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Article 15 of Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011 says mandatory food information must be in a language easily understood by consumers in the member state where the food is sold, and lets each member state require one or more of the official EU languages. So the label language depends on where you sell, not where you make the food.

The maker asks for the member state first and selects the language(s) its rule asks for. You can add more. Of the 27 national rules, 22 were read in the national law. For Austria, Cyprus, Luxembourg, Portugal and Romania the rule could not be confirmed from the national text, so labels for those countries show Needs review until it is.

One label for several countries

A multilingual label can serve several countries if every mandatory particular appears in each required language and the text still meets the minimum size. The maker prints each row in every language you choose (“Energie / Énergie”), with the column headings stacked. In the maker, add each country as its own market: each is checked against its own rule. The olive oil below carries German and French and is Ready for the supported output for both Germany and France.

One label in German and French, laid out by the engine. Two languages make the table wider: compare the single-language labels further down.

The 24 languages the maker prints

The maker prints all 24 official EU languages. Every term below is copied from that language’s version of the Regulation (consolidated text of 1 April 2025), never machine-translated, and every string was checked a second time against the legal text by an independent pass. The German, French, Polish, English, Maltese and Irish terms were also compared with the original 2011 Official Journal. No language has been reviewed by a native-speaking food-labelling expert yet: all six markets are in beta.

The table shows the terms exactly as the maker prints them on a label: the heading, the “per 100 g” column and the eight rows, with the granola’s salt value to show the number style. Numbers use a decimal comma in 21 languages and a point in English, Irish and Maltese, following the EU’s own style guide (a house style, not a labelling rule). Luxembourgish is not printed: it is not an official EU language, and Luxembourg accepts French or German.

In 9 languages the maker marks specific terms Needs review and names them on the label’s review list. The other 15 languages have no flagged term.

• German: the Annex II allergen name for sulphites.
• Estonian: the per 100 g / 100 ml column heading (no exact phrase in the Regulation; national guidance wording).
• Finnish: the per 100 g / 100 ml column heading (no exact phrase in the Regulation; national guidance wording); the per-portion column heading (national guidance wording).
• Irish: the Annex II allergen names for cereals, wheat, spelt, khorasan wheat, rye, barley, oats and mustard; the optional “negligible amounts” sentence (nutrient names must be inflected).
• Croatian: the Annex II allergen names for spelt and khorasan wheat.
• Hungarian: the Annex II allergen name for sulphites; the optional “negligible amounts” sentence (nutrient names must be inflected).
• Lithuanian: the optional “negligible amounts” sentence (nutrient names must be inflected).
• Maltese: the Annex II allergen names for cereals, wheat, khorasan wheat, rye, barley, oats, peanuts, soybeans and macadamia nuts; iron (the Maltese legal text prints “Kalċju” by mistake; the maker prints “Ħadid”).
• Romanian: the Annex II allergen names for spelt, khorasan wheat and sulphites.

The mandatory nutrition declaration

Every prepacked food that isn’t exempt declares these seven items, per 100 g or per 100 ml, in this order (Article 30(1) and Annex XV). The reference intakes are the ones the optional %RI column divides by (Annex XIII, Part B).

You may add values per portion or per consumption unit, as long as the label states the portion and how many portions the pack holds, and the percentage of the reference intake (%RI) with the statement “Reference intake of an average adult (8 400 kJ/2 000 kcal)”. The maker adds both when you tick them. One limit today: the line stating how many portions the pack holds has no official wording, so the maker writes it only in English; in other languages it asks for your own wording, and that field isn’t in the form yet, so a per-portion column outside English shows “Needs values” for now. You may also declare mono-unsaturates, polyunsaturates, polyols, starch and fibre (Article 30(2)), and vitamins and minerals present in a significant amount, with their %NRV. The list is closed: trans fat, cholesterol, sodium and added sugars never go in the table.

The granola with the optional per-portion column and %RI, as the engine draws it for Ireland.

Energy comes from the components

The EU doesn’t let you print a lab’s energy figure as it is: Article 31(1) says energy “shall be calculated” with the conversion factors of Annex XIV. The maker calculates kJ and kcal separately from the unrounded components, never one from the other, and rounds each to the nearest whole number.

For the sample granola, per 100 g:

kJ = 37 × 21.46 g fat + 17 × 54.417 g carbohydrate + 17 × 11.84 g protein + 8 × 8.403 g fibre = 1987.6 → 1988 kJ
kcal = 9 × 21.46 g fat + 4 × 54.417 g carbohydrate + 4 × 11.84 g protein + 2 × 8.403 g fibre = 475.0 → 475 kcal

The carbohydrate in that sum is available carbohydrate (carbohydrate 54.417 g = total carbohydrate 62.82 g − fibre 8.403 g). If you typed in an energy value (the granola’s data says 2001 kJ / 478.2 kcal), it stays in your record but isn’t printed.

Why the EU figure differs from US Calories

The same granola prints Calories 290 per 1 cup (60g) on its US label, and 1193 kJ/285 kcal for the same 60 g on an EU label with a portion column. Three things differ: the US label uses the food’s own energy data while the EU recalculates it with the Annex XIV factors, the US rounds Calories to the nearest 10 above 50, and the US counts per serving while the EU’s main column is per 100 g. Neither label is wrong; they follow different rules. See EU vs US nutrition labels for the full comparison.

