Service fees

Our fee structure

1  Registration fee:

This is paid at the start of the contractual Agreement.  Request prices>>

2  Annual Repository fee:

The Annual Repository fee is per Technical File.  Request prices>>

If you have additional Technical Files you want us to hold, you pay the Annual Repository Fee each time for each additional Technical File.

Payment for holding each Technical File is made annually in advance with the first one being paid for at the start of the contractual Agreement.

3  Per Occasion charges:

There are one-off charges that are made on the following occasions:

3 (a) Enquiry Assistance charge:

       If queries from a Trading Standards organisation cannot be resolved by the exchange of a few short emails, we provide an Enquiry Assistance service. Whenever Enquiry Assistance is necessary, we will tell you in advance and indicate an estimate of the time involved. We will ask for your agreement to proceed. In this way you will have an indication of how much the Enquiry Assistance will cost beforehand. Our invoice will specify how much time is spent by us communicating with the Trading Standards organisation and you on the query.

       There is a charge per quarter of an hour (15 minutes) for assistance with enquiries from Trading Standards organisations. This fee includes our time and phone costs communicating with the Trading organisation and you.  Request prices>>

3 (b) Enquiry Assistance charge with Trading Standards organisation - 3-way dial-in conference call:

       For situations where it is necessary for you to speak to the Trading Standards organisation, we will set up a conference call and chair the call as your representative. The date and time of the conference call will be advised and agreed by email. All participants will dial into the conference call (the conference call service is not a dial-out facility).

       There is a charge per quarter of an hour (15 minutes) for 3-way conference call with Trading Standards organisations. To be paid on receipt of invoice.  Request prices>>

3 (c) Courier charges:

       When a Trading Standards organisation requires the Technical File document urgently, the costs we incur for using a courier will be invoiced to you. Normal postal charges are included in the Annual Repository fee. It will normally be unnecessary to use a courier to deliver your technical file to UK trading standards organisations and post will be used. 

       In other EU countries where you are marketing your products, we will courier the technical file if it is required urgently (typically quicker than one week), otherwise we will send it by post. Postal costs are included in the annual charge, but the courier charges are additional. The courier rates we currently use are advertised at www.fedex.com/gb/

4     Payment:

       Algate Business Solutions' bank details for paying fees will be sent with the contractual Agreement. We require fees to be paid within 30 calendar days of being invoiced.

5     We reserve the right to revise fees from time to time and will provide written notice to you whenever this is due to occur.

6     All bank charges or international money movement charges incurred by your company in paying us are at your company's expense.

Fee structure at a glance:

1.  Registration Fee

2.  Annual Repository fee

3.  Per occasion charges

     (a) Enquiry assistance fee

     (b) Trading Standards enquiry

     (c) Courier charges

4.  Payment

© 2002-10 Algate Business Solutions Ltd