Alan Farrell (Dublin Fingal, Fine Gael)
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163. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment the status of the implementation on the EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25685/21]

Damien English (Meath West, Fine Gael)
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The EU Copyright Directive 2019/790forms part of the European Commission’s Digital Single Market Strategy and is aimed at providing a framework for modern copyright legislation that reflects the emerging requirements of the digital age.

The Directive contains a number of varied provisions that constitute a significant updating of European Union Copyright Law which will also have the effect of reducing the distinctions between national copyright regimes, thus allowing for wider access and use of copyright protected works to the potential benefit of the creative sectors, press publishers, researchers, educators, cultural heritage institutions, and citizens. 

This includes removing digital barriers between Member States by introducing several mandatory copyright exceptions to widen the scope of use of materials in the fields of education, research while also facilitating cultural heritage institutions (e.g. museums) to make copies of works in their collections to the extent necessary for their preservation.

My Department is working towards the transposition of the Directive by way of Statutory Instrument by the deadline of 7 June 2021.