Food labeling regulation

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Basic data
Title: Ordinance on the labeling of food
Short title: Food labeling regulation
Abbreviation: LMKV
Type: Federal Ordinance
Scope: Federal Republic of Germany
Legal matter: Special administrative law , food law
References : 2125-40-25
Issued on: December 22, 1981
( Federal Law Gazette I pp. 1625, 1626 )
Entry into force on: 3rd August 1984
Last change by: Art. 29 V of 5 July 2017
(Federal Law Gazette I p. 2272)
Effective date of the
last change: 		July 13, 2017 (expiry)
Please note the note on the applicable legal version.
Elements of the marking on a flour package

The Food Labeling Ordinance ( LMKV ) in Germany regulates the labeling of food that is delivered to the end consumer in prepackaged items . It was lifted on July 13, 2017. Since then, only the provisions of the Food Information Ordinance apply . However, the German legislator has determined that the regulations remain applicable to various areas.

Content overlaps with the LMIV

The directly applicable Food Information Regulation (LMIV) for the labeling of prepackaged foods has been in force across the EU since December 13, 2014 . However, due to the lack of formal repeal, the LMKV was still a valid national statutory ordinance until 2017. The LMKV should be repealed as soon as the LMIV comes into effect and replaced by the Food Information Implementation Ordinance (LMIDV). However, the LMIDV did not come into force until July 13, 2017. The first national regulations were previously created with a provisional food information supplement regulation. With the LMKV and the LMIV, there were therefore temporarily two different legal norms that have largely the same regulatory content. Due to the effective nature of European regulations, however , the LMKV was de facto no longer applicable to matters that are directly regulated by the LMIV. This solution is also suggested by the wording of Section 1 (3) No. 9 LMKV (“ The provisions of this regulation also do not apply to the labeling of (...) foodstuffs, insofar as their labeling in regulations of the Council or Commission of the European Union is regulated ").

In November 2011, the EU LMIV was announced in the Official Journal and has been mandatory in all EU member states since December 13, 2014 . Exceptions are the nutritional labeling (mandatory from December 13, 2016, Article 54 para. 1 subpara 2 LMIV) and the "special requirements for the designation 'minced meat'" (applies since January 1, 2014, Article 54 para 1 UA 3 LMIV).

Elements of marking

  1. the sales description
  2. the name or company and the address of the manufacturer, packer or distributor
  3. the list of ingredients (in descending order of their proportions by weight at the time of their use in production - without specifying the quantity)
  4. Quid rule - quantity is required if an ingredient is particularly emphasized by word or picture
  5. the best before date or, in the case of microbiologically perishable foods, the use-by date
  6. the quantities / filling quantity

Since November 25, 2005, certain allergens in food have to be labeled in the EU . See allergen labeling .

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Provisions for the further application of the Food Labeling Ordinance
  2. ↑ Full text of REGULATION (EU) No. 1169/2011 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of October 25, 2011 regarding consumer information about food (LMIV) as PDF (1.2 MiB) / as HTML , both accessed on 24. April 2016.
  3. ↑ Draft of the LMIDV of the Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture ( Memento of the original from February 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , s. Art. 24 para. 1 no. 1 LMIDV draft, accessed on February 9, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bmel.de
  4. ↑ Food Information Implementation Ordinance - LMIDV
  5. ^ Text of the preliminary food information supplement regulation - VorlLMIEV
  6. ↑ EurActiv.de: Starting shot for new EU guidelines on food labeling. Retrieved December 13, 2014.
  7. ↑ BMEL: Allergen labeling on packaged foods is mandatory. Retrieved May 24, 2014.