Regulation 5

SCHEDULE 2 E+W Salmonella national control programme (zoonoses): Fees

Table 1

Fees payable by the person in charge of chicken or turkey holding from which an official samples is taken, processed and examined
Column 1 Activity	Column 2 Fee (£)
Time spent in obtaining an official control sample for examination in a laboratory (in addition to the fees specified below)	23 per half hour or part half hour spent
Taking an official control sample from a chicken laying flock	60
Taking an official control sample from a chicken breeding flock	96
Taking an official control sample from a chicken broiler flock	89
Taking an official control sample from a turkey fattening and breeding flocks	87
Examination of an official control samples in a laboratory	15 per sample examined

Table 2

Fees payable by the operator of a laboratory
Column 1 Activity	Column 2 Fee (£)
Processing an application for an initial laboratory approval or an annual renewal of a laboratory approval	43
Conducting inspections and quality assurance based upon the number of tests for which the laboratory is approved	one test	642
	two tests	661
	three tests	681
	four tests	700
Conducting collaborative testing for Salmonella as required to obtain and maintain approval as a testing laboratory	37 per test

Table 3

Fees payable by the person in charge of poultry flocks for conducting tests under point 4(b) of Part D of Annex II of Regulation (EC) No 2160/2003
Column 1 Activity	Column 2 Fee (£)
Conducting tests on seven dust and faecal samples taken from each flock	15 per sample tested
Conducting bacteriological sampling and testing of the caeca and oviducts of 300 birds from each flock	3,560
Conducting bacteriological sampling and testing of the shell and the content of 4,000 eggs from each flock	2,310