Greek bureaucrats have a lot of leeway and very little accountability, and their positions are openly coveted (among a portion of the population) for ability to extract bribes (it's very desirable to be a tax assessor, for example). These requirements may just be the bureaucrat's opening offer in the bribery negotiation, which can then be made "unnecessary for an upstanding citizen such as yourself".
Anything food-related, cosmetic-related, or even just olive-oil related is likely to have some arcane regulations, especially in the Mediterranean. (I've occasionally heard the olive oil industry being associated with cartels and frauds.) That goes for double if they are – or get confused with – a manufacturing facility which formulates its own products onsite.
Can anyone from Greece confirm this? I've learned that when you read something on the Internet that seems too funny to be true, it often isn't.