Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986 experiments licensed under the 1986 Act. The 1986 Act defined "regulated procedures" as animal experiments that could potentially cause "pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm", to "protected animals", which encompassed all living vertebrates other than humans, under the responsibility of humans. A 1993 amendment added a single invertebrate species, the common octopus ("Octopus vulgaris"), as a protected animal. The Act applied only to protected animals from halfway through their gestation or incubation periods (for mammals, birds and reptiles) or from when they became capable of independent feeding (for fish, amphibians and, the common octopuses). Primates, cats, dogs and horses had
Party for the Animals its 10,000th member in late 2009. After the 2017 elections the party has five representatives in the House of Representatives: After the 2015 Senate elections, the party has two representatives in the Senate: After the 2014 European Parliament elections, the party has one representative in the European Parliament: The MEPs of the Party for the Animals are part of the European United Left–Nordic Green Left Group in the European parliament. Party for the Animals The Party for the Animals (; PvdD) is a political party in the Netherlands. Among its main goals are animal rights and animal welfare, though it