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These Regulations may be cited as the Plant Protection Products (Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2002, come into force on 30th November 2002 and extend to Great Britain.
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(1) The Plant Protection Products (Fees) Regulations 2001 shall be amended in accordance with this regulation.
(2) In the Schedule, Item A (2) after row (h) there shall be inserted a new row (i) as follows—“

Item Type of examination Amount
(i) a Parallel Import application (Note 28) £710 (Note A) (Note B)”
(3) In the Schedule, Item A (4) (c) (iii) (parallel import verification), in the column “Amount” for the figure £425 there shall be substituted the figure £300.
(4) In the Schedule, Item B (2) (a) (relating to processing and evaluation of a full data package), in the column “Amount” after “(Note C)” there shall be inserted “(Note F)”.
(5) In the Schedule, Item C (1) (relating to the application and inspection for initial official recognition of a test facility) in the column “Amount” for the figure £1,120 there shall be substituted the figure £1,500.
(6) In the Schedule, Item C (2) (relating to the application and inspection for renewed recognition of a test facility) in the column “Amount” for the figure £840 there shall be substituted the figure £1,500.
(7) In the Schedule, Item C, after the row (2) there shall be inserted a new row (3) as follows—“

Item Type of examination Amount
(3) for each re-inspection following an inspection under item C (1) or (2) £1,125”.
(8) In the Notes (numbered) to the Schedule, in Note 5, following the text there shall be added the following words—
 “A Fast application does not include a Parallel Import application as described in Note 28.”.
(9) In the Notes (numbered) to the Schedule, after Note 27 there shall be inserted a new Note 28 as follows—“
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A Parallel Import application is one which would be a Fast application as described in Note 5 but for the fact that the approval applied for relates to a product which is materially identical to a product identified in the application and already approved in the UK under the Control of Pesticides Regulations 1986 or the 1995 Regulations in relation to each type of operation covered by the application, and in consequence requires a different type of consideration and checking.”.
(10) In the Notes (lettered) to the Schedule, after Note E there shall be inserted a new Note F—“
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Where further information is submitted in response to requests made by the Commission pursuant to Article 6 (4) of the 1991 Directive and the further information is required to be examined and evaluated in order to determine whether an active substance can be added to Annex I to that Directive, then an additional fee under item B (3), based on the size of the data package contained within that information, will become payable as if submission of that information were a resubmitted application.”.
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(1) Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) these Regulations shall not apply in respect of any application or inspection made before these Regulations come into force.
(2) The amount of any fee relating to any activity carried out after these Regulations come into force in connection with any application made before they come into force is based on the fee specified in these Regulations.
(3) The fee for an application and inspection for renewed recognition of a test facility is the fee payable at the time the renewal is due.
Whitty
Parliamentary Under-Secretary,
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
3rd November 2002