'research' means descriptive or experimental work, undertaken under regulated conditions to obtain new scientific findings or to develop new products, including the initial phases of identification, characterisation and isolation of genetic features, other than those features which make a species invasive, of invasive alien species only insofar as essential to enable the breeding of those features into non-invasive species;
ciallaíonn “taighde” obair thuairiscithe nó thurgnamhach, a dhéantar faoi dhálaí rialaithe chun faisnéis eolaíoch nua a fháil nó chun táirgí nua a fhorbairt, lena n-áirítear na chéad chéimeanna i ndáil le gnéithe géiniteacha speiceas coimhthíoch ionrach a shainaithint, a thréithriú agus a leithlisiú, cé is moite de na gnéithe sin lena dtugtar cumas ionraidh do speiceas, sa mhéid is gá chun pórú na ngnéithe sin isteach i speicis neamhionracha a chumasú, agus a mhéid sin amháin;