Enacted Stage in the legislative process — click for what it means 77/2020 Official bill number / year
Counterfeiting Bill 2020
- Sponsor
- Minister for Justice
- Introduced
- 16 Dec 2020
- Last updated
- 22 Jul 2021
What this bill does AI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
- Updates criminal offences for counterfeiting euro and other currencies, expanding definitions of what constitutes counterfeiting instruments and security features under EU Directive 2014/62/EU.
- Grants Central Bank power to monitor compliance by financial institutions and other bodies with euro authenticity and fitness requirements; authorises inspections, information requests, and enforcement actions.
- Establishes statutory basis for Central Bank's National Analysis Centre for euro notes and Coin National Analysis Centre; creates offences for non-compliance with euro protection obligations.
Stage timeline What do these stages mean?
- First Stage 33rd Dáil16 Dec 2020
- Second Stage 33rd Dáil11 Feb 2021
- Committee Stage 33rd Dáil11 Feb 2021
- Report Stage 33rd Dáil19 May 2021
- Fifth Stage 33rd Dáil19 May 2021
- Second Stage 26th Seanad19 May 2021
- Committee Stage 26th Seanad14 Jun 2021
- Report Stage 26th Seanad29 Jun 2021
- Fifth Stage 26th Seanad29 Jun 2021
- Enacted5 Jul 2021
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