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Bulletin Issue December 2004
Health Council calls for AIDS and zoonoses research to be priorities in Framework 7
The EHCAC wants the EU to fund more research into AIDS vacccines and zoonotic diseases.Further research into developing a HIV/AIDS vaccine should be carried out under the Seventh Framework programme...more
New German laboratory animal welfare prize awarded
Researchers in Hanover and Ulm are jointly awarded the first Handel Prize. This month, the German Research Council (DFG) has awarded a new prize to scientists whose work has improved the...more
UK activists desecrate grave
UK animal rights extremists have been condemned after stealing the buried body of old woman. Animal rights activists campaigning against a UK laboratory animal breeder have dug up a grave and...more
Primate breeder protests escalate in Spain
The level of protest against a new primate breeding facility in Spain is increasing.A new primate breeding facility, called Noveprim, was recently built near the town of Camarles in northern...more
European Food Safety Authority to look at Revision of Directive 86/609
Key questions about revising the Directive on animal experimentation have been passed to the EFSA. The Animal Health and Welfare Panel of the European Food Safety Authority has set up a...more
Bulletin Issue October 2004
Timing of the Revision for Directive
The timetable for the revision of Directive 86/609 is firming up, but there will still be a long time to wait. For some time now observers in Brussels have been reporting...more
Oxford seeks ban on protesters
The University of Oxford had returned to court to seek a stronger injunction against animal rights activistsOn 15 September, Oxford University asked the High Court to impose a draconian injunction...more
News from Italy
Court declares ban on cat and dog use to be illegal The Italian Constitutional Court has declared a law introduced in the Emilia Romagna region to be illegal. The law banned...more
Italian law on animal experimentation under review
Hon. Giulio Schmidt, a member of the parliamentary majority, has proposed a revision of the existing national law on animal experimentation. He suggested that a Review Committee be set up,...more
UK launches new Centre for the Three R's
The UK government increases their commitment to research into the Three R's The UK government is to establish a national centre to promote "best practice" in animal experimentation. The new...more
Bulletin Issue August 2004
UK Government acts against extremism
New legislation to be introduced in UK to control animal rights extremists.The increasingly violent and intimidatory tactics used by animal rights extremists in the UK have forced the British government...more
EU constitution incorporates animal welfare provisions
The new constitution for the European Union includes an Annex on the welfare of animals The long-awaited EU constitution, agreed by the Council of Ministers in June, calls on the EU...more
Dimas replaces Wallström as Environment Commissioner
New European Commissioners have been appointed.Stavros Dimas, a Greek lawyer, will replace Margot Wallström as EU Environment Commissioner, and hence take over responsibility for laboratory animals and the revision of...more
Courts uphold decision on Cambridge primate laboratory
An appeal against planning permission for the University of Cambridge to build a primate laboratory ha been rejected by the UK courts.Two animal rights groups have lost their legal challenge...more
Bulletin Issue April 2004
Commission publishes expert reports on Directive revision
The European Commission has published the reports of the Technical Expert Working Group it set up to assist in the process of revising Directive 86/609 on the protection of animals...more
Covance cleared of primate charges
The contract research company Covance was recently cleared of charges that it broke German laboratory animal protection laws with the maltreatment of primates at its facility in Munster. An infiltrator...more
Oxford University is next UK target after Cambridge
The animal rights activists behind the campaign that forced the University of Cambridge to abandon their plans for a new primate neuroscience facility have announced that their next target will...more
Demonstrators protest at European chemical industry association...
CEFIC, the Brussels-based European chemical industry association, was the target of a small demonstration on 20 April, during World Week for Laboratory Animals. The demonstration was small - no more...more
Vatican supports animal experimentation
The Pontifical Academy for Life has released the final communiqué from its February 2003 meeting The Ethics of Biomedical Research: a Christian Vision. The statement from the 10-year-old papal body...more
Victims of animal rights tactics form new group
Victims of animal rights extremism from across the UK went to the Houses of Parliament in April to tell MPs face-to-face of the vicious physical and verbal assaults, intimidation and...more
UK alternatives group questions use of fetal calf serum
An umbrella group of UK-based organisations, which is working to advance the replacement of animal experiments, is urging researchers to think twice before using fetal calf serum (FCS). In vitro...more
Animal welfare still unresolved in EU Constitution debate
For over a year, a coalition of European animal rights and welfare organisations have been campaigning for the new constitution to give the EU the power to directly control animal...more