Amendment to Regulation (EC) No 451/2000
Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 451/2000 is amended as follows:
1. Paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:
"1. Member States shall establish a regime obliging notifiers to pay a fee or charge for the administrative treatment and evaluation of notifications and dossiers."
2. Paragraph 2 is amended as follows:
(a) point (a) is replaced by the following:
"(a) require the payment of a fee or charge for each notification and for each submission of a dossier;"
(b) point (c) is replaced by the following:
"(c) ensure that the fee or charge 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 or charge is used to finance exclusively the costs actually incurred by the 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 activities of the Member States resulting from Articles 7 and 8;".