S.I. No. 117 of 2008

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (CLASSICAL SWINE FEVER) (RESTRICTION ON IMPORTS) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS 2008

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 2nd May, 2008.

I, MARY COUGHLAN, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, 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 effect to Commission Decision 2008/225/EC of 14 March 2008 ¹ , hereby make the following regulations-

1. These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Classical Swine Fever) (Restriction on Import) (Amendment) Regulations 2008.

2. The European Communities (Classical Swine Fever) (Restriction on Imports) Regulations 2007 ( S.I. No. 130 of 2007 ) are amended in Regulation 2(1) by the substitution for the definition of “Commission Decision” of-

“ ‘Commission Decision’ means Commission Decision No. 2006/805/EC of 24 November 2006, Commission Decision No. 2007/152/EC of 6 March 2007 and Commission Decision 2008/225/EC of 14 March 2008;”.

3. The European Communities (Classical Swine Fever) (Restriction on Imports) (Amendment) Regulations 2007 ( S.I. No. 210 of 2007 ) and the European Communities (Classical Swine Fever) (Restriction on Imports) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2007 ( S.I. No. 258 of 2007 ) are revoked.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

10 April 2008

MARY COUGHLAN,

Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

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

These regulations concern import restrictions due to the incidence of Classical Swine Fever in certain parts of the European Communities.

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