From October 2024, products from occupied Western Sahara can no longer be labelled as “from Morocco” in European supermarkets, following a ruling from the European Court of Justice of 4 October 2024.

Can you help Western Sahara Resource Watch to find products that are erroneously labelled? 

What you should particularly look for: 

• Cherry tomatoes, melons and fisheries products referring to the cities of “Dakhla” or “Laayoune”.
• Cherry tomatoes and melons of the labels “Azura”, “Idyl”, “Ajida” or “Les Domaines” labelled “Morocco”.
• Fisheries products that are labelled with UNFAO code 1.31 or 1.32 and “Morocco”.

Notice that the erroneous labelling might be both on the package, as well as on the shop shelf/display.

Thank you for sending us the following:
a) The exact date you found the product; b) the name and coordinates of the shop; c) pictures of the products, preferably close-up of the label as well as the shelf/stand on which the product was found.  

Findings can be sent to: wronglabel@wsrw.org 

WSRW wrote a report on the EU imports of agricultural products from occupied Western Sahara in 2012. See also this excellent report from 2019 by L’Observatori de Drets Humans i Empreses en la Mediterrània (ODHE) on the Spanish imports of octopus from the occupied territory. This report contains names of brands that might potentially be selling octopus from Western Sahara. 
 

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