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Is an insurer, in Ireland

European Union (Digital Operational Resilience) Regulations 2025, ICT Systems and Continuity Duties of Financial Firmssince 2 lines

S.I. No. 12 of 2025, regs. 2 to 7 · Read the law's page

  • If you manage a UCITS fund, an alternative investment fund, or are a credit institution, investment firm or insurance or reinsurance undertaking in Ireland, have sound control and safeguard arrangements for electronic data processing, including network and information systems set up and managed in accordance with the DORA Regulation (S.I. No. 12 of 2025, regulations 2, 3 and 6).when it serves a financial business
  • As a credit institution or investment firm, have contingency and business continuity policies and plans, including ICT business continuity policies and plans and ICT response and recovery plans, established, managed and tested in accordance with Article 11 of the DORA Regulation (regulation 4).for a financial business
European Union (Digital Operational Resilience) (No. 2) Regulations 2025, Competent Authority and Sanctionssince 2 lines

S.I. No. 20 of 2025, regs. 3 to 7 · Read the law's page

  • If you are a financial entity in Ireland that falls under the DORA Regulation, comply with it and with these Regulations; credit unions are outside both until (regulations 2 and 3).when it serves a financial business
  • Stop conduct that breaches the DORA Regulation when the Central Bank orders you to cease and desist, and do not repeat it (regulation 6(4)(a)).for a financial business
European Union (Accessibility Requirements of Products and Services) Regulations 2023, accessibility requirements and information duties of providers of consumer servicessince 17 lines

S.I. No. 636 of 2023, European Union (Accessibility Requirements of Products and Services) Regulations 2023, Regs. 3(2) and (4), 5(1), (3) and (4), 6, 14, 16 and 38 · Read the law's page

  • If you provide to consumers on or after an electronic communications service, a service providing access to audiovisual media services, the specified elements of an air, bus, rail or waterborne passenger transport service, consumer banking services, e-books and dedicated software, or an e-commerce service, make the service comply with the accessibility requirements of Parts 3 and 4 of Schedule 1, or of Part 4 only for urban, suburban and regional transport services (Regs. 3(2), 5(1) and 5(3)); a publisher or other economic operator involved in distributing e-books and dedicated software is a service provider for them (Reg. 2(4)).
  • Make websites, including the related online applications, and mobile device-based services, including mobile applications, accessible in a consistent and adequate way by making them perceivable, operable, understandable and robust (Schedule 1, Part 3, paragraph (c)).
  • Make the products you use to provide the service accessible under Part 1 and, where applicable, Part 2 of Schedule 1, and give information on how the service works, including its link to those products and their accessibility characteristics and interoperability with assistive devices, through more than one sensory channel, in an understandable and perceivable way, in text formats that can generate alternative assistive formats, in fonts of adequate size and suitable shape with sufficient contrast and adjustable spacing, with non-textual content supplemented by an alternative presentation (Schedule 1, Part 3, paragraphs (a) and (b)).
  • Where you offer support services such as help desks, call centres, technical support, relay services or training, provide information on the accessibility of the service and its compatibility with assistive technologies in accessible modes of communication (Schedule 1, Part 3, paragraph (d)).
  • For e-commerce services, provide the information on the accessibility of the products and services being sold when you are the responsible economic operator and it is provided, and make the identification, security and payment functionality, identification methods, electronic signatures and payment services perceivable, operable, understandable and robust (Schedule 1, Part 4, paragraph (g)).
  • For consumer banking services, provide identification methods, electronic signatures, security and payment services that are perceivable, operable, understandable and robust, and keep information understandable without exceeding level B2 (upper intermediate) of the Council of Europe's Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (Schedule 1, Part 4, paragraph (e)).
  • For e-books, provide synchronised text and audio where an e-book contains audio, do not prevent assistive technology from operating properly, ensure access to the content, navigation and layout, allow alternative renditions interoperable with assistive technologies, make e-books discoverable through accessibility metadata, and do not let digital rights management block accessibility features (Schedule 1, Part 4, paragraph (f)).
  • For electronic communications services, provide real time text in addition to voice communication, total conversation where video is provided in addition to voice, and synchronised emergency communications by voice, text and, where video is provided, total conversation, transmitted to the most appropriate public safety answering point (Schedule 1, Part 4, paragraph (a)).
  • For services providing access to audiovisual media services, provide electronic programme guides that are perceivable, operable, understandable and robust and show the availability of accessibility, and transmit subtitles, audio description, spoken subtitles and sign language interpretation with adequate quality, synchronised with sound and video and under user control (Schedule 1, Part 4, paragraph (b)).
  • For air, bus, rail and waterborne passenger transport services other than urban, suburban and regional transport services, provide information on the accessibility of vehicles, the surrounding infrastructure and the built environment and on assistance for persons with disabilities, and about smart ticketing, real-time travel information and additional service information; for urban, suburban and regional transport services, make the self-service terminals you use accessible under Part 1 of Schedule 1 (Schedule 1, Part 4, paragraphs (c) and (d)).
  • Where the requirements of Parts 1 to 6 of Schedule 1 do not address a function of the service, make that function accessible by meeting the functional performance criteria of Part 7 of Schedule 1, such as at least one mode of operation that does not require vision, hearing, vocal input, perception of colour or fine motor control (Schedule 1, Part 7).
  • Design and provide the service in accordance with the applicable accessibility requirements (Reg. 14(1)).
  • Before providing the service, prepare the information Schedule 3 sets out on how the service meets the applicable accessibility requirements, include it in the general terms and conditions or an equivalent document, make it available to the public in writing and in oral format, including in a manner accessible to persons with disabilities, and keep it for as long as the service is in operation (Reg. 14(2) and Schedule 3).
  • Keep procedures in place so that the service stays in conformity with the applicable accessibility requirements, and take into account changes in the characteristics of the service, in the requirements, and in the harmonised standards or technical specifications by which the service is declared to meet them (Reg. 14(3)).
  • If the service is not in conformity, take the corrective measures needed and immediately inform the competent national authorities of the Member States where the service is provided, with details of the non-compliance and the corrective measures; on a reasoned notice from the relevant compliance authority, give it all the information needed to show the service conforms, and cooperate with it; the authority may direct you to provide the information if you do not (Reg. 14(4) and (5)).
  • Regulation 14 and the service requirements of Regulation 5(3) do not apply to a service provided by a microenterprise, an enterprise which employs fewer than 10 persons and which has an annual turnover not exceeding EUR 2 million or an annual balance sheet total not exceeding EUR 2 million (Regs. 2(1) and 5(4)).
  • Until you may keep providing your services using products which were lawfully used by you to provide similar services before ; service contracts agreed before may continue without alteration until they expire but no longer than 5 years from that date; and self-service terminals lawfully used before may stay in use until the end of their economically useful life, but no longer than 20 years after their entry into use (Reg. 38).

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