S.I. No. 571/2015 - European Union (Restrictive Measures concerning Iran) Regulations 2015.

1. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1002/2011 of 10 October 2011

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2. Council Regulation (EU) No 264/2012 of 23 March 2012

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3. Council Regulation (EU) 1245/2012 of 20 December 2012

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4. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 206/2013 of 11 March 2013

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5. Council Regulation (EU) No 517/2013 of 13 May 2013

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6. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 371/2014 of 10 April 2014

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7. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/548 of 7 April 2015

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Schedule 2

Provision of Council Regulation

Regulation 3

Article 1a(1)

Article 1b(1)

Article 1c(1)

Article 2

Article 9(1)

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

17 December 2015.

RICHARD BRUTON,

Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

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

These Regulations provide for the enforcement of restrictive measures contained in Council Regulation (EU) No 359/2011 as amended, regarding restrictive measures concerning Iran.

The Regulations provide that competent authorities of the State may issue directions for the purpose of giving full effect to the sanctions.

The Regulations create offences for breach of the Council Regulations or for failure to comply with the directions of competent authorities of the State with regard to implementation of the sanctions and provides for appropriate penalties.

1 OJ L 100, 14.4.2011, p.1

2 OJ L 267, 12.10.2011, p. 1

3 OJ L 87, 24.3.2012, p. 26

4 OJ L 352, 21.12.2012, p. 15

5 OJ L 68, 12.3.2013, p. 9

6 OJ L 158, 10.6.2013, p.1

7 OJ L 109, 12.4.2014, p. 9

8 OJ L 92, 8.4.2015, p. 1

8. Where an offence under these Regulations is committed by a body corporate and is proved to have been so committed with the consent or connivance of or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of any person being a director, manager, secretary or other officer of the body corporate, or a person who was purporting to act in such capacity, that person shall, as well as the body corporate, be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished as if he or she were guilty of the first-mentioned offence.

9. The European Communities (Restrictive Measures Against Iran) (No. 2) Regulations 2013 (

S.I. No. 450 of 2013

) are revoked.

Schedule 1

Council Regulation

Regulation 2

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

29

th December

, 2015.

I, RICHARD BRUTON, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, 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 Council Regulation (EU) No 359/2011 of 12 April 2011

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as amended hereby make the following regulations