S.I. No. 355/2013 - European Communities (Control on Mussel Fishing) Regulations 2008 (Revocation) Regulations 2013.

1. These regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Control on Mussel Fishing) Regulations 2008 (Revocation) Regulations 2013.

2. The following Regulations are revoked—

(

a

) European Communities (Control on Mussel Fishing) Regulations 2008 (

S.I. No. 347 of 2008

) other than Regulation 8,

(

b

) European Communities (Control on Mussel Fishing) (Amendment) 2009 (

S.I. No. 108 of 2009

),

(

c

) European Communities (Control on Mussel Fishing) Regulations 2008 (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (

S.I. No. 402 of 2011

), and

(

d

) European Communities (Control on Mussel Fishing) Regulations 2008 (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (

S.I. No. 366 of 2012

).

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

5 September 2013.

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).

This SI revokes the European Communities (Control on Mussel Fishing) Regulations 2008 as amended except for Regulation 8. The 2008 Regulations prohibited mussel fishing in certain specified areas.

1 OJ No. L 206, 22.07.1992, p. 7

2 OJ No. L 305, 08.11.1997, p. 42

3 OJ No. L 284, 31.10.2003, p. 1

4 OJ No. L 363, 20.12.2006, p. 368

5 OJ No. L 020, 26.01.2010, p. 7

6 OJ No. L 158, 10.06.2013, p. 193

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

17

th September

, 2013.

I, SIMON COVENEY, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, 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 further effect to Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992

1

(as amended by Council Directive 97/62/EC of 27 October 1997

2

, Regulation (EC) No. 1882/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 September 2003

3

and Council Directive 2006/105/EC of 20 November 2006

4

and Directive 2009/147/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 November 2009

5

(as amended by Council Directive 2013/17/EU of 13 May 2013

6

), hereby make the following regulations