WORKSHOP: Setting up and managing Animal Welfare Bodies

ANIMPACT, Scientific Meeting, 7th February of 2014 at Porto, Portugal

18^th June 2014 | Institute for Molecular and Cell Biology (IBMC), Porto
19^th June 2014 | NOVA Medical School, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa

10:00-10:30	Welcome and registration

10:30-11:30	1. Legislation
	2. Establishment of ORBEA
	Ana Paula Martins, Direcção Geral de Alimentação e Veterinária

	1. Legislation - Main changes imposed by the 2010/63/EU Directive of relevance to ORBEA - Specificities of national legislation and their framing within the EU Directive - European Commission’s Consensus documents relevant to ORBEA - The new Comissão Nacional para a Protecção dos Animais Utilizados para Fins Científicos

	2. Establishment of ORBEA - Minimum staff requirements and optional members - Range of activity (Institute/Faculty/University or Regional) - Exceptions to the need for ORBEA and ensuring their functions in these cases

11:30-12:00	Q & A session

12: 00-13:30	Lunch break

13:30-15:30	3. Running an ORBEA
	Anna Olsson, IBMC Gianni Dal Negro, GlaxoSmithKline Sofia Lamas, IBMC (Porto edition) / Dolores Bonaparte (Lisboa edition) 3. Running an ORBEA - Placing the ORBEA within the institutional framework - Attributions, competences and responsibilities of ORBEA - Promoting the 3Rs: key strategies and main obstacles - Planning of projects and experiments - Issuing of appraisal of animal welfare to competent authority - Monitoring and advising on animal welfare in ongoing experiments - Working and communicating with researchers, other departments and competent authority - ORBEA and Ethics Committees - Presentation of case-studies - Sharing the experience of 3Rs promoting in the industry

15:30-15:45	Coffee break

15:45-16:15	4. Severity Classification of Procedures
	Nuno Henrique Franco, IBMC 4. Severity Classification of Procedures - Prospective and retrospective classification of severity: general considerations and methodology (as proposed by FELASA Working group) - Reporting Severity to the Competent Authority - Humane endpoints - Presentation and discussion of practical examples

16:15-17:00	5. Setting-up an ORBEA Network
	Moderators: Anna Olsson, IBMC and Ana Isabel Santos, NOVA Medical School, Nova University of Lisbon 5. Setting-up an ORBEA Network - Continuous training as a driver for a progress in animal welfare in research - National and International models for knowledge exchange and networking in laboratory animal welfare - Establishing a contact list and defining future lines of action

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