If you wish to carry out animal experiments, you must obtain authorisation from the competent authority before starting the experiment.
Animal experiments are interventions or treatments
- for experimental purposes on animals if they may be associated with pain, suffering or harm to these animals,
- for experimental purposes on animals that may result in the birth or hatching of animals that suffer pain, suffering or harm,
- for experimental purposes on the genetic material of animals if they may cause pain, suffering or harm to the genetically modified animals or their carrier animals,
- which are carried out for the production, extraction, storage or propagation of substances, products or organisms, or
by which organs or tissues are removed in whole or in part for scientific purposes or which are used for education, training or further training purposes.