S.I. No. 340/2022 - European Union (Restrictive Measures Concerning South Sudan) Regulations 2022

1. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1112 of 9 July 2015

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2. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/402 of 7 March 2017

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3. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/164 of 2 February 2018

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4. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1115 of 10 August 2018

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5. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1116 of 10 August 2018

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6. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1934 of 10 December 2018

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7. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1208 of 15 July 2019

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8. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/748 of 16 May 2022

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Schedule 2

Part 1

Contravention of Provision of Council Regulation

Article 2

Article 5

Article 14(1)

Article 15

Part 2

Provision of Council Regulation

Article 3(1)

Article 4(1)

Article 6

Article 7

Article 8(1)

Article 9

Article 10(1)

Article 11

Article 12(1)

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

17 June, 2022.

LEO VARADKAR,

Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment..

1 OJ L117, 8.5.2015, p.13

1 OJ L117, 8.5.2015, p.13

2 OJ L 182, 10.7.2015, p.2

3 OJ L 63, 9.3.2017, p.7

4 OJ L 31, 3.2.2018, p.1

5 OJ L 204, 13.8.2018, p.1

6 OJ L 204, 13.8.2018, p.6

7 OJ L 314, 11.12.2018, p.11

8 OJ L 191, 17.7.2019, p.4

9 OJ L 138, 17.5.2022, p.1

9. (1) Proceedings for an offence under these Regulations in relation to an act committed outside the State may be taken in any place in the State and the offence may for all incidental purposes be treated as having been committed in that place.

(2) Where a person is charged with an offence referred to in paragraph (1), no further proceedings in the matter (other than any remand in custody or on bail) may be taken except by or with the consent of the Director of Public Prosecutions.

(3) In proceedings for an offence referred to in paragraph (1),

(

a

) a certificate purporting to be signed by an officer of the Department of Foreign Affairs and stating that a passport was issued by that Department to a person on a specified date, and

(

b

) a certificate that is signed by an officer of the Minister for Justice and stating that, to the best of the officer’s knowledge and belief, the person has not ceased to be an Irish citizen,

is evidence that the person was an Irish citizen on the date on which the offence is alleged to have been committed, and is taken to have been signed by the person purporting to have signed it, unless the contrary is shown.

(4) A person who has been acquitted or convicted of an offence in a place outside the State shall not be proceeded against for an offence under these Regulations in relation to an act committed outside the State consisting of the conduct, or substantially the same conduct, that constituted the offence of which the person has been acquitted or convicted.

10. The European Union (Restrictive Measures concerning South Sudan) (No. 3) Regulations 2019 (

S.I. No. 500 of 2019

) are revoked.

Schedule 1

Council Regulation

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

8

th July,

2022.

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) 2015/735 of 7 May 2015

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, as amended, hereby make the following regulations