STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS. 
S.I. No. 616 of 2016 
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EUROPEAN UNION (COLLECTIVE RIGHTS MANAGEMENT) 
(DIRECTIVE 2014/26/EU) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS 2016 2 [616]
 
S.I. No. 616 of 2016 
EUROPEAN UNION (COLLECTIVE RIGHTS MANAGEMENT) 
(DIRECTIVE 2014/26/EU) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS 2016 
I, MARY MITCHELL O’CONNOR, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Inno­
vation, in exercise of the powers conferred on me 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 make the following regulations: 
1. These Regulations may be cited as the European Union (Collective Rights 
Management) (Directive 2014/26/EU) (Amendment) Regulations 2016. 
2. Regulation 7 of the European Union (Collective Rights Management) 
(Directive 2014/26/EU) Regulations 2016 (S.I. No. 156 of 2016) is amended by 
the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (5): 
“(6) Where, in the case of a collective management organisation with a 
single administrative board, the power of management of the business of 
the organisation stands delegated to persons who are not directors of that 
organisation, the reference in paragraph (1) to the persons who manage the 
business of the collective management organisation shall be construed, for 
the purposes of this Regulation, as a reference to the persons to whom 
the power of management of the business of the collective management 
organisation stands delegated.”. 
GIVEN under my Official Seal, 
16 December 2016. 
MARY MITCHELL O’CONNOR,
 
Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation.
 
1OJ No. L84, 20.3.2014, p. 72. 
Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in 
“Iris Oifigiúil” of 23rd December, 2016. [616] 3
 
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, 
amend the European Union (Collective Rights management) (Directive 
2014/26/EU) Regulations 2016 (S.I. No. 156 of 2016), which were enacted to 
transpose Directive 2014/26/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council 
of 26 February 2014. The Regulations make a technical amendment to the pre­
vious Regulations, which is necessary to avoid a conflict between the duties 
of a Director to manage a company under the Companies Act 2014 and the 
requirement, under the European Union (Collective Rights management) 
(Directive 2014/26/EU) Regulations 2016, for a Collective Rights Management 
organisation to establish a supervisory function which does not consist of those 
involved in the day-to-day management of the collective rights management 
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