point 1 (a), which are vatted, bottled and labelled in volumes not exceeding 0,25 litre and are intended for professional use, points 2 (a) and 4, which are intended either for consumption on board aircraft, ships and trains or for sale in duty-free shops.
Council Directive 75/106/EEC of 19 December 1974 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making-up by volume of certain prepackaged liquids
Modified by
- Commission Directiveof 28 September 1978adapting to technical progress the Annexes to Council Directives 75/106/EEC and 76/211/EEC on prepackaging(78/891/EEC), 31978L0891, November 4, 1978
- Council Directiveof 23 November 1979amending Directive 75/106/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making-up by volume of certain prepackaged liquids(79/1005/EEC), 31979L1005, December 4, 1979
- Council Directiveof 18 December 1984amending Directive 75/106/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making-up by volume of certain prepackaged liquids(85/10/EEC), 31985L0010, January 5, 1985
- Council Directiveof 7 June 1988amending Directive 75/106/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making-up by volume of certain prepackaged liquids(88/316/EEC)Corrigendum to Council Directive 88/316/EEC of 7 June 1988 amending Directive 75/106/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making-up by volume of certain prepackaged liquids(Official Journal of the European Communities No L 143 of 10 June 1988), 31988L031631988L0316R(01), June 10, 1988
- Council Directiveof 21 December 1989amending Directive 75/106/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making-up by volume of certain prepackaged liquids(89/676/EEC), 31989L0676, December 30, 1989
- Actconcerning the conditions of accession of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic and the adjustments to the Treaties on which the European Union is founded, 12003T, September 23, 2003
- Directive 2007/45/EC Of the European Parliament and of the Councilof 5 September 2007laying down rules on nominal quantities for prepacked products, repealing Council Directives 75/106/EEC and 80/232/EEC, and amending Council Directive 76/211/EEC, 32007L0045, September 21, 2007
Corrected by
- Corrigendum to Council Directive 75/106/EEC of 19 December 1974 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making-up by volume of certain prepackaged liquids, 31975L0106R(01), December 16, 1975
- Corrigendum to Council Directive 88/316/EEC of 7 June 1988 amending Directive 75/106/EEC on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making-up by volume of certain prepackaged liquids, 31988L0316R(01), July 20, 1988
(b) Prepackages containing the products listed in Annex III, 1 (a) and (b), may be marketed after 31 December 1988 only if they have the nominal volumes set out in column I of the said Annex. Packages containing the products listed in Annex III 2 (a) may be marketed after 31 December 1990 only if they have the nominal volumes set out in column I of that Annex. Those prepackages which appear in Annex III, section 4, may be marketed after 31 December 1991 only if they have the nominal volumes set out in the said column I. (c) Without prejudice to subparagraph (a) above, the products listed in Annex III (1) (a), when contained in returnable packages, may be marketed in the following volumes: 0,68 litre, 0,70 litre and 0,98 litre in Spain, until 31 December 1992, 0,46 litre and 0,70 litre in Greece, until 31 December 1992.
(d) Without prejudice to subparagraph (b), products listed in Annex III, section 4, and having the volume of 0,071 litre may be marketed in Ireland and the United Kingdom. (e) Without prejudice to subparagraph (b), products listed in Annex III, Section(1)(a) produced and bottled in Hungary before 1 January 1993 and having the volume of 0,70 litre may be marketed in Hungary, provided that Hungary declares the quantity of stocks at the date of accession to the Commission.
1.1. the actual volume of the contents shall not be less, on average, than the nominal volume of the contents; 1.2. the proportion of prepackages having a negative error greater than the tolerable negative error laid down in subsection 2.4 shall be sufficiently small for batches of prepackages to satisfy the requirements of the tests specified in Annex II; 1.3. no prepackage having a negative error greater than twice the tolerable negative error given in the table of subsection 2.4 may be marked with the EEC mark provided for in subsection 3.3.
2.1. The nominal volume of the contents of a prepackage is the volume indicated on the prepackage, i.e., the volume of liquid which the prepackage is deemed to contain. 2.2. The actual volume of the contents of a prepackage is the volume of liquid it in fact contains. In all checking operations the value employed for actual volume of the contents shall be measured at or corrected to a temperature of 20 °C. 2.3. The negative error is the quantity by which the actual volume of the contents is less than the nominal volume of the contents of the prepackage. 2.4. The tolerable negative error shall be fixed in accordance with the following table: Nominal volume of the contents V n in millilitresTolerable negative error in % of V n in millilitres from 5 to 50 9 — from 50 to 100 — 4,5 from 100 to 200 4,5 — from 200 to 300 — 9 from 300 to 500 3 — from 500 to 1000 — 15 from 1000 to10000 1,5 — When using the table, the values of the tolerable negative errors shown as percentages in the table, calculated in units of volume, shall be rounded up to the nearest one-tenth of a millilitre.
