The Fishery Products (Official Controls Charges) (Wales) Regulations 2005

Actual costs

3.—(1) For the purposes of these Regulations, the actual costs of exercising official controls are the aggregate of costs of the types specified in paragraph (2) directly incurred in the exercise of the official controls required under Annex III to Regulation 854/2004.

(2) The types of costs are—

(a) the salaries and fees, together with overtime payments and employers' National Insurance contributions and pension contributions, of all staff directly involved in the exercise of the controls and of all staff engaged in the management or administration of the controls;

(b) the costs of in-service training for staff directly involved in the exercise of the controls;

(c) travelling costs and related incidental expenses incurred in exercising the controls, except those incurred by a person attending his or her normal place of work;

(d) the costs of office accommodation, equipment and services for staff involved in exercising the controls, including depreciation of any office furniture and equipment and the cost of information technology, stationery and forms;

(e) the costs of protective clothing and equipment used in exercising the controls;

(f) the costs of laundering protective clothing used in exercising the controls;

(g) sampling and analysis costs incurred in exercising the controls; and

(h) the routine administrative costs of accounting and collecting charges and of providing pay-roll and personnel services in connection with the employment of staff exercising the controls.