S.I. No. 282/2025 - European Union (Restrictive Measures concerning Russia) (No.3) Regulations 2025

1. Contravention of provision of the Council Regulation (EU) 2024/1485

Article 2 (1)

Article 3 (1)

Article 4 (1) or (2)

Article 5 (1)

Article 6 (1) or (2)

Article 11 (1)

Article 12 (1)

Article 13 (1) or (2)

Article 15 (1)

2. Contravention of provision of the Council Regulation (EU) 2024/2642

Article 1a (1)

Article 1b (1)

Article 1c

Article 2 (1) or (2)

Article 8 (1)

Article 9 (1) or (2)

Article 11 (1)

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

1 July, 2025.

PASCHAL DONOHOE,

Minister for Finance.

1 OJ L, 2024/1485, 27.5.2024

2 OJ L, 2024/2642, 9.10.2024

3 OJ L, 2024/1488, 27.05.2024

4 OJ L, 2024/2465, 12.9.2024

5 OJ L, 2025/958, 20.5.2025

6 OJ L, 2025/1081, 27.5.2025

7 OJ L, 2024/3188, 16.12.2024

8 OJ L, 2025/964, 20.5.2025

9 OJ L, 2025/965, 20.5.2025

10 OJ L, 2025/968, 21.5.2025

11 OJ L, 2025/1278, 26.6.2025

3. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/965 of 20 May 2025

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4. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/968 of 20 May 2025

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5. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1278 of 26 June 2025

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Schedule 2

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. (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 Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade and stating that a passport was issued by that Minister 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.

9. The European Union (Restrictive Measures concerning Russia) (No.2) Regulations 2025 (

S.I. No. 230 of 2025

) are revoked.

Schedule 1

European acts amending Council Regulations

Part 1

Council Regulation (EU) 2024/1485

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

4

th July,

2025.

I, PASCHAL DONOHOE, Minister for Finance, 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. 2024/1485 of 27 May 2024

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as amended and Council Regulation (EU) 2024/2642 of 8 October 2024

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, hereby make the following regulations