S.I. No. 71/2009 - European Communities (Welfare of Farmed Animals) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2009

1. These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Welfare of farmed animals) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2009 and come into operation on 10 March 2009.

2. A reference in the European Communities (Welfare of farmed animals) Regulations 2008 (

S.I. No. 14 of 2008

) or in an instrument issued under a power granted by those Regulations to an act of the institutions of the European Communities repealed by Article 13 of Council Directive No. 2008/120/EC of 18 December 2008 (“codified Directive”), or to a provision of the act is construed and has effect as if the reference is a reference to the codified Directive or to the equivalent provision of the codified Directive and is to be read in accordance with the correlation table in Annex III to the codified Directive.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

4 March 2009

BRENDAN SMITH,

Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

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

This Regulation gives effect to Council Directive 2008/120/EC of 18th December 2008, concerning the laying down of minimum standards for the protection of pigs.

1 O.J. L 47 of 18.02.2009, p.5.

S.I. No. 71 of 2009

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WELFARE OF FARMED ANIMALS) (AMENDMENT) (NO. 2) REGULATIONS 2009

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

10

th March

, 2009.

I, BRENDAN SMITH, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 3

of the

European Communities Act 1972

(No. 27 of 1972), for the purpose of giving effect to Council Directive No. 2008/120/EC of 18 December 2008 1

, hereby make the following regulations