The Dutch Food and Goods Authority (NVWA) has announced tariff changes from 1 January 2023. This is a fee charged for activities such as inspections, re-inspections, system monitoring, certification, sampling and analysis.
NVWA rates are adjusted annually to reflect wage and price increases and changes in supervision. Wages and prices have risen by 2.9 percent this year. “However, this percentage is not equal to the percentage of tariff increases as of January 1st,” the NVWA said in a press release.
This is because the increase is also affected by the introduction of a new cost model, tariff cost recovery and changes in supervision. By introducing a new cost model, NVWA categorizes costs more specifically. We have also refined the classification of categories for different types of companies. In addition, the allocation of costs to the initial and quarterly rates has changed.
Rising and falling costs
Because of these changes, some rates increase and others decrease. Thus, the cost of laboratory tests per sample taken increases from 198 to 224 euros. At the same time, the basic rate per person for one application for inspection in agriculture is reduced from 356 to 188 euros.
The Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality (LNV) and the Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sports (VWS) set the NVWA rates. The new rates can be found on the NVWA website.
