Provisions on the overall tasks of the Animal Welfare Body are contained in § 20.4 of the Animal Welfare Act (1988:534).
Animal Welfare Body’s Tasks (from 2017:40, L150)
The Animal Welfare Body shall advise the personnel who handle laboratory animals with regards to animal welfare in connection with acquisition, keeping, care, and use of laboratory animals.
The Animal Welfare Body shall produce as well as review internal procedure descriptions for monitoring, reporting, and following up welfare of the laboratory animals as well as for the overall animal welfare work in the operation.
The Animal Welfare Body shall actively work for good animal welfare being prioritized within the operation.
The Animal Welfare Body shall advise personnel on how to apply the 3R-principle as well as inform about the technical and scientific development in that area.
The Animal Welfare Body shall follow the development and result of the animal experiments that are conducted within the operation with regards to the animal welfare effects for the laboratory animals that are used. In connection with this, the Animal Welfare Body shall identify and advise about the factors that further contribute to the 3R-principles.
The Animal Welfare Body shall give advice when rehoming laboratory animals, including suitable methods for socializing the laboratory animals.
The Animal Welfare Body may, after application from the head of the experiment, decide on amendments of a current ethical approval of animal testing providing under certain conditions (see ch.5, §6 in L150)
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