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Egg packing station - apply for approval
Service Description
Egg packing centers are establishments that grade, mark, and pack and/or repack eggs according to quality and weight classes. Egg packing centres may only be operated if they have been approved by the competent authority on application for and a packing station identification number has been assigned.
Outside of the market regulation right is required:
- Hygienic approval: egg packing stations may only market their products if they are approved or registered under hygienic law. Responsibility: Veterinary and food control offices.
- Eggs from organic production: In addition to market law and hygiene law, confirmation by an approved organic inspection body.
If eggs are sold ex-farm (production site), at the doorstep or at a public market directly to the final consumer and not according to quality and weight classes, no approval as packing center is required.
Direct marketers who market eggs through a trading partner (retailer, baker, kiosk, other direct marketer, etc.) or who want to offer eggs sorted by size and grade or who have a sales radius of more than 100 kilometers require approval as a packing center.
Process flow
An application for approval as a packing station must be submitted to the competent body.
The competent body examines the application. If the application is approved, a written decision is issued with notification of the identification number.
The approval can be revoked at any time if the necessary requirements are no longer fulfilled.
Who should I contact?
Please contact the Thuringian State Office for Agriculture and Rural Areas, Department 21 - Feed and Market Monitoring, Fertilization and Soil Protection.
Requirements
Only those enterprises that have the appropriate premises and technical equipment for grading eggs by quality and weight may be approved as packing centers.
Packing centers must have the following technical equipment necessary for the proper handling of eggs:
- an automatic or permanently manned candling machine/fluoroscopic lamp that allows the quality inspection of individual eggs
- device(s) for determining the height of the air chamber
- a device for sorting the eggs according to weight classes
- one or more calibrated scales for weighing the eggs (note: accurate to 1 gram)
- device(s) for marking eggs
The premises of the packing station and the technical equipment must be in good condition and clean and free from foreign odors.
Packing centers that work exclusively for the food and non-food industries are not required to have appropriate technical equipment for grading eggs by weight.
Which documents are required?
- Evidence of suitable premises:
- Site plan of the operating building
- Floor plan of the premises
- Hygienic approval
- Proof of suitable technical facilities
What are the fees?
Fees apply.
Legal basis
- Article 5 Commission Regulation (EC) No 589/2008 of 23 June 2008 introducing detailed rules for implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 as regards the marketing standards for eggs
- Trade Classification Act
- Regulation on Marketing Standards for Eggs (EiMarktV)
- Thuringian Administrative Costs Act (ThürVwKostG)
- Thuringian General Administrative Cost Regulations (ThürAllgVwKostO)
Applications / forms
Appeal instruction required
What else should I know?
Eggs must be graded, marked and, if necessary, packaged within ten days of laying.
Sorted and, if necessary, packed grade A eggs may only be delivered in packaging with the producer code printed on it.
Packages must be clean, shock-resistant, dry and undamaged. The material of the packaging must protect the eggs from foreign odors and possible deterioration of quality.
With the approval of the packing center, all marketing channels are open. The following lists must be kept daily, broken down by type of farming:
- the quantities of ungraded eggs delivered to them, broken down by producer, showing name, address and producer code, and laying date or period,
- after grading of the eggs, the quantities, broken down by quality and weight grades,
- the quantities of graded eggs received from other packing centres, including the code of these packing centres and the best-before date,
- the quantities of ungraded eggs delivered to other packing centres, broken down by producer, including the code of those packing centres and the date or period of laying
- The number and/or weight of eggs delivered, broken down by grade and weight, packing date for grade B eggs or MHD for grade A eggs, and by purchaser, giving name and address.
The lists must be kept for at least 12 months from the date of compilation.
Author
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Technically approved by
Thuringian State Office for Agriculture and Rural Areas (TLLLR)
Professionally released on
07.06.2021
Source: Zuständigkeitsfinder Thüringen (Linie6PLus)
Competent Authority
Thüringer Landesamt für Landwirtschaft und Ländlichen Raum (TLLLR) - Referat 21 - Futtermittel- und Marktüberwachung, Düngung und Bodenschutz
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Employees
Referatsbereich Marktüberwachung Vieh, Fleisch, Eier und Geflügel
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