The Meat (Official Controls Charges) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008

The standard charge

5.  The standard charge for any accounting period payable by the operator of a cutting plant or of a game-handling establishment in respect of meat brought into the plant or establishment during the period for the purposes of being cut up or boned there shall be calculated—

(a) until the end of 2008, by multiplying by £2.29 the number of tonnes of such meat; and

(b) during 2009—

(i) in the same manner, or

(ii) by multiplying the rate in Euros specified in Chapter II of Section B of Annex IV to Regulation 882/2004 applicable to meat derived from a given type of animal by the number of tonnes of meat derived from animals of that type brought into the plant or establishment during the period for the purposes of being cut up or boned there and converting the resulting sum into Sterling by multiplying it by the Euro/Sterling conversion rate published in the C Series of the Official Journal of the European Union on 1^st September 2008 or, if no rate is published in that document on that date, the first rate published in it thereafter,

whichever results in the higher charge.