Dispute over the sausage pelle
Payed the packaging again?
Actually, the matter was clarified: for food you have to pay, not for the packaging. But the sausage pelle was fiercely disputed until the end.
The Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig dealt with the liver sausage on Tuesday: are pelle and metal clip among the product? Or for packaging? For the former you have to pay, for the latter. The dispute actually seemed to be resolved, through an EU regulation from 1976: According to this, pelle and clips are part of the product for sausages.
But the Eichamt responsible for the Warendorf district referred to a newer regulation on food information that came into force in 2014. And banned the distribution of a liver sausage six years ago, where Pelle and clips were included in the product weight. There was talk of 130 grams of liver sausage on the outer packaging, but in fact it was less than 128 grams – because of the weight of clip and pelle.
A long -term argument followed in court. The administrative court agreed with the Eichamt, the higher administrative court to the manufacturer. Yesterday now – in such questions – the highest dish of the matter. The Federal Administrative Court rightly agreed with the Eichamt. “It must be the amount of food that is on the outside,” judge Ulla Held-Daab explained her, now final, decision. Cases and clips that were not consumable were not one of them.
The rule for packaging is as old as the trade itself
Most consumers probably have no pain to say the sausage pelle. Many probably don’t even know the rules in the food trade. It has become quiet around “Die Tara” in the past decades. Tara is the trade concept for the “packaging weight”, strictly speaking for the weight deduction for the packaging. Because in principle only the product has to be paid, not the package.
The tendency to pay only for the product is probably as old as the trade itself. The word Tara comes from the Arabic “Taraha”, which means “removing” – and came into German in the 14th century.
Tara-Nepp: An old problem comes back
In the past, there were many complaints from the consumer advice centers: because the packaging was often weighed at the weekly market and customers had to pay too much. Especially with high -quality products such as Parma ham or North Sea crabs, this can quickly make up 50 cents and more.
With the supermarkets, the sale of finished packed goods prevailed. The manufacturers adhered to the rules, the symptoms became less. “Rather the older ones were still interested,” reports Armin Valet from the Hamburg Consumer Center star“The younger ones are not so”. The knowledge of the Tara rules has probably also been lost a little.
But now the problem comes back: With increasing environmental awareness, more and more customers bring their own packaging with them. The supermarkets themselves also offer reusable networks for fruit and vegetables. With the different bags, bags and networks, the staff at the health insurers obviously does not get along so well. The Baden-Württemberg Consumer Center made 16 test purchases with reusable networks last year: In more than every second case, the test customers were calculated too much.
A cotton bag for the fruit weighs 56 grams
In addition, the new reusable bags are much heavier than the plastic bags: a cotton network that consumer advocates bought in their test in their test, weighed a proud 56 grams. With expensive organic fruit, one euro is quickly paid. Customers are difficult to understand when purchasing, because most shops do not show the Tara on the BONS.
Nevertheless, it doesn’t give the impression that the system has. The markets did not calculate enough for two of the test purchases of the Baden-Württemberg consumer center. And if you use the self-paying insurance company at Edeka, for example, you will be overwhelmed by the selection of options: 18 Tara amounts had a Berlin branch in the selection. From 2 to 222 grams.
Trade: No pain with the packaging rule
The Commercial Association of Food BVLH also regularly explains that you have no pain with the Tara rules: “We keep ourselves very strictly,” says association lawyer Axel Haentjes. “If it is not entirely clear whether a packaging weighs two grams or four grams, then we just pull four grams off the weight.”
So what to do? When shopping, consumers should make sure that the Tara key is pressed at the cash register when weighing. This often shows the cash register. Anyone who does not find the right tara weight at the self-pay fund weighs best without a bag. Basically, only the product has to be paid, not the packaging.
And that has also been valid for the liver sausage since yesterday.
Source: Stern
