Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 1:

In page 7, line 33, to delete “Act of 2014” and substitute “Act of 2002 or the Act of 2014, as the case may be”.

This amendment relates to the definition of the breach of a procedural requirement. Authorised officers of ComReg have the powers to affix a seal on documents or premises as part of an investigation into potential breaches of competition law under the Communications Regulation Act 2002, while authorised officers of the CCPC have the same powers under the Competition and Consumer Protection Act 2014.

This amendment corrects an unintentional omission of ComReg from paragraph (b) of the definition by including the Communications Regulation Act 2002. It thus extends the definition of a breach of a procedural requirement to ComReg. This will then allow adjudication officers in ComReg, as well as in the CCPC, to impose an administrative financial sanction on the undertaking which has which has breached a procedural requirement.