{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-589/article-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-589/article-5.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2008/589",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 589/2008 of 23 June 2008 laying down detailed rules for implementing Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 as regards marketing standards for eggs",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2008-589",
  "path": "article/5",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Packing centres",
  "text": "1. Only packing centres shall grade and pack eggs and label their packs.\nOnly undertakings satisfying the conditions laid down in this Article shall be authorised as packing centres.\n2. The competent authority shall authorise packing centres to grade eggs and shall allot a packing centre code to any operator whose premises and technical equipment are suitable for grading eggs by quality and weight. No suitable technical equipment for grading eggs by weight shall be required for packing centres working exclusively for the food and non-food industry.\nThe competent authority shall allot the packing centre a packing centre code. The packing centre code must include the code ‘UK’.\n3. Packing centres shall have the technical equipment necessary to ensure that eggs are handled properly. This should include as appropriate:\n(a) suitable candling equipment, automatic or continuously staffed throughout, allowing the quality of each egg to be examined separately, or other appropriate equipment;\n(b) devices for measuring the height of the air space;\n(c) equipment for grading eggs by weight;\n(d) one or more approved balances for weighing eggs;\n(e) equipment for marking eggs.\n4. The authorisation referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 may be withdrawn at any time if the conditions provided for in this Article are no longer fulfilled.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Art. 5(2) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products and Common Agricultural Policy (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (EU Exit) (No. 2) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1422), regs. 1, 4(6)(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2008/589/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:52:12.886367+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."
}