Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 1st March, 2022.

The Minister for Finance, in exercise of the powers conferred on him 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. 208/2014 of 5 March 2014¹ as amended, Council Regulation (EU) No. 269/2014 of 17 March 2014² as amended, Council Regulation (EU) No. 692/2014 of 23 June 2014³ as amended, Council Regulation (EU) No. 833/2014 of 31 July 2014⁴ as amended and Council Regulation (EU) 2022/263 of 23 February 2022⁵ , hereby makes the following regulations:

1. These Regulations may be cited as the European Union (Restrictive Measures concerning Ukraine) (No.2) Regulations 2022.

2. (1) In these Regulations –

“Council Regulation (EU) No. 208/2014” means Council Regulation (EU) No. 208/2014 of 5 March 2014¹ as amended by the European acts specified in Part 1 of Schedule 1;

“Council Regulation (EU) No. 269/2014” means Council Regulation (EU) No. 269/2014 of 17 March 2014² as amended by the European acts specified in Part 2 of Schedule 1;

“Council Regulation (EU) No. 692/2014” means Council Regulation (EU) No. 692/2014 of 23 June 2014³ as amended by the European acts specified in Part 3 of Schedule 1;

“Council Regulation (EU) No. 833/2014” means Council Regulation (EU) No. 833/2014 of 31 July 2014⁴ as amended by the European acts specified in Part 4 of Schedule 1;

“Council Regulation (EU) 2022/263” means Council Regulation (EU) 2022/263 of 23 February 2022⁵ ;

“Council Regulations” means Council Regulation (EU) No. 208/2014, Council Regulation (EU) No. 269/2014, Council Regulation (EU) No. 692/2014, Council Regulation (EU) No. 833/2014 and Council Regulation (EU) 2022/263;

“European act” means an act adopted by an institution of the European Union or an institution of the European Communities.

(2) A word or expression which is used in these Regulations and which is also used in the Council Regulations has, unless the context otherwise requires, the same meaning in these Regulations as it has in the Council Regulations.

3. (1) A person who contravenes a provision of -

(a) Council Regulation (EU) No. 208/2014 specified in paragraph 1 of Part 1 of Schedule 2,

(b) Council Regulation (EU) No. 269/2014 specified in paragraph 2 of Part 1 of Schedule 2,

(c) Council Regulation (EU) No. 692/2014 specified in paragraph 3 of Part 1 of Schedule 2,

(d) Council Regulation (EU) No. 833/2014 specified in paragraph 4 of Part 1 of Schedule 2, or

(e) Council Regulation (EU) 2022/263 specified in paragraph 5 of Part 1 of Schedule 2,

shall be guilty of an offence.

(2) A person who contravenes a condition of an authorisation granted under a provision of -

(a) Council Regulation (EU) No. 208/2014 specified in paragraph 1 of Part 2 of Schedule 2,

(b) Council Regulation (EU) No. 269/2014 specified in paragraph 2 of Part 2 of Schedule 2,

(c) Council Regulation (EU) No. 692/2014 specified in paragraph 3 of Part 2 of Schedule 2,

(d) Council Regulation (EU) No. 833/2014 specified in paragraph 4 of Part 2 of Schedule 2, or

(e) Council Regulation (EU) 2022/263 specified in paragraph 5 of Part 2 of Schedule 2,

shall be guilty of an offence.

4. A person who is guilty of an offence under Regulation 3 shall be liable -

(a) on summary conviction, to a class A fine or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 12 months or both, or

(b) on conviction on indictment, to a fine not exceeding €500,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 3 years or both.

5. A competent authority in the State, following such consultation as it considers necessary with other competent authorities, for the purposes of the administration and enforcement of the Council Regulations or these Regulations, may give in writing such directions to a person as it sees fit.

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 Department of Foreign Affairs and stating that a passport was issued by that Department 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 Ukraine) Regulations 2022 ( S.I. No. 81 of 2022 ) are revoked.

Schedule 1

Part 1

Council Regulation (EU) No. 208/2014

1. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No. 381/2014 of 14 April 2014⁶

2. Council Regulation (EU) 2015/138 of 29 January 2015⁷

3. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/357 of 5 March 2015⁸

4. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/869 of 5 June 2015⁹

5. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1777 of 5 October 2015¹⁰

6. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/311 of 4 March 2016¹¹

7. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/374 of 3 March 2017¹²

8. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/326 of 5 March 2018¹³

9. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/352 of 4 March 2019¹⁴

10. Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1163 of 5 July 2019¹⁵

11. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/370 of 5 March 2020¹⁶

12. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/391 of 4 March 2021¹⁷

13. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2152 of 6 December 2021¹⁸

Part 2

Council Regulation (EU) No. 269/2014

1. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No. 284/2014 of 21 March 2014¹⁹

2. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No. 433/2014 of 28 April 2014²⁰

3. Council Regulation (EU) No. 476/2014 of 12 May 2014²¹

4. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No. 477/2014 of 12 May 2014²²

5. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No. 577/2014 of 28 May 2014²³

6. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No. 753/2014 of 11 July 2014²⁴

7. Council Regulation (EU) No. 783/2014 of 18 July 2014²⁵

8. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No. 810/2014 of 25 July 2014²⁶

