14.3.2013 Official Journal of the European Union L 70/1 (Non-legislative acts) II REGULATIONS COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 220/2013 of 13 March 2013 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 297/95 as regards the adjustment of the fees of the European Medicines Agency to the inflation rate (Text with EEA relevance) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 297/95 of 10 February 1995 on fees payable to the European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products ('), and in particular Article 12(5) thereof, Whereas: 1 In accordance with Article 67(3) of Regulation (EC) No 726/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 31 March 2004 laying down Community procedures for the authorisation and supervision of medicinal products for human and veterinary use and establishing a European Medicines Agency (%), the revenue of the European Medicines Agency (hereinafter ‘the Agency) consists of a contribution from the Union and fees paid by undertakings to the Agency. Regulation (EC) No 297/95 lays down the categories and levels of such fees. Those fees should be updated by reference to the inflation rate of 2012. The inflation rate in the Union, as published by the Statistical Office of the European Union (Eurostat), was 2,6 % in 2012. For the sake of simplicity, the adjusted levels of the fees should be rounded to the nearest EUR 100. Regulation (EC) No 297/95 should therefore be amended accordingly. For reasons of legal certainty, this Regulation should not apply to valid applications which are pending on 1 April 2013. L 35, 15.2.1995, p. 1. L 136, 30.4.2004, p. 1. (6) In accordance with Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 297/95, the update has to be made with effect from 1 April 2013. It is therefore appropriate that this Regu- lation enters into force as a matter of urgency and applies from that date, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 Regulation (EC) No 297/95 is amended as follows: (1) Article 3 is amended as follows: (a) paragraph 1 is amended as follows: (i) point (a) is amended as follows: — in the first subparagraph, ‘EUR 267 400" is replaced by ‘EUR 274 400, — in the second subparagraph, ‘EUR 26 800’ is replaced by ‘EUR 27 500, — in the third subparagraph, ‘EUR 6 700" is replaced by ‘EUR 6 9007 (ii) point (b) is amended as follows: — in the first subparagraph, ‘EUR 103 800" is replaced by ‘EUR 106 500, — in the second subparagraph, ‘EUR 172 800’ is replaced by ‘EUR 177 300, — in the third subparagraph, ‘EUR 10 300" is replaced by ‘EUR 10 600, — in the fourth subparagraph, ‘EUR 6 700" is replaced by ‘EUR 6 9007 (ili) point (c) is amended as follows: — in the first subparagraph, ‘EUR 80 300’ is replaced by ‘EUR 82 400,