Application and evaluation fees: plant protection products and active substances

Introduction

The following fees apply to individual application types.

When you submit an application you will be invoiced for the appropriate total fee. If your application is subject to a detailed technical sift the fees applicable will be applied in stages reflecting the validation check, detailed technical sift and evaluation stage, although you will only be issued with one invoice. Additional fees may also be applied mid evaluation where additional data or a case is required and accepted.

The figures below are for information only.

Fees for plant protection product stream applications

Application fees

Withdrawal	£104
Sift	£229
Co-ordination – (all standard technical stream applications)	£1,872
Parallel co-ordination, only for applications to Northern Ireland	£728
Extension of Authorisation for Minor Use – (Charged per risk assessment area based on crop). (Extensions of Authorisation for minor use applications submitted by growers or grower organisations. Those submitted by product authorisation holders, marketing companies or distributors will be charged the standard modular fees, except where they are included in applications for the renewal of product authorisations.)	£1,768
Admin authorisation	£156
Task – (applicable to admin blanket applications for identical changes which affect 15 or more products. A 'sift' fee and an 'Admin authorisation' fee is charged for the first product, a 'Task' fee is then charged for each subsequent product. For more information read our guidance on 'Change of authorisation holder)	£52
Administrative Trials Permit	£52
Commenting on draft protocols	£416
Pre-submission meetings	£5,200

Evaluation fees

Label check	£208
Parallel import verification – Northern Ireland only (charged for each source and appeals procedure requested)	£208
Reasoned cases (all risk assessment areas)	£416
Chemistry data	£780
Residues data	£780
Toxicology data	£780
Operator (Non-Dietary Human) Exposure data	£780
Ecotoxicology data	£1,872
Fate & behaviour data	£1,872
Efficacy (effectiveness/crop safety) data	£1,872
Standalone MRL/Import Tolerance – full human health assessment	£16,224
Standalone MRL/Import Tolerance – metabolism and residues data	£6,760
Standalone MRL/Import Tolerance – residues data only	£2,028
MRL supplementary information – analytical method for MRL compliance	£416
MRL supplementary information – metabolite toxicology data	£3,120
MRL supplementary information – plant or livestock metabolism or nature of residue data	£6,760
MRL supplementary information – residues (including magnitude of residue and monitoring) data	£2,028

Official recognition

Initial inspection	£2,080
Renewal	£2,080
Re-inspection	£1,560

Fees for active substance applications

The appropriate Band will be determined following the resource estimate at the applications sift.

A full data package comprises the complete dossier to support one or more representative use of one product. Where a data package also contains a large number of extra study reports submitted to refine risk assessments, to characterise metabolites or to support additional uses of the product, these studies will be treated as an additional partial data package. HSE will notify applicants of the appropriate fee before starting the evaluation.

For more information - Plant Protection Products (Fees and Charges) (Amendment) Regulations 2016 No. 254 (legislation.gov.uk)

Core data (new active substances, synergists, safeners, basic substances and renewal of existing active substances)

Completeness Check	£5,200
Evaluation of core dossier	£114,400
Co-ordination of independent scientific advice, commenting, public consultation and finalisation of the assessment report	£36,400

Partial dossier (new active substances, synergists, safeners, basic substances and GB active substance renewal)

Band 1	£7,800
Band 2	£15,600
Band 3	£31,200
Band 4	£52,000
Band 5	£72,800
Band 6	£93,600
Band 7	£114,400

Biological and pheromones (core)

Evaluation: Bio pesticides including Plant extracts	£23,400
Evaluation: Pheromones	£13,520
Co-ordination of independent scientific advice, commenting, public consultation and finalisation of the assessment report	£7,800

Biological partial dossiers

Band 1	£5,720
Band 2	£11,700
Band 3	£17,680
Band 4	£23,400

Pheromone partial dossiers

Band 1	£3,380
Band 2	£6,760
Band 3	£10,140
Band 4	£13,520

Pre-submission meetings

Meeting before the submission of an application for a new active substance, safener or synergist, biocontrol and pheromone applications or renewal of an existing active substance (associated plant protection product applications can also be discussed at such pre-submission meetings).

£5,200