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Mode of payment
1. The fees provided for by this Regulation shall be paid in euro. 2. Payments shall be made only after the Agency has issued an invoice. 3. By derogation from paragraph 2, payments due under Article 4 shall be made at the time of the submission of the appeal. 4. Payments shall be made by means of a transfer to the bank account of the Agency.
Identification of the payment
1. Every payment, with the exception of payments referred to in Article 8(3), shall indicate in the reference field the invoice number. 2. Payments referred to in Article 8(3) shall indicate, in the reference field, the identity of the appellant(s) and, if available, the number of the decision that is being appealed against. 3. If the purpose of the payment cannot be established, the Agency shall set a deadline by which the paying party must notify it in writing of the purpose of the payment. If the Agency does not receive a notification of the purpose of the payment before expiry of that deadline, the payment shall be considered invalid and the amount concerned shall be refunded to the paying party.
Date of payment
1. Unless otherwise provided, fees shall be paid within 30 days from the date on which the invoice is notified by the Agency. 2. The date on which the full amount of the payment is deposited in a bank account held by the Agency shall be considered to be the date on which the payment has been made. 3. The payment shall be considered to have been made in time where sufficient documentary evidence is produced to show that the paying party ordered the transfer to the bank account indicated on the invoice before expiry of the relevant deadline. A confirmation of the transfer order issued by a financial institution shall be regarded as sufficient evidence.
Insufficient payment
1. A deadline for payment shall be considered to have been observed only if the full amount of the fee has been paid in due time. 2. When an invoice relates to a group of transactions, the Agency may attribute any under-payment to any of the relevant transactions. The criteria for the attribution of payments shall be laid down by the Management Board of the Agency.
Refund of amounts paid in excess
1. The arrangements for the refund to the paying party of amounts paid in excess of a fee shall be fixed by the Executive Director of the Agency and published on the website of the Agency. However, where an amount paid in excess is below EUR 200 and the party concerned has not expressly requested a refund, the amount paid in excess shall not be refunded. 2. It shall not be possible to count any amount paid in excess and not refunded as being made towards future payments to the Agency.
Refunds of amounts in case of applications rejected before or during validation or withdrawn during the assessment
1. The Agency shall reimburse 90 % of the fee collected where an application for active substance approval or biocidal product authorisation, submitted in accordance with respectively Article 7(1) or 43(1) of Regulation (EU) No 528/2012, or an application for a minor or major change of a product, is rejected before or during the validation phase. 2. The Agency shall reimburse 75 % of the fee collected where an application for active substance approval or biocidal product authorisation, submitted in accordance with respectively Article 7(1) or 43(1) of Regulation (EU) No 528/2012, or an application for a major change of a product, is withdrawn before the evaluating Competent Authority has transmitted its assessment report to the Agency. The fee collected shall not be reimbursed where an application is withdrawn after the evaluating Competent Authority has transmitted its assessment report to the Agency. 3. The arrangements for the refund of the remaining amount to the paying party shall be fixed by the Executive Director of the Agency and published on the website of the Agency.
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