Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

"Iris Oifigiúil" of 27th November, 2015.

I, SIMON COVENEY, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by sections 3 and 14 of the Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006 (No. 8 of 2006) and the Sea Fisheries, Foreshore and Dumping at Sea (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2007 ( S.I. No. 707 of 2007 ) (as adapted by the Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2011 ( S.I. No. 455 of 2011 )), for the purpose of giving full effect to Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EU) 2015/812 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 May 2015¹ , hereby make the following regulations:

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Sea-Fisheries (Technical Measures) (Amendment) Regulations 2015.

2. The Sea-Fisheries (Technical Measures) Regulations 2013 ( S.I. No. 197 of 2013 ) are amended by substituting in Regulation 2(1) the definition of "Technical Measures Regulation" for the following-

"Technical Measures Regulation’ means Commission Regulation (EEC) No. 3440/84 of 6 December 1984² (as amended by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 955/87 of 1 April 1987³ , Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2122/89 of 14 July 1989⁴ and Commission Regulation No 146/2007 of 15 February 2007⁵ ), and Council Regulation (EC) No 850/98 of 30 March 1998⁶ (as amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 308/1999 of 8 February 1999⁷ , Council Regulation (EC) No 1459/1999 of 24 June 1999⁸ , Council Regulation (EC) No 2723/1999 of 17 December 1999⁹ , Council Regulation (EC) No 1298/2000 of 8 June 2000¹⁰ , Council Regulation (EC) No 724/2001 of 4 April 2001¹¹ , Council Regulation (EC) No 973/2001 of 14 May 2001¹² , Council Regulation (EC) No 602/2004 of 22 March 2004¹³ , Council Regulation (EC) No 1568/2005 of 20 September 2005¹⁴ , Council Regulation (EC) No 2166/2005 of 20 December 2005¹⁵ , Regulation (EU) No. 579/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 June 2011¹⁶ , Regulation (EU) No 227/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 March 2013¹⁷ , Council Regulation (EU) No 1385/2013 of 17 December 2013¹⁸ and Regulation (EU) 2015/812 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 May 2015);".

GIVEN under my Official Seal.

19 November 2015.

SIMON COVENEY,

Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

These Regulations, amend the Sea-Fisheries (Technical Measures) Regulations 2013 ( S.I. No. 197 of 2013 ) which relate to technical conditions for all fishing operations (e.g. permitted nets, species composition of catches, etc.) to include Regulation (EU) 2015/812 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 May 2015 as regards the landing obligation. These regulations make a contravention of any provisions of European legislation implementing technical measures, an offence under the Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006 .

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