Fees
Article 23
1. Member States shall establish a regime obliging the applicants to pay a fee or charge for the administrative treatment and the evaluation of additional data or the dossiers related thereto. 2. Member States shall establish a specific fee or charge for the evaluation. 3. For this purpose, the Member States shall: (a) require the payment of a fee or charge corresponding as far as possible to their costs in carrying out all the different procedures associated with the evaluation for each submission of additional data or dossiers; (b) ensure that the amount of the fee or charge is established in a transparent manner with a view to corresponding to the real cost of the examination and administrative handling of additional data or dossiers; 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 or charge is received in accordance with the instructions given by the authority in each Member State and that the income from the fee is used to finance exclusively the costs actually incurred by the rapporteur Member State for the evaluation and administrative handling of additional data or dossiers for which that Member State is rapporteur or to finance general actions for the implementation of its obligations as a Member State resulting from this regulation.