European Animal Tissue Directive.

Animal welfare and protection during transport: the current legislative framework in European Union.

The Protocol on the protection and welfare of animals annexed to the Amsterdam Treaty (1997) establishing the European Community requires that in formulating and implementing agriculture and transport policies, the Community and the Member States shall pay full regard to the welfare requirements of animals. In the field of animal welfare, transport has been, and still is today, cause of much co...

Comparative analysis of the revised Directive 2010/63/EU for the protection of laboratory animals with its predecessor 86/609/EEC - a t4 report.

On 8th September 2010 the long process of revising the EU Directive for the protection of laboratory animals was concluded. Here a comparative evaluation of the new and old Directive is provided. While its ultimate goal is to replace the use of animals, the new Directive acknowledges that animals, including nonhuman primates, are still needed for scientific purposes today. Importantly, animals ...

What's in store for animal research in the EU? Researchers should have little to fear from the EU's new animal-welfare directive, but the menace is in the minutiae.

Why animal studies are still being used in drug development.

In the European Union, about 3.6 million animals per year (30% of all the animals used) are used for drug development.1 Animal studies are the global standard used to evaluate the safety, efficacy and quality of drugs before these drugs are tested in humans. However, the value of animal studies to predict risks for humans has never been extensively established.2 In fact, many studies indicate t...

Lay Persons Involvement and Public Interest. Ethical Assessment in Animal Ethics Committees in Sweden. The Swedish Transition Process of the EU Directive 2010/63/EU with Regard to Harm-Benefit Analysis in Animal Ethics Committees

45 it was on the political agenda to create a transparent assessment process, although this idea had been subject to heated debates ever since the beginning of the last century until the 1944 legislation, Sweden’s first Animal Welfare Act (replaced the 1857 “cruelty to animals act”), was settled (Borgström, 2009). Today, there are seven AECs, located at the civil courts of main university towns...