Fee-charging Standards for Regenerative Medicinal Products

2025-12-29
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Article 1
These Standards are promulgated pursuant to Paragraph 3 of Article 8 of the Regenerative Medicinal Products Act (hereinafter referred to as “the Act”) and Article 10 of the Charges and Fees Act.
Article 2
For applications for registration and inspection of regenerative medicinal products and issuance of a pharmaceutical permit license or conditional approval pursuant to Article 6 of the Act, the review fees payable for each application shall be as follows:
I. Gene therapy products, cell therapy products, tissue-engineered products, and combination products: 1,500,000 New Taiwan Dollars. Where applications simultaneously include products of different dosage strengths, an additional 250,000 New Taiwan Dollars shall be charged for each additional dosage strength.
II. Regenerative medicinal products for export only: 30,000 New Taiwan Dollars.
III. Applications submitted by the holder of a pharmaceutical permit license or conditional approval for products with the same ingredients but different dosage strengths: 250,000 New Taiwan Dollars.
Article 3
For applications for clinical trials, the review fees payable for each application shall be as follows:
I. Clinical trial protocol: 60,000 New Taiwan Dollars.
II. Clinical trial report: 40,000 New Taiwan Dollars.
III. Amendments to clinical trial protocols:
(1) Trial sites, principal investigators, or trial sponsors: 6,000 New Taiwan Dollars.
(2) Protocol documents, manufacturing sites of investigational products, or investigational product documentation: 10,000 New Taiwan Dollars.
For applications for, or inspections conducted ex officio by the central competent authority in accordance with the Good Clinical Practice (GCP) regulations for pharmaceuticals, the review fees for on-site inspections shall be as follows:
I. Overseas inspections: 500,000 New Taiwan Dollars per country. The same fee shall apply to Mainland China inspections.
II. Domestic inspections: 50,000 New Taiwan Dollars per trial institution.
Article 4
For applications to change the registered particulars of a pharmaceutical permit license or conditional approval pursuant to Article 7 of the Act, the review fees payable for each application shall be as follows:
I. Addition of an active pharmaceutical ingredient manufacturer or finished product manufacturer: 250,000 New Taiwan Dollars per manufacturer.
II. Addition of indications: 250,000 New Taiwan Dollars; where more than one indication is added, 500,000 New Taiwan Dollars. Where multiple dosage strengths of products with the same ingredients are applied for simultaneously, an additional 30,000 New Taiwan Dollars shall be charged for each additional dosage strength.
III. Addition of dosage and administration: 250,000 New Taiwan Dollars. Where multiple dosage strengths of products with the same ingredients are applied for simultaneously, an additional 30,000 New Taiwan Dollars shall be charged for each additional dosage strength.
IV. Transfer or merger of the holder of the pharmaceutical permit license or conditional approval: 30,000 New Taiwan Dollars.
V. Package insert content: 30,000 New Taiwan Dollars.
VI. Manufacturers engaged in contract packaging or labeling: 30,000 New Taiwan Dollars.
VII. Manufacturing process or batch size: 30,000 New Taiwan Dollars.
VIII. Testing specifications and methods: In accordance with a pharmacopoeia: 2,000 New Taiwan Dollars; not in accordance with a pharmacopoeia: 20,000 New Taiwan Dollars.
IX. Primary packaging materials: 20,000 New Taiwan Dollars.
X. Excipients: 20,000 New Taiwan Dollars.
XI. Changes other than those listed in the preceding ten subparagraphs: 10,000 New Taiwan Dollars.
Each application under the preceding paragraph shall be limited to one change item per case. Where multiple change items are applied for simultaneously and the items are necessarily interrelated, the fee shall be charged based on the item with the highest amount.
Applications referred to in Paragraph 1 may, pursuant to Article 2 of the Regulations Governing the Review of Regenerative Medicinal Products Registration and Inspection, which mutatis mutandis applies the Regulations Governing the Review of Drug Registration and Inspection, be combined into a single application by listing them in a consolidated schedule, with a maximum of ten permit licenses or conditional approvals per application.
