# Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2020/569 of 16 April 2020 establishing a common format and information content for the submission of the information to be reported by Member States pursuant to Directive 2010/63/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes and repealing Commission Implementing Decision 2012/707/EU (notified under document C(2020) 2179) (Text with EEA relevance), Division 1: Member States shall provide a narrative on the statistical data. That narrative shall contain the following:

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

(a) general information on any changes in trends observed since the previous reporting period;
(b) information on significant increase or decrease in use of animals in any of the specific areas and analysis of the reasons thereof;
(c) information on any changes in trends in actual severities and analysis of the reasons thereof;
(d) information on particular efforts to promote the principle of replacement, reduction and refinement and its impacts on statistics if any;
(e) further breakdown on the use of ‘other’ categories if a significant proportion of animal use is reported under this category;
(f) information on the uses of animals in categories where a method or testing strategy for obtaining the results sought, not entailing the use of live animals, is recognised under the legislation of the Union;
(g) details on cases where the ‘severe’ classification is exceeded, whether pre-authorised or not.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudn/2020/569/annex/III/part/B/division/C/division/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-decision-2020-569/annex-III/part-B/division-C/division-1
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