Cloned horses OK to compete, says FEI
Cloned horses too their progeny volition non endure barred from contest at FEI events, the reason governing trunk for Equus caballus sport says.
Some breed organisations volition non register clones or their progeny. The starting fourth dimension foals of 2 cloned showjumping geldings, ET too Gem Twist, were born before this year.
Equine cloning was discussed at the FEI Bureau’s recent outflow coming together on June 8-9 at FEI Headquarters inwards Lausanne inwards Switzerland, subsequently the latest query had been presented too debated at the FEI Sports Forum.
As a result, the FEI Bureau is changing its grade inwards regard to cloned horses, saying it would non foreclose clones or their progeny, from participating inwards FEI competitions.
“The FEI volition drib dead along to monitor farther research, specially with regard to equine welfare,” the Bureau said at the meeting.
Eventing
On the advice of the FEI Eventing Committee, the FEI Bureau has postponed the implementation of the industrial standards for frangible/deformable cross-country fence devices at FEI Events, which were presented at the General Assembly 2011 – too which had initially been planned for March 2012 – to let to a greater extent than fourth dimension for the manufacturers to encounter the required standards.
As a result, the electrical flow dominion of automatically allocating 21 penalties for the activation of a frangible device has been changed, leaving the determination to penalise the passenger with the Ground Jury on a case-by-case footing until the standards are enforced too the devices comply.
The Eventing Committee Chair updated the Bureau over proposed changes to eventing rules. These included the CCI too CIC contest formats, which are nether review.
Rules changes volition endure voted on at the General Assembly inwards November, before implementation on Jan 1, 2013.
Clean sport
The FEI Bureau accepted the conclusion of the FEI Veterinary Committee on the ‘elimination if unfit to compete’ processes across the disciplines. The Veterinary Committee stated that the electrical flow approach industrial plant good with honor to protecting Equus caballus welfare, exactly inside some disciplines the construction does non practically let a Equus caballus to endure stopped to banking concern check for a problem, too thus restarted. Feedback volition endure provided individually to each discipline.
The Veterinary Director presented the 2011 figures for the Medication Control Programme, showing a farther decrease inwards positive cases. He outlined the adjacent stages of the Clean Sport campaign, which centres some the production of a “toolkit” of resources that could endure translated into several languages inwards gild to give greater international reach.
• The FEI Bureau agreed to sign the charter inwards favour of route safety, upon the invitation received from the Fédération Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA), too approved the FEI becoming a fellow member of the International Fair Play Committee, which counts the IOC too UNESCO with its partners.
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