The Control of Trade in Endangered Species (Fees) Regulations 1997

• Citation: S.I. 1997/1421
• Sections: 7

Section 1 Citation and commencement

These Regulations may be cited as the Control of Trade in Endangered Species (Fees) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 1st July 1997.

Section 2 Interpretation

(1) In these Regulations—

“Department” means the Department of the Environment; and

“Principal Regulation” means Council Regulation ( EC ) No. 338/97 on the protection of species of wild fauna and flora by regulating trade therein.

(2) Unless the context otherwise requires, expressions used in these Regulations, and which are also used in the Principal Regulation, shall have the meaning they bear in that Regulation.

(3) For the purposes of these Regulations, a specimen is imported, exported or re-exported for commercial purposes if it is imported, exported or re-exported for use in the course of a trade or business carried on for profit.

Section 3 Prescription of fees

(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, the fees specified in column 2 of the Schedule to these Regulations are hereby prescribed as the fees payable in connection with the services provided by the Department in pursuance of the United Kingdom’s Community obligations arising from Articles 4 and 5 of the Principal Regulation, each fee specified in column 2 of that Schedule being the fee payable in connection with the service specified alongside that fee in column 1 of that Schedule.

(2) The Department may waive the fee where the application relates to import, export or re-export which is not for commercial purposes and from which conservation benefits will accrue to the species to which the application relates.

(3) The Schedule to these Regulations shall have effect subject to the Notes to that Schedule which identify special cases.

Section 4 Payment of fees

A fee payable under regulation 3 above shall be paid to the Department at the same time as the application to which it relates is made to the Department.

Section 5 Payment into the Consolidated Fund

Fees paid to the Department under these Regulations shall be paid into the Consolidated Fund.

Section 1

Evaluation and processing of an application for an import permit under Article 4 of the Principal Regulation:

(a) application in respect of fewer than five plant genera where the import is for commercial purposes;

Section 2

Evaluation and processing of an application to export or re-export specimens under Article 5 of the Council Regulation:

(a) application in respect of fewer than five plant genera where the export or re-export is for commercial purposes;