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Initiative may not win full support from animal rights groups. The European Commission is weighing up whether to propose dedicated EU legislation on animal welfare, according...

An early assessment of the costs, and benefits, of REACH, the most complex bill in EU history. Yesterday (1 December) was the first phase-in deadline of what has been...

Are the claims made for the animal experiments directive correct? Some simple clarification would settle the questions. The European Parliament's agriculture committee on...

Much more needs to be done to ensure that animal testing is the last resort. It is surprising that your article on the REACH regulation on chemicals (“Complex legislation...

The Parliament's portrayal of its compromise on the directive on animal experiments was distorted. It is not often that an NGO congratulates the European Parliament press...

Laboratories that use animals in scientific experiments will be subject to new checks. Laboratories that use animals in scientific experiments will be subject to...

Parliament must do more to stop animal suffering. The revision of the EU directive on the protection of animals used for experimental and other scientific purposes has...

Deputies in row over revising 1986 directive on EU rules on animal experiments. A row has flared up in the European Parliament over a draft law to revise the EU's 1986 rules...

Nanomaterials under scrutiny; plans to phase out animtal tests unchanged. MEPs are expected to vote next week (24 March) in favour of scrapping more than 3,500 pages of...

Mojca Drčar Murko explains why she opposes the animal experiments directive. I wanted to explain why I took the highly unusual step of withdrawing my name from the opinion...

Commission's inexpert, untransparent committee has produced a one-sided and unscientific inquiry into the use of animals for research. The European Coalition to End Animal...

The European commissioner for research has never wavered in the search to alternatives to animal testing. In response to the article ‘Ban on primate testing opposed' (30...

Commission seeks to limit animal testing; animal-welfare group urges more spending on alternatives. Great apes – such as chimpanzees, gorillas, and orangutans –...

Research commissioner seeks exemption to ban; animal welfare groups deplore slow progress. A dispute over banning great apes from scientific research will come to a head on...

The EU should insist on proper debates over the ethics of new technologies – but these should be highly reasoned and should give priority to expert opinion. The funding of...

Animal welfare has been on the EU's agenda for more than 30 years. But conditions for Europe's animals have only recently started to improve. Most of the European Union's...

Causing a minimum of pain and distress has become the guiding principle of animal testing. In 1959 William Russell and Rex Burch, in a paper entitled ‘The Principles of...

MEPs have demonstrated their commitment to evaluate the consequences of new laws. The best example is the REACH chemicals regulation. Are animal tests really necessary in...

The need to use animals – and the degree of suffering – should be scientifically justified, with the benefits to humans weighed against the pain to animals. Animals...

MEPs claim removal of ECVAM head marks further downgrading of efforts to end animal testing. The European commissioner for science and research, Janez Potocnik, has asked...