The Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 Amendment Regulations 2012

Statistics and reporting

23.  After section 21 insert—

“21A    Statistics and reporting

(1) In each year, beginning with the year 2015, the Secretary of State must by 10 November—

(a) collect and publish statistical information on the use of protected animals in regulated procedures during the previous year;

(b) lay that information before Parliament; and

(c) send that information to the European Commission.

(2) The statistical information must include information—

(a) on the actual severity of the regulated procedures, and

(b) on the origin and the species of any primates used in regulated procedures.

(3) The Secretary of State must each year send to the European Commission information on the methods of killing that have been specified in section 2C licences for the purposes of section 15A(2)(b).

(4) The Secretary of State must by 10 November 2018, and by 10 November in every fifth year thereafter, send to the European Commission information on the implementation of the Animals Directive (and, in particular, Articles 10(1), 26, 28, 34, 38, 39, 43 and 46 of the Directive).”