Regulations

• European Directive: 63/2010/UE Protection of animals used for experimentation and other scientific purposes.
• National Legislation 53/2013 Protection of the animals used for experimentation and other scientific purposes, including teaching.
• Valencian Legislation 13/2007 Protection of the animals used for experimentation and other scientific purposes.
• Royal Decree 178/2004, of 30 January, which approves the General Regulation for the development and execution of the Law 9/2003, of 25 April, establishing the legal regime of the contained use, voluntary liberation and commercialisation of genetically modified bodies.
• Law 9/2003, of 25 April, which establishes the legal regime of the contained use, voluntary liberation and commercialisation of genetically modified bodies.

Recommendations

• Report of the working group on humanitarian endpoint in animal experimentation for biomedical research: ethical, legal and practical. Original article in English published in Laboratory Animals (2005) 8, 5-12.
• Experimental animal urine collection: a review. B. T. Kurien et al. 2004; 38: 333-361.
• Analysis of physiological and behavioural parameters in mice after toe clipping as newborns. D. C. Schaefer et al. Laboratory Animals, 2010; 44: 7-16.
• Refinement of animal use-assessment and alleviation of pain and distress. P. Flecknell, Laboratory Animals, 1994; 28: 222-231.
• Report of the working group on transpor established by animal science of laboratory (lasa). Original article in English published in Laboratory Animals (2005)39, 1-39.
• Report of the working meeting on refinement in rodents. Original article in English published in Laboratory Animals (1998) 32, 233-259.
• Saphenous vein puncture for blood sampling of the mouse, rat, hamster, gerbil, guinea pig, ferret and mink. Original article in English published in Laboratory Animals (1998) 32, 364-368.
• Refining methods for administration of substances. Original article in English published in Laboratory Animals (2001) 35, 1-41.
• Recommendations for euthanasia of experimental animals: part 1. Original articles in English published in Laboratory Animals (1996) 30, 293-316 and (1997) 31, 1-32.
• Recommendations for euthanasia of experimental animals: part 2. Original articles in English published in Laboratory Animals (1996) 30, 293-316 and (1997) 31, 1-32.
• Recommendations FELASA (Federation of European Laboratory Animal Science Association) for health checks in the experimental units of mice, rats, hamsters, gerbils, guinea pigs and rabbits. Report of the working group of Felasa on animal health, accepted by the board of directors of FELASA, November 1995. Original article in English published in Laboratory Animals (1996) 30, 193-208.
• Blood extraction in laboratory mammals and birds. First report of the joint working group bva / frame / rspca / UFAW on refinement. Original article in English published in Laboratory Animals (1993) 27, 1-22.

Ethics Committee on Experimental Research

The Ethics Committee on Experimental Research of the University of Valencia is a body of consultative nature and advisory to which corresponds the assessment of the ethical problems suggested in the development of the research projects which are carried out.