CELEX: 51996PC0293
Language: en
Date: 1996-07-16
Title: Amended proposal for a COUNCIL DECISION on the Conclusion, on behalf of the Community, of the European Convention for the Protection of Vertebrate Animals used for Experimental and other Scientific Purposes

13 . 9 . 96     heni              Official Journal of the European Communities                             No C 266 / 15
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                                                  (Preparatory Acts)
                                            COMMISSION
            Amended proposal for a Council Decision on the conclusion, on behalf of the Community, of
            the European Convention for the protection of vertebrate animals used for experimental and
                                              other scientific purposes
                                                   (96/C 266/ 15 )
                                              (Text with EEA relevance)
                                          COM(96) 293 final — CNS(198)
            (Submitted by the Commission pursuant to Article 189a (2) of the EC Treaty on 16 July 1996)
                    ORIGINAL TEXT                                                  AMENDED TEXT
                                                                                 Third recital a (new)
                                                               Whereas the fifth environmental action programme aims
                                                               at a reduction of animal use in experimentation of 50 %
                                                               by the year 2000 ; whereas this target must not, however,
                                                               stand in the way of the formulation and achievement of
                                                               more ambitious objectives ;
                                                                                 Third recital b (new)
                                                              Whereas the use of primates for testing and experimental
                                                               use leads to the catch of multifold of primates in
                                                              wilderness due to enormous losses during catching and
                                                               transport ;
                                                                                 Third recital c (new )
                                                              Whereas the use of primates for testing and experimental
                                                              use implies enormous suffering for those animals and
                                                              therefore on ethical grounds has to be reduced with all
                                                               possible means ;
                                                                                 Third recital d (new )
                                                              Whereas the Community is stepping up its efforts to
                                                               develop substitute methods and computer-aided simu­
                                                               lation models so that the goal of reducing experiments
                                                               on animals may be achieved within the period stipulated ;
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                      ORIGINAL TEXT                                                  AMENDED TEXT
                                                                                  Third recital e (new)
                                                               Whereas the Community also endorses all projects that
                                                               encourage a full and uncomplicated exchange of data on
                                                               the use of animals in experiments and prescribes that
                                                                duplicate experiments must be avoided ;
                                                      Amendment 6
In application of Article 34 ( 1 ) of the European             In application of Article 34 ( 1 ) of the European
Convention for the protection of vertebrate animals used       Convention for the protection of vertebrate animals used
for experimental and other scientific purposes, the            for experimental and other scientific purposes, the
European Community states that it does not consider            European Community states that it is bound by the
itself bound by the requirement to communicate stat­           requirement to communicate statistical data laid down in
istical data laid down in Article 28 ( 1 ) of the said         Article 28 ( 1 ) of the said Convention, on the under­
Convention .                                                   standing that until the year 2000 , it shall communicate
                                                               every two years to the Secretary-General of the Council
                                                               of Europe the requested information.
                                                      Amendment 7
                                  Draft statement to be entered in the Council minutes
The representatives of the Member States , meeting             The representatives of the Member States, meeting
within the Council, which have not yet ratified or             within the Council, which have not yet ratified or
acceded to the Convention referred to in Article 1 state       acceded to the Convention referred to in Article 1 state
that they will take the necessary measures to ensure that      that they will take the necessary measures to ensure that
the instruments of approval of the Community and its           the instruments of approval of the Community and its
Member States may, as far as possible, be deposited            Member States may, as far as possible, be deposited
simultaneously, and by ... at the latest.                      simultaneously, and by 1 January 2000 at the latest.