Country reference
Ireland
National implementing law
Substantive obligations effective: 2025-06-28.
Enforcement body
Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) – market surveillance for products and lead authority; sector regulators (ComReg, Central Bank of Ireland, Coimisiún na Meán, National Transport Authority) enforce for their sectors is the designated national authority.
Scope
Applies to economic operators (manufacturers, importers, distributors, service providers) placing in-scope products on the Irish market or providing in-scope services to Irish consumers after 28 June 2025. In-scope products include computers, smartphones, self-service terminals, e-readers and consumer terminal equipment; in-scope services include e-commerce, consumer banking, e-books, electronic communications services, and passenger transport information. Under the parent EU Directive 2019/882 (EAA), Article 4(5), microenterprises providing services (fewer than 10 staff AND turnover or balance-sheet total not exceeding EUR 2 million) are exempt from substantive service requirements; this exemption is understood to carry through Irish law but we did not verify the specific regulation of S.I. 636/2023 that reflects it.
What is unclear
Honest gaps in this article. If you need certainty on any of these, the authoritative source is the primary law text linked above, not this page.
- We could not directly fetch the primary text of S.I. 636/2023 during this audit (irishstatutebook.ie returned 403). Effective date, competent authority allocation across CCPC and sector regulators, and the microenterprise exemption text within S.I. 636/2023 are therefore not independently confirmed here; they are asserted based on the parent EAA (Article 4(5), Article 31) and CCPC/gov.ie summaries.
- We did not locate a primary-source figure for maximum administrative fines in the Irish regulations and therefore assert none.
Practical notes
S.I. 636/2023 was signed on 19 December 2023 with substantive obligations commencing 28 June 2025. A transitional provision allows service providers to continue using products lawfully used before that date until 28 June 2030. As of the research date, we are not aware of publicly reported enforcement decisions against private operators under these regulations.
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