Cabinet Regulation No. 52 of 2013 on Protection of Animals Used for Scientific Purposes

The Regulation prescribes the procedures for the registration of a breeder, supplier and user of experimental animals and for the cancellation thereof; the requirements for breeders, suppliers and users of experimental animals; the procedures for the issuing or cancelling an experimental project authorisation to a person responsible for an experimental project; the procedures by which an experimental project authorisation must be issued, amended, renewed and cancelled; the welfare requirements for the acquisition, marking, breeding, keeping, care, supply and use of an experimental animal; the list of such animals which are bred in order to use them in procedures; the procedures for the assessment of an experimental project; the requirements for premises, facilities, inventory, equipment of a breeder, supplier and user of experimental animals; the requirements for staff members of a breeder, supplier and user of experimental animals; the requirements for the animal-welfare body and the tasks of the body; the methods of killing experimental animals; the procedures by which documents must be submitted in order to receive an experimental project authorisation for the use of an animal in a procedure; the requirements for the classification of severity of procedures; the requirements for reusing of experimental animals in a procedure; the procedures for the registering and collecting information and reporting, as well as storing documents; and the procedures by which animals taken from the wild, non-human primates and endangered animal species must be used in procedures.