The Medicines (Products for Human Use) (Fees) Regulations 2016

Regulations 38(1) to (3);and 39(2)

SCHEDULE 4 U.K. Periodic fees for licences

PART 1 U.K. Interpretation

1.  In this Schedule— U.K.

“anthroposophic product” means a medicinal product prepared in accordance with the methods of anthroposophic medicine which is sold or supplied as an anthroposophic product and is so described by the person who sells or supplies that medicinal product;

“derivative”, in relation to a limited use drug or a new active substance, means a medicinal product—

(a)

which contains the same active ingredient or combination of active ingredients as that drug or substance but which is either—

(i)

a different dosage form of that drug or substance; or

(ii)

of the same dosage form as, but of a different strength of active ingredient to, or of a different combination of active ingredients to, that drug or substance; and

(b)

in respect of which an application for a marketing authorisation was made before the determination of the application for the marketing authorisation for that drug or substance;

“general sale list medicine” means a medicinal product (not being an anthroposophic product, a herbal remedy or a homoeopathic medicinal product) classified as subject to general sale within the meaning of regulation 5(1) of the Human Medicines Regulations;

“limited use drug” means a medicinal product in respect of which an application for a marketing authorisation has been submitted, to which point 6 of Part II of Annex I to the 2001 Directive applies or [F1 in respect of which an orphan marketing authorisation has been granted];

“lower fee” means the periodic fee payable—

(a)

where the medicinal product has not been manufactured or imported into the United Kingdom during the period of 12 months preceding the commencement of the relevant fee period; or

(b)

in relation to a medicinal product that has been manufactured or imported into the United Kingdom during the period referred to in (a) above, where the value of the product sold or supplied during that period did not exceed £1,000; and

(c)

in relation to a prescription only product, where the authorisation holder has notified the licensing authority that the medicinal product to which the marketing authorisation relates, is not expected to be manufactured, or imported into the United Kingdom during the relevant fee period; or

(d)

in relation to a pharmacy medicine or a general sale list medicine, the periodic fee payable during the relevant fee period;

“new active substance” means a medicinal product which is not a limited use drug and which contains an active ingredient which has not previously been included as an active ingredient in a medicinal product in respect of which a marketing authorisation (other than a product licence of right) has been granted in the five years preceding 31st December in the fee period preceding the relevant fee period;

“pharmacy medicine” means a medicinal product (not being an anthroposophic product, a herbal remedy or a homoeopathic medicinal product) classified as a pharmacy medicine within the meaning of regulation 5(5) of the Human Medicines Regulations;

“prescription only medicine” means a medicinal product (not being an anthroposophic product, a herbal remedy, a homoeopathic medicinal product, a new active substance or a derivative of a new active substance) classified as a prescription only medicine within the meaning of regulation 5(3) of the Human Medicines Regulations;

“reduced rate fee” means the periodic fee payable in relation to a prescription only medicine where the total value of the product which is sold or supplied in the relevant fee period does not exceed £35,000;

“standard fee” means the periodic fee payable in relation to a prescription only medicine where the total value of the product which is sold or supplied in the relevant fee period exceeds £35,000; and

“total value of the product” means the amount calculated in accordance with Part 2 of this Schedule.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Sch. 4 para. 1 substituted (31.12.2020) by The Human Medicines (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/775), reg. 1, Sch. 1 para. 8 (with Sch. 1 para. 11); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

PART 2 U.K. Value of the Product Sold or Supplied

Determining the total value of the product U.K.

2.  For the purposes of this Schedule, the “ total value of the product” means, the gross value at manufacturer's prices of all medicinal products to which the authorisation relates that are sold or supplied in the United Kingdom by the holder of that authorisation during a period of 12 months preceding the commencement of the relevant fee period.

Manufacturer's prices U.K.

3.  For the purposes of paragraph 2 manufacturer's prices means—

(a) for products manufactured or obtained, sold or supplied by the authorisation holder to wholesalers or to distributors or assemblers named in the marketing authorisation, which that holder has manufactured or obtained from the manufacturer, the prices charged for the supply;

(b) for products sold or supplied by the authorisation holder to retailers, which that holder has manufactured or obtained from the manufacturer, the prices which, in the opinion of the licensing authority, the authorisation holder would have charged, in accordance with the practice prevailing during the relevant year, to a wholesaler of the product; or

(c) for products sold or supplied by the authorisation holder which that holder has neither manufactured nor obtained from the manufacturer, the price which the authorisation holder paid for the supply.

Information requirements U.K.

