S.I. No. 202/1998 - European Communities (Veterinary Inspection Fees) Regulations, 1998.

1. Bovine animals

Fee per animal

£4.00

Minimum fee per consignment

£24.00

2. Animals of the equine species

Fee per animal

£10.00

Minimum fee per consignment

£24.00

3. Animals of the ovine, caprine or porcine species

Fee per animal

£24.00

Minimum fee per consignment

£24.00

4. Poultry, rabbits and rodents

Fee per large consignment

(5 or more boxes)

£48.00

Fee per small consignment

(less than 5 boxes)

£24.00

5. Ungulates (other than animals of the bovine,equine, porcine, ovine or caprine species) and ratites

Fee per animal

£4.00

Minimum fee per consignment

£24.00

6. Bees

Fee per consignment

£24.00

7. Animals destined for zoos

Fee per animal

£4.00

Minimum fee per consignment

£24.00

8. Cats and dogs which are commercially traded in accordance with Council Directive No. 96/65/EEC

(5)

of 13 July 1992

Fee per animal

£4.00

Minimum fee per consignment

£24.00

9. Animals of any other species

Fee per animal

£4.00

Minimum fee per consignment

£24.00

(5)

O.J. No. L268 of 14.9.1992, p.54

SECOND SCHEDULE

(Regulation 4)

1.

Live animals for slaughter and meat covered by Chapter 1 of Annex A to the Council Directive

£1.08 per tonne of slaughtered meat

2.

Milk and milk products

£0.016 per 1,000 litres of raw milk

3.

Egg products and honey The amount corresponding to the actual cost of the control.

GIVEN under my Official Seal, this 15th day of June, 1998.

JOE WALSH,

Minister for Agriculture and Food.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

These Regulations implement Council Directive 96/43/EC of 26 June 1996 amending and consolidating Directive 85/73/EC in order to ensure financing of veterinary inspections and controls on live animals and certain animal products insofar as that Directive requires charges to be applied in relation to—

(

a

) imports of animals from third countries, and

(

b

) testing carried out under Council Directive 96/23/EC of 29 April 1996 on measures to monitor certain substances and residues thereof in live animals and animal products.

The Regulations also provide for the approval of authorised officers to enforce the Regulations, the prosecution of offences, and the level of fees to be charged.

10. (1) Where the whole or part of a fee payable by a person to the Minister under these Regulations is not paid within the time specified in Regulation 7, the Minister may charge and levy on the person, and if the Minister does so, the person shall pay to the Minister, interest at the rate of 15 per cent. per annum on the amount unpaid of the fee in respect of the period during which that amount remains unpaid after the time at or before which it was required by Regulation 7 to be paid.

(2) The Minister may, in relation to any period in respect of which interest is payable by a person to him under paragraph (1) of this Regulation, prepare a certificate (referred to subsequently in these Regulations as "an interest certificate") specifying the name and address of the person, the amount of the interest, the amount of the fees concerned, the period to which the interest relates and the establishment and period to which the fees relate.

(3) Regulations 7, 8 and 9 shall apply to an interest certificate as they apply to a certificate of indebtedness with the modification that references in Regulation 7 to fees shall be construed as references to interest and with any other necessary modifications.

11. (1) The Minister may appoint such and so many persons as he thinks fit to be authorised officers for the purposes of these Regulations.

(2) An authorised officer, when exercising any power conferred on him by these Regulations, shall, if so requested by any person affected, produce evidence in writing of his appointment as an authorised officer or inspector.

12. (1) An authorised officer may, for the purposes of these Regulations and the Council Directive—

(

a

) at all reasonable times, enter any premises or place, and any vehicle, wagon, vessel, aircraft or other means of transport (other than a premises, place or means of transport consisting of a dwelling or other than so much thereof as consists of a dwelling) where he reasonably suspects that there are or have been any animals or products to which these Regulations or the Council Directive apply or applies,

(

b

) there or at any other place, examine and inspect any such animal or product,

(

c

) require any person at the premises or place or on or in the means of transport and the owner or person in charge thereof and any person employed in connection therewith to give to him such information and to produce to him such books, certificates, documents and other records as he may reasonably require for the purposes of such functions.

(2) A person who obstructs or impedes an authorised officer in the exercise of a power or, without reasonable excuse, does not comply with a requirement, under this Regulation or who in purported compliance with such a requirement gives information to an authorised officer that he knows to be false or misleading in a material respect shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding£1,000 or to imprisonment not exceeding six months or to both.

(3) An offence under these Regulations may be prosecuted by the Minister.

FIRST SCHEDULE

(Regulation 3)

S.I. No. 202 of 1998.

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (VETERINARY INSPECTION FEES) REGULATIONS, 1998.

I, JOE WALSH, Minister for Agriculture and Food, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 3

of the

European Communities Act, 1972

(No. 27 of 1972), and for the purpose of giving effect to Council Directive No. 96/43/EC

(1)

of 26 June 1996, hereby make the following Regulations:—

(1)

O.J. No. L162 of 1.7.1996, p.1