Policy Issues

Review of research regulations

This month has seen publication of the long-awaited Hampton Implementation Review Report for the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Division and Inspectorate.

Lords take balanced approach but concerns remain

Understanding Animal Research welcomes the report published this week by the House of Lords EU Committee.

Loose laws and bad judgements

Weighing up the cost to animals and the potential benefit of any particular research program is no simple task.

UK Bioscience submits supplementary evidence to the House of Lords European Union Committee Inquiry

The UK Bioscience sector prepared a submission of supplementary evidence to the House of Lords European Union Committee, Sub –Committee D (Environment and Agriculture) on the revision of Directive 86/609.

What do they know?

We recently became aware of a new website that can be used to make Freedom of Information requests and acts as an archive for all information received.

More research means more animals

The 2008 figures for use of animals in UK research were released today by the Home Office.

UK bioscience sector publishes detailed response on European regulation

A dozen organisations representing UK bioscience have published their answers, many of them detailed, to 72 questions posed by the UK Home Office.

UK bioscience sector submits evidence to Lords

The House of Lords European Union Committee, Sub-Committee D (Environment and Agriculture) has begun to take oral evidence on the revision of the European Directive on animal experimentation

MEPs support Agriculture committee report

On Tuesday 5 May, MEPs in the European Parliament held a plenary session in which they voted on the first reading of a proposed revised Directive on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes (the earlier Directive was EU 86/609).

Remember the Patients

Within the next two weeks MEPs will vote on new European regulations governing medical research using animals across Europe.

UK bioscience sector Declaration of Support

Eleven leading organisations representing the UK bioscience sector have issued a Declaration of Support for a raft of amendments to European regulation of animal research.

UK scientists urge MEPs to support Agriculture Committee report

Early in May the full European Parliament votes on the revised Directive on animal experiments.

MEP Committee sanctions better legal protection for research animals

he Agriculture committee in the European Parliament yesterday voted to pass a report on the revision of EU Directive 86/609 on the protection of animals used in scientific research.

Bioscience sector urges MEPs to safeguard research

Nine key UK bioscience organisations have signed a Declaration of Concern about revision of EU Directive 86/609, urging MEPs to take a balanced view on revision of European regulation of animal research.

EU proposals endanger HIV research

Researchers have identified a cheap, commonly-used compound that, applied vaginally, can stop monkeys being infected with a monkey...