LegalizeS.I. No. 683/2025 - European Union (Energy Efficiency Obligations Scheme) Regulations 2025
This is the act as published. Later amendments are not folded into the text below: each one is a separate act in this repository and an entry in this law's history.
1 amending act · 2026-07-21, S.I. No. 346/2026 - European Union (Energy Efficiency Obligations Scheme) (Amendment) Reg…
- (i) paragraph (3) or (4) of Regulation 4,
- (ii) paragraph (1), (3) or (5) of Regulation 5,
- (iii) paragraph (7) or (9) of Regulation 7,
- (iv) paragraph (2) or (3) of Regulation 9,
- (v) paragraph (1) of Regulation 11,
- (vi) paragraph (2), (4) or (6) of Regulation 14,
- (vii) paragraph (2) or (3) of Regulation 15,
- (viii) paragraph (2) or (3) of Regulation 16, or
- (ix) paragraph (1), (2) or (3) of Regulation 17,
commits an offence.
- (2) A person who commits an offence under paragraph (1), Regulation 4(6) or Regulation 19(6) shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a class A fine or imprisonment for a term not exceeding 6 months, or both.
- (3) Proceedings in relation to an offence under paragraph (1), Regulation 4(6) or Regulation 19(6) may be prosecuted by the Minister.
- (4) Where an offence under these Regulations is committed by a body corporate and is proven to have been so committed with the consent, connivance or approval of, or to have been attributable to the wilful 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 any such capacity, that person, as well as the body corporate, commits an offence and is liable to be proceeded against and punished as if he or she was guilty of the first mentioned offence.
- (5) Where the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members, paragraph (4) applies in relation to the acts and defaults of a member in connection with the functions of management as if the member were a director or manager of the body corporate.
Transitional and savings
(1) The revocation of the Regulations of 2022 by Regulation 29 shall not affect—
- (a) any outstanding obligations that arise from the operation of the Scheme established, and
- (b) the rights of any person or the Minister,
under those Regulations.
- (2) The revocation of the Regulations of 2022 by Regulation 29 shall not affect any requirements and procedures provided for under those Regulations to be relied upon in relation to the energy savings used for compliance with an Energy Efficiency Notice issued under those Regulations.
- (3) The revocation of the Regulations of 2022 by Regulation 29 shall not operate to revoke or otherwise affect the continued operation of Regulation 10 of the Regulations of 2014, which shall continue in full force and effect as if these Regulations had not been made.
- (4) For the purpose of these Regulations, references in Regulation 10(3) of the Regulations of 2014 to—
- (a) energy supplier shall be read as obligated party within the meaning of,
- (b) an Energy Efficiency Notice shall be read as Regulation 16(7) of, and
- (c) a direction issued under Regulation 7(1) shall be read as a payment of a financial sum under Regulation 22 of, these Regulations.
Revocations
(1) The Regulations of 2022 are revoked.
GIVEN under my Official Seal,
17 December, 2025.
DARRAGH O’BRIEN,
Minister for Climate, Energy and the Environment.
Footnotes
OJ L 231, 20.9.2023, p. 1
OJ No. L 304 14.11.2008 p.1
OJ No. L 119, 4.5.2016, pp. 1–88
This document does not substitute the official text published in the Irish Statute Book. We accept no responsibility for any inaccuracies arising from the transcription of the original into this format.
This text is published under Irish Statute Book's own terms of reuse, not a Legalize or public-domain licence.
Irish Statute Book
CC-BY 4.0 (Oireachtas Open Data PSI Licence)
Contains Irish Public Sector Information licensed under the Oireachtas (Houses of the Oireachtas) Open Data PSI Licence / Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International, sourced from https://www.irishstatutebook.ie.