Act on the Use of Animals for Experimental Purposes (No. 62 of 2006).

This Act provides with respect to the use of vertebrate animals for experimental purposes. The objective of this Act is to ensure that animals are kept and used for experimental purposes only when there are necessary and important reasons for doing so and that the use of animals for experimental purposes causes the least possible amount of pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm. The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry is responsible for the general supervision and control concerning enforcement of this Act. State Provincial Offices shall supervise and control compliance with this Act and provisions issued under it within its own geographical boundaries. The Act also concerns animals considered endangered under Appendix I of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora and Annex A of Council Regulation 338/97/EC on the protection of species of wild fauna and flora by regulating trade therein.