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<p>The Home Office has published detailed guidance (see: Guidance on the Operation
of the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986), which describes the requirements
the Home Office places on researchers in the assessment of retrospective severity.
At the end of a series of regulated procedures the project licence holder is required
to classify the actual severity of the series of procedures carried out using observations
taken from the animals during day-to-day monitoring. This information has to be reported
to the Home Office annually, and at the conclusion of a programme of work, and following
implementation of 2010/63 EU was published for the first time in the Annual Statistics
of Scientific Procedures on Living Animals, Great Britain 2014.</p><p>Where appropriate,
Home Office Inspectors cross-check and assess these records against the severity categories
set out in project licences.</p><p>All project licences using non-human primates,
cats, dogs and equidae, all those involving procedures classified as severe as well
as those for education and training purposes or using endangered animals, are also
required to be assessed retrospectively. In such cases, the Secretary of State requires
an establishment’s Animal Welfare and Ethical Review Body to conduct the retrospective
assessment, which has to be submitted to the Home Office within three months in order
that an inspector can complete the assessment on behalf of the Secretary of State.</p>
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