Packstellen Zulassung

Would you like to operate an egg packing station? Then you must apply to the competent authority for market authorization and a packing station code.

Egg packing centers are companies that sort, mark, pack or repack eggs according to quality and weight classes. Only packing centers may grade eggs according to quality and weight class.

You can only operate an egg packing center if the competent authority has approved the egg packing center under market law upon your application and you have received a packing center code.

To be approved as a packing center, your business must have suitable premises and technical facilities for sorting eggs by quality and weight class.

Approval is not required if you are packing eggs

• from the production site,
• at the doorstep or
• at a public market

directly to end consumers and not according to quality and weight classes.

You require an approval as a packing station if you are a direct marketing company that

• market the eggs via a trading partner, i.e. a retailer, bakery, kiosk or other, or
• want to offer the eggs sorted by size and quality class or
• have a sales radius of more than 100 kilometers.

You must sort, mark and, if necessary, pack the eggs within 10 days of laying.

You may only sell graded and, if applicable, packaged grade A eggs with a printed producer code.

The packaging must be

• clean,
• shockproof,
• dry and
• dry and undamaged.

The packaging material must protect the eggs from foreign odors and possible quality deterioration.

Once the packing station has been approved, all marketing channels are open to you. You must keep the following lists:

• Purchasing list: Number of eggs purchased per producer
• Grading list: Number of eggs per category per day
• Sales list: Number of eggs sold with place and date of sale

You must keep the lists for 12 months.

• Application for approval as an egg packing station

• Your packing center must have the technical facilities required for proper egg handling. These may include:
  • an automatic or permanently manned candling system that enables the quality of individual eggs to be checked, or other suitable equipment
  • a device for determining the height of the air chamber
  • a system for sorting eggs by weight class
  • one or more calibrated scales for weighing eggs, accurate to 1 gram
  • Equipment for marking eggs
• The premises of the packing station and the technical equipment must be in good condition, clean and free of foreign odors.
• Exception: packing centers that work exclusively for the food and non-food industry are not required to have suitable technical equipment for sorting eggs by weight class.

You must apply to the competent body for approval as a packing station.

• The competent body will examine your application and you will receive a written decision on the result.
• If your application is approved, the authority will inform you of the identification number you need for marking the packs of eggs (packing station number).

The permit can be revoked at any time if the required conditions are no longer met.

There are no indications or special features.

• Packing center approval
• Egg packing centers are companies that sort, mark, pack or repack eggs according to quality and weight classes.
• Only packing centers may grade eggs according to quality and weight class
• packing centers must have suitable premises and technical facilities for grading eggs by quality and weight class
• appropriate evidence must be submitted together with the application for approval as a packing center
• if the packing center is approved, the competent authority will inform the establishment of its packing center code
• the packing center code is required for marking the egg packs
• Responsible: competent authority of the federal states