{"id":1995,"date":"2016-11-30T17:39:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-30T09:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/?p=1995"},"modified":"2016-11-28T17:41:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-28T09:41:25","slug":"israel-angry-as-france-publishes-settlement-goods-labelling-rules-middle-east-monitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/israel-angry-as-france-publishes-settlement-goods-labelling-rules-middle-east-monitor\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel angry as France publishes settlement goods labelling rules \u2013 Middle East Monitor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20161125-israel-angry-as-france-publishes-settlement-goods-labelling-rules\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/654\/2016\/11\/Tesco-Dates-Israeli-produce01.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The French government has published new regulations obliging importers and retailers to label products originating from Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haaretz.com\/israel-news\/.premium-1.755195\" target=\"_blank\">report<\/a> in <em>Haaretz<\/em>, the notification, published yesterday, is headed \u201cNotice to economic operators concerning the indication of origin of goods originating in the territories occupied by Israel since June 1967.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Citing the November 2015 European Commission guidelines, and \u201cin order not to deceive consumers\u201d, the new government regulations \u201csay it is necessary to mark the precise place from which goods originating in these areas came, and not mark them as products of Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Haaretz<\/em> says that \u201cthe regulations make it clear that this is intended to prevent a situation in which consumers are misled and think they are buying Palestinian goods from the West Bank or East Jerusalem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In response, Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesperson Emmanuel Nahshon said: \u201cIsrael denounces the French government\u2019s decision to implement the November 2015 European Commission\u2019s guidelines for marking Israeli goods originating from beyond the \u201867 borders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20161125-israel-angry-as-france-publishes-settlement-goods-labelling-rules\/\">Israel angry as France publishes settlement goods labelling rules \u2013 Middle East Monitor<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The French government has published new regulations obliging importers and retailers to label products originating from Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory. According to the report in Haaretz, the notification, published yesterday, is headed \u201cNotice to economic operators concerning the indication of origin of goods originating in the territories occupied by Israel since June [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[332,64,333],"class_list":["post-1995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-israel-angry","tag-news","tag-product-labelling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}