Abstract:
Starting with 2010 in the member states of the European Union, and
ending with 2014 in Romania(alsoan EU member state),Directive 63/2010/
EUregarding the use of animals in experimental procedures,was adopted
and implemented. The Directive fundamentally changed this concept.Having a deeply ethical character, aimed mainlythe protection and welfare
of animals, it led once it was adopted to the drastic reduction of animal
experiments and the loss of authorisation,only in Romania, of at least one
third of the experimental units.