Animal health product regulations breach EU Directive due to absence of Irish language content, court rules

Regulations requiring certain information in packaging of animal health products to be in English only, rather than Irish and English, amounts to a State failure to properly implement a European Directive, a High Court judge has found.

Because another European Directive is due to come into effect in 2022 which will allow the State choose between packaging in Irish or English, Ms Justice Una Ní Raifeartaigh will decide later what orders should be made in the case.