Order No. 1716 on payment for official controls of food, feed and live animals.

This Executive Order regulates the fees and charges used to finance official public control of food, feed, animals, and related activities carried out by the Danish Veterinary and Food Administration (Fødevarestyrelsen). It establishes a comprehensive system of user-paid inspection fees covering activities such as food safety inspections, slaughterhouse control, veterinary supervision, import and export certification, animal welfare monitoring, and laboratory testing. The regulation specifies how fees are calculated — often based on time spent by inspectors (e.g., per quarter hour), fixed charges, or production volumes — and allocates costs for both direct control activities and administrative overheads. It also sets special fee structures for sectors such as slaughterhouses, livestock holdings, veterinary services, food businesses, and import/export controls, including additional charges for follow-up inspections when legal violations are found. Overall, the order operationalizes a cost-recovery model for Denmark’s food and animal health control system, setting rules so that businesses benefiting from or requiring regulatory oversight contribute financially to the system that supervises them.