STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS. 
S.I. No. 156 of 2016 
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EUROPEAN UNION (COLLECTIVE RIGHTS MANAGEMENT) 
(DIRECTIVE 2014/26/EU) REGULATIONS 2016 2 [156]
 
S.I. No. 156 of 2016 
EUROPEAN UNION (COLLECTIVE RIGHTS MANAGEMENT) 
(DIRECTIVE 2014/26/EU) REGULATIONS 2016 
The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, in exercise of the powers 
conferred on him by section 3 of the European Communities Act 1972 (No. 27 of 
1972), for the purpose of giving effect to Directive 2014/26/EU of the European 
Parliament and of the Council of 26 February 2014 on collective management 
of copyright and related rights and multi-territorial licensing of rights in musical 
works for online use in the internal market1, hereby makes the following 
regulations: 
Part 1 
PRELIMINARY 
Citation, commencement, application and competent authority 
1. (1) These Regulations may be cited as European Union (Collective Rights 
Management) (Directive 2014/26/EU) Regulations 2016. 
(2) These Regulations come into operation on 10 April 2016. 
(3) These Regulations apply to all collective management organisations estab­
lished in the State. 
(4) Where an entity which is established in the State and is directly or 
indirectly owned or controlled, wholly or in part, by a collective management 
organisation carries on an activity which, if carried on by a collective manage­
ment organisation, would be subject to provisions of these Regulations, those 
provisions apply to that entity. 
(5) The following provisions of these Regulations apply to independent man­
agement entities established in the State: 
(a) Regulation 14(1) and (2); 
(b) Regulation 16; 
(c) Regulation 18; 
(d) Regulation 19(3). 
(6) The Controller is the competent authority designated for the purpose of 
these Regulations. 
1OJ No. L84, 20.3.2014, p. 72. 
Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in 
“Iris Oifigiúil” of 12th April, 2016. [156] 3
 
Interpretation 
2. In these Regulations— 
“Act of 2000” means the Copyright and Related Rights Act 2000 (No. 28 of 
2000); 
“collective management organisation” means an organisation of any legal form 
which is authorised by law or by way of assignment, licence or any other contrac­
tual arrangement to manage copyright or rights related to copyright on behalf 
of more than one rightholder, for the collective benefit of the rightholders, as 
its sole or main purpose, and which fulfils either or both of the following criteria: 
(a) it is owned or controlled by its members; 
(b) it is organised on a not-for-profit basis; 
“Controller” has the meaning assigned to it by the Act of 2000; 
“Directive” means Directive 2014/26/EU of the European Parliament and of the 
Council of 26 February 2014 on collective management of copyright and related 
rights and multi-territorial licensing of rights in musical works for online use in 
the internal market1; 
“director”, in relation to a collective management organisation, means— 
(a) where the law of the State or the statute of the collective management 
organisation provides for a single administrative board, any member 
of the administrative board; 
(b) where the law of the State or the statute of the collective management 
organisation provides for both a management board and a supervisory 
board (referred to in these Regulations as a “dual board system”), 
any member of the management board or the supervisory board; 
“financial year” in relation to a collective management organisation, means a 
period for which the accounts of the collective management organisation are 
drawn up (even if longer or shorter than 12 months); 
“general assembly of members”, in relation to a collective management organis­
ation, means the body in the collective management organisation in which 
members participate and exercise their voting rights; 
“independent management entity” means any organisation which is authorised 
by law or by way of assignment, licence or any other contractual arrangement 
to manage copyright or rights related to copyright on behalf of more than one 
rightholder, for the collective benefit of the rightholders, as its sole or main 
purpose, and which is— 
(a) neither owned nor controlled, directly or indirectly, wholly or in part, 
by rightholders, and 4 [156]
 
(b) organised on a for-profit basis; 
“management fees” means the amounts charged, deducted or offset by a collec­
tive management organisation or independent management entity from rights 
revenue or from any income arising from the investment of rights revenue in 
order to cover the costs of its management of copyright or related rights; 
“member”, in relation to a collective management organisation or independent 
management entity, means a rightholder or a person representing rightholders, 
(including another collective management organisation or an association of 
rightholders), fulfilling the membership requirements of the collective manage­
ment organisation or independent management entity and admitted to member­
ship by it; 
“multi-territorial licence” means a licence which covers the territory of more 
than one Member State; 
“online rights in musical works” means any of the rights of an author in a musi­
cal work provided for under Articles 2 and 3 of Directive 2001/29/EC of the 
European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation 
of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society,2 
which are required for the provision of an online service; 
“repertoire”, in relation to a collective management organisation, means the 
works in respect of which the collective management organisation manages 
rights; 
“representation agreement” means any agreement between collective manage­
ment organisations by which one collective management organisation mandates 
another collective management organisation to manage the rights it represents, 
including an agreement concluded under Regulation 27 or 28; 
“rightholder” means any person, other than a collective management organis­
ation or independent management entity, who holds a copyright or related right 
or who, under an agreement for the exploitation of such a right or by law, is 
entitled to a share of the rights revenue in respect of such a right; 
“rights revenue” means income collected by a collective management organis­
ation or independent management entity on behalf of rightholders, whether 
deriving from an exclusive right, a right to remuneration or a right to com­
pensation; “statute”, in relation to a collective management organisation or independent 
management entity, means the memorandum and articles of association, the 
statute, the rules or documents of constitution of the collective management 
organisation or independent management entity; 
“user”, in relation to a rightholder, means a person who is carrying out acts 
subject to the authorisation of the rightholder, or providing remuneration to the 
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rightholder or paying compensation to the rightholder, and is not acting in the 
capacity of a consumer. 
Part 2 
COLLECTIVE MANAGEMENT ORGANISATIONS 
Chapter 1 
Representation of rightholders and membership and organisation of collective 
management organisations 
General principles 
3. (1) A collective management organisation shall act in the best interests of 
the rightholders whose rights it represents. 
(2) In particular, a collective management organisation shall not impose on 
rightholders obligations which are not objectively necessary for the protection 
of their rights and interests or for the effective management of their rights. 
Rights of rightholders 
4. (1) A collective management organisation shall ensure that rightholders 
have the rights specified in this Regulation and that those rights are set out in 
the statute or terms of membership of the collective management organisation. 
(2) Rightholders shall have the right to authorise a collective management 
organisation of their choice to manage the rights, categories of rights or types 
of works and other subject-matter of their choice, for the territories of their 
choice, irrespective of the Member State of nationality, residence or establish­
ment of either the collective management organisation or the rightholder; and, 
unless a collective management organisation has objectively justified reasons to 
refuse management, it shall be obliged to manage such rights, categories of rights 
or types of works and other subject-matter, provided that their management 
falls within the scope of its activity. 
(3) Rightholders shall have the right to grant licences for non-commercial 
uses of any rights, categories of rights or types of works and other subject-matter 
that they may choose. 
(4) A rightholder shall have the right to terminate an authorisation to manage 
rights, categories of rights or types of works and other subject-matter granted 
to a collective management organisation or to withdraw from a collective man­
agement organisation any of the rights, categories of rights or types of works 
and other subject-matter, as determined pursuant to paragraph (2), for the terri­
tories of their choice, on serving reasonable notice not exceeding six months but 
the collective management organisation may decide that such termination or 
withdrawal is to take effect only at the end of the financial year in which the 
notice is served. 
(5) If there are amounts due to a rightholder for acts of exploitation which 
occurred before the termination of an authorisation or withdrawal of rights took 6 [156]
 
