Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 7th January, 2022.

The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 36 of the Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013 (No. 15 of 2013) and for the purpose of giving full effect to Commission Regulation (EU) 2020/ 687 of 17 December 2019¹ in so far as that Regulation applies to avian influenza, makes the following regulations:

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Avian Influenza (Temporary Measures) (No.7) (Second Amendment) Regulations 2021 and come into operation at 3pm on 2 January 2022.

2. the Avian Influenza (Temporary Measures) (No.2) Regulations 2021 are amended –

(a) in Regulation 2, by the deletion of ‘“protection zone 3”,

(b) in Regulation 3 by the deletion of “partly within protection zone 3,” and “protection zone 3,”,

(c) in Part 2 of Schedule 1 by the deletion-

(i) of “(apart from the townlands situate in protection zone 3)” in both places where it occurs, and

(ii) immediately after “Figullar (apart from the townlands situate in” of “protection zone 3 or”,

and

(d) by the deletion of Part 3 of Schedule 2.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine,

31 December, 2021.

JUNE FANNING,

An officer authorised to authenticate the Seal of the Minister.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

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

These Regulations provide for the removal of certain temporary measures formerly in place to combat the threat posed by avian influenza; most restrictions remain in place for the present.

1 O.J, L 174 of 3.6.2020, 64; http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2020/687/oj