Carbohydrate means available carbohydrate

In the EU, “carbohydrate” means carbohydrate the body metabolises, polyols included and fibre left out (Annex I, point 7). A US or Canadian “total carbohydrate” includes fibre. So the granola shows Total Carbohydrate 38g next to Dietary Fiber 5g per US serving, and Carbohydrate 54 g per 100 g on the EU label: carbohydrate 54.417 g = total carbohydrate 62.82 g − fibre 8.403 g.

The maker only subtracts fibre when it knows it. If you copy a US label that lists total carbohydrate but you leave fibre blank, it stops and asks instead of guessing:

Additional information needed: add dietary fibre. Carbohydrate here excludes fibre, so it is total carbohydrate minus fibre.

Polyols (sugar alcohols such as sorbitol) stay inside EU carbohydrate and may be declared as an optional “of which polyols” row. They carry their own energy factor (10 kJ / 2.4 kcal per gram; erythritol 0), so enter them when your product contains them.

Worked example: extra virgin olive oil

The sample extra virgin olive oil is a liquid, so its declaration is per 100 ml. The maker converted its per 100 g data with the oil’s own density (using a density of 0.913 g/ml): that is why fat reads 91 g per 100 ml. Energy comes from the fat alone, giving 3378 kJ/822 kcal. Carbohydrate, sugars, fibre and protein are true zeros and print as 0 g. Salt is worked out from sodium (salt 0.004565 g = sodium 1.826 mg × 2.5), which is below the lowest rounding band, so it prints as <0.01 g.

The same olive oil for Ireland, Germany, France and Greece: each label in the country’s language, with its decimal mark and its own width. All four are Ready for the supported output.

Optional rows go in the Annex XV places: the oil’s mono-unsaturates (67 g) and polyunsaturates (9.6 g) sit under saturates. When most rows are zero you may replace them with one sentence (Article 34(5)); the engine prints it from the Regulation’s own wording, Contains negligible amounts of carbohydrate, sugars, fibre, protein, salt, though the switch for it isn’t in the maker’s form yet.

Optional fatty-acid rows and the “negligible amounts” sentence, drawn by the engine.

Why does olive oil need a declaration at all, when honey doesn’t? Annex V exempts unprocessed products made of a single ingredient, but the Commission’s Q&A excludes vegetable oils from that exemption.

Table or linear format, and text size

Article 34(2) asks for a table with the numbers aligned where space permits, and a linear format only when it doesn’t. The maker draws the table unless the panel space you give it is too small for a table at the smallest legal text size. Then it offers the linear format and says why. For a 60 × 20 mm strip on a small bottle the engine reported: “Doesn't fit your 60 × 20 mm panel space, even at the smallest legal type size (it needs about 60 × 63.1 mm).” and “Allowed because the table doesn't fit your 60 × 20 mm space. About 60 × 15.2 mm.”

The olive oil in the linear format, drawn for that 60 × 20 mm space (largest surface under 80 cm², so the 0.9 mm floor applies).

Every mandatory particular needs an x-height (the height of a lower-case x) of at least 1.2 mm, or 0.9 mm when the pack’s largest surface is under 80 cm² (Article 13(2)–(3)). In the maker’s label font that is 6.44 pt and 4.83 pt. Packs whose largest surface is under 25 cm² don’t need a nutrition declaration (Annex V, point 18), and under 10 cm² only the name, allergens, net quantity and date are required on the pack (Article 16(2)). More on measuring it: x-height rules.

How narrow can the table go? These are the engine’s own layouts of the olive oil table at each floor, with names wrapped as far as they can go. Narrower means taller.

The 0.9 mm column assumes a largest surface of 60 cm². Tell the maker your pack’s largest surface and panel space and it uses the right floor, offers only the formats that fit, and never shrinks text below it. Rounding follows the Commission’s 2012 guidance: EU rounding guidance.

Allergens in the ingredient list

The 14 allergens of Annex II must be emphasised inside the ingredient list, in the label language: the maker sets them in bold. When there is an ingredient list, a separate “Contains” box is not allowed (Commission notice 2017/C 428/01). The allergen words come from the Annex II text of each language; the ingredient names are yours, and the maker asks for each one in every label language. Here is the granola’s list in German and in English, exactly as the engine writes it:

GermanZutaten: Vollkorn-Haferflocken, Mandeln, Honig, Rapsöl, Brauner Zucker, Vanilleextrakt, Meersalz.

EnglishIngredients: Whole grain rolled oats, Almonds, Honey, Canola oil, Brown sugar, Vanilla extract, Sea salt.

Oats are emphasised because Annex II names cereals containing gluten. The full list, with the exceptions, is in the 14 EU allergens; to write the list in several languages use the translated ingredient list tool. If you only need a blank layout, there is a blank EU nutrition declaration template.

Northern Ireland follows these rules

Under the Windsor Framework, Northern Ireland keeps applying Regulation (EU) No 1169/2011, so a Northern Ireland label follows the EU rules on this page, in English. Great Britain kept the same Regulation as its own law, which can now change separately (one example already: the EU’s 2025 mustard exception applies in Northern Ireland but not in Great Britain). The maker treats them as two markets: see UK and Northern Ireland labels.

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