3.1. the nominal volume of the contents expressed in litres, centilitres or millilitres and marked in figures at least 6 mm high if the nominal volume of the contents is greater than 100 cl, 4 mm high if it is from 100 cl down to but not including 20 cl, 3 mm high if it is from 20 cl down to but not including 5 cl, 2 mm high if it is not more than 5 cl,
followed by the symbol for the unit of measurement used or where appropriate by the name of the unit, in accordance with Directive 71/354/EEC, as last amended by Directive 76/770/EEC; Until the expiry of the periods laid down in Directive 71/354/EEC, as amended by Directive 76/770/EEC, the indication of the nominal volume of the contents expressed in SI units in accordance with the first paragraph may be accompanied by that of the equivalent value in imperial (UK) units of measurement, calculated by applying the following conversion factors: one millilitre 0. 0352 fluid ounce one litre 1. 760 pints or 0. 220 gallon. Member States may, where they think it necessary, insist on this second indication for products put up for sale on their national territories. Markings in imperial (UK) units shall be in letters and figures of dimensions not larger than those of the corresponding markings in SI units. 3.2. a mark or inscription enabling the department concerned to identify the packer or the person responsible for the packing or the importer established in the Community; 3.3. a small "e" at least 3 mm high, placed in the same field of vision as the indication of the nominal volume of the contents, certifying that the prepackage meets the requirements of this Directive. This letter shall have the form shown in the drawing contained in Annex II, Section 3, to Council Directive No 71/316/EEC. Article 12 of this latter Directive shall apply mutatis mutandis .However, if the package is a measuring container which complies with the relevant Directive and if the indication of its nominal capacity is visible under normal conditions of presentation of the prepackage, it is not necessary for the purposes of this Directive to indicate the nominal volume of the contents of the prepackage as required by point 3.1 above. This shall not, however, be applicable when such nominal volume of the prepackage differs by an amount of up to and including 0.05 litre from another nominal volume provided for in Annex III for the same category of products.
a check covering the actual contents of each prepackage in the sample, another check on the average of the actual contents of the prepackages in the sample.
one for non-destructive testing, i. e., testing which does not involve opening the package, the other for destructive testing, i.e., testing which involves opening or destroying the package.
if the number of defective units found in the first sample is less than or equal to the first acceptance criterion, the batch shall be considered acceptable for the purpose of this check, if the number of defective units found in the first sample is equal to or greater than the first rejection criterion, the batch shall be rejected, if the number of defective units found in the first sample lies between the first acceptance criterion and the first rejection criterion, a second sample shall be checked, the number of units in which is indicated in the plan.
if the aggregate number of defective units is less than or equal to the second acceptance criterion, the batch shall be considered acceptable for the purpose of this check, if the aggregate number of defective units is greater than or equal to the second rejection criterion, the batch shall be rejected.
Number in batch | Samples | Number of defective units | |||
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100 to 500 | 1st | ||||
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501 to | 1st | ||||
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If the number of defective units found in the sample is less than or equal to the acceptance criterion, the batch of prepackages shall be considered as acceptable. If the number of defective units found in the sample is equal to or greater than the rejection criterion, the batch of prepackages shall be rejected.
Number in batch | Number in sample | Number of defective units | |
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Acceptance criterion | Rejection criterion | ||
Whatever the number (≥ 100) |
the sum of the squares of the measured values: the square of the sum of the measured values: , then the corrected sum: the estimated variance
Number in bath | Number in sample | Criteria | |
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Acceptance | Rejection | ||
≤ 500 | |||
> 500 |
Number in bath | Number in sample | Criteria | |
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Acceptance | Rejection | ||
Whatever the number (≥ 100) |
Liquids | Nominal volume of contents in litres | |||
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1. | (a) | Wine of fresh grapes; fresh grape must with fermentation arrested by the tradition of alcohol including wine maqe of unfermented grape juice blended with alcohol except for wines included in Common Customs tariff subheadings 22.05 A and B and liqueur wines (CCT subheading ex 22.05 C); grape must, in fermentation or with fermentation arrested otherwise than by the addition of olcohol (CCT heading No 22.04) | ||
(b) | "yellox" wines entitled to use the following designation of origin: "Côtes du Jura", "Arbois", "L'Etoile"and "Château-Chalon" | 0,62 | ||
(c) | Other non-sparkling fermented beverages, for example, cider, perry and mead (CCT subheading 22.07 B II) | 0,35 — 0,70 | ||
(d) | Vermouths and other wines of fresh grapes flavoured with aromatic extracts (CCT headi,g No 22.06); liqueur wines (CCT subheading ex 22.05 C) | |||
2. | (a) | 0.10 — 0.25 — 0.70 | ||
(b) | Other fermented sparkling beverages, for example, cider, perry and mead (CCT subheading 22.07 B I) | 0,125 | ||
3. | (a) | Beer made from malt (CCT heading No 22.03), excluding acid beers | 0,35 | |
(b) | Acid beers, gueuze | 0.25 — 0.375 — 0.75 | ||
4. | Spirits, other than those of CCT headings No 22.08): liqueurs and other spirituous beverages; compound alcoholic preparations ( known as "concentrated extracts") for the manufacture of beverages (CCT heading No 22.09) | |||
5. | Vinegar and substitutes for vinegar (CCT heading no 22.10) | |||
6. | Olive oils (CCT subheading 15.07 A), other edible oils (CCT subheading 15.07 D II) | |||
7. | 0,10 | |||
8. | (a) | Waters, includings spa waters and aerated waters (CCT heading No 22.01) | ||
(b) | Lemonade, flavoured spa waters and flavoured aerated waters and other non-alcoholic beverages not containing milk or milkfats, (CCT subheading 22.02 A) excluding friut and vegetable juices falling within CCT heading No 22.07 and concentrates | |||
(c) | Beverages labelled as alcohol-free aperitifs | 0,10 | ||
9. | Fruit juices (including grape must) or vegetable juices, whether or not containing added sugar, but unfermented and not containing spirit falling within CCT subhaeding 20.07 B, fruit nectar directive 75/726/EEC of 17 november 1975 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States concerning fruit juices and certain similar products |