Protection of animals used for experimental and other scientific purposes

The Council welcomes and supports the Commission proposal as useful and appropriate. As the European Parliament adopted the Commission proposal unchanged, there are no amendment to be taken into account. However, in contrast to the European Parliament, the Council is not able to accept the Commission proposal unchanged, as it insists on the standard wording for the reference to the comitology procedure and it has specified a time limit for compliance with the Directive by setting it to 1 year following the publication of the Directive in the Official Journal of the European Union.