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EU court adviser faults Denmark for misusing 'feta' name on cheese exports

FILE PHOTO: A cheesemonger puts pieces of Greece's trademark feta cheese in a bag for a customer in central Athens, November 21, 2007. REUTERS/John Kolesidis/File Photo

Denmark has breached European Union law by failing to prevent local companies from making and exporting outside the EU white cheese labelled 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 (CJEU) came three years after the European Commission, the EU's executive, sued Denmark over the issue.

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