Fees for approvals or amendments to approvalsE+W
13.—(1) A feed business operator who applies to an enforcement authority for an approval or amendment to an approval must—
(a)pay the relevant fee when the application is submitted; and
(b)reimburse the enforcement authority on demand the cost of any laboratory analysis incurred by it in connection with the application.
(2) In relation to any such application referred to in paragraph (1) submitted to it, the enforcement authority need not—
(a)take any steps to approve an establishment in respect of one or more of its feed business activities until the relevant fee has been paid to it; nor
(b)approve an establishment in respect of one or more of its feed business activities until it has been reimbursed in accordance with paragraph (1)(b).
(3) Where the establishment in relation to which approval or amendment to approval is sought is one at which more than one feed business activity requiring approval may be exercised, the feed business operator is liable to pay a single relevant fee, which fee shall be the highest one otherwise payable.
(4) In this regulation “relevant fee” (“ffi berthnasol”) means the appropriate fee specified in Schedule 3.