Health and Safety
Executive / Commission
Biocides &
pesticides
It is government policy that the costs of administering the regulatory system is recouped from industry. Therefore, a fee is payable, which broadly covers the costs involved in evaluating an application; the amount charged is dependent on the type of application, ie the processing route it will take. The current HSE fees for most non-agricultural pesticides under COPR are:
| Type of application | Fee |
|---|---|
| New active ingredient | £50,000 |
| Re-submission | £25,000 |
| Small data package | £7,000 |
| Minimal data package | £4,000 |
| Departmental | £2,500 |
| Secretariat | £500 |
| Back-to-back* | £300 or £500 |
| Experimental permit | either £2,500 OR £500 |
| Series change: | 1 product - £150 1-2 products - £150 3-10 products - £300 10 products - £500 |
* 'Back-to-back' - either £300 or £500 (£300 if a number of identical product applications are requested at the same time as the original application; or when the original product on which the identical back-to-back is based was originally approved within the previous 12 months. If these criteria cannot be met, £500 due to the amount of work involved).
A fee of £150 is usually charged for an Amendment to a current approval; Automatic Experimental Permits carry no charge.
The fees for rodenticides are as follows:
| Type of application | Fee |
|---|---|
| Admin fast | £285 |
| Fast | £630 |
| Normal | £2350 |
| Departmental | £4700 |
It is important for all prospective Approval Holders to be aware that a pesticide levy is charged each year on HSE approved pesticide products.
Under section 18 of the Food and Environment Act 1985, as amended by the Pesticides (Fees and Enforcement's) Act 1989, Ministers are empowered to recover costs of running the pesticides and monitoring systems.
The levy was first introduced in 1987 to recoup the costs of monitoring undertaken during 1986/7. The levy collection exercise commences each year in September with a request to approval holders to declare their sales turnover for a given 12-month period. Invoices are subsequently sent out the following January.
The declaration figures are needed for the November fees and charges meeting to enable the levy rate to be set. The levy rate varies from year to year depending on the total turnover for all HSE approved products.
It is estimated that the levy rate for 2007/08 will be below 0.6% of gross turnover.