NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 121 — 5 NOVEMBER 2015

• Personnel to support, develop and maintain the database.
• Expenses such as office equipment and supplies.
• Capital costs such as computer equipment and furniture calculated on a cost recovery basis over the estimated lives of the assets).

Programming

All data requests will require an initial analysis by a programmer to determine the complexity of the request.

A fixed fee (base programming fee) is applied to cover the initial programming and it allows for four hours of a programmer’s time. If the request is completed in this time, no further charges are incurred.

Some applications will be complex and require more than four hours to fulfill. In these cases an additional programming fee will be incurred.

All requestors will be provided with an estimate of the hours expected to extract data prior to any programming work commencing.

The fee includes a proportion of the following costs:

• Personnel to support, develop and maintain the database and develop data extracts.
• Expenses such as office equipment and supplies.

Repeat or top-up requests that require no further programming, will not incur additional programming charges.

Extract Fee

This charge covers the cost of receiving, storing and transmitting data. The fee includes a proportion of the following costs:

• Personnel to support, develop and maintain the database and develop data extracts.
• Expenses (eg data centre power and support costs of infrastructure).
• Capital costs of computer equipment (calculated on a cost recovery basis over the estimated lives of the assets).

The extract charge is capped at a maximum of $80,000.00 (excluding GST) per extract, subsequent or additional data supplied for repeat or top-up extracts (within the same season or a new season) attract an additional extract fee to cover the cost of administration and additional programming (if relevant) functions. The fee is derived identically to the extract fee.

Exceptions and Incentives

Certified data providers (CDP) would not in principle be charged to recover records they have provided to DIGAD apart from associated programming charges. This will ensure that a CDP passing data to DIGAD is not disadvantaged in recovering that same data.

Ascertaining the herd recorder associated with supplied data will not always be obvious, due to DIGAD not holding the information of who the herd recorder was prior to the 2014/15 season.

To determine charges for records prior to this season, DairyNZ will total up the animals for each Herd Recorder in DIGAD (for the current season) and apply a ratio split for all data. If the split for example was 80% for Herd Recorder A and 20% for Herd Recorder B, when extracting historical records Herd Recorder A would not be charged for 80% of those records.

Industry Good Research

Users who are performing industry good activities are able to apply through DairyNZ Inc. for funding for projects requiring data extracts.

SCHEDULE OF CHARGES

(FOR CORE DATA)

All charges are exclusive of GST

All Applications

Application fee – payable to Core Database Panel
$179.31 per request ($200 including GST, as prescribed in regulation)

Administration fee – payable to DairyNZ Limited
$500.00 per request