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Language requirements for food labelling
On the language requirements for food labelling, are the following rules in Piageme cases and Goerres no longer good law, given the new Article 15(2) in Regulation 1169/2011, which came into force in 2014? The provision reads: “Within their own territory, the Member States in which a food is marketed may stipulate that the particulars shall be given in one or more languages from among the official languages of the Union.”

The rules: A national law can neither require the exclusive use of a specific language for the labelling of foodstuffs (Case C-369/89 Piageme v Peeters I) nor the use of the language most widely spoken in the area in which the product is offered for sale, even if the use at the same time of another language is not excluded (Case C-85/94 Piageme v Peeters II). National legislation can prescribe the use of a specific language for the labelling of foodstuffs if it also permits the use of another language easily understood by purchasers: Case C-385/96 Goerres.


 * Finland:Maa- ja metsätalousministeriön asetuksen elintarviketietojen antamisesta kuluttajille (834/2014) 4 § (Pakollisten elintarviketietojen kielivaatimukset)
 * Ireland:European Union (Provision of Food Information to Consumers) Regulations 2014 (S.I. No. 556/2014) section 12 (Language requirements)
 * United Kingdom: “EU Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 on the provision of food information to consumers states that, where labelling is required, it should be ‘in a language easily understood by the consumers of the member states where a food is marketed’. In the UK this is accepted as being in English and it is therefore an offence for retailers or wholesalers to supply food without English labelling.”

National measures
Example: Maa- ja metsätalousministeriön asetus eräiden elintarvikkeiden ilmoittamisesta voimakassuolaiseksi (1010/2014)