S.I. No. 167/2025 - European Union (Packaging) (Amendment) Regulations 2025

1. These Regulations may be cited as the European Union (Packaging) (Amendment) Regulations 2025.

2. In these Regulations – “Principal Regulations” means the European Union (Packaging) Regulations 2014 (No. 282 of 2014).

3. Regulation 4(1) of the Principal Regulations is amended by inserting the following

““Minister” means the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications.”

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

1 May, 2025.

DARRAGH O’BRIEN,

Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

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

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This Statutory Instrument amends the European Communities (Packaging) Regulations 2014 (

S.I. No. 282 of 2014

) to clarify the Minister with responsibility for the functions set out therein and to give further effect to Directive 94/62/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 1994 on packaging and packaging waste, as amended.

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OJ L 365, 31.12.1994

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

9

th May,

2025.

I, DARRAGH O’BRIEN, 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 94/62/EC

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of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 December 1994 on packaging and packaging waste, hereby make the following regulations