The application process for the registration of the names “Halloumi”/”Hellim” as a Protected Designation of Origin (PDO) for the delicious Cypriot cheese is following its normal course, a senior European Commission source told CNA, denying a story published earlier by the Belgian Newspaper De Morgen on the implications of the PDO procedure on the Cyprus negotiations.
“After the preliminary scrutiny by the Commission, the application was published in the Official Journal in July 2015 and the three-month period for raising objections ended on 29 October 2015”, the source noted and added: “As with similar application requests, several oppositions and reasoned statements of opposition were received by the Commission.”
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Source: CNA
