"May contain X" labels are usually not allowed here with some exceptions. This has some downsides (like deliberately adding allergens to food because it's impossible to make sure there are absolutely none) but in general you can't just hedge your way past regulations.

> in general you can't just hedge your way past regulations.

Of course you can. The internet is absolutely polluted with cookie banners, including on the EU's own government websites, precisely for the reason to hedge your way past regulations.

Is it malicious compliance? Sure it is. But it's the EU's ill-conceived and misguided laws that have encouraged it.