S.I. No. 715/2024 - Sea-Fisheries (Technical Measures) (Amendment) Regulations 2024

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Sea-Fisheries (Technical Measures) (Amendment) Regulations 2024.

2. The Sea-Fisheries (Technical Measures) Regulations 2019 (

S.I. No. 520 of 2019

) are amended in Regulation 2(1) by the insertion after “19 July 2022” in the definition of “Council Regulation” (as amended by the Sea-Fisheries (Technical Measures) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (

S.I. No. 13 of 2023

)) of the following: “, Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/491 of 30 November 2023 and Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/492 of 30 November 2023”.

3. The Sea-Fisheries (Technical Measures) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (

S.I. No. 13 of 2023

) are revoked.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

16 December, 2024.

CHARLIE MCCONALOGUE,

Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(

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

.)

This instrument amends the Sea-Fisheries (Technical Measures) Regulations 2019 (

S.I. No. 520 of 2019

) to give effect to (a) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/491 of 30 November 2023 as regards as regards specific technical measures for red seabream (

Pagellus bogaraveo

) in ICES subareas 6 to 8 and (b) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/492 of 30 November 2023 as regards the prolongation of technical measures for certain demersal and pelagic fisheries in the Celtic Sea, the Irish Sea and West of Scotland.

1 OJ L 318, 7.12.1984, p. 23

2 OJ L 90, 2.4.1987, p. 29

3 OJ L 203, 15.7.1989, p. 21

4 OJ L 46, 16.2.2007, p. 9

5 OJ L 198, 25.7.2019, p. 105

6 OJ L 2024/491, 13.02.2024

7 OJ L 2024/492, 13.02.2024

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

27

th December,

2024.

I, CHARLIE MCCONALOGUE, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

sections 3

and

14

of the

Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006

(No. 8 of 2006) for the purpose of giving further effect to Commission Regulation (EEC) No. 3440/84 of 6 December 1984

1

(as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 955/87 of 1 April 1987

2

, Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2122/89 of 14 July 1989

3

and Commission Regulation No 146/2007 of 15 February 2007

4

), and Regulation (EU) 2019/1241 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019

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, and effect to Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/491 of 30 November 2023

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and Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/492 of 30 November 2023

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hereby make the following regulations