S.I. No. 571/2021 - European Union (Restrictive Measures concerning the Republic of Guinea-Bissau) Regulations 2021

1. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 458/2012 of 31 May 2012

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

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3. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 559/2013 of 18 June 2013

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4. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2017/403 of 7 March 2017

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5. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2018/31 of 10 January 2018

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6. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No 2021/1302 of 5 August 2021

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Schedule 2

Part 1

Contravention of Provision of Council Regulation

Article 2

Article 8(1)

Part 2

Authorisation under Provision of Council Regulation

Article 4(1)

Article 5(1)

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

13 October, 2021.

LEO VARADKAR,

Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment.

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 377/2012 as amended, regarding restrictive measures concerning the Republic of Guinea-Bissau.

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 L119, 4.5.2012, p.1

1 OJ L119, 4.5.2012, p.1

2 OJ L 142, 1.6.2012, p.11

3 OJ L 158, 10.6.2013, p.1

4 OJ L 167, 19.6.2013, p.1

5 OJ L 63, 9.3.2017, p.15

6 OJ L 6, 11.1.2018, p.1

7 OJ L 283, 06.08.2021, p.9

7. A person who fails to comply with a direction given under Regulation 5 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 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 European Union (Restrictive Measures concerning the Republic of Guinea-Bissau) Regulations 2018 (

S.I. No. 247 of 2018

) are revoked.

Schedule 1

Council Regulation

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

5

th November,

2021.

I, LEO VARADKAR, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment 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 377/2012 of 3 May 2012

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, as amended, hereby make the following regulations