effect, or under a licence granted before such termination or withdrawal took 
effect, the rightholder shall retain his rights under Regulations 10, 11, 16, 18, 26 
and 31. 
(6) A collective management organisation shall not restrict the exercise of 
rights provided for under paragraphs (4) and (5) by requiring, as a condition for 
the exercise of those rights, that the management of rights or categories of rights 
or types of works and other subject-matter which are subject to the termination 
or withdrawal be entrusted to another collective management organisation. 
(7) In cases where a rightholder authorises a collective management organis­
ation to manage rights, the rightholder shall give consent specifically for each 
right or category of rights or type of works and other subject-matter which the 
collective management organisation is authorised to manage and any such con­
sent shall be evidenced in documentary form. 
(8) A collective management organisation shall inform rightholders of their 
rights under this Regulation, as well as of any conditions attached to the right 
set out in paragraph (3), before obtaining their consent to its managing any right 
or category of rights or type of works and other subject-matter. 
(9) A collective management organisation shall inform rightholders who have 
authorised it to manage any rights before the coming into operation of these 
Regulations of their rights under this Regulation, as well as of any conditions 
attached to the right set out in paragraph (3), by 10 October 2016. 
Membership rules of collective management organisations 
5. (1) A collective management organisation shall comply with the rules laid 
down in this Regulation. 
(2) Rightholders and persons representing rightholders, including other col­
lective management organisations and associations of rightholders, shall be 
accepted as members if they fulfil the membership requirements of the collective 
management organisation. 
(3) The membership requirements shall be based on objective, transparent 
and non-discriminatory criteria. 
(4) The membership requirements shall be included in the statute or member­
ship terms of the collective management organisation and shall be made pub­
licly available. 
(5) Where a request for membership by a rightholder or a person rep­
resenting rightholders is refused, the rightholder or person shall be provided 
with a clear explanation of the reasons for the decision. 
(6) The statute shall provide for appropriate and effective mechanisms for 
the participation of the members in the decision-making process of the collective 
management organisation and the representation of the different categories of 
members in the decision-making process shall be fair and balanced. [156] 7
 
(7) Members and rightholders who have a direct legal relationship by law or 
by way of assignment, licence or any other contractual arrangement with the 
collective management organisation but are not members shall be allowed to 
communicate with the collective management organisation by electronic means, 
including for the purposes of exercising members’ rights. 
(8) Records of the members shall be kept and regularly updated. 
General assembly of members of collective management organisation 
6. (1) A collective management organisation shall comply with the rules laid 
down in this Regulation. 
(2) A general assembly of members shall be convened at least once a year. 
(3) The general assembly of members shall decide on any amendments to the 
statute or to the membership terms of the collective management organisation 
where those terms are not regulated by the statute. 
(4) The general assembly of members shall decide on the appointment and 
dismissal of the directors, review their general performance and approve their 
remuneration and other benefits (whether monetary or non-monetary), includ­
ing pension awards and entitlements, rights to other awards and rights to sever­
ance pay. 
(5) In a collective management organisation with a dual board system, the 
general assembly of members shall not decide on the appointment or dismissal 
of members of the management board or approve their remuneration or other 
benefits where the power to take such decisions is delegated to the supervisory 
board. 
(6) In accordance with the provisions laid down in Chapter 2, the general 
assembly of members shall decide on at least the following issues: 
(a) the general policy on the distribution of amounts due to rightholders; 
(b) the general policy on the use of non-distributable amounts; 
(c) the general investment policy with regard to rights revenue and to any 
income arising from the investment of rights revenue; 
(d) the general policy on deductions from rights revenue and from any 
income arising from the investment of rights revenue; 
(e) the use of non-distributable amounts; 
(f) the risk management policy; 
(g) the approval of any acquisition, sale or hypothecation of immovable 
property; 8 [156]
 
(h) the approval of mergers and alliances, the setting-up of subsidiaries 
and the acquisition of other entities or of shares or other rights in 
other entities; 
(i) the approval of taking out loans, granting loans or providing security 
for loans. 
(7) The general assembly of members may delegate the powers listed in sub­
paragraphs (f) to (i) of paragraph (6), by a resolution or by a provision in the 
statute, to the body exercising the supervisory function. 
(8) The general assembly of members shall control the activities of the collec­
tive management organisation by, at least, deciding on the appointment and 
removal of the auditor and approving the annual transparency report required 
by Regulation 20. 
(9) All members of the collective management organisation shall have the 
right to participate in, and the right to vote at, the general assembly of members 
but a collective management organisation may provide for restrictions on the 
right of the members of the collective management organisation to participate 
in, and to exercise voting rights at, the general assembly of members, on the 
basis of either or both of the following criteria: 
(a) duration of membership; 
(b) amounts received or due to a member, 
provided that any criterion on the basis of which a restriction is imposed is 
determined and applied in a manner that is fair and proportionate. 
(10) If a restriction is imposed on the basis of a criterion in paragraph (9), it 
shall be included in the statute or the membership terms of the collective man­
agement organisation and shall be made publicly available in accordance with 
Regulations 17 and 19. 
(11) Every member of a collective management organisation shall have the 
right to appoint any other person as a proxy holder to participate in, and vote 
at, the general assembly of members on his behalf, provided that the appoint­
ment does not result in a conflict of interest which might occur, for example, 
where the appointing member and the proxy holder belong to different categor­
ies of rightholders within the collective management organisation. 
(12) A proxy shall be valid only for one general assembly of members. 
(13) A proxy holder shall enjoy the same rights in the general assembly of 
members as those to which the appointing member would be entitled. 
(14) The proxy holder shall cast votes in accordance with the instructions 
issued by the appointing member. [156] 9
 
Supervisory function 
7. (1) A collective management organisation shall put in place a supervisory 
function for continuously monitoring the activities and the performance of the 
duties of the persons who manage the business of the collective management 
organisation which satisfies the requirements of this Regulation. 
(2) There shall be fair and balanced representation of the different categories 
of members of the collective management organisation in the body exercising 
the supervisory function. 
(3) Each person exercising the supervisory function shall make an annual 
individual statement on conflicts of interest, containing the information specified 
in Regulation 8(3), to the general assembly of members. 
(4) The body exercising the supervisory function shall meet regularly and 
shall have the following powers: 
(a) to exercise the powers delegated to it by the general assembly of 
members, including under Regulation 6(5) or (7); 
(b) to monitor the activities and the performance of the duties of the 
persons mentioned in Regulation 8, including the implementation of 
the decisions of the general assembly of members and, in particular, 
of the general policies listed in Regulation 6(6)( a)t o( d). 
(5) The body exercising the supervisory function shall report on the exercise 
of its powers to the general assembly of members at least once a year. 
Obligations on persons who manage business of collective management 
organisation 
8. (1) A collective management organisation shall take all measures neces­
sary to ensure that the persons responsible for managing its business do so in a 
sound, prudent and appropriate manner, using sound administrative and 
accounting procedures and internal control mechanisms. 
(2) A collective management organisation shall put in place and apply pro­
cedures to avoid conflicts of interest and to secure that, where conflicts of 
interest cannot be avoided, actual or potential conflicts of interest are identified, 
managed, monitored and disclosed in such a way as to prevent them adversely 
affecting the collective interests of the rightholders whom the collective manage­
ment organisation represents. 
(3) The procedures referred to in paragraph (2) shall include an annual indi­
vidual statement by each of the persons responsible for managing the business 
of the collective management organisation to the general assembly of members, 
containing the following information: 
(a) any interests of the person in the collective management organisation; 10 [156]
 
