Abstract: A pack for packaging articles having a tear-open member (7) and consisting of a flexible and foldable packaging material having a doubled region in which said packaging material is formed of two layers (4,5) bonded to each other with a bonding agent and on which the beginning of the tear-open member is located, the said two layers of packaging material and tear-open member being optionally bonded to one another in a gas-tight manner, the region surrounding the tear-open member being substantially completely encircled by lines of weakness in the packaging material and optionally to the edge of the doubled region.