{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1976-211/annex-I/division-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1976-211/annex-I/division-3.json",
  "legislation": "eudr/1976/211",
  "legislation_title": "Council Directive of 20 January 1976 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States relating to the making-up by weight or by volume of certain prepackaged products (76/211/EEC)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-1976-211",
  "path": "annex/I/division/3",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "INSCRIPTIONS AND MARKINGS",
  "text": "All prepackages made up in accordance with this Directive shall bear on the package the following markings affixed in such a manner as to be indelible, easily legible and visible on the prepackage in normal conditions of presentation:\n3.1. The nominal quantity (nominal weight or nominal volume) expressed in kilograms, grams, litres, centilitres or millilitres, and marked in figures at least 6 mm high if the nominal quantity exceeds 1 000 g or 100 cl, 4 mm high if it is from 1 000 g or 100 cl inclusive down to but not including 200 g or 20 cl, 3 mm high if it is from 200 g or 20 cl down to but not including 50 g or 5 cl, 2 mm high if it is not more than 50 g or 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.\nMarkings in imperial (UK) units shall be in letters and figures of dimensions not larger than those of the corresponding markings in SI units.\n3.2. a mark or inscription enabling the competent departments to identify the packer or the person arranging for the packing to be done or the importer established in the Community;\n3.3. a small ‘e’, at least 3 mm high, placed in the same field of vision as the indication of the nominal weight or nominal volume, constituting a guarantee by the packer or the importer that the prepackage meets the requirements of this Directive.\nThis letter shall have the form shown in the drawing contained in section 3 of Annex II to Directive 71/316/EEC.\nArticle 12 of this latter Directive shall apply mutatis mutandis.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Directive of 28 September 1978 adapting to technical progress the Annexes to Council Directives 75/106/EEC and 76/211/EEC on prepackaging (78/891/EEC)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/1976/211/annex/I/division/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T15:23:46.665979+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}