The names of around 11,000 Irish citizens are among 1.4 million signatures on an official EU petition seeking to end the use of animals in the testing of cosmetics and certain other experiments.
The animal rights groups behind the petition were required to obtain one million signatures by last Thursday in order for it to be brought before the European Parliament and Commission under the European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) mechanism.
It looks set to become only the seventh ECI petition to reach this stage of the process since the mechanism was introduced in 2011.
