In this task, you are given a sentence in Spanish and your task is to translate it into English. In translation, keep the numbers and capitalization (capitalize only the first word of each sentence and name).

Señor Haarder, que yo sepa, ningún funcionario ha sido autorizado para decir cosa semejante.
Mr Haarder, to my knowledge no official has been authorised to say such a thing.

La Unión Europea quiere permitir la utilización de un 5% de grasa alternativa en el chocolate para armonizar el mercado interior.
The European Union intends to permit 5% of alternative fats in chocolate in order to harmonise the internal market.

Este es un principio básico del mercado interior y las desviaciones del mismo deben constituir excepciones y deben ser restringidas con el tiempo.

That is a basic principle governing the internal market and derogations from this principle must be exceptions and must be limited in time.