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Annual fees

Invoices and accompanying product lists were sent out in July. We are now operating under the ACVM Act and would like to remind registrants that the due date for the payment of annual fees is 20 August 2003. In light of this, it is not appropriate that we extend credit terms (instalments) to certain registrants – to do so for some while we are penalising others is obviously unfair.

Fee waivers of cancelled products

Once we have received notification from registrants that they no longer wish to register their product, and the applicable information has been supplied to enable us to cancel the product’s registration, a fee waiver may be applicable. The waivers are as follows:

• 75% waiver for all products cancelled by registrant and accepted by the ACVM Group in the period 2 July to 30 September 2003;
• 50% waiver for all products cancelled by registrant and accepted by the ACVM Group in the period 1 October to 31 December 2003;
• 25% waiver for all products cancelled by registrant and accepted by the ACVM Group in the period 1 January to 31 March 2004;
• No waiver for all products cancelled by registrant and accepted by the ACVM Group in the period 1 April to 30 June 2004.

Newly registered products

All veterinary medicine and plant compound products registered with the ACVM Group will be required to pay a percentage of the annual fee taken the date registered. The percentages are as follows:

• 75% annual fee payable for all veterinary medicine and plant compound products registered with the ACVM Group in the period 2 July to 30 September;
• 50% annual fee payable for all veterinary medicine and plant compound products registered with the ACVM Group in the period 1 October to 31 December 2003;
• 25% annual fee payable for all veterinary medicine and plant compound products registered with the ACVM Group in the period 1 January to 31 March 2004;
• No annual fee payable for all veterinary medicine and plant compound products registered with the ACVM Group in the period 1 April to 30 June 2004.

Equine products

We have received a number of queries from registrants of equine products with regards to the product being classified as FOOD for annual fees purposes. Because horses have the potential to go into the human or animal food chain, any equine products are classified as FOOD products under the ACVM Act.

Queries

If you have any annual fee or account queries, please contact:

Sarah Smyth 
Coordinator (Business Services) 
ACVM Group 
PO Box 2835 
WELLINGTON 
Tel: 04 463 2553 
Fax: 04 463 2566 
Email: sarah.smyth@nzfsa.govt.nz 

 

Adverse event reports (AERs)

The ACVM Group would like to take this opportunity to remind you that, as one of the ongoing obligations of the registrant, an annual summary of adverse events for each veterinary medicine/plant compound product must be reported to the ACVM Group at the time the registration is renewed.

These should be sent in with payment of the annual fees.

The summary does not need to contain all the details of the adverse event set out in the Registration Requirements documents, but should include a brief description of the event type. If no adverse events have been reported to the registrant, the summary should state ‘nil’.

These reports should be sent to:

ACVM Group 
New Zealand Food Safety Authority 
PO Box 2835 
WELLINGTON 
Tel: 04 463 2550 
Fax: 04 463 2566 
Email: acvm@nzfsa.govt.nz 

 

Reminder To Approved Creditors

All approved creditors are required to pay their invoices by the 20 th of the month following the invoice or risk losing their approved creditor status.