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1. Member States may charge fees to cover the costs of the national phase of the procedures provided for in this Regulation, in particular the costs incurred in the processing of applications, oppositions, requests for amendment of the product specification, requests for cancellation and appeals.

2. Member States may charge fees or impose charges to cover the costs of controls carried out pursuant to Title IV of this Regulation.

3. The Office shall charge a fee in respect of:

(a) the direct registration procedure, as referred to in Article 20;

(b) the procedure concerning third-country geographical indications, referred to in Article 21, point (c); and (c) appeals before the Boards of Appeal, as referred to in Article 33.

4. The Office may charge a fee in respect of requests for amendment of the product specification and in respect of requests for cancellation, where the geographical indication was registered pursuant to one of the procedures referred to in point (a) or (b) of paragraph 3.

5. Any fees charged under this Regulation shall be reasonable, proportionate and shall take into account the situation of MSMEs in order to foster the competitiveness of producers. Those fees shall not exceed the costs incurred for performing the tasks under this Regulation.

6. The Commission shall adopt implementing acts to determine the amounts of the fees to be charged by the Office and the ways in which they are to be paid or, in the case of the fee for appeals before the Boards of Appeal, reimbursed. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 68(2).