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Romanian MEP Daciana Sarbu (Social Democratic Party), a member of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development (AGRI), thinks that, by December, during the Swedish chairmanship, an agreement is necessary on the file of the animals that are used in experiments, thus avoiding a second reading, which would benefit nobody.

According to a press release issued on Thursday, November 12, this statement was made by the Social democrat MEP during the talks on the negotiations for an agreement with the EU Council on the directive referring to the protection of animals used in experiments.

Daciana Sarbu, who will voice the position of the European Socialists and Democrats on this file (the Jeggle report), said that “in the negotiations with the EU Council we were able to reach a compromise as regards some articles such as the killing methods reducing the animals’ suffering to the maximum, the endangered species, different from the nonhuman primates, stray and untamed animals belonging to tamed species.”

At the same time, says Daciana Sarbu, there are crucial points that still have to be discussed and where it is essential for the position of Parliament in the first reading to be preserved.
“I am referring here to nonhuman primates, to animals that were bred with a view to being used in experiments, but also to some questions concerning the authorization, the classification of seriousness, the inspections or the revision of the directive.

In the case of the national inspections I think we have suggested an acceptable compromise to the Council, namely at least one compulsory inspection a year and at least another one to be made without being previously announced,” she said.
Daciana Sarbu thinks that an agreement with the Council is to be preferred on the points where there might be an agreement and, if need be, they should go to the second reading, for the most controversial and most important items to be still discussed with the dialogue partners.