Paragraph 4 Registration of producers which are compliance scheme members

(1)

The charge for an application by a scheme operator for producer registration for members of a compliance scheme is the total of—

(a)

£1,685 for each large producer other than a producer referred to in paragraph (d) for which the application is made;

(b)

£631 for each small producer other than a producer referred to in paragraph (d) for which the application is made;

(c)

£2,579 in addition to the charge in paragraph (a), (b) or (d), as appropriate, for each producer which is an online marketplace operator;

(d)

for producers which are subsidiaries and are to be registered as part of a group registration—

(i)

£558 for each producer for the first 20 subsidiaries which are members of the scheme;

(ii)

£140 for each producer from the 21st subsidiary to the 100th subsidiary which is a member of the scheme;

(2)

The charge for late submission of an application for producer registration made by a scheme operator is £332 for each member of the compliance scheme for whom the scheme operator applies for registration late where none of the events described in regulation 28(3) has occurred.

(3)

Where—

(a)

a producer is a member of a compliance scheme;

(b)

the producer’s registered office or, if it does not have a registered office in the United Kingdom, its head office or principal place of business in the United Kingdom, is in a different nation of the United Kingdom to that of the scheme operator; and

(c)

the appropriate agency for that producer has made a charging scheme which makes different provision for the charges listed in sub-paragraphs (1) and (2),

the scheme operator must pay the charges set by the appropriate agency, instead of those specified in sub-paragraphs (1) and (2), in relation to that producer.