4.—(1) The authorisation holder shall determine the total value of product sold or supplied in accordance with paragraphs 2 and 3 and provide such information to the licensing authority if required to do so.

(2) The licensing authority may additionally require an auditor's certificate verifying the authorisation holder's determination of the value of products sold or supplied.

(3) If an auditor's certificate has not been provided to the licensing authority within one month of it being required, or such longer period that the authority may allow, the periodic fee shall be calculated in accordance with sub-paragraph (4).

(4) The periodic fees for the relevant fee period in question shall be equal to the fee provided for in paragraphs 10 and 13 of Part 3 of this Schedule or, such lesser sum as the licensing authority may specify in a written notice served on the authorisation holder.

PART 3 U.K. Periodic Fees for Marketing Authorisations and Licences

Marketing authorisations U.K.

5.  Unless paragraphs 6 to 10 apply, the fee payable under regulation 38(1) in connection with the holding of a marketing authorisation relating to a medicinal product of a kind described in column 1 of the following table is the applicable fee specified in the corresponding entry in column 2 of that table.

Periodic fees for holding a marketing authorisation

Column 1 Type of Medicinal Product				Column 2 Fee payable
1. New Active Substance				£9,710
2. Parallel Import				£307
3. Others
	(a)	Any product (not being a derivative of a new active substance) in respect of which a marketing authorisation has been granted in consequence of a complex application submitted on or after 1st April 1989		£9,710
	(b)	Prescription Only Medicine
		(i)	Standard Fee	£2,428
		(ii)	Reduced Rate Fee	£1,211
		(iii)	Lower Fee	£307
	(c)	Pharmacy		£307
	(d)	General Sale List		£307
	(e)	Herbal remedy		£76
	(f)	Traditional herbal registrations		£76
	(g)	National homoeopathic product		£76
	(h)	Homoeopathic or anthroposophic product which is the subject of a licence of right		£76

Marketing authorisation: where Part 2 of the Act applies U.K.

6.  In the case of an article or substance to which Part 2 of the Act applies by virtue of the Medicines (Surgical Materials) Order 1971 F2 , the fee payable under regulation 38(1) in connection with the holding of a marketing authorisation or licence is £307.

Textual Amendments

F2 S.I. 1971/1267: Part 2 of the Act is applied by article 3 of the Order which has been amended by S.I. 1994/3119, 2004/1031 and 2006/2407.

Marketing authorisation: derivatives U.K.

7.  Unless paragraph 8 applies, where a marketing authorisation is held in respect of a derivative of a new active substance, the fee payable under regulation 38(1) is—

(a) £9,710 where the medicinal product to which the authorisation relates has a different route of administration from that of the new active substance; or

(b) £6,554 in any other case.

Number of fee periods U.K.

8.—(1) The fee specified in—

(a) paragraph 5 for a new active substance; and

(b) in paragraph 7 for a derivative of a new active substance,

is only payable for the five relevant fee periods following that in which the marketing authorisation is granted.

(2) The fee payable in accordance with entry 3(a) of the table set out in paragraph 5 is only payable for the three relevant fee periods following the year beginning 1st April during which the marketing authorisation is granted.

(3) Where a marketing authorisation is surrendered and at the same time another marketing authorisation held by the authorisation holder is varied so as to include in that other authorisation the provisions of the first authorisation, the fee payable—

(a) for the five relevant fee periods following the fee period during which the marketing authorisation is granted is the fee specified at entry 1 of the table set out in paragraph 5, where the first authorisation relates to a new active substance;

(b) in all other cases, for each fee period mentioned in sub-paragraph (2), is the fee specified at entry 3(a) of that table.

(4) In respect of fee periods following those referred to in sub-paragraphs (1) to (3) of this paragraph, the periodic fees are the appropriate fees for the kind of medicinal product in question specified in entries 3(b), (c) or (d) of the table set out in paragraph 5.

(5) In connection with the holding of a marketing authorisation in respect of a limited use drug or a derivative of a limited use drug—

(a) where the total value of the product sold or supplied exceeds £200,000, until the expiry of the five relevant fee periods following the fee period during which the marketing authorisation was granted, the periodic fee payable is the fee that would be payable if the drug were, respectively, a new active substance or a derivative of a new active substance;

(b) where the total value of the product sold or supplied does not exceed £200,000 or where a periodic fee has been payable in respect of the limited use drug or derivative of a limited use drug for five relevant fee periods following the fee period during which the marketing authorisation was granted, the periodic fee payable is the fee payable in respect of a prescription only medicine in accordance with entry 3(b)(i) of the table set out in paragraph 5.

