NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 6 — 22 JANUARY 2015

All DairyNZ staff will maintain strict confidentiality in respect of any information by not disclosing information or data to any person other than those involved in the operation of the Core Database or in the management of Panel applications.

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) Amendment Regulations 2014 – Pricing methodology or methodologies used to set charges for access to data in the core database (including charges that the manager makes to businesses it owns for access to that data), and the prices resulting from applying these methodologies.

Introduction

The Regulations place an obligation on DairyNZ to provide access to core data, however DairyNZ determines the price of access to that data.

The Regulations also provide that DairyNZ 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.

General Principles

The access price for core data has been derived from the costs associated with supplying data, including application, administration and programming functions, capital and depreciation costs and expenses.

An activity-based costing system has been applied to these items.

There are no charges for the input of data. However, the activity of cleansing and validating input data forms part of the processes involved in the provision of data.

The costs associated with these activities are attributed to the provision of core data.

Processing Applications

An application fee is payable to the panel and is prescribed under the Regulations as being $200.00 (including GST). It partially covers the cost of receiving an application, the panel convening to review applications and the administration to notify the outcome of their consideration of each application.

An administration fee is charged by DairyNZ to partially cover the costs of processing applications. The fee includes a proportion of the following costs:

• 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 fulfil. 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).

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