All registered traders are subject to an annual supervision fee. A separate invoice is sent in respect of the supervision fee. The fees are divided into seven categories according to the amount of the security.
The payment category is determined on the basis of the largest calculated security amount in the year preceding the year of payment.
Payments are valid from 1 July 2018 onwards:
| Payment category | Amount of the security | Supervision fee |
|---|
| 1 |
€0 – 10 000 |
€405,00 per year |
| 2 |
€10 001 – 50 000 |
€945,00 per year |
| 3 |
€50 001 – 200 000 |
€1 350,00 per year |
| 4 |
€200 001 – 1 000 000 |
€2 025,00 per year |
| 5 |
€1 000 001 – 3 000 000 |
€2 700,00 per year |
| 6 |
€3 000 001 – 10 000 000 |
€3 375,00 per year |
| 7 |
over €10 000 000 |
€4 050,00 per year |
Other fees:
- Registration decision regarding trader obliged to deposit a security: €150.00.
- Travel guarantee register extract €30.00.
- A supervision fee is charged from the year of registration on the basis of the amount of the security estimated in the registration decision.
- The percentage-based insolvency protection fee is 0.024% of net sales of travel service combinations in the preceding financial year (to be charged from 2019 onwards).
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With regard to traders entered in the register from 1 January to 30 June 2018, the supervision fee will comprise six months’ worth of the old fee (table below) and six-months’ worth of the new fee (table above).
Traders registering on 1 July 2018 or thereafter shall pay half of the supervision fee required under the new Act (table above).
Correspondingly, traders that de-register on 30 June 2018 at the latest shall pay half of the supervision fee in accordance with the old Act (table below).
The insolvency protection fee will be levied from 2019.
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