As the German Legal Society for Animal Protection Law and the association Doctors Against Animal Experiments announce in a press release, the most serious errors concern, among other things, the approval procedure for animal experimentation projects. According to the directive, all animal experiments have to be approved (approval requirement). As the German Legal Society for Animal Protection Law and the association Doctors Against Animal Experiments announce in a press release, the most serious errors concern, among other things, the approval procedure for animal experimentation projects. According to the directive, all animal experiments must be approved (approval requirement). Until the amendment, only a notification requirement had been implemented in some areas in Germany.

The so-called simplified approval procedure introduced last year, which is supposed to replace the obligation to notify, only gives this a different name in the opinion of the associations and pretends an adaptation to EU law in terms of content. The decisive criteria of indispensability and ethical justifiability are hardly enforceable under the conditions that now exist. Provisions on severely stressful animal experiments are also not even close to being found in German law.

Further information:
https://djgt.de/2022/09/27/gemeinsame-pressemitteilung-zu-tierversuchen-deutschland-verstoesst-weiterhin-gegen-eu-recht/