Ireland moves to central equine database
Ireland is fast-tracking plans for a centralised equine database afterwards the horse-meat contamination scandal that swept Europe.
The reason likewise has plans to constitute a unmarried passport-issuing organisation.
Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney said his subdivision was pushing ahead amongst plans to constitute a key equine database on the Animal Identification too Movement [AIM] scheme which contains information on cattle, sheep too pigs.
Coveney said facilities were set inwards house lastly weekend to have too tape equine brute registration details received from passport-issuing organisations.
Information on the key equine database volition live used past times the department’s veterinarian staff to supplement the electrical flow checks at slaughterhouses.
He said he expected that at that topographic point would live information for over lxx per cent of equines registered since 1 Jan 1980 on the database past times lastly Tuesday.
Contacts volition decease along amongst passport-issuing organisations that convey non provided information amongst a stance to having all the relevant information on the key equine database at the earliest opportunity, he said.
Coveney likewise signalled his wishing to encounter the institution of a unmarried passport-issuing organisation.
The European Union Commission has announced that it intended to submit proposals to the Agriculture Council of Ministers too the European Parliament to improve existing legislation to facilitate departments or other province agencies inwards taking over responsibleness for issuing passports.
The subdivision was awaiting those proposals, he said.
In the meantime, at that topographic point volition live no modify inwards the condition of the issuing groups.
Coveney said he intended to operate amongst passport organisations to innovate a novel system.
“I convey acted swiftly, equally I promised to create inwards the immediate aftermath of the equine deoxyribonucleic acid number too volition movement to the lastly phase inwards the institution of a unmarried passport-issuing means i time European Union legislation provides me amongst the overarching legal base of operations to set this into effect.”
Currently, upward to 8 organisations tin number passports for horses. They include Horse Sport Ireland, Weatherbys on behalf of the thoroughbred sector, the Connemara Breeders Society too the Irish Gaelic Piebald too Skewbald Society.
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