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Hugh Mercer QC and Naomi Hart (instructed by Roythornes Solicitors ) for the applicant
                The claimants are six food business operators (�FBOs�) working within the meat sector. Each is a member of the Association of Independent Meat Suppliers (�AIMS�), a trade association which represents its members in all stages of meat processing in the red meat, poultry, and game sectors.
                The defendant, the Food Standards Agency (�FSA�), is a non-ministerial government department established by section 1 of the Food Standards Act 1999.
                The claimants challenge the decision of the FSA to issue invoices against each of them in July 2021 for the recovery of certain costs pursuant to EU Regulation 2017/625 on official controls and other official activities performed to ensure the application of food and feed law, rules on animal health and welfare, plant health and plant protection products (�the EU Regulation�).
                The EU Regulation, incorporated into domestic law [2] and subsequently amended, [3] concerns �(a) the performance of official controls and other official activities by the competent authorities of the Member States; and (b) the financing of official controls� (Article 1(1)). The �official controls�, in turn, concern the rules, whether established domestically or at the level of the EU, in the areas of:
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