What does EMMA charge?
On July 4th 2008 EMMA implemented a new charging scheme to reflect the change in its funding structure. From now on shipments of frozen embryos/sperm will cost 1100, while live mice will be distributed for a cost of 1700. The 1700 will cover the provision of a breeding nucleus of up to three pairs of SPF mice. This new pricing structure was introduced because the European Union no longer subsidises EMMA’s distribution costs. However, the charges levied by EMMA will be used solely to meet the animal husbandry and stock replacement costs. Customers will still be asked to meet the actual costs for shipping the material from the EMMA facility to the recipient’s institution. Service requests will not be processed until executed MTAs have been received where applicable and either a billing address or a purchase order number has been provided by the customer. In case of cancellations of service requests EMMA reserves the right to charge customers for incurred costs.
