1. Citizens, in obedience to their conscience, exercising their right to freedom of ideas, conscience, and religion recognized under the Universal Declaration of Rights of Man; the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Rights of Humanity and Basic Liberties; and the International Pact for Civil and Political Rights, and being opposed to violence against all living beings, may state their conscientious objection to any and every act relating to animal experimentation.

1. Physicians, researchers, and health care providers including laureati (degree holders), technicians, and nurses, as well as university students, who have declared their conscientious objection shall not be obligated to participate directly in those activities and interventions specifically and necessarily involving animal experimentation.

1. Conscientious objection shall be declared at the time a job application or an application for a civil service examination is submitted.

2. The university students shall declare their conscientious objection to the instructor whose course can involve activities and interventions regarding animal experimentation at the moment the course begins.

3. The declaration of conscientious objection may be revoked at any time.

4. Within the first six months of the date of the first application of the law, the objector shall declare his/her conscientious objection to the head of the organization in which the activities and interventions regarding animal experimentation are foreseen.

5. All government agencies and private organizations authorized to conduct animal experimentation shall make known to all personnel and students their right to exercise conscientious objection to animal experimentation. In addition, the government agencies and private organizations must provide a form for conscientious objection to animal experimentation in conformity with this law.