9. Council Regulation (EU) No. 811/2014 of 25 July 2014²⁷

10. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No. 826/2014 of 30 July 2014²⁸

11. Council Regulation (EU) No. 959/2014 of 8 September 2014²⁹

12. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No. 961/2014 of 8 September 2014³⁰

13. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No. 1225/2014 of 17 November 2014³¹

14. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) No. 1270/2014 of 28 November 2014³²

15. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/240 of 9 February 2015³³

16. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/427 of 13 March 2015³⁴

17. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/1514 of 14 September 2015³⁵

18. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/353 of 10 March 2016³⁶

19. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1661 of 15 September 2016³⁷

20. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1955 of 8 November 2016³⁸

21. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/437 of 13 March 2017³⁹

22. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1374 of 25 July 2017⁴⁰

23. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1417 of 4 August 2017⁴¹

24. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1547 of 14 September 2017⁴²

25. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/1549 of 14 September 2017⁴³

26. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2153 of 20 November 2017⁴⁴

27. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/388 of 12 March 2018⁴⁵

28. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/705 of 14 May 2018⁴⁶

29. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1072 of 30 July 2018⁴⁷

30. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1230 of 12 September 2018⁴⁸

31. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/1929 of 10 December 2018⁴⁹

32. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/92 of 21 January 2019⁵⁰

33. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/408 of 14 March 2019⁵¹

34. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/409 of 14 March 2019⁵²

35. Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1163 of 5 July 2019⁵³

36. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1403 of 12 September 2019⁵⁴

37. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/119 of 28 January 2020⁵⁵

38. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/398 of 13 March 2020⁵⁶

39. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1267 of 10 September 2020⁵⁷

40. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2020/1367 of 1 October 2020⁵⁸

41. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/446 of 12 March 2021⁵⁹

42. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1464 of 10 September 2021⁶⁰

43. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/1791 of 11 October 2021⁶¹

44. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/2193 of 13 December 2021⁶²

45. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/236 of 21 February 2022⁶³

46. Council Regulation (EU) 2022/259 of 23 February 2022⁶⁴

47. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/260 of 23 February 2022⁶⁵

48. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/261 of 23 February 2022⁶⁶

49. Council Regulation (EU) 2022/330 of 25 February 2022⁶⁷

50. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2022/332 of 25 February 2022⁶⁸

Part 3

Council Regulation (EU) No. 692/2014

1. Council Regulation (EU) No. 825/2014 of 30 July 2014⁶⁹

2. Council Regulation (EU) No. 1351/2014 of 18 December 2014⁷⁰

Part 4

Council Regulation (EU) No. 833/2014

1. Council Regulation (EU) No. 960/2014 of 8 September 2014⁷¹

2. Council Regulation (EU) No. 1290/2014 of 4 December 2014⁷²

3. Council Regulation (EU) 2015/1797 of 7 October 2015⁷³

4. Council Regulation (EU) 2017/2212 of 30 November 2017⁷⁴

5. Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/1163 of 5 July 2019⁷⁵

6. Council Regulation (EU) 2022/262 of 23 February 2022⁷⁶

7. Council Regulation (EU) 2022/328 of 25 February 2022⁷⁷

Schedule 2

Part 1

1. Contravention of provision of Council Regulation (EU) No. 208/2014

Article 2

Article 7(1)

Article 8 (1)

Article 9

2. Contravention of provision of Council Regulation (EU) No. 269/2014

Article 2

Article 7(1)

Article 8 (1)

Article 9

3. Contravention of provision of Council Regulation (EU) No. 692/2014

Article 2

Article 2a (1)

Article 2b (1) and (2)

Article 2c (1), (2) and (3)

Article 2d (1), (2), (3) and (4)

Article 4

4. Contravention of provision of Council Regulation (EU) No. 833/2014

Article 2 (1), (2) and (3)

Article 2a (1), (2) and (3)

Article 2c (1)

Article 2e (1)

Article 3

Article 3a (1)

Article 3b (1) and (2)

Article 3c (1), (2), (3) and (4)

Article 4 (1), (2b) and (3)

Article 5 (1), (2), (3), (4), (5) and (6)

Article 5a (1) and (2)

Article 5b (1)

Article 5e (1)

Article 5f (1)

Article 5g(1)

Article 12

5. Contravention of provision of Council Regulation (EU) 2022/263

Article 2 (1)

Article 3 (1)

Article 4 (1) and (2)

Article 5 (1) and (3)

Article 6 (1)

Article 8

Part 2

1. Authorisation under provision of Council Regulation (EU) No. 208/2014

Article 4

Article 5

Article 6

2. Authorisation under provision of Council Regulation (EU) No. 269/2014

Article 4

Article 5(1)

Article 6 (1)

Article 6a

Article 6b

3. Authorisation under provision of Council Regulation (EU) No. 692/2014

Article 2e

4. Authorisation under provision of Council Regulation (EU) No. 833/2014

Article 2 (4) and (5)

Article 2a (4) and (5)

Article 2b (1)

Article 3

Article 3b (4)

Article 4

Article 5c (1)

Article 5d (1)

5. Authorisation under provision of Council Regulation (EU) 2022/263

Article 7

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance,

26 February, 2022.

JOHN HOGAN,

A person authorised under section 15 of the Ministers and Secretaries Act 1924 to authenticate the seal of the Minister for Finance.

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