Authorisation for two or more kinds of medicinal product U.K.

9.  Where a marketing authorisation relates to any two or more medicinal products of a kind described in entries 3(b), (c) or (d) of column 1 of the table in paragraph 5, the fee payable under regulation 38(1) shall be the lower of the fee specified as corresponding to those entries in column 2 of that table.

Reduced fees U.K.

10.  Where a reduced rate fee or a lower fee may be payable in respect of any relevant fee period and an authorisation holder does not submit information about the total value of the product sold or supplied in relation to the relevant calendar year to the satisfaction of the licensing authority, the periodic fee payable shall, where applicable, be the standard fee for each description of medicinal product in respect of which a marketing authorisation is held by the authorisation holder.

Manufacturer's licences or manufacturing authorisations U.K.

11.—(1) Unless sub-paragraph (3) applies, the fee payable under regulation 38(1) in connection with the holding of a manufacturer's licence is £468.

(2) The fee payable under regulation 38(1) in connection with the holding of a manufacturing authorisation is £468.

(3) The fee payable under regulation 38(1) in connection with the holding of a manufacturer's licence which relates to the import of special medicinal products from a third country is the fee payable in accordance with sub-paragraph (1) and an additional amount calculated in accordance with paragraph 15.

Wholesale dealer's licences U.K.

12.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2) and to paragraphs 13 and 16, the fee payable under regulation 38(1) in connection with the holding of a wholesale dealer's licence is £288.

(2) The fee payable under regulation 38(1) is £172 where the wholesale dealer's licence—

(a) relates to anything done in a registered pharmacy by or under the supervision of a pharmacist and amounts to wholesale dealing, where such dealing constitutes no more than 15% of the total value of the sale of authorised medicinal products carried on at that pharmacy;

(b) does not relate to anything done in a registered pharmacy, where the total value of the sale by way of wholesale dealing in authorised medicinal products does not exceed £35,000; or

(c) relates to general sale list medicines only.

(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2), the total value shall be calculated in accordance with Part 2 of this Schedule and the references to “marketing authorisation” and “authorisation holder” in Part 2 shall be interpreted as if they were references to “wholesale dealer's licence” and “licence holder”, respectively.

Wholesale dealer's licences: evidence U.K.

13.  Where in respect of any relevant fee period, the holder of a wholesale dealer's licence does not submit evidence of turnover in relation to the relevant fee period to the satisfaction of the licensing authority, the periodic fee payable shall be the fee prescribed in paragraph 12(1).

Wholesale dealer's licences: special medicinal products U.K.

14.  The fee payable under regulation 38(1) in connection with the holding of a wholesale dealer's licence which relates to special medicinal products imported from another EEA member State is the fee payable in accordance with paragraphs 12 and 13 and an additional amount calculated in accordance with paragraph 15.

Additional amount for manufacturer's licences and wholesale dealer's licences which relate to special medicinal products U.K.

15.—(1) The additional amount referred to in paragraph 11(3) and 14 in relation to any fee period shall be the fee specified in the entry in column 2 of the following table corresponding to the estimated number of special import notices for that fee period specified in column 1.

Additional periodic fee in connection with imported special medicinal products

Column 1 Number of special import notices	Column 2 Additional amount
1 to 20	£130
21 to 100	£519
101 to 1,000	£2,077
1,001 to 5,000	£10,383
5,001 to 20,000	£25,957
20,001 to 50,000	£51,914
50,001 to 100,000	£103,828
100,001 or more	£155,742

(2) For the purposes of this paragraph, the estimated number of special import notices for any fee period shall be the number notified in writing to the licence holder by the licensing authority before the start of that fee period as the number of such notices which the authority estimate will be given by the holder during the fee period.

Traditional herbal registrations U.K.

16.  The fee payable under regulation 38(1) in connection with the holding of a traditional herbal registration is £76.

Online sellers of medicines U.K.

17.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), the fee payable under regulation 39(1) by a person included on the list of online sellers of medicines is £97.

(2) For the fee period beginning with 1st April 2016 and ending with 31st March 2017, the fee payable under regulation 39(1) by a person included on the list of online sellers of medicines is the fee payable in accordance with sub-paragraph (1) and an additional amount of £100.

(3) The fee payable in accordance with sub-paragraph (2) is payable on invoice.

PART 4 U.K. Types of Marketing Authorisation for which only One Periodic Fee is Payable

Parallel import licences U.K.

18.  In a case where a parallel import licence has been granted by the licensing authority the periodic fee relating to that licence is payable once only.