Horse
Passports
The Government announced in February 2002 that all horses, ponies and other forms of equidae are required to have a passport identifying them. These passports will last the lifetime of the animal. They are required in order to implement the Commission Decision 2000/68/EC, which aims to prevent horses entering the human food chain if they have been administered any veterinary medicines that are not intended for use on food producing animals.
The horses are identified in the passport with a silhouette, other forms of identification such as microchip can be used in addition. The silhouette can be filled out by a veterinary surgeon or someone authorised by the society issuing the passport. A current list of the recognised societies can be found on the DEFRA website www.defra.gov.uk). The passports are likely to cost between £20 and £30.
Horses will be given a Unique Equine Life Number and this
must appear on the passport which positively identifies them.
This number is supplied by the organisation issuing the passport.
These passport regulations took effect from June 2004. All horses and
donkeys (over the age of four months)
should now be in possession of a valid passport, (or have applied for one). This
passport should be with your horse at all times.
When attending veterinary surgeons treat your horse they will have to
see this passport and if the declaration states that he is NOT intended for human
consumptions then very little has changed. However if this declaration
states that he is intended for human consumption or 'undeclared' then they may
have to record the drugs that they administer. In some circumstances if
they leave drugs (e.g. Phenylbutazone for you to administer, then you, as the
person who actually gives the drug have to fill out the passport entry).
Table of Organisations and Associations
|
Name of Organisation |
Telephone Number |
Email Address |
Name of Breed (some will accept partbreds) |
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American Quarter Horse Assn UK |
01303 814879 |
American Quarter Horse |
|
|
American Saddlebred Assn of GB |
01323 870977 |
American saddlebreds & partbreds (25%+) |
|
|
Anglo- European Studbook Ltd |
01892 610155 |
Anglo- European |
|
|
Appaloosa Horse Club UK Ltd |
01202 897469 |
Appaloosa |
|
|
Arab Horse Society |
01672 520782 |
Purebred Arab Anglo Arab Partbred Arab |
|
|
British Hanoverian Horse Society |
01604 492750 |
Hanoverian |
|
|
British Horse Foundation/ British Horse Database |
01933 274363 |
|
Currently ceased trading |
|
British Miniature Horse Society |
01747 861619 |
British Miniature horse |
|
|
British Palomino Society |
01239 851 387 |
www.britishpalominosociety.co.uk |
Palomino |
|
British Percheron Horse Society |
01954 204637 |
Percheron |
|
|
British Skewbald & Piebald Assn |
01354 638226 |
Skewbald & Piebald |
|
|
British Spotted Pony Society |
01724 783900 |
|
British Spotted Pony |
|
British Warm-blood Society & British Sports Horse Registry |
0151 5491631 |
|
British Warm- blood |
|
The Caspian Horse Society |
01344 843325 |
Caspian |
|
|
The Caspian Breed Society (UK) |
01249 782246 |
Caspian |
|
|
Cleveland Bay Horse Society |
01904 489731 |
Cleveland Bay |
|
|
Coloured Horse & Pony Society (UK) |
01685 845045 |
Coloured Horse & Ponies |
|
|
Dales Pony Society |
01629 640439 |
Dales |
|
|
Dartmoor Pony Society |
01487 822635 |
Dartmoorponysociety@talk21.com |
Dartmoor Pony Partbred Dartmoor Moorland ponies |
|
Donkey Breed Society |
01732 864414 |
Donkeys Horses & ponies owned by DBS members not registered elsewhere |
|
|
English Connemara Pony Society |
01398 341490 |
English Connemara |
|
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Eriskay Pony Society |
01764 670626 |
Eriskay |
|
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Exmoor Pony Society |
01398 341490 |
Exmoor |
|
|
Fell Pony Society |
01768 891001 |
Fell |
|
|
Fjord Horse National Stud-book Assn of GB |
01570 480090 |
Fjord |
|
|
Fjord Horse Registry of Scotland & Fjord horse UK |
01651 891712 |
Fjord |
|
|
Friesian Horse Assn of GB & Ireland Ltd |
0115 9529865 |
Friesian |
|
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Hackney Horse Society |
01985 840717 |
Hackney |
|
|
Highland Pony Society |
01738 451861 |
Highland |
|
|
Icelandic Horse Society of GB |
01489 782087 |
Icelandic |
|
|
International Miniature Horse & Pony Society |
07000 781216 |
|
International Miniature Pony |