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Business Rules for charging under Animal Products (Fees, Charges, and Levies) Regulations 2007 at 01/07/08

Animal Products (Fees, Charges, and Levies) Regulations 2007

How costs are calculated

Meat/Deer/Poultry/Ostrich & Emu

Primary Processor fees

Companies with a Risk Management Programme (RMP) which have been classified as undertaking primary processing of meat, game, poultry and/or ostrich & emu, (as listed below) will incur levies per head outlined in Schedule 2 (3)(1) of the Animal Products (Fees, Charges, and Levies) Regulations 2007.

Meat	Poultry
Bobby calves	Chickens
Cattle	Chickens (addition of layer hens)
Farmed goats	Geese
Farmed pigs	Poultry
Goats	Turkey
Horses (includes mules, donkeys & hinnies)	Ducks
Sheep	Layer hens
Lambs	Partridges
Water buffalo	Pheasant
Water buffaloes/bison/cattle hybrids	Pigeons
	Poussin
	Quail
Game	Ostrich & Emu
Farmed deer	Ostriches & emus

Companies that do not primary process for human consumption but process solely for animal consumption, animal consumption (feeds) and/or animal consumption (pet food) will fall under the Animal Feed Processor category and will be charged accordingly.

Operators that process only for consumption within New Zealand

Companies which fall under this category will be charged only the domestic component of the levy per head. The criteria for determining which meat is processed for domestic market only are outlined as follows:

All meat is supplied to the New Zealand market, where 'all meat' excludes the following categories:

• Hides & Skins

• Meat & Bone meal

• Foetal Blood

• Foetal Tissue

• Animal Fibre

• Green Runners

• Casings.

Operators that process wholly or partly for export do not fall into the ‘Domestic Primary Processor’ category.

Other levies which may be charged in addition to the Primary Processor fees:

• Animal Feed Processors

• Rendering

• Storage (where storage is not a standard part of the process, e.g. refrigeration).

Levies not applicable

No further charges are applicable under Schedule 2 of the Regulations.

Fish

Levy based on tonnage

Companies that primary process fish, other than bivalve molluscan shellfish (BMS) will be charged a monthly levy based on total tonnage. (In the case of small processors, the levy may be paid yearly.) Companies will be required to make a statutory declaration of actual tonnages processed for the year ended 30^th June, and this will be reconciled with the estimates. Adjustments will be made to the total levy payable in the following year as necessary. Operators may be required to provide verifiable records of tonnages processed.

The export levy rate will be charged on all fish processed at plants or on vessels that process for export regardless of whether it is destined for the domestic or export market. The domestic rate is applicable to those processors that process only for the domestic market.

Other chargeable Annual Levies

Animal Feed Processors - Please see business rules under animal feed processors.

Rendering – Companies undertaking rendering will incur the annual levy for rendering.

Storage – Companies which have been charged the fish levy are deemed to have storage and will be charged the annual fixed store fee. (Companies will have an opportunity to respond if they do not have a store).

Application of revised annual levies to primary processors of fish and bivalve molluscan shellfish

Shellfish

Levy based on tonnage

Companies that primary process bivalve molluscan shellfish (BMS) will be charged a monthly levy based on total tonnage. (In the case of small processors, the levy may be paid yearly.) Companies will be required to make a statutory declaration of actual tonnages processed for the year ended 30^th June, and this will be reconciled with the estimates. Adjustments will be made to the total levy payable in the following year as necessary. Operators may be required to provide verifiable records of tonnages processed.

The export levy rate will be charged on all BMS processed at plants or on vessels that process for export regardless of whether it is destined for the domestic or export market. The domestic rate is applicable to those processors that process only for the domestic market.

Other chargeable Annual Levies

Animal Feed Processors - Please see business rules under animal feed processors.

Rendering – Companies undertaking rendering will incur the annual levy for rendering.

Storage – Companies which have been charged the levy for BMS are deemed to have storage and will be charged the annual fixed store fee. (Companies will have an opportunity to respond if they do not have a store).

Application of revised annual levies to primary processors of fish and bivalve molluscan shellfish

Bee Products

Annual fixed fee

The Annual Bee Products Levy is comprised of two charges.

1. Programme charges for activities undertaken by NZFSA.  

2. Cost recovery of the Bee Product Residue Regulated Control Scheme (RCS) which covers the sampling and testing of exportable honey and administrative oversight of the programme. 

Companies that are processors of bee products, (as listed below) will incur the annual levy for bee products.

Bee & Honey

• Bee products

• Honey

• Bee products other than honey

• Bees wax

• Comb honey

• Other bee products

• Bee venom

• Propolis.

Companies which fall under this category should have no other product material listed in the capabilities of their RMP. If additional products are listed, e.g. eggs, the company will instead be charged the Secondary/Other Processing fee.

