S.I. No. 529/2024 - European Union (Electronic Communications Code) (Amendment) Regulations 2024

1. These Regulations may be cited as the European Union (Electronic Communications Code) (Amendment) Regulations 2024.

2. The European Union (Electronic Communications Code) Regulations 2022 (

S.I. No. 444 of 2022

) are amended –

(a) in Regulation 2(1) by the insertion of the following definition after “

Act of 2009”

“‘

Act of 2022

’ means the

Consumer Rights Act 2022

(No. 37 of 2022);”

(b) in Regulation 2(1) by the substitution of the definition of “

durable medium”

for the following

“

‘durable medium’

has the same meaning as in section 2(1) of the Act of 2022;”

(c) in Regulation 87 by the substitution of the following for paragraph (1)

“(1) Before a consumer is bound by a contract or any corresponding offer, a provider of publicly available electronic communications services, other than transmission services used for the provision of machine-to-machine services, shall provide the consumer with the information referred to in section 101, 103 or 106 of the Act of 2022 as the case may be, and, in addition the information listed in Schedule 7, to the extent that the information relates to a service the provider provides.”

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

7 October, 2024.

EAMON RYAN,

Minister for the Environment,

Climate and Communications.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(

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

)

These Regulations amend the

European Union (Electronic Communications Code) Regulations 2022

(

S.I. No. 444 of 2022

) to replace references to the

European Union (Consumer Information, Cancellation and Other Rights) Regulations 2013

(

S.I. No. 484 of 2013

) with references to the

Consumer Rights Act 2022.

1 OJ L 321, 17.12.2018, p. 36

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

15

th October,

2024.

I, EAMON RYAN, Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, 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 further effect to Directive (EU) 2018/1972 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 establishing the European Electronic Communications Code (Recast)

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hereby make the following regulations