Animals used for scientific purposes

Member State contact points for the PARERE Network (Preliminary Assessment of REgulatory RElevance) under Article 47(5) of Directive 2010/63/EU

Article 47(5) provides that "Member States shall nominate a single point of contact to provide advice on the regulatory relevance and suitability of alternative approaches proposed for validation." PARERE Network is hosted by the Union Reference Laboratory for Alternatives to Animal Testing - EURL-ECVAM (Article 48 of Directive 2010/63/EU) under Directorate-General Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. For further information please contact the PARERE secretariat at EURL ECVAM (JRC-ECVAM-CONTACT@ec.europa.eu).

MEMBER STATE / EEA COUNTRY	Ministry / Department	Contact point	E-mail address
AUSTRIA	Medical University of Innsbruck Medical Biochemistry Center for Chemistry and Biomedicine	Martin Paparella	martin.paparella@i-med.ac.at
BELGIUM	Sciensano	Birgit Mertens	birgit.mertens@sciensano.be
BULGARIA	Bulgarian Food Safety Agency, Animal Health, Welfare and Feed Control Directorate, Animal Welfare Unit	Dr Marina Ivanova-Pojuzina	m_ivanova@bfsa.bg
CYPRUS			Awaiting nomination and /or consent for publication
CZECH REPUBLIC	Ministry of Agriculture	M.Sc. Kristina Kejlová, Ph.D.	kristina.kejlova@szu.cz
DENMARK	Environmental Protection Agency	Knud Ladegaard Pedersen	knlpe@mst.dk
ESTONIA	Food and Veterinary Department, Ministry of Agriculture of Estonia	tba	info@agri.ee
FINLAND	FICAM Medical School	Tuula Heinonen	tuula.heinonen@uta.fi
FRANCE	INERIS	Anne Braun	anne.braun@ineris.fr
FRANCE	Ministry for Education and Research	Virginie Vallet-Erdtmann	virginie.vallet-erdtmann@recherche.gouv.fr
GERMANY	ZEBET	Bundesinstitut fur Risikoberwertung ZEBET Alternativmethoden zu Tierversuchen	94@bfr.bund.de
GREECE	General Chemical State Laboratory Division of Environment, Section B	Aglaia Koutsodumou	environment@gcsl.gr
HUNGARY	Ministry of Agriculture, Department of Food Chain Control, Animal Health and Coordination Unit	Zoltán Hüber	zoltan.huber@fm.gov.hu
IRELAND	Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine	Mr Alan Breen	Alan.breen@agriculture.gov.ie
ITALY	Centro di Referenza per i Metodi Alternativi, IZSLER	Dr Guerino Lombardi	guerino.lombardi@izsler.it
ITALY	Italian Ministry of Health	Emma Di Consiglio	Emma.diconsiglio@iss.it
LATVIA	Institute of Food Safety, Animal Health and Environment	Iveta Kociņa	iveta.kocina@bior.gov.lv
LITHUANIA	Animal Health and Welfare Department, State Food and Veterinary Service	Rasa Sirutkaitytė	rsirutkaityte@vet.lt
LUXEMBURG	Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST)	Dr Arno Gutleb	arno.gutleb@list.lu
MALTA			Awaiting nomination and /or consent for publication
NETHERLANDS	RIVM	Betty C. Hakkert, Phd	Betty.Hakkert@rivm.nl
NORWAY	Norwegian Food Safety Authority	Vera Rodas	Vera.Klafstad.Rodas@Mattilsynet.no
POLAND	Krajowe Centrum Metod Alternatywnych do Oceny Toksyczności (KCMA IMP)	Maciej Stepnik	mstep@imp.lodz.pl
PORTUGAL	Ministéria da Agricultura, Mar, Ambiente E Ordenamento do Território Direcção Geral de Alimentação e Veterinária, Divisão de Bem-estar Animal	Dr Ana Paula Martins	amartins@dgv.min-agricultura.pt
ROMANIA	National Reference Laboratory for Animal Welfare, Institute for Diagnosis and Animal Health-IDAH-Romania	Dr Adriana Orasanu	adriana.orasanu@idah.ro
SLOVAKIA	Slovak Academy of Sciences, SAS	Dr Helena Kandarova	helena.kandarova@savba.sk helena.kandarova@outlook.sk
SLOVENIA	Chemicals of the Republic of Slovenia	Petra Čebašek	petra.cebasek@gov.si
SPAIN	DG de Recursos Agricolas y Ganaderos Ministerio de Medio Ambiente y Medio Rural y Marino		ceeba@magrama.es
SWEDEN	Swedish Centre of Animal Welfare	Mats Sjöquist	mats.sjoquist@slu.se