Iris Oifigiúil Journal No. 78, 2025-09-30

• Published date: 30 September 2025

Number 78

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S.I. No. 436 of 2025.

EUROPEAN UNION (MARKETS IN FINANCIAL

INSTRUMENTS) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS 2025

The Minister for Finance, in exercise o f the powers conferred on him

by section 3 of the European Communities Act 1972 (No. 27 of 1972),

and for the pu rpose of giving further effect to Directive (EU)

2014/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May

2014, as amended by Directive (EU) 2024/790 of the European

Parliament and of the Council of 28 February 2024, has made the

Regulations entitled as above.

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Price: €4.50

John Hogan

Secretary General

Department of Finance

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S.I. No. 437 of 2025.

COMPETITION ACT 2002 (ADJUDICATION OFFICERS)

REGULATIONS 2025

The Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment Peter Burke TD,

in exercise of the powers conferred o n him by section 1 5O(2) and

section 15Q(1) (inserted by section 13 of the Competition

(Amendment) Act 2022 (No. 12 of 2022)) of the Competition Act 2002

(No. 14 o f 2002), for the purposes of giving further effect to sections

15O and 15P of that Act, and having complied with section 52(3)

(amended by section 22 of the Competition (Amendment) Act 2022) of

that Act, has made regulations entitled as above.

The purpose of these Regulations is to address a typographical error

identified in 15(5) of the Competition Act 2002 (Adjudication Officers)

Regulations 2023 and to provide further clarification and consistency

on regulations 24(5) and 29(1).

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Tuesday, 30th September, 2025

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IRIS OIFIGIÚIL, 30TH SEPTEMBER, 2025

S.I. No. 438 of 2025.

STUDENT SUPPORT (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS 2025

The Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation

and Science, has made the above Statutory Instrument.

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Mountshannon Road, Kilmainham, Dublin, D08 XA06.

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Price: €3.00

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FORESHORE ACT, 1933 (NO. 12) NOTICE OF DECISION TO

GRANT A FORESHORE LICENCE.

The Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the

Marine has made a determination in relation to the Foreshore Licence

application, listed in the table below, to facilitate the carrying out of

aquaculture on a site on the foreshore in Sruwaddacon Bay, Co. Mayo.

Site Ref

No

ApplicantSpecies & Method Minister’s

Decision

T10/343A Tony McGrath

Pullathomas

Ballina

Co. Mayo

Native & Pacific

Oysters, Winkles

and Mussels using

Bag and Trestle and

Hanging Baskets

Grant

Licence

The reasons for this decision are elaborated on the Department’s

website at: http://www.gov.ie/en/aquaculture-licence/

A person may questi on the validity of th e Foreshore Licence

determination by way of an application for judicial review, under Order

84 of the Rules of the Superior Court (SI No. 15 of 1986). Practical

information on the review mechanism can be obtained from the Citizens

Information Board at:

http://www.citizensinformation.ie/

The documentation upon which the Minister determined the application

may be inspected free o f charge at the Department’s Offices in

Clonakilty, Co. Cork, by contacting the Aquaculture & Fo reshore

Management Division on 023 8859500.

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S.I. No. 444 of 2022

On 01 September 2025 the Commission for Communications

Regulation (“ComReg”), following a public consultation, determined

that for the financial year 2015-2016 the determined net cost of the

provision of the universal service ob ligation does not represent an

unfair burden on Eircom Limited and therefore that the universal

service obligation in 2015-2016 does not represent an unfair burden on

Eircom Limited.

This determination is set out fully in the following document, which

can be obtained from ComReg’s website www.comreg.ie:

“eir’s 2015-2016 Universal Service Funding Application -

Unfair burden assessment - Response to Consultation and

Determination” (Decision D11/25; Document No.25/55).

Hard copy versions may be obtained by contacting ComReg at:

The Commission for Communications Regulation,

One Dockland Central,

Guild Street,

Dublin 1.

D01 E4X0

Tel: 00 353 1 804 9600 or 1890 22 9668

Fax: 00 353 1 804 9680

Email: info@comreg.ie

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IRIS OIFIGIÚIL, 30TH SEPTEMBER, 2025

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

An Roinn Talmhaíochta, Bia agus Mara

Fisheries Management Notice No. 57 of 2025

(October Mackerel Under 18 metre Fishery Quota Management Notice)

I, Timmy Dooley, Minister of State at the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section

12 of the Sea-Fisheries and Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006 (No. 8 of 2006) and the Agriculture, Food and the Marine (Delegation of Ministerial

Functions) (No. 2) Order 2025 (S.I. No. 368 of 2025), hereby issue the following Notice:

1.1 This Notice is the October Mackerel Under 18 metre Fishery Quota Management Notice 2025 (Fisheries Management Notice No. 57 of 2025).

1.2 This Notice comes into force on 1 October 2025and ceases to have effect on 1 November 2025 .

2. In this Notice:

“CECAF” means the Committee for the Eastern Central Atlantic Fisheries;

“ICES” means the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea;

“Union waters” means European Union waters. Where this term is used in conjunction with an ICES or CECAF sub-area or division listed in

Schedule 1, it means that only the European Union waters of that sub-area or division are included;

“length” means, in relation to a sea-fishing b oat, the overall length of the boat, or the distance from the forepart of the stem of the boat to the aft

side of the head of the sternpost of the boat or to the foreside of the rudder stock;

“mackerel authorisation” means an authorisation to fish for mackerel (Scomber scombrus) granted under section 13 of the Sea-Fisheries and

Maritime Jurisdiction Act 2006;

“Catch retention and landing restrictions” means the total quantity, in tonnes live weight, of that species of fish in co lumn (1) a quantity of

which, greater than that specified in column (3), may not be retained onboard or landed by an Irish sea-fishing boat, dependant on the particular

vessel’s length and/or fishing method during October 2025;

“fishing area” means waters falling within the ICES sub-areas and divisions listed in Schedule 1 as defined in Annex III to Regulation (EC) No.

218/20091 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 2009, as amended.

3.During October 2025, a person on board an Irish sea-fishing boat less than 18 metres in length overall to which a Tier 2 mackerel authorisation

has not been granted, fishing for mackerel by means other than hooks and lines in a fishing area listed in column (2) of Schedule (1), shall not

have, or retain on board or land (or cause or permit another person to have or retain on board or land), a quantity of mackerel that is greater

than the quantity specified in column (3) if the fish was caught in that fishing area either on a single occasion or when combined with previous

landings by that boat of that species of fish caught in the specified area in October 2025.

Schedule 1

Catch retention and landing restrictions in relation to

an Irish sea-fishing boat less than 18 metres in length in respect of which a Tier 2 mackerel authorisation is not extant

Species of fish

(1)

Fishing area

(2)

Limit for boats less than 18

metres in length (3)

MACKEREL

(Scomber scombrus )

6, 7, 8a, 8b, 8d and 8e;

United Kingdom and international waters of 5b;

international waters of 2a, 12 and 14

(MAC/2CX14-)

5 tonnes

4. ADVANCE NOTICE OF LANDINGS

The master of an Irish sea-fishing boat or h is agent shall give not less than 1 hour notification of his intention to enter port for quantities of

mackerel over 250kg.

For landings in a port in the Republic of Ireland notification should be made to the IRISH FISHERIES MONITORING CENTRE

by telephone (T) 00 353 21 4378752, by e-mail fmcireland@defenceforces.ie, or for landings outside Ireland to the Competent

1 O.J. L 87, 31.3.2009, pp. 70-108