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S.I. No. 591/2025 - European Communities (Marketing of Honey) (Amendment) Regulations 2025

Type Statutory Instrument

Publication 2025-12-12

State In force

Text As published

Source Irish Statute Book

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Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 12th December, 2025.

I, MARTIN HEYDON, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, 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 effect to Directive 2024/1438 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 May 2024¹ , hereby make the following regulations:

1.

These Regulations may be cited as the European Communities (Marketing of Honey) (Amendment) Regulations 2025.

2.

The European Communities (Marketing of Honey) Regulations 2003 ( S.I. No. 367 of 2003 ) are amended-

(a) in Regulation 2(1) by substituting for the definition of “Council Directive” (as amended by the European Communities (Marketing of Honey) (Amendment) Regulations 2015 ( S.I. No. 261 of 2015 )) the following-

“‘Council Directive’ means Council Directive 2001/110/EC of 20 December 2001² as amended by Directive 2014/63/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014³ and Directive 2024/1438/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 May 2024;”,

(b) in Regulation 3, by substituting for paragraph (2) the following–

“(2) A person shall not place on the market a product to which these Regulations apply unless that product meets the requirements set out in Annex II to the Council Directive.”, and

(c) in Regulation 4, by inserting after paragraph (3) (inserted by the European Communities (Marketing of Honey) (Amendment) Regulations 2015) the following-

“(4) A person may place honey produced or labelled before 14 June 2026 on the market in accordance with Article 6 of Directive 2024/1438/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 May 2024 until stocks are exhausted.”.

3.

These Regulations shall be deemed to be food legislation for the purposes of the Food Safety Authority of Ireland Act 1998 (No. 29 of 1998).

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

9 December, 2025.

MARTIN HEYDON,

Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

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

These Regulations amend S.I. No. 367 of 2003 (Marketing of Honey Regulations) and give effect to Directive 2024/1438.

Footnotes

OJ L, 2024/1438, 24.5.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dir/2024/1438/oj

OJ L 10, 12.1.2002, pp. 47

OJ L 164, 3.6.2014, pp. 1

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