Holly Cairns (Cork South-West, Social Democrats)
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1737. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to provide a list of all EU directives which are awaiting transposition in his Department; the date on which transposition is due; and the reasons for any delay in transposition, in tabular form. [20321/25]

Martin Heydon (Kildare South, Fine Gael)
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I confirm that my Department has recently had three Directives requiring transposition, of which two have been transposed, and one remains to be transposed later this year ahead of the deadline for its transposition.

The first relates to the COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DIRECTIVE (EU) 2024/2963 of 29 November 2024 amending Council Directives 2003/90/EC and 2002/91/EC:

• The provisions as they relate to Directive 2003/90 (The common catalogue of varieties of Agricultural Plant Species were last updated by SI 518 of 2023.
• The provisions as they relate to Directive 2003/91 (The Marketing of Vegetable Seed) were last updated by SI 519 of 2023.

The second relates to COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DIRECTIVE (EU) 2024/3010 of 29 November 2024 amending Council Directives 2002/55/EC, 2002/57/EC and 93/61/EEC:

• The provisions as they relate to Directive 2002/55 (Vegetable Seed) were last updated by SI 202 of 2020.
• The provisions as they relate to Directive 2002/57 (Seed of Oil Plants & Fibre Plants) were last updated by SI 201 of 2020.
• The provisions as they relation to Direct 93/61 were last updated by SI 200 of 2020 (noting that provisions of Dir 93/61 were incorporated into 200/2002)

The third Directive requiring transposition relates to DIRECTIVE (EU) 2024/1438 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 14 May 2024 amending Council Directives 2001/110/EC relating to honey, 2001/112/EC relating to fruit juices and certain similar products intended for human consumption, 2001/113/EC relating to fruit jams, jellies and marmalades and sweetened chestnut purée intended for human consumption, and 2001/114/EC relating to certain partly or wholly dehydrated preserved milk for human consumption.

Transposition is required by Member States by 14 December 2025, with measures applicable from 14 June 2026.