European Parliament 6 January 2003, WRITTEN QUESTION E-3789/02 by Olivier Dupuis (NI) to the Council. Antonio Russo affair.

On 20 March 2000, a European directive consolidating the Directive of 18 December 1978 made it clear that national provisions which required a specific language to be used in the labelling of foodstuffs, without allowing for the possibility for another language to be used, were contrary to European law.