroz de Valencia. Undoubtedly, both situations are similar to that of La Mancha cheese. They could lead to new demands from the Regulatory Councils to companies that use Confusing labels on non-OD products.
It does not matter that the producers themselves are from the specific region from which these photographs are taken, because illicit, according to him TEU. El Article 26 of European Law 1169/2011 He makes it very clear, but how the laws are to bypass them (says the malicious saying), because that happens. In most products that it is not fulfilled. At least, until the aforementioned case of cheese has come to light. Now, the Denominations of Origin they see themselves with sufficient reasons to denounce their particular situations.
That although previously in Spain, the justice had not resolved other complaints in this way. They had to be the European judges who have opened that door. Because the Spanish failed claiming that the images made reference to the area, but not necessarily to the product. Every master has his own trick, each court acts in its own way.