(b) any remuneration received in the preceding financial year by the per­
son from the collective management organisation, including in the 
form of pension schemes, benefits in kind and other types of benefits; 
(c) any amounts received in the preceding financial year by the person as 
a rightholder from the collective management organisation; 
(d) a declaration concerning any actual or potential conflict between any 
personal interests of the person and those of the collective manage­
ment organisation or between any obligations owed by the person to 
the collective management organisation and any duty so owed to any 
other person. 
Chapter 2 
Management of rights revenue 
Collection and use of rights revenue 
9. (1) A collective management organisation shall comply with the rules laid 
down in this Regulation. 
(2) A collective management organisation shall be diligent in the collection 
and management of rights revenue. 
(3) A collective management organisation shall keep separate in its 
accounts— 
(a) rights revenue and any income arising from the investment of rights 
revenue, and 
(b) any own assets it may have and income arising from such assets, from 
management fees or from other activities. 
(4) A collective management organisation shall not use rights revenue or any 
income arising from the investment of rights revenue for purposes other than 
distribution to rightholders, except where it is allowed to deduct or offset its 
management fees in compliance with a decision taken in accordance with Regu­
lation 6(6)(d) or to use the rights revenue or any income arising from the invest­
ment of rights revenue in compliance with a decision taken in accordance with 
Regulation 6(6). 
(5) Where a collective management organisation invests rights revenue or any 
income arising from the investment of rights revenue, it shall do so in the best 
interests of the rightholders whose rights it represents, in accordance with the 
general investment and risk management policy referred to in Regulation 
6(6)(c) and (f) and having regard to the following rules: 
(a) where there is any potential conflict of interest, the collective manage­
ment organisation shall ensure that the investment is made in the sole 
interest of those rightholders; [156] 11
 
(b) the assets shall be invested in order to ensure the security, quality, 
liquidity and profitability of the portfolio as a whole; 
(c) the assets shall be properly diversified in order to avoid excessive 
reliance on any particular asset and accumulations of risks in the port­
folio as a whole. 
Deductions 
10. (1) Where rightholders authorise a collective management organisation 
to manage rights, the collective management organisation shall provide the righ­
tholders with information on management fees and other deductions from the 
rights revenue and from any income arising from the investment of rights 
revenue, before obtaining the rightholders’ consent to its managing the rights. 
(2) A collective management organisation shall ensure that deductions are 
reasonable in relation to the services provided to the rightholders by the collec­
tive management organisation, including, where appropriate, the services 
referred to in paragraph (4), and shall be established on the basis of objective 
criteria. 
(3) A collective management organisation shall secure that management fees 
do not exceed the justified and documented costs incurred by the collective 
management organisation in managing copyright and related rights and that the 
requirements applicable to the use, and the transparency of the use, of amounts 
deducted or offset in respect of management fees apply to any other deductions 
made in order to cover the costs of managing copyright and related rights. 
(4) Where a collective management organisation provides social, cultural or 
educational services funded by deductions from rights revenue or from any 
income arising from the investment of rights revenue, the collective management 
organisation shall ensure that the services are provided on the basis of fair 
criteria, in particular as regards access to, and the extent of, those services. 
Distribution of amounts due to rightholders 
11. (1) A collective management organisation shall regularly, diligently and 
accurately distribute amounts due to rightholders in accordance with the general 
policy on distribution referred to in Regulation 6(6)( a). 
(2) The collective management organisation and members of the collective 
management organisation who represent rightholders shall distribute those 
amounts to rightholders as soon as possible but no later than the end of the 
period of nine months after the end of the financial year in which the rights 
revenue was collected, unless objective reasons relating in particular to— 
(a) reporting by users, 
(b) identification of rights or rightholders, or 
(c) matching of information on works and other subject-matter with righ­
tholders, 12 [156]
 
prevent the collective management organisation or, where applicable, its 
members from distributing the amounts before the end of that period. 
(3) Where the amounts due to rightholders cannot be distributed within the 
period referred to in paragraph (2) because the relevant rightholders cannot be 
identified or located and the exception to that deadline does not apply, the 
collective management organisation shall ensure that the amounts are kept sep­
arate in the accounts of the collective management organisation. 
(4) The collective management organisation shall take all necessary measures, 
consistent with paragraphs (1) and (2), to identify and locate the rightholders 
and, in particular, before the end of the period of three months after the end of 
the period referred to in paragraph (2), the collective management organisation 
shall make available information on works and other subject-matter for which 
one or more rightholders have not been identified or located to— 
(a) the rightholders that it represents and persons who represent righthol­
ders and are members of the collective management organisation, and 
(b) all collective management organisations with which it has concluded 
representation agreements. 
(5) The information referred to in paragraph (4) shall include, where avail­
able, the following: 
(a) the title of the work or other subject-matter; 
(b) the name of the rightholder; 
(c) the name of the relevant publisher or producer; 
(d) any other available information which could assist in identifying the 
rightholder. 
(6) The collective management organisation shall also verify the records 
referred to in Regulation 5(8) and other readily available records. 
(7) If the measures mentioned in paragraphs (4) to (6) fail to produce results, 
the collective management organisation shall make the information mentioned 
in paragraph (4) available to the public not later than one year after the end of 
the three-month period mentioned in that paragraph. 
(8) Where the amounts due to rightholders cannot be distributed before the 
end of the period of three years after the end of the financial year in which 
the collection of the rights revenue occurred, and the collective management 
organisation has taken all necessary measures to identify and locate the righthol­
ders referred to in paragraphs (4) to (7), those amounts shall be treated for the 
purposes of paragraph (9) as being non-distributable. 
(9) The general assembly of members of the collective management organis­
ation shall decide on the use of the non-distributable amounts in accordance [156] 13
 
with Regulation 6(6)(b), without prejudice to the right of rightholders to claim 
such amounts from the collective management organisation. 
Chapter 3 
Management of rights on behalf of other collective management organisations 
Rights managed under representation agreements 
12. A collective management organisation shall not discriminate against any 
rightholder whose rights it manages under a representation agreement, in part­
icular with respect to applicable tariffs, management fees, and the conditions for 
the collection of the rights revenue and distribution of amounts due to the 
rightholder. 
Deductions and payments in representation agreements 
13. (1) A collective management organisation which manages rights under a 
representation agreement shall not make deductions, otherwise than in respect 
of management fees, from the rights revenue derived from the rights it manages, 
or from any income arising from the investment of that rights revenue, unless 
the other collective management organisation that is party to the representation 
agreement expressly consents to such deductions. 
(2) A collective management organisation which manages rights under a rep­
resentation agreement shall regularly, diligently and accurately pay amounts due 
to the other collective management organisation which is party to the represen­
tation agreement. 
(3) The collective management organisation shall pay those amounts to the 
other collective management organisation as soon as possible but no later than 
the end of the period of nine months after the end of the financial year in which 
the rights revenue was collected, unless objective reasons relating in particular 
to— 
(a) reporting by users, 
(b) identification of rights or rightholders, or 
(c) matching of information on works and other subject-matter with righ­
tholders, 
prevent the collective management organisation from paying the amounts 
before the end of that period. 
(4) The other collective management organisation, or (where it has as 
members persons representing rightholders) those members, shall distribute the 
amounts due to rightholders as soon as possible but no later than the end of the 
period of six months after day of the receipt of those amounts, unless objective 
reasons relating in particular to— 
(a) reporting by users, 14 [156]
 
