[1] She also became well known in the Parliament for her attacks on Commission secrecy over a fraud case involving the Fléchard dairy and abuse of EU butter export subsidies worth tens of millions in the 1990s.

[2] In 2001, she belonged to a cross-party grouping of MEPs, that brought a legal action before the European Court of Justice over the obstacles they faced in securing copies of classified EU documents.

[3] Although she failed to win re-election in 2004, Stauner became a member of the 6th European Parliament on 18 January 2006, after Joachim Wuermeling had left to become State Secretary in the German Federal Ministry for Economics and Technology on 18 December 2005.

[4] In 2001, Stauner issued a statement through her office, saying she thought it was “ridiculous” that details of her financial interests should be put on the European Parliament's website.

The resulting report on Azerbaijan's presidential election was subsequently criticized as markedly kinder than the verdict of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.