{"id":428314,"date":"2025-05-30T10:36:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T08:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/05\/30\/sperimentazione-animali-marzo-2026-stop\/"},"modified":"2025-05-30T11:38:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T09:38:59","slug":"eu-to-finalize-plan-to-phase-out-animal-testing-by-march-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/05\/30\/eu-to-finalize-plan-to-phase-out-animal-testing-by-march-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"EU to finalize plan to phase out animal testing by March 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – Stop animal testing and experimentation not before March 2026, and, in any case, not immediately. <\/strong>The European Commission intends to revisit the sector that involves the use of\u00a0animal species (mostly small rodents) for the safety of products to be marketed. However, this will require different timeframes and, therefore, a gradual approach. The Executive Vice-President for Industrial Strategy, Stephane S\u00e9journ\u00e9, provides reassurance and explanations.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

He says there\u00a0is no going back\u00a0in his reply to a\u00a0parliamentary question raised by the Greens<\/a>. On the contrary, the Commission\u00a0intends to stick to its commitments. “In line with its communication responding to the European Citizens\u2019 Initiative Save Cruelty Free Cosmetics \u2014 Commit to a Europe Without Animal Testing<\/a>, the Commission intends to finalize the roadmap by the first quarter 2026 at the latest,”\u00a0by the end of March of next year.<\/p>\n

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European executive vice president for industrial strategy St\u00e9phane S\u00e9journ\u00e9<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

However, this does not mean that from then on, the use of animals for safety testing of products for human health will automatically cease. “Following the publication of the roadmap, the implementation phase will commence. It will start immediately, following a gradual approach,’ S\u00e9journ\u00e9 points out. For some actions related to the roadmap, such as recommendations to replace more complex efficacy measurements, “where no suitable or validated non-animal methods are currently available,”\u00a0the implementation of EU rules “will require years since progress will depend on the development and validation of such alternatives.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

So it requires patience, but eventually, the EU intends to reach a regime of zero animal testing. Not only that, but the intention is to use this new regime “for a broader range of EU chemicals legislation,” anticipates the executive vice-president of the European Commission. Specifically, the von der Leyen team aims\u00a0to “integrate, where scientifically and legally feasible,” the new testing methodologies into the REACH regulation on chemicals under review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Executive Vice-President S\u00e9journ\u00e9: “It will be gradual, in some cases it may take years.” The intention is to integrate the new test methods into the REACH regulation on chemicals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":428310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25681],"tags":[31364,25870,29448,27047,31365,26539],"class_list":["post-428314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-experimentation-animal-en","tag-benessere-animale-en","tag-substances-chemicals-en","tag-eu-en","tag-reach-en","tag-stephane-sejourne-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428314"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":428326,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428314\/revisions\/428326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}