José Cánovas celebrates the end of his dispute with Mohamed VI and receives the result of it “with great enthusiasm”, which proves him right again
The Supreme Court has seen fit to obey the indications it received from the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) last October regarding the trial that pitted a Murcian farmer against the King of Morocco, Mohamed VI. This intervention was demanded by the Spanish justice body itself to settle the conflict and, as LA VERDAD already explained, it agreed with José Cánovas.
The latter owns some land in Alhama de Murcia where he has been growing mandarins of the ‘Nadorcott’ variety for years, whose patent is owned by a company in the name of the Alaouite monarch. However, the claims that the latter intended to exercise based on the exploitation rights of this fruit have been rendered null and void after the Supreme Court ruling, which accepts the CJEU’s view.
The latter understood, and thus made it clear to the Supreme Court, that the complaint by the owner of the license was invalid, having prescribed the three-year period that European regulations contemplate for reporting these cases. Therefore, as the initiation of the proceedings by the accusation is excessively delayed, the commission of the illegal assumptions that it claims are excluded from any possible trial.
José Cánovas attended this newspaper yesterday after hearing the outcome of a legal confrontation that has gone through all the instances and that even came to opt in favor of Mohamed VI after going through the Superior Court of Justice of the Region of Murcia. However, Cánovas breathes a sigh of relief and receives the Supreme Court’s ruling “with great enthusiasm”. “I already sensed that he would agree with me when the CJEU intervened, but, given the background, I couldn’t be sure either,” he concludes with humor.