The use of animals for experimentation and other scientific purposes is narrowly regulated by the legislation and strictly controlled for ethical committees of animal experimentation.
In Catalonia and in Spain, with regard to the disposed for the European economic community, it is regulated by the LEY 121/000123, de 25 de octubre de 2007 and the REAL DECRETO 1201/2005, de 10 de octubre, sobre protección de los animales utilizados para experimentación y otros fines científicos (BOE núm 252, de 21/X/05, pàg. 34367), the aim and purpose of which are ad verbam:
- The object of this royal decree is to establish the applicable rules for the protection of the animals used in experimentation and other scientific purposes, including the teaching.
- Its purpose is to assure the mentioned protection and, in particular, that to the used animals the suitable cares are granted; that pain, suffering, anxiety or injury prolonged are not caused them unnecessarily; that every useless duplication of procedures is avoided, and that the number of animals used in the procedures is reduced at a minimum, applying as much as possible alternative methods.
SPAIN:
Ley 121/000123, de 25 de octubre de 2007, para el cuidado de los animales, en su explotación, transporte, experimentación y sacrificio.
http://www.congreso.es/public_oficiales/L8/CONG/BOCG/A/A_123-11.PDF
REAL DECRETO 1201/2005, de 10 de octubre, sobre protección de los animales utilizados para experimentación y otros fines científicos (BOE núm 252, de 21/X/05, pàg. 34367). Web:
www.boe.es/boe/dias/2005-10-21/pdfs/A34367-34391.pdf
CEE:
COUNCIL DECISION of 23 March 1998 concerning the conclusion by the Community of the European Convention for the protection of vertebrate animals used for experimental and other scientific purposes (DOCE L222, 24 august 1999, p.29. Web:
http://eur-ex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/site/en/oj/1999/l_222/l_22219990824en00290037.pdf
The publication of the Law of Animal Welfare that will forbid that the laboratory animals suffer useless sufferings is imminent and it will force to giving them a suitable deal of agreement to their condition of sensitive living beings. This law is the complement that was lacking to the Royal given Decree 1201/2005 that allows establishing a regime of sanctions in the face of the noncompliance of this. |
