S.I. No. 436/2013 - European Communities (Avian Influenza) (Control on Movement of Pet Birds) (Amendment) Regulations 2013.

1. TheseRegulations may be cited as the European Communities (Avian Influenza) (Control on Movement of Pet Birds) (Amendment) Regulations 2013.

2. The European Communities (Avian Influenza) (Control on Movement of Pet Birds) Regulations 2007 (

S.I. No. 96 of 2007

) are amended in Regulation 2(1) by substituting for the definition of “Commission Decision” (inserted by the European Communities (Avian Influenza) (Control on Movement of Pet Birds) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 305 of 2012) the following-

“Commission Decision” means Commission Decision 2007/25/EC of 22 December 2006, Commission Decision 2010/734/EU of 30 November 2010, Commission Implementing Decision 2012/248/EU of 7 May 2012 and Commission Implementing Decision 2013/635 of 31 October 2013”.

3. The European Communities (Avian Influenza) (Control on Movement of Pet Birds) (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 305 of 2012) are revoked.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

13 November 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 Order gives effect to Commission Implementing Decision 2013/635 of 31 October 2013 amending Decisions 2005/734/EC, 2006/415/EC and 2007/25/EC, as regards the importation into the Union of pet birds.

1 O.J. L293, 05.11.2013, p. 40

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

22

nd November

, 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 Commission Implementing Decision 2013/635/EU of 31 October 2013

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, hereby make the following regulations