S.I. No. 450/2007 - European Communities (Authorised Agencies) (Issue of Certificates of Origin) (Amendment) Regulations 2007

1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Authorised Agencies) (Issue of Certificates of Origin) (Amendment) Regulations 2007.

(2) The European Communities (Authorised Agencies) (Issue of Certificates of Origin) Regulations 1998 and 2001, and these Regulations may be cited together as the European Communities (Authorised Agencies) (Issue of Certificates of Origin) Regulations 1998 to 2007.

2. These Regulations come into operation on 12 July 2007.

3. In these Regulations “Principal Regulations” means the European Communities (Authorised Agencies) (Issue of Certificates of Origin) Regulations 1998 (

S.I. No. 318 of 1998

).

4. The Schedule to the Principal Regulations is amended by substituting the following Schedule for that schedule—

“ SCHEDULE

An Bord Bainne

Arklow Chamber of Commerce

Athlone Chamber of Commerce

Athy Chamber of Commerce

Ballina Chamber of Commerce

Ballyhaunis Chamber of Commerce

Bray Chamber of Commerce

Carlow Chamber of Commerce

Carrick-on-Shannon Chamber of Commerce

Clonmel Chamber of Commerce

Cobh and Harbour Chamber of Commerce

Cootehill Chamber of Commerce

Cork Chamber of Commerce

Drogheda Chamber of Commerce

Dublin Chamber of Commerce

Dundalk Chamber of Commerce

Dun Laoghaire Chamber of Commerce

Dungarvan Chamber of Commerce

Ennis Chamber of Commerce

Enniscorthy Chamber of Commerce

Galway Chamber of Commerce

Kells and District Chamber of Commerce

Kilkenny Chamber of Commerce

Laois Chamber of Commerce

Letterkenny Chamber of Commerce

Limerick Chamber of Commerce

Longford Chamber of Commerce

Midleton and Area Chamber of Commerce

Monaghan Chamber of Commerce

Mullingar Chamber of Commerce

Naas Chamber of Commerce

Navan Chamber of Commerce

Nenagh Chamber of Commerce

Newbridge Chamber of Commerce

Roscrea Chamber of Commerce

Sligo Chamber of Commerce

Swords Fingal Chamber of Commerce

Tallaght/South Dublin Chamber of Commerce

Thurles Chamber of Commerce

Tralee Chamber of Commerce

Tullamore Chamber of Commerce

Waterford Chamber of Commerce

Westport Chamber of Commerce

Wexford Chamber of Commerce”.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

11 July 2007

MICHEÁL MARTIN.

Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

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

The effect of these Regulations is to add Kells & District Chamber of Commerce and Midleton & Area Chamber of Commerce to the schedule of agencies that are authorised to issue certificates of origin in the 1998 Regulations. Ballinasloe Chamber of Commerce, Castlebar Chamber of Commerce, and Donegal Chamber of Commerce are deleted from the schedule of authorised agencies. Also, the insertion of Swords Fingal Chamber of Commerce by the 2001 Regulations in the schedule to the 1998 Regulations is maintained.

1 OJ No. L253, 11.10.1993, p.1.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

17

th July

, 2007.

I, MICHEÁL MARTIN, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 3

of the

European Communities Act, 1972

(No. 27 of 1972), and for the purpose of giving full effect to Commission Regulation (EEC) No. 2454/93

1

of 2 July 1993, hereby make the following regulations—