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EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WILDBIRDS) (WOODCOCK) REGULATIONS 2015.

Date Released: Friday, October 30, 2015

S.I. No. 472 of 2015

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES (WILDBIRDS) (WOODCOCK) REGULATIONS 2015.

The Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, has made the European Communities (Wildbirds) (Woodcock) Regulations 2015 in exercise of the powers conferred on her by section 3 of the European Communities Act 1972.    These Regulations add the Woodcock to the list of species of wild birds of which the sale, transport for sale, keeping for sale and offering for sale is prohibited, in the interest of conservation.