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;".
Amendment to Regulation (EC) No 1490/2002
Article 17(2)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 1490/2002 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 IV 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 dossiers for which that Member State is rapporteur or to finance general activities of the Member States resulting from Articles 9, 10 or 11;".
Entry into force
This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 18 June 2003.
For the Commission
David Byrne
Member of the Commission
(1) OJ L 230, 19.8.1991, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 101, 23.4.2003, p. 3.
(3) OJ L 366, 15.12.1992, p. 10.
(4) OJ L 259, 13.10.2000, p. 27.
(5) OJ L 55, 29.2.2000, p. 25.
(6) OJ L 224, 21.8.2002, p. 23.
