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Paragraphs in "European Convention For The Protection Of Vertebrate Animals Used For Experimental And Other Scientific Purposes" coded as SCOP

Label Provision
Art.1 Article 1
Art.1.1 1. This Convention applies to any animal used or intended for use in any experimental or other scientific procedure where that procedure may cause pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm. It does not apply to any non-experimental agricultural or clinical veterinary practice.
Art.1.2 2. In this Convention:
Art.1.2.a a "animal", unless otherwise qualified, means any live non-human vertebrate, including free-living and/or reproducing larval forms, but excluding other foetal or embryonic forms;
Art.1.2.b b "intended for use" means bred or kept for the purpose of sale, disposal or use in any experimental or other scientific procedure;
Art.1.2.c c "procedure" means any experimental or other scientific use of an animal which may cause it pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm, including any course of action intended to, or liable to, result in the birth of an animal in any such conditions, but excluding the least painful methods accepted in modern practice (that is "humane" methods) of killing or marking an animal.
Art.1.2.c.ix A procedure starts when an animal is first prepared for use and ends when no further observations are made for that procedure; the elimination of pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm by the successful use of anaesthesia or analgesia or other methods does not place the use of an animal outside the scope of this definition;
Art.1.2.d d "competent person" means any person who is considered by a Party to be competent in its territory to perform the relevant function described in this Convention;
Art.1.2.e e "responsible authority" means, in the territory of a given Party, any authority, body or person designated for the relevant purpose;
Art.1.2.f f "establishment" means any stable or mobile facility, any building, group of buildings or other premises, including a place which is not wholly enclosed or covered;
Art.1.2.g g "breeding establishment" means any establishment where animals are bred with a view to their use in procedures;
Art.1.2.h h "supplying establishment" means any establishment, other than a breeding establishment, from which animals are supplied with a view to their use in procedures;
Art.1.2.i i "user establishment" means any establishment where animals are used in procedures;
Art.1.2.j j "humane method of killing" means the killing of an animal with a minimum of physical and mental suffering appropriate to the species.
Art.35 Article 35
Art.35.1 1. Any Signatory may, at the time of signature or when depositing its instrument of ratification, acceptance, approval or accession, specify the territory or territories to which this Convention shall apply.
Art.35.2 2. Any Party may at any later date, by a declaration addressed to the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, extend the application of this Convention to any other territory specified in the declaration. In respect of such territory, the Convention shall enter into force on the first day of the month following the expiration of a period of six months after the date of receipt of such declaration by the Secretary General.
Art.35.3 3. Any declaration made under the two preceding paragraphs may, in respect of any territory specified in such declaration, be withdrawn by a notification addressed to the Secretary General. The withdrawal shall become effective on the first day of the month following the expiration of a period of six months after the date of receipt of such notification by the Secretary General.