Animal Industry Act Article 28-1

To stabilize the production and marketing of livestock and poultry, the central competent authority shall establish livestock and poultry funds according to actual industry needs. The central competent authority may ask participating breeders, members of various livestock and poultry groups, and business owners to pay regulatory fees of not more than 0.04% of livestock and poultry prices.The central competent authority shall determine the terms of payment of the regulatory fees, calculation basis, actual payment rates, payment deadlines, and scope of payment.Fund management committees for both of the livestock and poultry industries need to be established with several members to take care of the balance of payments, custody and use of the funds referred to in Paragraph 1.The central competent authority has to appoint a government agency or a group to collect on its behalf the regulatory fees referred to in Paragraph 1.The central government authority shall draw up a budget for subsidies if the industry fund is temporarily suspended due to the following reasons:1. Pandemic or calamity in the country2. Severe imbalance in production and marketing3. Other force majeure factors making the collected regulatory fees inadequate.