Push on to make world travel for elite horses easier
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The FEI wants particular protocols to encompass the international crusade of the top contest horses, too it has the back upwards of the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE).
The 2 organisations called for novel protocols for moving what they termed “high health, high performance” sport horses at the 80th General Session of the World Assembly of OIE Delegates inwards Paris end week.
The OIE too FEI are continuing to operate together to define too exercise a sub-population of horses to reverberate the high wellness condition of top level, international equestrian sport horses.
The recognition of a lower affliction adventure alongside these horses would potentially brand cross-border crusade of the animals easier.
OIE Director General Dr Bernard Vallat said inwards opening the full general session at the assembly on May twenty that the large increment inwards international equestrian sport had highlighted constraints on the crusade of horses.
“It is clear that in that place is a withdraw to define the criteria for healthy, high-performance horses every bit a sub-population, which reflects the depression degree of affliction adventure involved inwards their movement.”
His comments reverberate the growing awareness that the approach of many governments to the import too export of horses, established to protect against affliction threats alongside the full general Equus caballus population, exercise non accept into trouble concern human relationship the meticulous veterinarian attention of elite degree surgical procedure horses.
Following the articulation OIE/FEI conference on the international crusade of horses held inwards Guadalajara, Mexico, end October, a working grouping was established to examine the issues involved.
FEI President Princess Haya said: “We strongly back upwards the values too principles of the OIE too nosotros are working inwards unopen collaboration with the OIE to detect a clear too security solution that volition greatly ameliorate the crusade of high health, high surgical procedure horses.”
FEI veterinarian manager Graeme Cooke, who addressed the 600 delegates at the 80th General Session of the OIE, said: “The number of FEI events has increased yesteryear 34 per cent over the end iii years and, given the popularity of equestrian sport worldwide, nosotros await the number of FEI competitions at all levels to maintain growing.
“We volition ensure that high levels of biosecurity are inwards house or too thus those events.
“The FEI regulatory approach provides a high degree of veterinarian supervision too when these horses move internationally they are to endure viewed yesteryear governments every bit animals that induce got a substantially reduced wellness risk.”
With the mandate to ameliorate creature wellness too welfare worldwide, the OIE is recognised every bit the reference standard-setting organisation for the international crusade of animals including horses yesteryear the World Trade Organisation.
The OIE assembly brought together representatives of 178 fellow member countries too of l international organisations.
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