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Apply for approval for egg packing station

Description

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.

  • Your packing station 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.
  • Application for approval as an egg packing station

Administration Fee: 56,00 - 168,00 EUR
Payment in advance: no
Further expenses may be incurred.

Processing Time: 1 - 3 Weeks
Applies from complete application and fulfillment of the requirements on site

Administrative court action

Please contact the Saxony-Anhalt State Administration Office, Department for Agriculture, Rural Areas, Fisheries, Forestry and Hunting (Department 409).

  • You can obtain the application form from the responsible office on request.
  • In future it will be possible to apply online
  • You submit the application
  • There may be queries from the authority
  • The authority checks compliance with the conditions (on-site inspection)
  • Your packing station receives the approval.

There are no indications or special features.

Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL)

The text was automatically translated based on the German content.

Authority
Landesverwaltungsamt Sachsen-Anhalt - Agrarwirtschaft, Ländliche Räume, Fischerei, Forst- und Jagdhoheit
Post Office Box 200256
06003 Halle (Saale), Stadt
Dessauer Straße 70
06118 Halle (Saale), Stadt
0345 514-0
0345 514-2663

Mon. - Thurs.: 9:00 - 15:00
Fri.: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Please note:
Appointments can also be made outside office hours by individual arrangement. Please note that individual departments have different opening hours. These can be found on the respective department's website.