Article 12
Fees for the second priority list 1. Member States shall establish a regime obliging the notifiers to pay a fee for the administrative treatment and the evaluation of notifications as well as the dossiers related thereto, which have been submitted to them in accordance with Article 4 or Article 6 in each case where the Member State has been designated as the rapporteur Member State. 2. For this purpose, the Member States shall: (a) require the payment of a fee for each notification, whether introduced by one notifier or collectively by several interested notifiers, as well as for each submission of a dossier related thereto; (b) ensure that the amount of the fee is established in a transparent manner with a view to corresponding to the real cost of the examination and administrative treatment of a notification and a dossier; however, Member States may provide for a scale of fixed charges based on average costs for the calculation of the total fee; (c) ensure that the fee is received in accordance with the instructions given by the organisation in each Member State listed in Annex VI and that the income from the fee is used to finance exclusively the costs actually incurred by the rapporteur Member State for the evaluation and administrative treatment of the notifications and the dossiers for which that Member State is rapporteur or to finance general actions for the implementation of its obligations as rapporteur Member State resulting from Article 7 or Article 8; (d) require that a first part of the fee, covering the costs of the rapporteur Member State's obligations resulting from Article 5(1) and Article 7, is paid at the time of the submission of the notification referred to in Article 4; this part shall not be refundable under any circumstances.