To guarantee that it carries out its mandate freely and without hindrance, LUANAR-REC will be guided in its operations by the following principles:

1. 1 Integrity: Trustworthiness and reliability must be the cornerstones of research. Research conduct must exhibit integrity and moral behaviour that is open and transparent about conflicts of interest. The LUANAR-REC shall be guided by honest, ethical standards and fairness in all its activities in line with the university policies and guidelines, legal frameworks and universally acceptable norms, standards, and declarations in research.
2. 2 Professionalism: LUANAR promotes a working environment where faculty members, staff, students, and their associates or partners uphold care, dedication, and a feeling of responsibility, and provide their very best effort in terms of skills, expertise, and experience to every client. Therefore, LUANAR-REC will maintain professionalism in executing its mandate.
3. 3 Relevance: All research must address an important question relevant to the morally and ethically acceptable objectives in advancing knowledge, education, science, and human and animal welfare. Research should be based on a plausible hypothesis and have a reasonable prospect of yielding good results. The LUANAR-REC shall be guided by relevance in review and approval of all research, research-related consultancies and projects at LUANAR.
4. 4 Innovativeness: In accordance with the policy on research and consulting, students and staff members should use the knowledge they have acquired to carry out research that is innovative and must constantly improve and adapt to society's changing needs. As such, the REC will safeguard ethical standards and procedures in such innovations.
5. 5 Independence: To ensure that adequate and appropriate safeguards are instituted, the REC shall always strive to perform reviews and make decisions that shall be independent of political, institutional, professional, personal, and market influences. This is to protect the safety, rights and wellbeing of human and animal subjects.
6. 6 Responsiveness: Research has to be ethically responsive to contemporary and scholarly needs where appropriate, in line with emerging issues and needs to find timely solutions to challenges. The REC shall balance the interests and needs of researchers and the national regulatory requirements and applicable laws.
7. 7 Open to Diversity: The LUANAR-REC shall promote an inclusive research environment, which is open and welcoming to diverse people, ideas, and perspectives, within the ethical principles.
8. 8 Animal Interest: Scientists and educators are obligated to uphold animal interests in the use of laboratory animals. Scientists and educators are expected not to use or kill animals for trivial, irrational, unjustified or inappropriate reasons and not to unnecessarily repeat experiments with outcomes already known or are predictable. The REC shall strive to protect animal welfare and interest in research.
9. 9 Humaneness: Humaneness in animal research includes the replacement of animals with non-sentient research systems, reduction of the number of animals which are to be used to a minimum by design and refinement of the experimental methodology to least distressing or harmful effect to the animals. Everyone using animals, whether for experiments, testing diagnosis, teaching, or sourcing of tissues or body fluids is responsible in their personal capacity for assuring that the animals which they use are afforded the highest levels of welfare and protection from abuse and violations of the interests accorded to them. The LUANAR-REC will safeguard ethical standards and procedures in such research to ensure animal protection.