<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <text> <s id="1"> <w id="w1.1">Financial</w> <w id="w1.2">Provisions</w> </s> <s id="2"> <w id="w2.1">Desirous</w> <w id="w2.2">to</w> <w id="w2.3">adopt</w> <w id="w2.4">common</w> <w id="w2.5">provisions</w> <w id="w2.6">in</w> <w id="w2.7">order</w> <w id="w2.8">to</w> <w id="w2.9">protect</w> <w id="w2.10">animals</w> <w id="w2.11">used</w> <w id="w2.12">in</w> <w id="w2.13">those</w> <w id="w2.14">procedures</w> <w id="w2.15">which</w> <w id="w2.16">may</w> <w id="w2.17">possibly</w> <w id="w2.18">cause</w> <w id="w2.19">pain</w> <w id="w2.20">,</w> <w id="w2.21">suffering</w> <w id="w2.22">,</w> <w id="w2.23">distress</w> <w id="w2.24">or</w> <w id="w2.25">lasting</w> <w id="w2.26">harm</w> <w id="w2.27">and</w> <w id="w2.28">to</w> <w id="w2.29">ensure</w> <w id="w2.30">that</w> <w id="w2.31">where</w> <w id="w2.32">unavoidable</w> <w id="w2.33">they</w> <w id="w2.34">shall</w> <w id="w2.35">be</w> <w id="w2.36">kept</w> <w id="w2.37">to</w> <w id="w2.38">a</w> <w id="w2.39">minimum</w> </s> <s id="3"> <w id="w3.1">A</w> <w id="w3.2">procedure</w> <w id="w3.3">may</w> <w id="w3.4">be</w> <w id="w3.5">performed</w> <w id="w3.6">for</w> <w id="w3.7">one</w> <w id="w3.8">or</w> <w id="w3.9">more</w> <w id="w3.10">of</w> <w id="w3.11">the</w> <w id="w3.12">following</w> <w id="w3.13">purposes</w> <w id="w3.14">only</w> <w id="w3.15">and</w> <w id="w3.16">subject</w> <w id="w3.17">to</w> <w id="w3.18">the</w> <w id="w3.19">restrictions</w> <w id="w3.20">laid</w> <w id="w3.21">down</w> <w id="w3.22">in</w> <w id="w3.23">this</w> <w id="w3.24">Convention</w> </s> <s id="4"> <w id="w4.1">Where</w> <w id="w4.2">,</w> <w id="w4.3">at</w> <w id="w4.4">the</w> <w id="w4.5">end</w> <w id="w4.6">of</w> <w id="w4.7">the</w> <w id="w4.8">procedure</w> </s> <s id="5"> <w id="w5.1">Animals</w> <w id="w5.2">of</w> <w id="w5.3">the</w> <w id="w5.4">species</w> <w id="w5.5">listed</w> <w id="w5.6">below</w> <w id="w5.7">which</w> <w id="w5.8">are</w> <w id="w5.9">for</w> <w id="w5.10">use</w> <w id="w5.11">in</w> <w id="w5.12">procedures</w>