European Parliament 8 November 2002, WRITTEN QUESTION E-3198/02 by Stavros Xarchakos (PPE-DE) to the Commission. Problems in Belgium in communicating in a language other than Flemish.

On oil sales in Italy, the figures for the last marketing year (2001/02) should be noted. Given domestic olive oil production of 562 000 tonnes, domestic consumption of 735 000 tonnes and exports of 280 000 tonnes, Italian traders had to import 440 000 tonnes to meet demand on the internal and external markets. Of this 400 000 tonnes came from Spain.