IrelandEuropean Union (Online Dissemination of Terrorist Content) (Designation of the Commissioner of An Garda Síochána as a Competent Authority) Regulations 2025
In force.
A specific illegal content rule binding government bodies.
- Obligation class
- Reporting, Governance
As of .
What it requires
- These Regulations designate the Garda Commissioner as the authority that scrutinises removal orders under Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2021/784 and place no separate duty on a hosting service provider.
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
The Garda Commissioner, as the competent authority to scrutinise removal orders pursuant to Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2021/784.
What this law does
Regulation 3 designates the Garda Commissioner, for the purposes of Article 12(1)(b), as the competent authority to scrutinise removal orders pursuant to Article 4 of Regulation (EU) 2021/784. Regulation 4 requires the Garda Commissioner to carry out those functions in an objective and non-discriminatory manner, while fully respecting fundamental rights, and independently.
Regulation 5 requires the Garda Commissioner, before 1 March each year, to provide the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration with the information the Commissioner has in that capacity that is required to be forwarded to the Commission of the European Union pursuant to Article 21. The Regulations contain no commencement provision of their own, and no source stating the day they came into operation has been located.
Section 16(3) of the Interpretation Act 2005, subject to its subsection (4), provides that every provision of a statutory instrument comes into operation at the end of the day before the day on which the instrument is made.