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Administrative (Committee for Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals) Amendment Rules, 2026

Administrative (Committee for Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals) Amendment Rules, 2026

Sets CCSEA’s fees for registering animal facilities, breeding, renewal, ethics committee revision and protocols on large animals. G.S.R. 552(E).

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English text of G.S.R. 552(E), Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying (Department of Animal Husbandry and Dairying), dated , published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, No. 494, . The draft was S.O. 1496(E) of , published on .

1. (1) These rules may be called the Administrative (Committee for Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals) Amendment Rules, 2026. (2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

2. In the Administrative (Committee for Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals) Rules, 2023, in rule 23, after sub-rule (3), the following sub-rules shall be inserted, namely:-

“(4) (a) The fee shall be charged as provided in the Table below:

Serial numberPurposeSmall animal (₹)Large animal (₹)
1Registration12,00012,000
2Registration for breeding for in-house use (Bi)18,00030,000
3Registration for breeding for the purpose of trade (Bt)30,00030,000
4Renewal of registration for each purpose3,0003,000
5Amendment in registration12,00012,000
6Revision of Institutional Animal Ethics Committee1,2001,200
7Educational protocol on large animals where the Joint Director (Research) or Dean (Research) or equivalent competent authority would certify that the particular protocol under this category is a thesis or academic project.–1,200 (per protocol)
8Non-educational or Non-academic protocol on large animals.–6,000 (per protocol)

b. The registration shall include but not limit to the purposes of – i. Research for education; ii. Research for commercial; iii. Research; iv. Non-Research Commercial that is to say, Production of Hyperimmune Plasma and Serum.

c. The establishments which are applying for registration with CCSEA, for different purposes are required to submit the fee as per their purposes.

d. The establishments already registered with CCSEA and applying for renewal of registration are required to submit the renewal fee, as provided in clause (a).

e. The amendment in registration shall include but not limit to – i. addition of small animal species (other than the one already registered) for same or different purpose; ii. modification of small animal facility within the same premises; iii. expansion of small animal facility, same or different premises or change of location; iv. modification of large animal facility which will include expansion (increase in number) of existing large animal facility in same or different premises or change of location; and v. addition of different large animal species for same or different purpose.

f. If the purpose is more than one, the fee shall be charged as per the respective purpose of registration, renewal and amendment.

g. The establishments which do not renew their Animal House Facilities before the date of expiry of the registration, shall be charged registration fee for the respective purpose, as specified in clause (a) in place of renewal fee.

h. The fees shall be revised after completion of every three years.

(5) The fees and other charges collected by the Committee for Control and Supervision of Experiment on Animal shall be remitted to the Consolidated Fund of India through Bharatkosh”.

[F. No. V-11011(14)/2/2021-CPCSEA-DADF]

Note: The Administrative (Committee for Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals) Rules, 2023 were published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, Section 3, Sub-section (ii), dated the 6th February, 2023 vide number G.S.R. 82(E), dated the 2nd February, 2023.