Lid for a beverage can

A lid made of metal, in particular aluminum, for a beverage can or the like designed for permanent connection to a can body and having a lid panel, from which a rivet is shaped and into which a predetermined breaking line, which defines a breaking-open area, is impressed, along which an opening in the lid panel is to be opened by means of the grip tab, which is attached to the rivet and has a break-open edge presses against a predetermined pressing point of the breaking-open area by raising a grip section of the grip tab when opening up the opening, wherein the lid panel has a rivet base around the rivet, in which the metal of the lid is thinner and/or more brittle than in the regions of the lid panel adjacent to the rivet base,

• characterized in that the predetermined breaking line runs outside of the rivet base and a material-thinning embossment, which also runs outside of the rivet base and is designed in the form of an embossing recess and is associated with an embrittlement of the thinned-out material, is provided in at least one area of the lid panel situated between the rivet base and the predetermined pressing point of the breaking-open area, wherein a longitudinal section of the predetermined breaking line in this lid panel region coincides with the material-thinning embossment along the longitudinal section, wherein the embossing depth of the predetermined breaking line is greater than the embossing depth of the material-thinning embossment.