Moroccan royal family wins legal battle in Spain

The Court of Justice of the European Union has just ruled in favour of Nadorcott Protection, owned by the Moroccan royal family and producer of the protected mandarin variety Nadorcott. Eurosemillas, a company from Cordoba, producer of the protected variety Tang Gold, had brought the case before the Community court to request the annulment of Nadorcott’s protection.

Nadorcott Protection and Eurosemillas are trying to have each other remove this protection that gives their mandarins a differential value and allows them to collect substantial royalties. Hence the legal battle they have been waging for about fifteen years. While Nadorcott Protection and its representative in Spain, the Club of Protected Plant Varieties (CVVP), brought the case before the Valencia Commercial Court in 2008, Eurosemillas brought the case before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CGEU) in 2016, reports The Spanish-Invertia.