Article 5
For applications to change a permit license for products for export only, the review fee payable for each application shall be 10,000 New Taiwan Dollars.
Article 6
For applications for extension of the validity period of a permit license pursuant to Article 8 of the Act, the review fee payable for each application shall be 10,000 New Taiwan Dollars.
Article 7
For applications for reissuance of an approved copy of a permit license, conditional approval, package insert, label, outer carton, or aluminum foil packaging approval, the review fee payable for each application shall be 10,000 New Taiwan Dollars.
Article 8
For applications for certificates or approval letters relating to regenerative medicinal products, the review fees payable for each application shall be as follows:
I. Certificate of Manufacture and Sale: 2,000 New Taiwan Dollars.
II. Reissuance of approval letters due to loss: 2,000 New Taiwan Dollars.
Applications for the certificates and approval letters referred to in the preceding paragraph shall be limited to three copies per application.
Applications for the certificate referred to in Subparagraph 1 of Paragraph 1 shall be limited to one permit license per application.
Article 9
For written inquiries regarding matters related to regenerative medicinal products, the following fees shall be charged for each case:
I. Determination of the regulatory classification of a regenerative medicinal product: 5,000 New Taiwan Dollars.
II. Consultation on registration and inspection or clinical trials:
(1) Where technical data are involved: 10,000 New Taiwan Dollars.
(2) Where technical data are not involved: 5,000 New Taiwan Dollars.
(3) Project-based consultation and guidance: 30,000 New Taiwan Dollars.
III. Query of data from the Taiwan National Adverse Drug Reactions Reporting System Database: 5,000 New Taiwan Dollars.
Article 10
For applications for the following items, the review fees payable for each application shall be as follows:
I. Determination of eligibility for special review mechanisms: 30,000 New Taiwan Dollars.
II. Determination of life-threatening or severely disabling diseases pursuant to Paragraph 2 of Article 9 of the Act: 30,000 New Taiwan Dollars.
III. Authorization for import under a pharmaceutical permit license or conditional approval: 4,000 New Taiwan Dollars.
IV. Issuance, reissuance, or replacement of a permit license certificate: 1,500 New Taiwan Dollars.
V. Convening consultation or advisory meetings: 30,000 New Taiwan Dollars.
VI. Correction of errors in registration and inspection records or conditional approval particulars attributable to the manufacturer: 3,000 New Taiwan Dollars.
VII. Importation of samples of regenerative medicinal products: 3,000 New Taiwan Dollars.
The special review mechanisms referred to in Subparagraph 1 of the preceding paragraph include the following:
I. Priority review mechanism.
II. Accelerated approval mechanism.
III. Abbreviated review mechanism.
IV. Breakthrough therapy review mechanism.
V. Review mechanism for pediatric drugs or drugs for rare serious diseases.
VI. Other review mechanisms publicly announced by the central competent authority.
Article 11
Pursuant to Paragraph 2 of Article 15 of the Act, for applications for advertisements recruiting tissue or cell donors for regenerative medicinal products, the review fees payable for each application shall be as follows:
I. New application: 6,000 New Taiwan Dollars.
II. Application for extension: 2,200 New Taiwan Dollars.
III. Reissuance of approval certificate: 1,700 New Taiwan Dollars.
IV. Written inquiries regarding advertising regulations: 2,800 New Taiwan Dollars.
V. Written inquiries regarding health education advertising: 6,000 New Taiwan Dollars.
Article 12
Where the central competent authority conducts overseas inspections pursuant to Paragraph 2 of Article 3, the on-site attendance fees for executing personnel and accompanying experts shall be charged to the inspected party in accordance with the standards prescribed in the Guidelines for Reimbursement of Overseas Business Travel Expenses.
Article 13
These Standards shall enter into force on the date of enforcement of the Act.