Paragraph 5 Costs recovery
United Kingdom
(1)
If an article or substance tested under Article 19 of RAMS fails to comply with an applicable implementing measure, the market surveillance authority may recover its testing costs.
(2)
Costs include in particular—
(a)
all the costs of purchasing and disposing of the articles or substances;
(b)
all the administration and labour costs throughout the testing period.
(3)
The market surveillance authority is not entitled to recover any costs proven to have been incurred unnecessarily.