Quantity control valve and high pressure pump with volume control valve

Quantity control valve (10), in particular for metering of a fluid for a downstream high-pressure pump (2), with an axially movable valve needle (14) and a of the valve needle (14) can be acted upon in an opening direction of the valve element (16), said valve element (16) defining a damping chamber (26), between a wall (25) of the damping chamber (26) and the valve element (16) an annular gap (31) is provided with at least one bulge (32).