European Parliament 10 July 2002, WRITTEN QUESTION P-2104/02 by Maurizio Turco (NI) to the Commission. Violations of the rule of law and democracy in Italy and Articles 6 and 7 of the TEU.

Answer given by Mr Byrne on behalf of the Commission (23 September 2002) The Commission is well aware of the trend of increasing obesity in the Member States. Although data collected by Eurostat referring to 1989 and 1996 only show a limited increase in the prevalence of obesity (measured by Body-Mass Index
BMI), the Commission foresees that new comparable data for 2002, which will be available