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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-directive-2010-63/article-5",
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  "legislation": "eudr/2010/63",
  "legislation_title": "Directive 2010/63/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 September 2010 on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes (Text with EEA relevance)",
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  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Purposes of procedures",
  "text": "Procedures may be carried out for the following purposes only:\n(a) basic research;\n(b) translational or applied research with any of the following aims:\n(i) the avoidance, prevention, diagnosis or treatment of disease, ill-health or other abnormality or their effects in human beings, animals or plants;\n(ii) the assessment, detection, regulation or modification of physiological conditions in human beings, animals or plants; or\n(iii) the welfare of animals and the improvement of the production conditions for animals reared for agricultural purposes;\n(c) for any of the aims in point (b) in the development, manufacture or testing of the quality, effectiveness and safety of drugs, foodstuffs and feed-stuffs and other substances or products;\n(d) protection of the natural environment in the interests of the health or welfare of human beings or animals;\n(e) research aimed at preservation of the species;\n(f) higher education, or training for the acquisition, maintenance or improvement of vocational skills;\n(g) forensic inquiries.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eudr/2010/63/article/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:42:06.739931+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}