A Great Britain competent authority may charge fees for work carried out within the scope of Regulation 1107/2009 which relates to evaluating applications made to it for the approval of active substances, safeners, synergists or basic substances, and such fees are payable in accordance with paragraph 2 of Schedule 1.

The Northern Ireland competent authority may charge fees for work carried out within the scope of Regulation 1107/2009 which relates to evaluating parallel trade applications made to it and such fees are payable in accordance with paragraph 1A of Schedule 1.

A F4Great Britain competent authority may charge fees for applications for import tolerances F5and standalone MRL applications under Article 7 of the MRL Regulation and such fees are payable in accordance with Schedule 2.

A Great Britain competent authority may charge fees for the evaluation of supplementary information provided in accordance with Article 14(3) of the MRL Regulation and such fees are payable in accordance with Schedule 3.

The fees in these Regulations apply in relation to any activity carried out after they come into force, provided no invoice has been issued under the Plant Protection Product (Fees) Regulations 200710 or the Plant Protection Products (Fees) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 200411 in relation to that work.

Fees are payable by the applicant, on invoice, to F7the relevant competent authority.

F8The relevant competent authority is under no obligation to process or to issue a decision in respect of an outstanding application if there are outstanding fees in relation to it.

In paragraph (5), “outstanding application” means any application for which a fee has been charged under the Plant Protection Products (Fees) Regulations 2007, the Plant Protection Products (Fees) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 or under these Regulations.

Any unpaid fee may be recovered by F9the relevant competent authority as a civil debt.