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Evaluation of the Community Plant Health Regime: Final Report
DG SANCO Evaluation Framework Contract Lot 3 (Food Chain)
3.11.4.5 Additional costs not imposed by the CPHR
The costs associated with the general surveillance (i.e. the surveillance for HOs other than
those covered by the Community emergency measures and Control Directives) and the
exports checks have also been analysed.
In total, 16 MS CAs (DK, EE, HU, IT, LV, LT, MT, NL, PL, PT, RO, SI, SK, ES, SE and
UK) have provided data on the costs associated with the general surveillance, and the total
cost for these MS comes to €8,378,161 on average per year.
Finally, the costs for MS CAs associated with the export checks amounts to €22,698,777 225 on
average per year, of which €17,228,953 (75.9%) are charged as fees to private operators.
3.11.5 The fee system
Under Article 13d paragraphs 1 and 2, Directive 2000/29/EC imposes the collection of fees to
cover the costs of the import checks (compulsory fees) as follows:
―Member States shall ensure the collection of fees (Phytosanitary fee) to cover the costs occasioned by the
documentary checks, identity checks and plant health checks provided for in Article 13a(1), which are
carried out pursuant to Article 13. The level of the fee shall reflect:
(a) the salaries, including social security, of the inspectors involved in the above checks;
(b) the office, other facilities, tools and equipment for these inspectors;
(c) the sampling for visual inspection or for laboratory testing;
(d) laboratory testing;
(e) the administrative activities (including operational overheads) required for carrying out the checks
concerned effectively, which may include the expenditure required for pre- and in-service training of
inspectors.
Member States may either set the level of the Phytosanitary fee on the basis of a detailed cost calculation
carried out in accordance with paragraph 1, or apply the standard fee as specified in Annex VIIIa‖.
Responses from CAs to the cost survey indicate that several MS not only collect fees for the
activities foreseen under the above provision, but also collect fees to cover expenditures due
to other CPHR obligations, such as for instance the inspection at the place of production.
The following analysis distinguishes between the fees charged by MS to cover the costs of the
import checks (compulsory) and the fees charged by the MS to cover other types of costs.
225 Only 20 MS CA have responded in the specific cost survey to questions concerning exports checks costs and
fees. CY, DE, MT and ES did not provide any information on exports.
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