S.I. No. 213 of 2008

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS) REGULATIONS 2008

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 1st July, 2008.

I, BRENDAN SMITH, 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), for the purpose of giving full effect to Council Regulation (EC) No. 1234/2007 of 22 October 2007 ¹ (except Chapter III of Title I of Part II so far as it relates to milk) (as amended by Council Regulation (EC) No. 361/2008 of 14 March 2008 ² ), hereby make the following regulations:

1. These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Agricultural Products) Regulations 2008.

2. (1) A reference in an enactment or in the preamble to an enactment or in an instrument issued under a power granted by an enactment to an act of the institutions of the European Communities repealed by Chapter II of Part VII of Council Regulation (EC) No. 1234/2007 of 22 October 2007 as amended by Council Regulation (EC) No. 361/2008 of 14 March 2008 (“Council Regulation”) or to a provision of the act is construed and has effect as if the reference is a reference to the Council Regulation or to the equivalent provision of the Council Regulation and is to be read in accordance with the correlation tables set out in Annex XXII to the Council Regulation.

(2) A word or expression that is used in the Council Regulation and is also used in an enactment or instrument to which paragraph (1) refers has, in that enactment or instrument, the same meaning as it has in the Council Regulation.

(3) A reference to an enactment includes a reference to an enactment that gave full effect to a Regulation of an institution of the European Communities repealed before the making of these Regulations.

(4) Nothing in these Regulations purports to create a criminal offence, or to revive criminal proceedings, under an enactment to which paragraph (3) refers, in respect of an event that occurred before the making of these Regulations.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

25 June 2008

BRENDAN SMITH.

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 amend a number of Regulations made under the European Communities Act 1972 to take account of the establishment of the single common organisation of agricultural markets in Council Regulation (EC) No. 1234/2007.

1 O.J. No. L 299 of 16.11.2007, p. 1.

2 O.J. No. L 51 of 7 May 2008, p.1.