Current Work Programme

The Work of the Sub-Committees and Working Groups

OBJECTIVE	TARGET DATE 2008	2009	2010
Primates sub-committee
Advise Home Office as required on suitability of overseas sources of primates.	Ongoing/as required	Ongoing/as required	Ongoing/as required
Develop an overview of current situations/trends in the use of primates in medical research and the understanding of diseases, excluding regulatory toxicology.	May 2008	Ongoing
Discussions around Weatherall Report	November 2008	Ongoing
Housing & Husbandry Sub-Committee
Continuing to explore, with the Home Office, what mechanisms exist for promoting good practice and how these are used	Ongoing	Ongoing
The welfare of fish used in experimentation	Ongoing	April 2009
Education & Training sub-committee
Prepare a report on module 5 to present to main APC	Ongoing	Autumn 2009
Consider issues relating to accreditation of training courses, including clarification of expectations and roles, assessment of trainees and auditing of courses.	Ongoing	Autumn 2009
Applications Sub-Committee
Consider applications for project licences referred to the Committee by the Home Office for advice, and provide advice to Home Office.	As required	As required	As required
Conduct review of the sub-committee’s procedures		March 2009
Suffering and Severity Working Group
Report on the strengths and weaknesses of the current system of severity limits as a way of prospectively assessing suffering and severity	October 2008
Schedule 1 Working Group
Monitor evidence about the use of CO2 and inert gases	Ongoing	Ongoing
86/69 Working Group
Evaluate and apply the revisions to the European Directive	November 2008	Feb 2009	Ongoing

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