(b) identification of rights or rightholders, or 
(c) matching of information on works and other subject-matter with righ­
tholders, 
prevent the collective management organisation or, where applicable, its 
members from distributing the amounts before the end of that period. 
Chapter 4 
Relations with users 
Licensing 
14. (1) A collective management organisation or independent management 
entity and a user shall conduct negotiations for the licensing of rights in good 
faith. 
(2) A collective management organisation or independent management entity 
and a user shall provide each other with all necessary information. 
(3) The terms on which rights are licensed by a collective management organ­
isation shall be based on objective and non-discriminatory criteria. 
(4) When licensing rights, a collective management organisation shall not be 
required to use, as a precedent for other online services, licensing terms agreed 
with a user where the user is providing a new type of online service which has 
been available to the public in the European Union for less than three years. 
(5) A collective management organisation shall ensure that rightholders 
receive appropriate remuneration for the use of their rights. 
(6) A collective management organisation shall ensure that tariffs for exclus­
ive rights and rights to remuneration are reasonable in relation to, among other 
things, the economic value of the use of the rights in trade, taking into account 
the nature and scope of the use of the work and other subject-matter, and the 
economic value of the service provided by the collective management 
organisation. 
(7) The collective management organisations shall inform the users concerned 
of the criteria used for the setting of those tariffs. 
(8) A collective management organisation shall reply without undue delay to 
a request from a user, indicating, among other things, the information needed 
in order for the collective management organisation to decide whether to offer 
a licence. 
(9) On receipt of all information needed to make such a decision, the collec­
tive management organisation shall, without undue delay, either offer a licence 
or provide the user with a reasoned statement explaining why it does not intend 
to license a particular service. [156] 15
 
(10) A collective management organisation shall allow users to communicate 
with it by electronic means, including, where appropriate, for the purpose of 
reporting on the use of the licence. 
Users’ obligations 
15. (1) A user of rights represented by a collective management organisation 
shall provide to the collective management organisation, within an agreed or 
pre-established time and in an agreed or pre-established format, such relevant 
information at the user’s disposal on use of rights represented by the collective 
management organisation as is necessary to enable the collective management 
organisation to undertake the collection of rights revenue for the distribution of 
amounts due to rightholders in order to discharge its obligations under these 
Regulations. 
(2) When agreeing the format for the provision of such information, a collec­
tive management organisation and a user shall take into account, as far as pos­
sible, voluntary industry standards. 
Chapter 5 
Transparency and reporting 
Information provided to rightholders on the management of their rights 
16. (1) A collective management organisation or independent management 
entity shall make at least the following information available, not less than once 
a year, to each rightholder to whom it has attributed rights revenue or made 
distributions in the period to which the information relates: 
(a) any contact details which the rightholder has authorised the collective 
management organisation or independent management entity to use 
in order to identify and locate the rightholder; 
(b) the rights revenue attributed to the rightholder; 
(c) the amounts distributed by the collective management organisation or 
independent management entity to the rightholder for each category 
of rights managed and for each type of use; 
(d) the period during which the use for which amounts were attributed 
and distributed to the rightholder took place, unless objective reasons 
relating to reporting by users prevent the collective management 
organisation or independent management entity from providing this 
information; 
(e) deductions made in respect of management fees; 
(f) deductions made for any purpose otherwise than in respect of manage­
ment fees, including those made for the provision of any social, cul­
tural or educational services; 16 [156]
 
(g) any rights revenue attributed to the rightholder which is outstanding 
for any period. 
(2) Where a collective management organisation or independent management 
entity attributes rights revenue and has as members entities which are respon­
sible for the distribution of rights revenue to rightholders, the collective manage­
ment organisation or independent management entity shall provide the infor­
mation listed in paragraph (1) to those entities if they do not have the 
information in their possession. 
(3) Entities which are members of a collective management organisation or 
independent management entity and are responsible for the distribution of 
rights revenue to rightholders shall make the information listed in paragraph (1) 
available, not less than once a year, to each rightholder to whom they have 
attributed rights revenue or distributed amounts in the period to which the infor­
mation relates. 
Information provided to other collective management organisations on manage­
ment of rights under representation agreements 
17. A collective management organisation shall make the following infor­
mation available, not less than once a year and by electronic means, to a collec­
tive management organisation on whose behalf it manages rights under a rep­
resentation agreement, for the period to which the information relate: 
(a) the rights revenue attributed to the collective management organis­
ation for the rights it manages under the representation agreement; 
(b) the amounts distributed by the collective management organisation 
for each category of rights managed, and for each type of use, for the 
rights it manages under the representation agreement, and any rights 
revenue attributed which is outstanding for any period; 
(c) deductions made in respect of management fees; 
(d) deductions made for any purpose otherwise than in respect of man­
agement fees, including those for the provision of any social, cultural 
or educational services; 
(e) information on any licences granted or refused with regard to works 
and other subject-matter covered by the representation agreement; 
(f) resolutions adopted by the general assembly of members in so far as 
those resolutions are relevant to the management of the rights under 
the representation agreement. 
Information provided to rightholders, other collective management organisations 
and users on request 
18. In response to a duly justified request, a collective management organis­
ation or independent management entity shall make available by electronic 
means and without undue delay to any rightholder or any user, or (in the case [156] 17
 
of a collective management organisation) any collective management organis­
ation on whose behalf it manages rights under a representation agreement, at 
least the following information: 
(a) the works or other subject-matter it represents, the rights it manages, 
directly or under representation agreements, and the territories 
covered; or 
(b) where, due to the scope of activity of the collective management 
organisation or independent management entity, such works or other 
subject-matter cannot be determined, the types of works or of other 
subject-matter it represents, the rights it manages and the territories 
covered. 
Disclosure of information to public 
19. (1) A collective management organisation shall make public at least the 
following information: 
(a) its statute; 
(b) its membership terms and the terms of termination of authorisation 
to manage rights, if these are not included in the statute; 
(c) standard licensing contracts and standard applicable tariffs, including 
discounts; 
(d) a list of the persons who manage its business; 
(e) its general policy on distribution of amounts due to rightholders; 
(f) its general policy on management fees; 
(g) its general policy on deductions, otherwise than in respect of manage­
ment fees, from rights revenue and from any income arising from the 
investment of rights revenue, including deductions for the purposes 
of social, cultural and educational services; 
(h) a list of the representation agreements it has entered into, and the 
names of the collective management organisations with which those 
representation agreements have been concluded; 
(i) its general policy on the use of non-distributable amounts; 
(j) the complaint handling and dispute resolution procedures available in 
accordance with Regulations 31 and 32. 
(2) The collective management organisation shall publish the information 
specified in paragraph (1), and keep it up to date, on its public website. 
(3) An independent management entity shall make public at least the follow­
ing information: 18 [156]
 
