House of Representatives will no longer provide money for monkey testing!
Today, the House of Representatives took an important step towards a future without monkey testing. An amendment by Member of Parliament Ines Kostić (Party for the Animals), which advocates a gradual shift of research budgets for the BPRC to animal-free methods, was adopted.1
The BPRC currently receives 12.5 million euros per year from the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science (OCW). This amendment will not change this amount, but the BPRC will have to spend an increasing part of its budget on alternatives to animal testing over the next five years.
The amendment was co-signed by Members of Parliament from various political parties: Laurens Dassen (Volt), Laura Bromet (GroenLink), Joost Eerdmans (JA21), Doğukan Ergin (DENK), Sandra Beckerman (SP) and Dion Graus (PVV).