Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 4 May 2022
404. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Justice if she will provide a schedule of fines and totality of the amount paid in respect of fines issued by the EU on her Department for failing to transpose EU directives; if she will include the directive that was not transposed on time; and if she will indicate the directives that are still not fully transposed for the past 25 years to date in 2022. [22330/22]
View answerI can inform the Deputy that there has been one fine imposed on my Department by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in relation to a delay in transposing Directive (EU) 2015/849 on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing. On July 16, 2020, the ECJ imposed a €2 million lump-sum fine for this delay. The Court accepted that the Directive has now been fully transposed by Ireland.
The list below outlines the current Directives under the remit of my Department which require transposition. Work is ongoing within my Department to make the necessary arrangements to transpose each measure as soon as possible.
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Directive (EU) 2019/1153 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 laying down rules facilitating the use of financial and other information for the prevention, detection, investigation or prosecution of certain criminal offences, and repealing Council Decision 2000/642/JHA |
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Directive (EU) 2019/1023 on preventing restructuring frameworks, insolvency and discharge of debt |
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Council Framework Decision 2008/909/JHA of 27 November 2008 on the application of the principle of mutual recognition to judgments in criminal matters imposing custodial sentences or measures involving deprivation of liberty for the purpose of their enforcement in the European Union |
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Directive (EU) 2021/555 which codifies the Firearms Directive by replacing Directive 91/477/EEC, as amended by Directives (EU) 2008/51 and 2017/853, with a single Directive. (Article 4.5 – additional data filing requirements) |
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Directive (EU) 2018/843 on the prevention of the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering or terrorist financing (5AMLD) |