(a) its statute; 
(b) its membership terms and the terms of termination of authorisation 
to manage rights, if these are not included in the statute; 
(c) standard licensing contracts and standard applicable tariffs, including 
discounts; 
(d) its general policy on distribution of amounts due to rightholders; 
(e) its general policy on management fees; 
(f) its general policy on deductions, otherwise than in respect of manage­
ment fees, from rights revenue and from any income arising from the 
investment of rights revenue, including deductions for the purposes 
of social, cultural and educational services. 
Annual transparency report 
20. (1) A collective management organisation shall produce a transparency 
report, including a special report as mentioned in paragraph (7), for each finan­
cial year no later than eight months following the end of the financial year. 
(2) The collective management organisation shall publish a transparency 
report on its website and ensure that it remains available to the public there for 
at least five years. 
(3) A transparency report shall contain at least the information set out in 
the Schedule. 
(4) The accounting information included in a transparency report shall be 
audited by one or more persons empowered by law to audit accounts in accord­
ance with Directive 2006/43/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council 
of 17 May 2006 on statutory audits of annual accounts and consolidated 
accounts, amending Council Directives 78/660/EEC and 83/349/EEC and 
repealing Council Directive 84/253/EEC3. 
(5) For the purposes of paragraph (4), “accounting information” comprises 
the financial statements specified in paragraph 1 of the Schedule and any finan­
cial information specified in Parts 2 and 3 of the Schedule. 
(6) The audit report, including any qualifications of it, shall be reproduced in 
full in the transparency report. 
(7) A special report shall contain the information set out in Part 3 of the 
Schedule. 
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Part 3 
MULTI-TERRITORIAL LICENSING OF ONLINE RIGHTS IN MUSICAL 
WORKS BY COLLECTIVE MANAGEMENT ORGANISATIONS 
Multi-territorial licensing in internal market 
21. A collective management organisation shall comply with the requirements 
of this Part when granting multi-territorial licences for online rights in musical 
works. 
Capacity to process multi-territorial licences 
22. (1) A collective management organisation which grants multi-territorial 
licences for online rights in musical works shall have sufficient capacity to pro­
cess electronically, in an efficient and transparent manner, data needed for the 
administration of the licences, including for the purposes of identifying the rep­
ertoire and monitoring its use, invoicing users, collecting rights revenue and 
distributing amounts due to rightholders. 
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1) a collective management organisation 
shall— 
(a) have the ability to identify accurately the musical works which it is 
authorised to represent (whether in whole or in part), 
(b) have the ability to identify accurately with respect to each relevant 
territory, the rights and their corresponding rightholders for each 
musical work or share in a musical work which it is authorised to 
represent (whether in whole or in part), 
(c) make use of unique identifiers in order to identify rightholders and 
musical works, taking into account, as far as possible, voluntary indus­
try standards and practices developed at international or European 
Union level, and 
(d) make use of adequate means in order to identify and resolve in a 
timely and effective manner inconsistencies in data held by other col­
lective management organisations granting multi-territorial licences 
for online rights in musical works. 
Transparency of multi-territorial repertoire information 
23. (1) A collective management organisation which grants multi-territorial 
licences for online rights in musical works shall provide to online service pro­
viders, to rightholders whose rights it represents and to other collective manage­
ment organisations, by electronic means, in response to a duly justified request, 
up-to-date information allowing the identification of the online music repertoire 
it represents. 
(2) The information shall include— 
(a) the musical works represented, 20 [156]
 
(b) the rights represented (in whole or in part), and 
(c) the territories covered. 
(2) The collective management organisation may take reasonable measures, 
where necessary, to protect the accuracy and integrity of the data, to control its 
re-use and to protect commercially sensitive information. 
Accuracy of multi-territorial repertoire information 
24. (1) A collective management organisation which grants multi-territorial 
licences for online rights in musical works shall have arrangements in place to 
enable a rightholder, another collective management organisation or an online 
service provider to request a correction of the data referred to in the list of 
conditions in Regulation 22(2) or the information provided under Regulation 
23, where the rightholder, collective management organisation or online service 
provider, on the basis of reasonable evidence, believes that the data or the 
information is inaccurate in respect of its online rights in musical works. 
(2) Where the claims made in a request under paragraph (1) are sufficiently 
substantiated, the collective management organisation shall ensure that the data 
or the information is corrected without undue delay. 
(3) The collective management organisation shall provide rightholders whose 
musical works are included in its own music repertoire and rightholders who 
have entrusted the management of their online rights in musical works to it in 
accordance with Regulation 29 with the means of submitting to it in electronic 
form information concerning their musical works, their rights in those works and 
the territories in respect of which the rightholders authorise the organisation. 
(4) When doing so, the collective management organisation and the righthol­
ders shall take into account, as far as possible, voluntary industry standards or 
practices regarding the exchange of data developed at international or European 
Union level, allowing rightholders to specify the musical work, wholly or in part, 
the online rights, wholly or in part, and the territories in respect of which they 
authorise the organisation. 
(5) Where a collective management organisation (referred to in this para­
graph as “the mandating collective management organisation”) mandates 
another collective management organisation to grant multi-territorial licences 
for the online rights in musical works under Regulations 27 and 28, paragraphs 
(3) and (4) shall also apply with respect to the rightholders whose musical works 
are included in the repertoire of the mandating collective management organis­
ation, unless the collective management organisations agree otherwise. 
Accurate and timely reporting and invoicing 
25. (1) A collective management organisation shall monitor the use of online 
rights in musical works which it represents, wholly or in part, by online service 
providers to which it has granted a multi-territorial licence for those rights. 
(2) The collective management organisation shall offer online service pro­
viders the possibility of reporting by electronic means the actual use of online [156] 21
 
rights in musical works and online service providers shall accurately report the 
actual use of those works. 
(3) The collective management organisation shall offer the use of a least one 
method of reporting which takes into account voluntary industry standards or 
practices developed at international or European Union level for the electronic 
exchange of such data. 
(4) The collective management organisation may refuse to accept reporting 
by the online service provider in a proprietary format if the collective manage­
ment organisation allows reporting using an industry standard for the electronic 
exchange of data. 
(5) The collective management organisation shall invoice the online service 
provider by electronic means. 
(6) The collective management organisation shall offer the use of a least one 
format of invoice which takes into account voluntary industry standards or prac­
tices developed at international or European Union level. 
(7) The invoice shall identify the works and rights which are licensed, wholly 
or in part, on the basis of the data referred to in the list of conditions under 
Regulation 22(2), and the corresponding actual uses, to the extent that this is 
possible on the basis of the information provided by the online service provider 
and the format used to provide that information. 
(8) The online service provider may not refuse to accept the invoice because 
of its format if the collective management organisation is using an industry 
standard. 
(9) The collective management organisation shall invoice the online service 
provider accurately and without delay after the actual use of the online rights 
in that musical work is reported, except where this is not possible for reasons 
attributable to the online service provider. 
(10) The collective management organisation shall have in place adequate 
arrangements enabling the online service provider to challenge the accuracy of 
the invoice, including when the online service provider receives invoices from 
one or more collective management organisations for the same online rights in 
the same musical work. 
Accurate and timely distributions to rightholders 
26. (1) A collective management organisation which grants multi-territorial 
licences for online rights in musical works shall distribute amounts due to righ­
tholders accruing from such licences accurately and without delay after the 
actual use of the work is reported, except where this is not possible for reasons 
attributable to the online service provider. 
(2) The collective management organisation shall provide at least the follow­
ing information to rightholders with each distribution it makes under para­
graph (1): 22 [156]
 
(a) the period during which the uses took place for which amounts are 
due to rightholders and the territories in which the uses took place; 
(b) the amounts collected, deductions made and amounts distributed by 
the collective management organisation for each online right in any 
musical work which rightholders have authorised the collective man­
agement organisation to represent (in whole or in part); 
(c) the amounts collected for rightholders, deductions made, and amounts 
distributed by the collective management organisation in respect of 
each online service provider. 
(3) Where a collective management organisation (referred to in this Regu­
lation as “the mandating collective management organisation”) mandates 
another collective management organisation (referred to in this Regulation as 
“the mandated collective management organisation”) to grant multi-territorial 
licences for the online rights in musical works under Regulations 27 and 28, 
the mandated collective management organisation shall distribute the amounts 
referred to in paragraph (1) accurately and without delay and shall provide the 
information referred to in paragraph (2) to the mandating collective manage­
ment organisation. 
(4) The mandating collective management organisation shall be responsible 
for the subsequent distribution of such amounts and the provision of such infor­
mation to rightholders, unless the collective management organisations agree 
otherwise. 
Agreements between collective management organisations for multi-territorial 
licensing 
27. (1) Any representation agreement between collective management 
organisations in accordance with which a collective management organisation 
(referred to in this Regulation as “the mandating collective management 
organisation”) mandates another collective management organisation (referred 
to in this Regulation as “the mandated collective management organisation”) to 
grant multi-territorial licences for the online rights in musical works in its own 
music repertoire shall be of a non-exclusive nature. 
(2) The mandated collective management organisation shall manage those 
online rights on a non-discriminatory basis. 
(3) The mandating collective management organisation shall inform— 
(a) its members, and 
(b) rightholders who have a direct legal relationship by law or by way of 
assignment, licence or any other contractual arrangement with it but 
are not members, 
of the main terms of the agreement, including its duration and the costs of the 
services provided by the mandated collective management organisation. [156] 23
 
