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In my presentation I am going to review the present the state of law concerning research on animals in the European Union and Poland in particular. I am going to refer relate the status of implementation of the EU Directive 2010/63 in Poland and other EU. Next I will review the major changes in standards of the laboratory animal husbandry, process of ethical evaluation and control over scientific experiments that implementation of the new Directive 2010/63/UE of the European Union Council and European Parliament imposes. Lastly, I will compare numbers of animals used for animal research in various European countries, the spectrum of species used and the most problematic directions and objects of scientific research on animals from the point of view of the new Directive. In conclusion, I will try to describe the possible impact of the new Directive on animal research in Poland and Europe.