Activites

• 1999/08/24 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Decision 1999/575
  • OJ L 222 24.08.1999, p. 0029
• #2076
• 1998/03/23 Council Meeting
• 1998/03/23 End of procedure in Parliament
• 1998/03/23 Act adopted by Council after consultation of Parliament
• 1996/07/16 Modified legislative proposal published
  • COM(1996)0293 summary

    The Commission's amended proposal incorporates six of the seven amendments adopted by Parliament in plenary. Essentially, the Commission has inserted the changes into the recitals to the proposal, which emphasize the need to reduce animal testing. Specifically, these recitals call for the reduced use of primates in experiments, the development of validated alternative methods to reduce animal testing and international cooperation to avoid duplication of identical experiments. Parliament's amendment calling for statistics on the number of animals used in experiments to be reported every two years until the year 2000, and annually after that date, has also been incorporated into the amended proposal in the form of an amendment to the text concerning the Community reservation. The Commission considers that a two-yearly collection of data until the year 2000 will allow Member States time to prepare for annual data collection. �

• 1995/09/19 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T4-0386/1995 summary

    The European Parliament approved the proposal for a decision with the following modifications: - contrary to the proposal put forward by the Council, Parliament took the view that the Community should not use the reserve provided for under Article 34 of the Convention and believed that the EU should effectively provide statistical data every 2 years in accordance with Article 28 of the Convention. After a transition period of 6 years (and therefore not beyond the year 2000) the Community would be bound by this obligation on an annual basis (and not every 3 years as presently provided for by the current EU Directive). Parliament justified this option in the recitals to the proposal by maintaining that the Community should make greater efforts to develop alternative methods to animal testing and that in this regard the exchange of data in this area should be maintained as far as possible in order that certain experiments were not repeated unnecessarily. In the same context Parliament stressed that although the action programme to promote the environment sought to reduce animal experimentation by 50% between then and the year 2000, this objective should not prevent more ambitious targets from being specified and pursued; - at the same time Parliament called on all EU Member States to make arrangements to ensure that all instruments needed for the approval of the Convention were in place by 01.01.2000 at the latest. �

• 1995/09/18 Debate in Parliament
  • Debate in Parliament
• 1995/07/18 Committee report tabled for plenary, reconsultation
  • A4-0196/1995
• 1995/07/18 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
• 1995/04/11 Formal reconsultation of Parliament
• 1994/09/09 Amended legislative proposal for reconsultation published
  • COM(1994)0366 summary

    This proposal, which was amended prior to the European Parliament delivering its opinion, is designed to introduce a reservation in the proposal for a decision concluding, on behalf of the Community, the European Convention for the protection of vertebrates used for experimental purposes. The principles and objectives of this convention, which a majority of Member States has now signed or ratified, were communitarised by a Council directive on the protection of vertebrates (Directive 86/609/EEC). Under this directive, the Community harmonises the legislative, regulatory and administrative provisions on the protection of vertebrates in order to prevent distortions of competition among Member States. It has emerged that this Community directive does not provide for the compulsory annual communication of statistical data required under Article 28 of the convention. However, the convention does allow for a reservation in this respect (Article 34). The directive would have to be amended in order to comply with the obligation under the convention to communicate annual statistics. However, given how difficult it would be for the Member States to forward these statistics every year, the Community will have to apply the reservation provided to this end in the convention, thus avoiding having to amend the directive. The purpose of the modified proposal is as follows: to approve the Convention on vertebrates subject to Article 28(1), which requires the contracting states to communicate statistical data on the number and categories of animals used for experimental purposes.�

• 1989/10/11 Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
  • T3-0070/1989 summary

• 1989/09/27 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
• 1989/09/11 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• 1989/07/10 Legislative proposal published
  • COM(1989)0302 summary

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: COM(1989)0302
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T3-0070/1989
• Amended legislative proposal for reconsultation published: COM(1994)0366
• Committee report tabled for plenary, reconsultation: A4-0196/1995
• Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T4-0386/1995
• Modified legislative proposal published: COM(1996)0293
• : Decision 1999/575
• : OJ L 222 24.08.1999, p. 0029

History

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