SCHEDULE 1Salmonella national control programmes (zoonoses): fees

Regulation 5

Table 1

payable by the person in charge of a chicken or turkey holding from which an official sample is taken, processed and examined

Column 1

Activity

Column 2

Fee (£)

Time spent in obtaining an official control sample for examination in a laboratory (in addition to the fees specified below)

23 per half hour or part half hour spent

Taking an official control sample from a chicken laying flock

60

Taking an official control sample from a chicken breeding flock

96

Taking an official control sample from a chicken broiler flock

89

Taking an official control sample from turkey fattening and breeding flocks

87

Examination of an official control sample in a laboratory

15 per sample examined

Table 2

Fees payable by the operator of a laboratory

Column 1

Activity

Column 2

Fee (£)

Processing an application for an initial laboratory approval or an annual renewal of laboratory approval

43

Conducting inspections and quality assurance based upon the number of tests for which the laboratory is approved

one test

642

two tests

661

three tests

681

four tests

700

Conducting collaborative testing for salmonella as required to obtain and maintain approval as a testing laboratory

37 per test

Table 3

Fees payable by the person in charge of poultry flocks for conducting tests under point 4(b) of Part D of Annex II of Regulation(EC) No 2160/2003

Column 1

Activity

Column 2

Fee (£)

Conducting tests on seven dust and faecal samples taken from each flock

15 per sample tested

Conducting bacteriological sampling and testing of the caeca and oviducts of 300 birds from each flock

3,560

Conducting bacteriological sampling and testing of the shell and the content of 4,000 eggs from each flock

2,310