Brussels, 27/06/2002 (Agence Europe) - On 27 June, the European Commission sent Ireland a reasoned opinion asking it to comply with the Court of Justice ruling of 18 October 2001 concerning the directive on the protection of animals used for experimental purposes or other scientific purposes. The Court considered in substance that Ireland use too restrictive a definition for the notion of experiments and had to, moreover, set adequate sentences applicable to people undertaking abusive...