COMMISSION TAKES LEGAL ACTION AGAINST LUXEMBOURG, IRELAND AND FRANCE ON ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS DIRECTIVE.

The European Commission has decided to refer Luxembourg to the European Court of Justice and to send reasoned opinions to Ireland and France for non-respect of the EU's animal experiment Directive (Council Directive 86/609/EEC). This legislation requires certain common animal protection provisions to be applied across the EU, but the law, dating back to 1983, that Luxembourg notified the Commission as the transposition of the EU Directive, fails to meet many of the requirements and although the Grand Duchy forwarded a draft proposal...