(4) The mandated collective management organisation shall inform the mand­
ating collective management organisation of the main terms according to which 
the latter’s online rights are to be licensed, including the nature of the exploi­
tation, all provisions which relate to or affect the licence fee, the duration of the 
licence, the accounting periods and the territories covered. 
Obligation to represent another collective management organisation for multi-
territorial licensing 
28. (1) Where a collective management organisation (referred to in this 
Regulation as “the requesting collective management organisation”) which does 
not grant or offer to grant multi-territorial licences for the online rights in musi­
cal works in its own repertoire requests another collective management organis­
ation (referred to in this Regulation as “the requested collective management 
organisation”) to enter into a representation agreement to represent those 
rights, the requested collective management organisation shall agree to the 
request if it is already granting or offering to grant multi-territorial licences for 
the same category of online rights in musical works in the repertoire of one or 
more other collective management organisations. 
(2) The requested collective management organisation shall respond to the 
requesting collective management organisation in writing and without undue 
delay. 
(3) The requested collective management organisation shall manage the rep­
resented repertoire of the requesting collective management organisation on the 
same conditions as those which it applies to the management of its own 
repertoire. 
(4) The requested collective management organisation shall include the rep­
resented repertoire of the requesting collective management organisation in all 
offers it addresses to online service providers. 
(5) The management fee for the service provided by the requested collective 
management organisation to the requesting collective management organisation 
shall not exceed the costs reasonably incurred by the requested collective man­
agement organisation. 
(6) The requesting collective management organisation shall make available 
to the requested collective management organisation information relating to its 
own music repertoire required for the provision of multi-territorial licences for 
online rights in musical works. 
(7) Where the information is insufficient or provided in a form that does not 
allow the requested collective management organisation to meet the require­
ments of this Part, the requested collective management organisation shall be 
entitled to charge for the costs reasonably incurred in meeting such require­
ments or to exclude those works for which information is insufficient or cannot 
be used. 24 [156]
 
Access to multi-territorial licensing 
29. Where a collective management organisation does not grant or offer to 
grant multi-territorial licences for online rights in musical works, or does not 
allow another collective management organisation to represent those rights for 
such purpose, by 10 April 2017, the collective management organisation must 
ensure that rightholders who have authorised the collective management organ­
isation to represent their online rights in musical works before that date may 
withdraw from the collective management organisation the online rights in musi­
cal works for the purposes of multi-territorial licensing in respect of all territor­
ies without having to withdraw the online rights in musical works for the pur­
poses of mono-territorial licensing, so as to grant multi-territorial licences for 
their online rights in musical works themselves or through any other party they 
authorise or through any collective management organisation complying with 
the provisions of this Part. 
Derogation for online music rights required for radio and television programmes 
30. The requirements under this Part shall not apply to collective manage­
ment organisations when they grant, on the basis of the voluntary aggregation 
of the required rights, in compliance with the competition rules under Articles 
101 and 102 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, a multi-
territorial licence for the online rights in musical works required by a broad­
caster to communicate or make available to the public its radio or television 
programmes simultaneously with or after their initial broadcast as well as any 
online material, including previews, produced by or for the broadcaster which 
is ancillary to the initial broadcast of its radio or television programme. 
Part 4 
ENFORCEMENT 
Complaints procedures 
31. (1) A collective management organisation shall make available to— 
(a) its members, 
(b) rightholders who have a direct legal relationship by law or by way of 
assignment, licence or any other contractual arrangement with the 
collective management organisation but are not members of it, and 
(c) collective management organisations on whose behalf it manages 
rights under a representation agreement, 
effective and timely procedures for dealing with complaints, particularly in 
relation to authorisation to manage rights and termination or withdrawal of 
rights, membership terms, the collection of amounts due to rightholders, 
deductions and distributions. 
(2) A collective management organisation shall respond in writing to com­
plaints by its members or by a collective management organisation on whose 
behalf it manages rights under a representation agreement. [156] 25
 
(3) Where a collective management organisation rejects a complaint, it shall 
give reasons. 
(4) Nothing in this Regulation limits the ability of any person to bring or 
defend proceedings in any court. 
Alternative dispute resolution procedure 
32. (1) A collective management organisation to which Part 3 applies and 
which grants, or offers to grant, multi-territorial licences for online rights in 
musical works shall ensure that disputes to which this Regulation applies can be 
submitted to an independent and impartial alternative dispute resolution 
procedure. 
(2) This Regulation applies to— 
(a) disputes with an actual or potential online service provider regarding 
the application of Regulation 14, 23, 24 or 25, 
(b) disputes with one or more rightholders regarding the application of 
Regulation 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 or 29, and 
(c) disputes with another collective management organisation regarding 
the application of Regulation 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 or 28. 
(3) Nothing in this Regulation limits the ability of any person to bring or 
defend proceedings in any court. 
Monitoring compliance 
33. (1) The Controller shall monitor compliance with these Regulations. 
(2) The Controller may request any relevant person to provide information 
which may assist the Controller in monitoring compliance with these 
Regulations. 
(3) In paragraph (2), “relevant person” means— 
(a) a collective management organisation (whether or not established in 
the State), 
(b) an independent management entity, 
(c) an entity within Regulation 1(4), 
(d) a member of a collective management organisation or of an indepen­
dent management entity, 
(e) a rightholder or a body representing the interests of rightholders, or 
(f) a person who is a user in relation to a rightholder or a body rep­
resenting the interests of users. 26 [156]
 
(4) The Controller shall act on any information which is provided by any 
person if it evidences a failure to comply with any requirement imposed by 
these Regulations. 
Statement of compliance 
34. (1) Section 175 of the Act of 2000 is amended— 
(a) in subsection (7)— 
(i) by the deletion, in paragraph (g), of “and”, 
(ii) by the substitution, in paragraph (h), of “that section;” for “that 
section.”, and 
(iii) by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (h): 
“(i) in the case of a licensing body in relation to which any pro­
visions of the European Union (Collective Rights 
Management) (Directive 2014/26/EU) Regulations 2016 
(referred to in this section as “Regulations of 2016”) apply, a 
statement of compliance and appropriate supporting 
evidence.”, 
and 
(b) by the insertion of the following subsections after subsection (7): 
“(7A) In this section and section 179— 
“statement of compliance” means a document, in electronic form and 
signed by a person authorised by the licensing body, stating that the 
licensing body has complied, is complying and will comply with the 
requirements imposed on it by the Regulations of 2016 to the extent 
specified in the document; 
“appropriate supporting evidence” means information supporting the 
statements made in the statement of compliance. 
(7B) The conditions referred to in subsection (5)(b) shall include, in 
the case of a licensing body in relation to which any provisions of the 
Regulations of 2016 apply— 
(a) that the licensing body has provided such further information 
as the Controller may require (in addition to that contained 
in the statement of compliance and provided as part of the 
appropriate supporting evidence) for ascertaining whether 
the licensing body has complied, is complying and will com­
ply with requirements imposed on it by the Regulations of 
2016, and [156] 27
 
