European Union (Digital Operational Resilience) (No. 2) Regulations 2025, Competent Authority and Sanctions
S.I. No. 20 of 2025, regs. 3 to 7
In force since .
A sector security regimes rule binding public and private bodies.
- Private right of action
- No
- Obligation class
- Security, Governance
As of .
What it requires
- 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).
- 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)).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text, as of .
In the frameworks
- NIST CSF 2.0
- GV.OC-03Legal, regulatory, and contractual requirements regarding cybersecurity - including privacy and civil liberties obligations - are understood and managed
- CIS Controls
- FINOS AIGF
- AIR-PREV-005System Acceptance Testing
- AIR-PREV-006Data Quality & Classification/Sensitivity
- AIR-PREV-024Human-in-the-Loop Action Approval Gate
- AIR-DET-004AI System Observability
- AIR-DET-011Human Feedback Loop for AI Systems
- AIR-DET-021Agent Decision Audit and Explainability
- ENISA NIS2 guidance
Our reading of where this law's duties sit in each framework. It never says that running a control meets the law. How we read a framework against the law
CIS Critical Security Controls® (CIS Controls®) v8.1 © Center for Internet Security, Inc. Safeguard numbers are used under a CIS Controls Supporter License; the one-line descriptions beside them are our own, not CIS text.
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
The Central Bank of Ireland, designated by regulation 4 as the competent authority in the State for Articles 26(9) and 32(5) of the DORA Regulation.
Settledness
- As of
What this law does
The Central Bank of Ireland is designated as the competent authority in the State for Articles 26(9) and 32(5) of the DORA Regulation (regulation 4). The Bank has all the powers necessary for its functions and duties under the DORA Regulation (regulation 5).
For a contravention of the DORA Regulation the Bank may order the person to cease and desist, order the cessation of a practice, adopt measures including pecuniary measures to ensure financial entities continue to comply, and issue public notices naming the person and the breach, and it may apply the sanctions to members of the management body (regulation 6). Any decision taken or sanction imposed is an appealable decision under Part VIIA of the Central Bank Act 1942 (regulation 7). The DORA Regulation and these Regulations do not apply to credit unions until (regulation 3).
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app provides financial services.