Fees
Article 15
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 or co-rapporteur Member State. 2. Member States shall establish a specific fee for the evaluation of the notification. 3. For this purpose, the Member States and co-rapporteur Member States shall: (a) require the payment of a fee corresponding as far as possible to their costs in carrying out all the different procedures associated with the evaluation for each submission of a dossier, whether introduced by one notifier or collectively by several interested notifiers; (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 authority in each Member State listed in Annex II and that the income from the fee is used to finance exclusively the costs actually incurred by the rapporteur Member State and co-rapporteur Member State for the evaluation and administrative treatment of the notifications and the dossiers for which that Member State is rapporteur or co-rapporteur Member State or to finance general actions for the implementation of its obligations as rapporteur Member State and co-rapporteur Member State.