S.I. No. 73/2016 - European Union (Restrictive Measures concerning the Republic of Guinea) Regulations 2016.

1. Commission Regulation (EU) No 279/2010 of 31 March 2010

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2. Council Regulation (EU) No 269/2011 of 21 March 2011

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3. Council Regulation (EU) No 1295/2011 of 13 December 2011

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4. Council Regulation (EU) No 49/2013 of 22 January 2013

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

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6. Council Regulation (EU) No 380/2014 of 14 April 2014

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Schedule 2

Provision of Council Regulation

Regulation 3

Article 6(1), (2) or (4)

Article 12(1)

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

21 February 2016.

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 1284/2009 as amended, regarding restrictive measures concerning the Republic of Guinea.

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 346, 23.12.2009, p.26

2 OJ L 86, 1.4.2010, p.20

3 OJ L 76, 22.3.2011, p.1

4 OJ L 330, 14.12.2011, p.1

5 OJ L 20, 23.1.2013, p.25

6 OJ L 158, 10.6.2013, p.1

7 OJ L 111, 15.4.2014, p.29

7. A person who fails to comply with a direction given under Regulation 6 within the time specified in the direction shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a class A fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months or to both.

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 following are revoked

(

a

) the European Union (Republic of Guinea) (Financial Sanctions) Regulations 2013 (

S.I. No. 52 of 2013

);

(

b

) the European Communities (Restrictive Measures) (Republic of Guinea) Regulations 2010 (

S.I. No. 219 of 2010

).

Schedule 1

Council Regulation

Regulation 2

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

26

th February

, 2016.

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 1284/2009 of 22 December 2009

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, as amended, hereby make the following regulations