The following correspondence was sent  by FIA President Max Mosley toEuropean Commissioner for Justice and Home Affairs, Mr Antonio Vitorino:

Dear Commissioner,Your spokesman, a Mr Petrucci, has been widely quoted in the press as saying “MrMosley is not above the law” and that the Formula One teams have “woken up to theEuropean Arrest Warrant too late”.Both allegations are unacceptable. The one implies that I wish to be above the law,which is untrue and libelous. The other is also false, in that the teams and theirrepresentatives have had innumerable meetings with Commission officials on theEuropean Arrest Warrant, culminating in a meeting on 7 July 2003 with the Director-General of your directorate, Mr Jonathan Faull, together with a member of yourcabinet.Your spokesman has clearly not made the slightest effort to ascertain the truth beforespeaking to the press. I leave it to you to take appropriate disciplinary action.However, this is not the first time that a Commission spokesperson has sought todamage the FIA. On the last occasion, action in the European Court of Justiceresulted in a formal public apology from the Commission. In the circumstances, Ithink it appropriate to send a copy of this letter to Mr Prodi.Yours sincerely,Max MosleyParis, 22 January, 2004