Animal Use
European
Commission Statistics 2005
Commission of the
European Communities (EC). Fifth Report on the Statistics on the Number
of Animals Used for Experimental and other Scientific Purposes in the Member
States of the European Union. Brussels: EC. 2007.
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"This Fifth Statistical Report covers for the first time data collected by 25 Member States as a result of the accession of 10 new Member States in 2005. It gives an overview of the year 2005 with the exception of one Member State who reported data of 2004." (Introduction). This is the most recent report.
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EU animal use in 2005 |
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| Position | Country | No. of animals | Percentage | NMS | Comments | |
| 1 | France | 2325398 | 19.19 | |||
| 2 | UK | 1874207 | 15.47 | increase | ||
| 3 | Germany | 1822424 | 15.04 | increase | ||
| 4 | Greece | 926092 | 7.64 | |||
| 5 | Italy | 896966 | 7.4 | decrease | ||
| 6 | Belgium | 718976 | 5.93 | Increase | ||
| 7 | Spain | 595597 | 4.92 | No comments submitted | ||
| 8 | The Netherlands | 531199 | 4.38 | decrease | National statistics higher as more experiments considered | |
| 9 | Sweden | 505681 | 4.17 | increase | ||
| 10 | Denmark | 365940 | 3.02 | No comments submitted | ||
| 11 | Poland | 358829 | 2.96 | NMS | First time | No primates |
| 12 | Czech Republic | 330933 | 2.73 | NMS | Bird-ringing included (37%) | |
| 13 | Hungary | 297209 | 2.45 | NMS | decrease | |
| 14 | Finland | 256826 | 2.12 | variable | No primates | |
| 15 | Austria | 167312 | 1.38 | decrease | No primates | |
| 16 | Portugal | 41621 | 0.34 | decrease | No primates | |
| 17 | Ireland | 37940 | 0.3 | decrease | No primates | |
| 18 | Slovakia | 23369 | 0.19 | NMS | No primates | |
| 19 | Latvia | 13319 | 0.11 | NMS | No comments submitted | |
| 20 | Slovenia | 11991 | 0.1 | NMS | decrease | No primates |
| 21 | Lithuania | 5767 | 0.05 | NMS | No comments submitted | |
| 22 | Estonia | 4900 | 0.04 | NMS | No comments submitted | |
| 23 | Luxembourg | 4120 | 0.03 | decrease | No primates | |
| 24 | Cyprus | 967 | 0.01 | NMS | Only mice used | |
| 25 | Malta | 0 | 0 | NMS | no animal testing | |
| Total | 12117583 | 100 | ||||
| NMS: | New Member State | |||||
REPORT CONTENTS
I. INTRODUCTION 4
II. DATA SUBMITTED AND GENERAL ASSESSMENT 5
II.1. Data submitted by the Member States 5
II.2. General assessment 5
II.3. Structure of the Report 7
PART A: COMPILATION AND OVERVIEW OF THE DATA OF 2005 8
III.1. Results of EU Table 1: Species and number of animals 8
III.2. Results of EU Table 1: Origin of animals used 17
III.3. Results of EU Table 2: Purposes of the experiments 20
III.4. Results of EU Table 3: Toxicological and safety evaluation by type of
product/endpoints 24
III.5. Results of EU Table 4: Animals used for studies of diseases 27
III.6. Results of EU Table 5: Animals used in production and quality control of products for human medicine and dentistry and for veterinary medicine 31
III.7. Results of EU harmonized Table 6: Origin of regulatory requirements for animals used in toxicological and other safety evaluations 33
III.8. Results of EU Table 7: Animals used in toxicity test for toxicological and other safety evaluations 36
III.9. Results of EU Table 8: Type of toxicity tests carried out for toxicological and other safety evaluations of products 40
PART B: DATA AND SUMMARY OF THE COMMENTS SUBMITTED BY THE MEMBER STATES 45
AUSTRIA 45
BELGIUM 60
CYPRUS 74
CZECH REPUBLIC 78
DENMARK 87
GERMANY 96
ESTONIA 106
GREECE 110
SPAIN 120
FRANCE 129
HUNGARY 138
IRELAND 147
ITALY 157
LATVIA 166
LITHUANIA 175
LUXEMBOURG 184
MALTA 187
THE NETHERLANDS 188
POLAND 199
PORTUGAL 209
FINLAND 223
SLOVENIA 232
SLOVAKIA 243
SWEDEN 256
UNITED KINGDOM 268
PUBLISHED SUMMARY:
Anon. EU 2005 animal use
statistics. Pain & Distress Report. [Humane
Soc. of the US]. 2008;
8(2): 3.
http://www.hsus.org/web-files/PDF/ARI/pdreport_april_08.pdf, accessed 4 May
2008.
"Recently released animal research statistics reveal that 12.1 million animals were used in the European Union (EU) in 2005. Mice, rats, cold-blooded animals, and birds were the most commonly used species. Fundamental biology studies accounted for 33% of animal use, followed by research and development of human medicine, dentistry products, and veterinary products (31%); production and quality control of human medicine and dentistry products (12%); toxicology (8%); other research (8%); production and quality control of veterinary medicine (4%); diagnosis of disease (2%); and education and training (2%). As in 2002, no great apes were used in the EU in 2005. An examination of the data for the 15 countries that were member states in both 2002 and 2005 (as opposed to the 25 now) shows a 3% increase in animals used when compared with 2002. Use of mice and rabbits each increased by 10% or more. The use of “other mammals” increased by 30%, while reptile use decreased by 73%."