FEES 6.4 Management expenses

Obligation on participant firm to pay

FEES 6.4.1RRP

A participant firm must pay to the FSCS a share of each management expenses levy.

Limit on management expenses

FEES 6.4.2RRP

The total of all management expenses levies (taken together with the management expenses levies under the PRA Rulebook)5 attributable to a particular period of the compensation scheme may not exceed the limit applicable to that period set out in FEES 6 Annex 1 R.

Participant firm's share

FEES 6.4.3RRP

A participant firm's share of a management expenses levy consists of one or more of: (1) a share of a base costs levy and (2) a share of a specific costs levy.

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FEES 6.4.4RRP

The FSCS must ensure that each participant firm's share of a management expenses levy separately identifies the firm's share of the base costs levy and1 specific costs levy .

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Base costs levy

FEES 6.4.5RRP

Subject to3 FEES 6.3.22 R, the FSCS must calculate a participant firm's share of a base costs levy by:

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  1. (1)

    for recognised investment exchanges, providing for £1,000 per RIE for each financial year of the compensation scheme (other than in the financial year in which the recognised investment exchange becomes a participant firm, when its share is nil);6

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  2. (2)

    for other participant firms:6

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    1. (a)

      identifying the base costs which the FSCS has incurred, or expects to incur, in the relevant financial year6 of the compensation scheme, but has not yet levied and allocating 50% of those base costs (less any contribution to be made by recognised investment exchanges under (1))6 as the sum to be levied on participants in all the activity groups listed in FEES 4 Annex 1AR;6

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    2. (b)

      calculating the amount of the participant firm’s regulatory costs6 as a proportion of the total regulatory costs relating to all participant firms (other than recognised investment exchanges)6 for the relevant financial year; and6

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    3. (c)

      applying the proportion calculated in (b) to the sum in (a).6

FEES 6.4.5AGRP

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FEES 6.4.5BG

5The FCA and the PRA each allocate 50% of the base costs in a given financial year of the compensation scheme in accordance with their respective rules.

Specific costs levy

FEES 6.4.6ARRP

4The FSCS must allocate, and calculate a participant firm’s share of, a8 specific costs levy in the same way as for a compensation costs levy (see FEES 6.5).8

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FEES 6.4.7AR

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FEES 6.4.8RRP

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FEES 6.4.9G

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FEES 6.4.10GRP

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FEES 6.4.10BGRP

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FEES 6.4.11R

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FEES 6.4.12R

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