✨ Dairy Industry Regulations
Pricing Methodology for Access to Core Data
Publication pursuant to Regulation 26(1)(c) of the Dairy Industry (Herd Testing and New Zealand Dairy Core Database) Regulations 2001 – Pricing Methodology or Methodologies used to set charges for access to data in the core database
Introduction
The Regulations place an obligation on Livestock Improvement to provide access to core data, however Livestock Improvement determines the price of access to that data.
The Regulations also provide that Livestock Improvement must in each year publish its pricing methodology which is used to calculate prices for the provision of extracts of core data. That methodology is set out in this section.
This methodology is in respect of core data only and does not include any pricing in respect of value added data (data which is not core data). Value added data and the pricing of value added data is beyond the scope of this methodology and the Regulations.
General Principles
Livestock Improvement sets prices for its services based on the costs of providing those services. The access prices for core data have been determined in the same manner (i.e. they are cost-based), based on anticipated usage of the data in the core database. The prices also include a partial recovery of the additional costs of providing access to the core database to third parties.
There are no charges for the input of core data; but the activities of collecting, verifying and correcting input data form part of the processes involved in the provision of core data and their costs form part of the costs attributed to the provision of core data.
Pricing Methodology for Livestock Improvement Services
Livestock Improvement’s method for allocating costs to its services, so that its prices reflect those underlying costs, is well established.
The method uses a system in which all services provided by Livestock Improvement have links to the basic activities and processes that are necessary to provide them. These links, like the roots of a tree, divide down to the basic level where the activities are performed. They provide the links necessary to obtain and accumulate the full costs of all the processes involved in providing each service. Given the prices and volumes of each service, the revenue for each service is then compared with the full costs in order to give the net profit of each service.
Pricing For Extracts of Core Data
Pricing for core data uses the same method as if the same core data were being provided to a Livestock Improvement business unit and were being costed for the purpose of setting prices for the services provided by that business unit. That method is as set out in this pricing methodology.
2668 NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 86 28 JULY 2006
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