Member States shall ensure that a suspected person who does not understand or read the language of the proceedings or the language in which relevant documents are drafted where they are not in the language of the proceedings is provided with free translations of all relevant documents in any of the official languages of the European Union or in another language that the suspected person understands, as appropriate, in order to safeguard the fairness of the proceedings.
Dalībvalstīm jānodrošina, lai aizdomās turamais, kas nesaprot vai nelasa tiesvedības valodā vai valodā, kurā sarakstīti svarīgi dokumenti, ja tie nav tiesvedības valodā , tiktu nodrošināts ar visu svarīgo dokumentu bezmaksas tulkojumiem, tādējādi nodrošinot tiesvedības godīgumu.