Article 17
Fees 1. Member States shall establish a regime obliging the notifiers to pay a fee or charge for the administrative treatment and the evaluation of dossiers. 2. For this purpose, the Member States shall: (a) require the payment of a fee or charge for each submission of a dossier; (b) ensure that the amount of the fee or charge shall be established in a transparent manner with the view to correspond to the real cost of the examination and administrative treatment of a dossier; however this does not exclude that Member States provide for a scale of fixed charges based on average costs for the calculation of the total fee; (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 of 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 actions for the implementation of their obligations as Member States resulting from Articles 9 or 10; (d) require that a first part of the fee or charge, covering the costs of the rapporteur Member State's obligations resulting from Article 6 and Article 9 is paid at the time of the submission of the data lists referred to in Article 6; this part will not be refundable under any circumstance.