10. Interbull CoP - Service fees

10.1 A running two-year budget for the service will be presented annually to the Interbull Steering Committee and member country representatives for approval.

10.2 Annual contributions to finance the service are based on the number of recorded cows in the country, and the current fee structure for dairy-production traits is as follows:

Example: a country with 1 815 000 recorded cows will pay €4 080 + (100 × €50) + (200 × €19.07) + (700 × €7.14) + (815 × €4.80) = €21 804 for milk production traits.

All breeds are considered in the number of milk-recorded cows. The appropriate number of milk-recorded cows is based on the information declared to ICAR by its members in its annual survey

In case of joint national genetic evaluations involving several Interbull member countries, the base fee applies to each of the participating countries, but the variable fee applies to the sum of the number of milk recorded in all countries that participate in the joint evaluation.

An example of the annual service fees for ICAR members subscribing to the Interbull genetic evaluations for all dairy trait groups can be found in Appendix VII.

10.3 Interbull service fees for subscribing to the conformation traits evaluation are 30% of the service fee for milk production traits. When a joint evaluation exists for production traits but not for conformation traits, the service fee for conformation traits is 30% of the service fee for milk production computed as if it were a single-country evaluation.

10.4 Interbull service fees for subscribing to the milk somatic cell and clinical mastitis evaluation are 15% of the service fee for milk production traits. When a joint evaluation exists for production traits but not for udder health traits, the service fee for udder health traits is 15% of the service fee for milk production computed as if it were a single-country evaluation.

10.5 Interbull service fees for subscribing to the longevity evaluation are 15% of the service fee for milk production traits. When a joint evaluation exists for production traits but not for longevity traits, the service fee for longevity traits is 15% of the service fee for milk production computed as if it were a single-country evaluation.

10.6 Interbull service fees for subscribing to the calving traits evaluation are 15% of the service fee for milk production traits. When a joint evaluation exists for production traits but not for calving traits, the service fee for calving traits is 15% of the service fee for milk production computed as if it were a single-country evaluation.

10.7 Interbull service fees for subscribing to the female fertility traits evaluation are 20% of the service fee for milk production traits. When a joint evaluation exists for production traits but not for female fertility traits, the service fee for female fertility traits is 20% of the service fee for milk production computed as if it was a single-country evaluation.

10.8 Interbull service fees for subscribing to the workability traits evaluation are 5% of the service fee for milk production traits. When a joint evaluation exists for production traits but not for workability traits, the service fee for workability traits is 5% of the service fee for milk production computed as if it was a single-country evaluation.

10.9 Interbull service fees for subscribing to GEBV validation test are 15% of the service fee for milk production traits.

10.10 Interbull service fees for subscribing to multi-country genomic evaluations are described in Appendix VII

10.11 Interbull service fees for subscribing to the Truncated MACE evaluation are: a fixed fee of €500 for organisations submitting data for a single breed, and €1000 for organisations submitting data for 2 or more breeds.

10.12 Sharing additional animal information via the IDEA AnimInfo module is currently free of charge.

10.13 Sharing of genetic traits information via IDEA AnimInfo is subjected to a fee as described in Appendix XI

10.14 Fees apply to countries providing data for the international evaluation and also countries that are not prepared to provide data, but wish to receive international evaluation results.

10.15 Participating countries will be billed once per year, usually within 60 days after receiving the April international evaluation.

10.16 The official Interbull customer representative is responsible for raising the national contribution within country.

10.2 Service Fee Structure for novel traits

10.2.1 Interbull has proposed a funding model for novel traits that includes a fee structure expressed as a percentage of the fee paid for MACE services for production traits. This approach is consistent with all other trait groups with MACE services.

10.2.2 The distinction for novel traits, however, is that countries which have invested the longest on the collection of the new phenotype should benefit most from a lower fee. Countries with a higher proportion of bulls proven for the novel trait in question (i.e.: cma) relative to production (i.e.: Milk) can receive a level of credit to a maximum of 50%. Countries that have more recently started collecting the new phenotype should be given the opportunity to lower their fee after a reasonable period of collecting these phenotypes. Therefore, the period to be included in the fee calculation is set to a 15-year period, ending 6 years from the current year (i.e. 2015 in 2021).

The level of credit is determined by the proposed Contribution Category as shown in Table 1.

Table 1: cma Trait Data Contribution Categories

10.2.3 Service Fee for cma MACE Services:

The above principles have led to the following cma MACE Service fee structure:

1. The fees charged for cma MACE Services will be based on a 15-year window of birth years for proven bulls included in MACE for Milk. The last birth year to be included in the time window will be six years prior to the current calendar year (i.e.: ending in 2015 for 2021).
2. The Contribution Categories applied to cma will be based on five groups by quintile, as outlined in Table 2.
3. The “Base” fee for cma evaluations will be set at 8% of the Production fee. Therefore resulting in a fee of 4% for countries with the maximum credit based on Contribution Category 5 (80-100%).
4. The fees for cma will be based solely on the calculations applied to the breed with the highest number of qualifying bulls for Milk, which will most often be the Holstein breed. Payment of such fees therefore allow that country to participate in the cma MACE services for all breeds.
5. The Country of Origin for each bull will be designated as the country with the maximum number of daughters in the published MACE evaluation for Milk.

10.2.4 Fee calculations:

An example (estimate) of the fees for countries that are most likely able to join the new cma service is provided below.

Proportion of bulls with a cma evaluation relative to MILK

1. The proportion of bulls that have been evaluated for cma has been calculated on basis of the frequencies in individual years as defined above.
2. Data was available for the period from 1986 until 2015 as shown in Appendix 1. The last row in Appendix 1 shows the average contribution in the 15-year period 2000-2014.
3. This results in the cma data contribution categories, discounts and estimated fees as shown in Table 2.

Table 2: cma fee calculation by country