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Impact assessment for the revised Directive
The Commission calls for tenders for impact assessment of the effect of revision of Directive.
On 5 July 2005, the European Commission published an open call for tender to carry out a preliminary impact assessment of the revision of Directive 86/609. The closing date for tenders was 14 September 2005.
According to the Commission, the objective of the impact assessment is: “To provide targeted support to the revision of the Directive 86/609/EEC on the protection of animals used for experimental and other scientific purposes by analysing, critically reviewing and assessing policy options, their impacts, testing the conclusions and providing justifiable and quantitative (where possible) indications of the related benefits and costs.
The tender says that the contractor should pay particular attention to Members State and Stakeholder inputs, especially the effects on industry competitiveness and research in EU, administrative compliance cost and socio-economics on one hand, and improvement in science and welfare of animals, the animal lives and individual animal suffering/distress on the other.
The impact assessment must be completed in nine months, and, according to the Commission, this means that legislation is likely to be drafted by the end of 2006.