CEEA

CEEA of Hospital Universitari Vall d’Hebron was created at 8th of January of 1998 in order to comply with the Decree 214/1997 of 30th of July of the Departament d'Agricultura, Ramaderia i Pesca de la Generalitat de Catalunya, which regulates the use of animals for experimentation and other scientific purposes.

Article 26 of this Decree says that "user centers are required to create ethical committees of animal experimentation, which have to ensure the care and welfare of experimentation animals"