(b) that the statement of compliance of the licensing body, 
together with the appropriate supporting evidence and any 
further information provided by the licensing body, satisfies 
the Controller that the licensing body has complied, is com­
plying and will comply with requirements imposed on it by 
the Regulations of 2016.”. 
(2) Section 179 of the Act of 2000 is amended by the insertion of the following 
subsection after subsection (1): 
“(1A) The power conferred on the Controller by subsection (1) may not be 
exercised by reason of a failure by a licensing body to provide a statement of 
compliance or appropriate supporting evidence— 
(a) if— 
(i) the licensing body has, before the expiration of the period of val­
idity of the certificate of registration, submitted to the Controller 
an application for an extension of the time within which the state­
ment of compliance or appropriate supporting evidence is 
required to be provided and a satisfactory explanation for the 
application, 
(ii) the Controller has granted an extension of 28 days from the expir­
ation of that period, and 
(iii) the failure does not continue beyond the extension, 
or 
(b) unless the Controller has, after the time within which the statement 
of compliance or appropriate supporting evidence is required to be 
provided, issued a written notice requiring the person to provide a 
statement of compliance or appropriate supporting evidence within a 
specified period and the Controller is satisfied that the notice has not 
been complied with.”. 
(3) Section 280 of the Act of 2000 is amended— 
(a) in subsection (6)— 
(i) by the deletion, in paragraph (f), of “and”, 
(ii) by the substitution, in paragraph (g), of “the applicant;” for “the 
applicant.”, and 
(iii) by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (g): 
“(h) in the case of a licensing body in relation to which any pro­
visions of the European Union (Collective Rights 
Management) (Directive 2014/26/EU) Regulations 2016 28 [156]
 
(referred to in this section as “Regulations of 2016”) apply, 
a statement of compliance and appropriate supporting 
evidence.”, 
and 
(b) by the insertion of the following subsections after subsection (7): 
“(7A) In this section and section 284— 
“statement of compliance” means a document, in electronic form and 
signed by a person authorised by the licensing body, stating that the 
licensing body has complied, is complying and will comply with the 
requirements imposed on it by the Regulations of 2016 to the extent 
specified in the document; 
“appropriate supporting evidence” means information supporting the 
statements made in the statement of compliance. 
(7B) The conditions referred to in subsection (5)(b) shall include, in 
the case of a licensing body in relation to which any provisions of the 
Regulations of 2016 apply— 
(a) that the licensing body has provided such further information 
as the Controller may require (in addition to that contained 
in the statement of compliance and provided as part of the 
appropriate supporting evidence) for ascertaining whether 
the licensing body has complied, is complying and will com­
ply with requirements imposed on it by the 2016 Regu­
lations, and 
(b) that the statement of compliance of the licensing body, 
together with the appropriate supporting evidence and any 
further information provided by the licensing body, satisfies 
the Controller that the licensing body has complied, is com­
plying and will comply with requirements imposed on it by 
the 2016 Regulations.”. 
(4) Section 284 of the Act of 2000 is amended by the insertion of the following 
subsection after subsection (1): 
“(1A) The power conferred on the Controller by subsection (1) may not be 
exercised by reason of a failure by a licensing body to provide a statement of 
compliance or appropriate supporting evidence— 
(a) if— 
(i) the licensing body has, before the expiration of the period of val­
idity of the certificate of registration, submitted to the Controller 
an application for an extension of the time within which the state­
ment of compliance or appropriate supporting evidence is [156] 29
 
required to be provided, accompanied by a satisfactory expla­
nation for the application, 
(ii) the Controller has granted an extension of 28 days from the expir­
ation of that period, and 
(iii) the failure does not continue beyond the extension, 
or 
(b) unless the Controller has, after the time within which the statement 
of compliance or appropriate supporting evidence is required to be 
provided, issued a written notice requiring the person to provide a 
statement of compliance or appropriate supporting evidence within a 
specified period and the Controller is satisfied that the notice has not 
been complied with.”. 
(5) The Copyright and Related Rights (Register of Copyright Licensing 
Bodies) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 463 of 2002) are amended— 
(a) in Regulation 6(1) and (2), by the substitution for “and (a)t o (h)i n 
the case of applicants within the meaning of section 38 of the Act of 
2000” of “, (a)t o (h) in the case of applicants within the meaning of 
section 38 of the Act of 2000 and (a) to (i) in the case of licensing 
bodies in relation to which any provisions of the European Union 
(Collective Rights Management) (Directive 2014/26/EU) Regulations 
2016 apply”, 
(b) in Regulation 8(2), by the substitution for “(h)” of “(i)”, and 
(c) in the Schedule— 
(i) by the deletion, in paragraph (g), of “and”, 
(ii) by the substitution, in paragraph (h), of “the Act of 2000; and” 
for “the Act of 2000.”, and 
(iii) by the insertion of the following after paragraph (h): 
“In the case of licensing bodies in relation to which any pro­
visions of the European Union (Collective Rights 
Management) (Directive 2014/26/EU) Regulations 2016 
apply only— 
(i)	 a statement of compliance and appropriate supporting 
evidence (within the meaning of section 175(7A) of the 
Act of 2000).”. 
(6) The Copyright and Related Rights (Register of Licensing Bodies for Per­
formers’ Property Rights) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 306 of 2008) is amended, in 
the Schedule, by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph 7: 30 [156]
 
“8. In the case of licensing bodies in relation to which any provisions of 
the European Union (Collective Rights Management) (Directive 
2014/26/EU) Regulations 2016 apply, a statement of compliance and appro­
priate supporting evidence (within the meaning of section 280(7A) of the 
Act).”. 
Sanctions for non-compliance 
35. (1) Where the Controller considers that a licensing body registered under 
Part II or III of the Act of 2000 has not complied with any requirement imposed 
by these Regulations, the Controller may serve a compliance notice on that 
person. 
(2) A compliance notice shall be in writing and— 
(a) shall state that the Controller considers that the person has not com­
plied with a requirement imposed by these Regulations, 
(b) shall specify the provision imposing the requirement and the nature 
of the non-compliance, 
(c) may request the person, where the non-compliance is continuing, to 
end it, 
(d) for the purpose of ensuring compliance by the person with the require­
ment, may request the person to do, or refrain from doing, anything 
specified in the notice, 
(e) may request the person to give to the Controller a written undertaking 
that non-compliance with the requirement will not be repeated, and 
(f) shall inform the person of the effect of paragraph (3). 
(3) If the Controller is satisfied that a person has failed to comply with a 
request included in a compliance notice under paragraph (2)(c)o r( d), or with 
an undertaking given in compliance with a request so included under paragraph 
(2)(e), the Controller may serve an enforcement notice on the person. 
(4) An enforcement notice shall be in writing and shall— 
(a) state the grounds on which the Controller is satisfied that the person 
has failed to comply with the request or undertaking referred to in 
paragraph (3), 
(b) inform the person that failure to comply with the request or under­
taking within such period as is specified in the enforcement notice 
may cause the Controller to decide to remove the person from the 
Register of Copyright Licensing Bodies or the Register of Licensing 
Bodies for Performers’ Property Rights under paragraph (6), and 
(c) inform the person of the right to make representations in accordance 
with paragraph (5). [156] 31
 
