Mission impossible accomplished? A European cross-national comparative study on the integration of the harm-benefit analysis into law and policy documents.

Autor: Hajosi D; Department of Interdisciplinary Life Sciences, Messerli Research Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Medical University of Vienna, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.; Institute of Comparative Medicine, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States of America., Grimm H; Department of Interdisciplinary Life Sciences, Messerli Research Institute, University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna, Medical University of Vienna, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2024 Feb 20; Vol. 19 (2), pp. e0297375. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Feb 20 (Print Publication: 2024).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0297375
Abstrakt: The harm-benefit analysis (HBA) is a cornerstone of the European Directive 2010/63/EU (the Directive). The Directive regulates the care and handling of animals used for scientific purposes in the European Union (EU). Since its implementation, there has been ongoing debate around the practical applicability of the HBA for research project review processes. The objectives of this study are to analyze the operationalization of HBA in EU member states and investigate the consistency of HBA's implementation in terms of national legislation and available policy documents. To meet these objectives, we evaluated the transposition of the HBA requirement into national legislation. We also conducted a comprehensive comparative cross-national analysis of all guidance documents pertinent to HBA. The results of our study show that there are (1) deficits in the transposition of the HBA requirement into national laws, (2) significant discrepancies in available policy documents relating to HBA, and (3) insufficiently consistent implementations of HBA in European countries.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
(Copyright: © 2024 Hajosi, Grimm. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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