S.I. No. 586/2013 - European Communities (Health of Aquaculture Animals and Products) (Amendment) Regulations 2013.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Health of Aquaculture Animals and Products) (Amendment) Regulations 2013.

2. The European Communities (Health of Aquaculture Animals and Products) Regulations 2008 (

S.I. No. 261 of 2008

) are amended by substituting in Regulation 2(1), for the definition of “Council Directive” the following—

“ ‘Council Directive’ means Council Directive No. 2006/88/EC of 24 October 2006

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, as amended by Commission Directive No. 2008/53/EC of 30 April 2008

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and Commission Implementing Directive 2012/31/EU of 25 October 2012;”.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

14 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 Regulation amends Annex IV to Council Directive 2006/88/EC as regards the list of fish species susceptible to Viral haemorrhagic septicaemia and the deletion of the entry for Epizootic ulcerative syndrome.

1 O.J. L 297, 26.10.2012, p.26

2 O.J. L 328, 24.11.2006, p.14

3 O.J. L 117, 1.5.2008, p.27

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

16

th December

, 2014.

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 effect to Commission Implementing Directive 2012/31/EU of 25 October 2012

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, hereby make the following regulations