Directive 76/211 / EEC (prepackaging directive)

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Directive 76/211 / EEC

Title: Council Directive 76/211 / EEC of January 20, 1976 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States on the filling of certain products by weight or volume in prepackages
Designation:
(not official) 		Prepackaging Policy
Scope: EEA
Legal matter: Consumer law , calibration law
Basis: EEC Treaty , in particular Article 100
Come into effect: January 23, 1976
Last change by: Directive 2007/45 / EC
Effective date of the
last change: 		October 11, 2007
To be
implemented in national law by: 		July 22, 1977
Implemented by: Germany
prepackaging regulation
Reference: OJ L 46 of 21.2.1976, pp. 1-11
Full text Consolidated version (not official)
basic version
The regulation must have been implemented in national law.
Please note the information on the current version of legal acts of the European Union !

Council Directive 76/211 / EEC of January 20, 1976 on the harmonization of the legal provisions of the member states on the filling of certain products by weight or volume in prepackaged (unofficial EU prepackaging for short ) is an EC directive that regulates to what extent the mass or the volume of the contents of a pack may differ from what is printed on the pack. The stylized small ℮ stands for the abbreviation quantité e stimée (= French for "estimated, estimated amount")

Packagings filled according to the EU prepackaging directive are marked with this symbol (specification of the symbol added in gray)

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When filling packaging with filling systems, fluctuations cannot be avoided. The actual contents of the packaging then do not match what is printed on the packaging. In order not to put consumers at a disadvantage, many states have stipulated the maximum permitted deviation by law.

Different regulations applied in the countries of the European Union until the prepackaging directive came into force. They differed in the permitted deviations and the meaning of the quantity. This indicated the minimum amount in some countries and the average amount in others.

The EU prepackaging directive has replaced these different regulations with a uniform set of rules. According to this, the contents of a package must meet the following requirements:

  • The actual amount corresponds on average to the specified amount (average principle)
  • Only with a small number of packages does the actual quantity fall below the specified quantity by more than the maximum permissible deviation
  • In none of the packaging does the actual quantity fall below the specified quantity by more than twice the maximum permissible deviation.

The maximum downward deviation permitted depends on the package size.

of
(g or ml)		 to
(g or ml)		 maximum deviation
in% of the specified
package contents		 maximum deviation
absolute
(g or ml)
5 50 9 -
50 100 - 4.5
100 200 4.5 -
200 300 - 9
300 500 3 -
500 1000 - 15th
1000 20000 1.5 -

Product sizes from filling systems that comply with the directive are marked with the estimation symbol ℮ , which is derived from a small "e". This symbol must be at least 3 mm high. It can be placed before or after the respective quantity; z. B. " ℮  250 g" or "1314 ml  ℮ " or " ℮  1 liter".

Computer typography

The ℮ is in letters Similar Unicode block symbols ( letter symbols like ) included and may be generated by shortcut keys or codes in different systems:

Apple Macintosh Search for ESTIMATED SYMBOL in the character palette
HTML & # 8494; or & # x212e;
Microsoft Windows Alt+ +212E
or
212E Alt+ Xor

Alt (halten)+ 8494 (am Numerischen Block)+Alt (loslassen)

Microsoft Word U + 212e
OpenOffice.org Strg+ Umschalttaste+212E
TeX \ textestimated (requires textcomp)
Unicode U + 212e
XML & # x212e;
python u "\ u212e" or u "\ N {ESTIMATED SYMBOL}"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ docs.info.apple.com Apple Character Palette Instructions (English)
  2. ↑ apple.com ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Apple special characters (German) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.apple.com
  3. ↑ typography.info
  4. ↑ The bad e on software-wahnsinn.de
  5. ↑ fileformat.info
  6. ↑ fileformat.info
  7. ↑ a b Unicode input (English Wikipedia)
  8. ↑ a b georgehernandez.com