Maybe the council (or, why not someone else) could ask for an opinion from the European data protection supervisor about the legal standing of this issue in the European Union (With a well formulated explanation of what the issue is about). The privacy laws come from an EU directive and this issue spans the whole EU.

The small text on the product packaging is, at least on my box bought from Finland, written in English only so Nokia trying to cover behind that is invalid in any non-english speaking country.