(5) The person may, within 14 days of the service of the enforcement notice, 
make representations in writing to the Controller. 
(6) If, having regard to any such representations, the Controller is satisfied 
that the person has failed to comply with an enforcement notice, the Controller 
shall remove the person from the Register of Copyright Licensing Bodies or the 
Register of Licensing Bodies for Performers’ Property Rights. 
(7) The Controller shall serve notice of the removal on the person and the 
removal shall take effect 21 days from the date of service of the notice unless 
an appeal is brought under paragraph (8). 
(8) The person may, within 21 days from the date of service of the removal, 
appeal against the removal to the District Court. 
(9) The jurisdiction conferred on the District Court by paragraph (8) shall be 
exercised by a judge of that court assigned to the District Court district in which 
the person ordinarily resides. 
(10) If the person brings an appeal which is unsuccessful, the decision shall 
take effect when the appeal is finally determined. 
(11) A notice that is required to be served on a person under this Regulation 
shall be addressed to the person by name and may be so served in any of the 
following ways: 
(a) by delivering it to the person; 
(b) by leaving it at the address at which the person ordinarily resides or, 
in a case in which an address for service has been furnished to the 
Controller, at that address; 
(c) by sending it by post in a pre-paid registered letter to the address at 
which the person ordinarily resides or, in a case in which an address 
for service has been furnished to the Controller, to that address. 
(12) For the purposes of this Regulation, a company with a registered office 
shall be regarded as ordinarily residing at its registered office and every other 
body corporate and every unincorporated body of persons shall be regarded as 
ordinarily residing at its principal office or place of business. 
Exchange of information between competent authorities 
36. (1) The Controller shall respond without undue delay to a request for 
information received from a competent authority of another Member State, des­
ignated for the monitoring of the application of the Directive, concerning 
matters relevant to the application of the Directive, in particular with regard to 
the activities of collective management organisations established in the State, 
provided that the request is duly justified. 
(2) Where the competent authority of another Member State— 32 [156]
 
(a) considers that a collective management organisation established in the 
State but acting within the other Member State may not be complying 
with these Regulations, and 
(b) transmits all relevant information to the Controller, accompanied 
where appropriate by a request to the Controller to take appro­
priate action, 
the Controller shall provide a reasoned reply to that competent authority within 
three months. 
(3) Where the Controller considers that a collective management organisation 
established in another Member State but acting within the State may not be 
complying with the provisions of the law of that Member State adopted pursuant 
to the requirements of the Directive, the Controller may transmit all relevant 
information to the competent authority of the Member State in which the collec­
tive management organisation is established, accompanied where appropriate 
by a request to that authority to take appropriate action within its competence. 
(4) Matters referred to in paragraph (3) may also be referred by the Control­
ler when making such a request to the expert group established in accordance 
with Article 41 of the Directive. [156] 33
 
SCHEDULE 
Information to be provided in annual transparency report 
Part 1 
General 
1. Financial statements comprising a balance-sheet or a statement of assets 
and liabilities, an income and expenditure account for the financial year and a 
cash-flow statement. 
2. A report on the activities in the financial year. 
3. Information on refusals to grant a licence pursuant to Regulation 14(9). 
4. A description of the legal and governance structure of the collective man­
agement organisation. 
5. Information on any persons directly or indirectly owned or controlled, 
wholly or in part, by the collective management organisation. 
6. Information on the total amount of remuneration paid to the persons who 
exercise the supervisory function, or manage the business, of the collective man­
agement organisation in the previous year, and on other benefits granted to 
them. 
Part 2 
Financial information 
7. Financial information on rights revenue, for each category of rights man­
aged and for each type of use (e.g. broadcasting, online, public performance), 
including information on the income arising from the investment of rights 
revenue and the use of such income (whether it is distributed to rightholders or 
paid to other collective management organisations, or otherwise used). 
8. Financial information on the cost of rights management and other services 
provided by the collective management organisation to rightholders, with a com­
prehensive description of at least the following: 
(a) all operating and financial costs, with a breakdown for each category 
of rights managed and, where costs are indirect and cannot be attri­
buted to one or more categories of rights, an explanation of the 
method used to allocate such indirect costs; 
(b) operating and financial costs, with a breakdown for each category of 
rights managed and, where costs are indirect and cannot be attributed 
to one or more categories of rights, an explanation of the method used 
to allocate such indirect costs, only with regard to the management of 
rights, including management fees deducted from or offset against 34 [156]
 
rights revenue or any income arising from the investment of rights 
revenue in accordance with Regulations 9(4) and 10(1), (2) and (3); 
(c) operating and financial costs with regard to services other than the 
management of rights, but including social, cultural and educational 
services; 
(d) resources used to cover costs; 
(e) deductions made from rights revenues, with a breakdown for each 
category of rights managed and for each type of use and the purpose 
of the deductions, such as costs relating to the management of rights 
or to social, cultural or educational services; 
(f) the percentages of the rights revenue in the relevant financial year, for 
each category of rights managed, that the costs of the rights manage­
ment and other services provided by the collective management 
organisation to rightholders represent and, where costs are indirect 
and cannot be attributed to one or more categories of rights, an expla­
nation of the method used to allocate such indirect costs. 
9. Financial information on amounts due to rightholders, with a comprehen­
sive description of at least the following: 
(a) the total amount attributed to rightholders, with a breakdown for each 
category of rights managed and for each type of use; 
(b) the total amount distributed to rightholders, with a breakdown for 
each category of rights managed and for each type of use; 
(c) the frequency of distributions, with a breakdown for each category of 
rights managed and for each type of use; 
(d) the total amount collected but not yet attributed to rightholders, with 
a breakdown for each category of rights managed for each type of 
use, and indicating the financial year in which those amounts were 
collected; 
(e) the total amount attributed to but not yet distributed to rightholders, 
with a breakdown for each category of rights managed and for each 
type of use, and indicating the financial year in which those amounts 
were collected; 
(f) where the collective management organisation has not carried out dis­
tribution before the end of the period specified in Regulation 11(2), 
the reasons for the delay; 
(g) the total non-distributable amounts, along with an explanation of the 
use to which those amounts have been put. [156] 35
 
10. Information on relationships with other collective management organis­
ations, with a description of at least the following: 
(a) amounts received from other collective management organisations 
and amounts paid to other collective management organisations, with 
a breakdown for each category of rights, for each type of use and for 
each collective management organisation; 
(b) management fees and other deductions from the rights revenue due 
to other collective management organisations, with a breakdown for 
each category of rights, for each type of use and for each collective 
management organisation; 
(c) management fees and other deductions from the amounts paid by 
other collective management organisations, with a breakdown for 
each category of rights and for each collective management 
organisation; 
(d) amounts distributed directly to rightholders originating from other 
collective management organisations, with a breakdown for each cate­
gory of rights and for each collective management organisation. 
Part 3 
Information for special report 
11. The amounts deducted for the purposes of social, cultural and educational 
services in the financial year, with a breakdown for each type of purpose and, 
for each type of purpose, a breakdown for each category of rights managed and 
each type of use. 
12. An explanation of the use of those amounts, with a breakdown for each 
type of purpose including the costs of managing amounts deducted to fund 
social, cultural and educational services and of the separate amounts used for 
social, cultural and educational services. 
GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise 
and Innovation, 
8 April 2016. 
RICHARD BRUTON,
 
Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation.
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EXPLANATORY NOTE
 
(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal 
interpretation.) 
These Regulations, made pursuant to the European Communities Act 1972, 
transpose Directive 2014/26/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council 
of 26 February 2014. The Regulations impose governance requirements on col­
lective management organisations established in the state and, separately, allow 
them to undertake licensing on a multi-territorial basis throughout the Euro­
pean Union. 
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