Commentaries: Art. 20a

After an animal experiment has been concluded, the Federal Food Safety and Veterinary Office (FSVO)¹shall publish the following information:
1. The title and field of the animal experiment;
2. The purpose of the experiment;
3. The number of animals used per species;
4. The degree of severity of the constraint imposed on the animals.
The Federal Council may provide for further information to be published as long as there are no legitimate overriding private or public interests.
It regulates the details, in particular the level of detail, of the information that the persons responsible for an animal experiment must provide. In doing so, it takes into account the legitimate overriding private or public interests.

The name of the administrative unit was modified by applying Art. 16 para. 3 of the Publications Ordinance of 17 Nov. 2004 (AS 2004 4937) with effect from 1 Jan. 2014. The modification was implemented throughout the text. ↩

Art. 20a