The Meat (Official Controls Charges) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007

Definitions

16.—(1) In this Schedule —

(a) “official auxiliary” and “official veterinarian” have the meanings respectively given to them in Article 2.1(h) and (f) of Regulation 854/2004;

(b) “inspector” means an official veterinarian or an official auxiliary;

(c) “the standard charge” means, in relation to any slaughterhouse, game–handling establishment or cutting plant for any accounting period, the charge calculated in accordance with paragraph 3, 4 or 5, as the case may be, converted into Sterling in accordance with paragraph 6;

(d) “the Euro / sterling conversion rate” applicable in respect of any given year shall be —

(i) for 2007, 1 Euro = £0.67410, and

(ii) in each subsequent year, the rate published in the C Series of the Official Journal of the European Communities on the first working day of the September of the preceding year or, if no rate is published in it on that day, the first rate published in it thereafter; and

(e) “time costs” means, in relation to any establishment for any accounting period, the costs calculated in accordance with paragraphs 9 to 11.