Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 305: To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the steps he has taken to implement EU Directive 2001/29/EC. [40976/11]

Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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The EU Directive 2001/29/EC was transposed into Irish law by means of the Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000. While the Act preceded the Directive, most of the Directive's provisions were known at the time and incorporated into the legislation.

The outstanding provisions were transposed by S.I. No. 16 of 2004 European Communities (Copyright and Related Rights) Regulations 2004.

For the avoidance of any doubt as to the transposition of one of the provisions of the directive, i.e. injunctions against intermediaries as set out in Article 8(3) of the directive, a further Statutory Instrument is planned to restate Irish law in this regard.