83In those circumstances, the answer to Question 3(a) in Case C‑477/18 and Question 3 in Case C‑478/18 is that Article 27(4)(a) of Regulation No 882/2004, read in conjunction with Annex VI thereto, must be interpreted as not precluding slaughterhouses from being charged fees in relation to official controls for quarter-hour periods requested by such slaughterhouses from the competent authority, within the meaning of Article 2(4) of Regulation No 882/2004, but not actually worked, where the slaughterhouse subject to the control did not inform that authority sufficiently in advance of its intention to shorten the duration of that control vis-à-vis the period originally planned.
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