http://www.legislation.gov.uk/id/nisr/2008/89

SCHEDULE 2CALCULATION OF THE OFFICIAL CONTROLS CHARGE

The standard charge

3.

The standard charge for any accounting period payable by the operator of a slaughterhouse shall be calculated—

(a)

until the end of 2008, by multiplying the rate specified in the following Table applicable to a given type of animal by the number of animals of that type slaughtered and/or dressed there in the period; and

(b)

for 2009—

(i)

in the same manner, or

(ii)

by multiplying the rate in Euros specified in Chapter I of Section B of Annex IV to Regulation 882/2004 applicable to a given type of animal specified in the following Table by the number of animals of that type slaughtered and/or dressed there in the period and converting the resulting sum into Sterling by multiplying it by the Euro/Sterling conversion rate published in the C series of the Official Journal of the European Union on 1^st September 2008 or, if no rate is published in that document on that date, the first rate published in it thereafter,

whichever results in the higher charge.