Levies not applicable

Companies that are charged the Bee Products annual levy are not subject to further charges under Schedule 2 of the Regulations as all categories are deemed to be included in the annual fixed fee.

Eggs

Annual fixed fee

Companies classified as primary processors of eggs will incur the annual levy for egg products. Companies which fall under this category should have no other product material listed in the capabilities of their RMP. If additional products are listed, e.g. honey, the company will instead be charged the Secondary/Other Processing fee.

Companies solely undertaking secondary processing of eggs will fall under the Secondary/Other Processing levy and will be charged accordingly.

Annual levies not applicable

Companies that are charged the Egg Products annual levy are not subject to further charges under Schedule 2 of the Regulations as all categories are deemed to be included in the annual fixed fee.

Animal Feed Processors

Annual fixed fee

For cost recovery purposes animal feed processors are split into two categories:

3. Those companies that are solely animal feed processors.

4. Those companies that primarily fall under a different levy, but are also an animal feed processor.

Companies that are solely animal feed processors:

If a company primary processes or secondary processes for the purpose of animal consumption, where animal consumption includes:

• Animal consumption (feeds),

• Animal consumption (pet food) and/or

• Not for human or animal consumption

• Animal consumption (other, chews etc.)

the company will charged the Animal Feed Processor annual levy. (There should no element of processing for human consumption.)

Companies that primarily fall under a different levy, but are also an animal feed processor.

Companies which fall under this category will have some element of their processing for human consumption.

If a company does some form of secondary processing under the animal consumption capability in their RMP (where animal consumption is listed above), they will be charged the Animal Feed Processor levy.

Where processing includes:

• Acidification

• Boning/Cutting

• Encapsulating / Tabletting

• Packing / Repacking

• Refining

• Aseptic processing

• Drying/reduction of a_w (water activity)

• Pharmaceutical / Biological Processing

• Blending / Mixing

• Formulation

• In container retorting

• Size reduction

• Salting / Curing / Brining

• Thermal Processing

• Dietary supplement manufacture.

Where processing excludes:

• Collection

• Storage of any form, e.g. Refrigeration, chilling, freezing.

NB: Where secondary processing involves only collection and or storage the Animal Feeds levy does not apply.

The Animal Feed Processor levy is differentiated for product processed only for consumption within New Zealand and product which is processed wholly or partly for export.

Rendering

Annual fixed fee

(The breaking down of animal tissues into constituent fat and protein elements, whether by the application of heat and pressure of otherwise.)

Companies classified as undertaking rendering will incur the Rendering annual fixed fee. This fee is differentiated for product processed only for consumption within New Zealand and product which is processed wholly or partly for export.

The Rendering fee takes precedent over the Animal Feed processing fee. Companies that undertake rendering and are also an animal feed processor will only incur the Rendering fee.

Levies not applicable

If rendering is the only process a company undertakes then they will not be subject to further charges under Schedule 2 of the Regulations.

Secondary/Other processors

Annual fixed fee

Companies holding an RMP who are not primary processors or who do not fall under any other category will incur the Secondary/Other processing fee unless exempt. This fee is differentiated for product processed only for consumption within New Zealand and product which is processed wholly or partly for export.

Companies who primary process for categories not listed are deemed to be secondary processors and as such will incur the Secondary Processors annual levy. Included in this category are:

• Farmed rabbits

• Wild game

• Game estate deer

• Velvet processors

• Manufacturers of supplements

• Casings

• Processors, e.g. canning, dry smoking.

Coolstores/Other Storage

Annual fixed fee

All primary processors of meat, poultry, farmed game, ostrich & emu, wetfish and shellfish are deemed to have storage on site and will be charged the annual levy for Coolstores/Other Storage. (If there is no storage facility on site please advise and the charge will be reviewed.)

Companies with stores (as defined below) will incur the annual levy for Coolstores/Other Storage premises.

• Non-refrigerated storage (standalone)

• Non-refrigerated storage (processes & receives external product)

• Refrigerated storage (standalone)

• Refrigerated storage (processes & receives external product)

• Dry storage

• Dry storage (processes & receives external product)

• Dry storage (stand alone)

• Refrigeration.

Companies classified under animal feeds, dual operator butcher, rendering, and hides and skins will not be charged the annual fixed store fee.

Dairy

Annual fixed fee

Companies with a current Dairy Exporter Licence will be charged the following annual fees as set out in the Animal Products (Dairy Industry Fees and Charges) Regulations 2007:

1. Development and maintenance of market access standards & programme.

2. Dairy residue monitoring programme.

Companies listed as having a dairy premises will be charged the following annual fees as set out in the Animal Products (Dairy Industry Fees and Charges) Regulations 2007:

1. Development and maintenance of standards.

2. Performance monitoring.