#Act4 LabAnimals Animal testing, a scientist’s opinion. Interview with Professor Maurice Whelan, head of EURL ECVAM, about animal testing 2 March 2020
#Act4 LabAnimals Ten years after the 2010 European directive on animal testing, the EU's progress in this area is insufficient, says animal rights organization Gaia. Belgium ranks 4th among EU countries carrying out most painful animal tests 17 February 2020 GAIA
#Act4 LabAnimals Nature publishes a positive outlook on the European Commission’s first reports on the statistics of animals used in science and implementation of the Directive 2010/63/EU, designed to harmonise the practices involved in animal experimentation. Nature publishes laudatory assessment of animals in science EU statistics 17 February 2020
#Act4 LabAnimals Commissioner Sinkevičius answers parliamentary oral question about poor implementation of Directive 2010/63/EU1 by Members States. EC answers MEP concerns about Member States' faulty implementation of the animals in science Directive 6 February 2020
#Act4 LabAnimals The ethical responsibility for the animals is questionable in the animal testing ethics committees, says the organization Animal Rights, which now, after 37 years, stops nominating members to the committees. Djurens Rätt quits animal-based project evaluation committees due to lack of ethical responsibility 22 February 2019 Project 1882
#Act4 LabAnimals Ahead of International Primate Day on 1 September, Animal Defenders International (ADI) has released video footage of the routine suffering primates at the Biomedical Primate Research Centre (BPRC) in Rijswijk, the Netherlands, experience before the experiments even begin. ANIMAL DEFENDERS INTERNATIONAL: Undercover video shows routine suffering of primates at the Biomedical Primate Research Centre (BPRC) in the Netherlands 31 August 2018 ADI