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Equine Passports ILPH Issues Warning to Horse Owners with New Equine Passports The Unique Equine Life Number (UELN) is the number that appears on the passport (or the Section IX pages if these were issued separately) and which identifies the horse within the PIO records. This number will be supplied by the organisation that issues the passport. The first three digits will be a country code (826 for the UK) and the next three digits a code belonging to the organisation issuing the passport. The last nine digits will be issued by the passport-issuing organisation to identify each horse or pony registered with it. In November 2004 Defra advised all English PIOs that they should start issuing new horse passports with a UELN. This applies to all horse passports issued after November 2004. Older horse passports without the UELN will remain valid. DEFRA Organisations issuing Horse Passports - their UELN
From 30 June 2004 any horse, pony, mule or donkey owner who does not have a DEFRA approved passport for their charge will be breaking the law. The following are designated passport issuing organisations:
American Quarter Horse Association UK (AQHA) Tel: 01303 814879, Email: aqhauk@aol.com Cost £45.00 including a year's membership. £15.00 for members.
American Saddlebred Association of Great Britain Tel/Fax: 01323-871375. Cost £25.00.
Anglo European Studbook (AES), Tel: 01892 610155, Email: aes-uk@demon.co.uk Cost £40.00. Some discounts for breeders who regularly register foals.
Appaloosa Horse Club UK Ltd, Tel: 01202 897469, Email: amazingapps@aol.com Cost £20.00, £10.00 for members.
Arab Horse Society (AHS), Tel: 01672 520782, Email: registration@arabhorsesoc-uk.com Cost £15.00.
British Appaloosa Society (BAS) Tel: 01788 541474, Email: secretary@appaloosa.org.uk No information available.
British Driving Society, Tel: 01926 624420, Email: email@britishdrivingsociety.co.uk No information available. Members will get discounts.
British Equestrian Federation, Tel: 02476 698871, Email: mary.kelly@bef.co.uk No information available.
British Hanoverian Horse Society (BHHS), Tel: 01604 492750, Email: jshenfield@jshenfield.worldonline.co.uk Cost: £35.00 for six-generation and part bred passports, £75.00 for pure-bred branding and passport, £15.00 for older horses with a pedigree and foal identification certificate, £50.00 for pure-bred branding and passport at breed show.
British Harness Racing Club, Tel: 01405 766877, Email: harnessbg@aol.com Cost: £25.00
British Horse Society (BHS), Tel: 08701 20 22 44, Email: enquiry@bhs.org.uk Cost: £22.00 gold BHS, Riding Club Members and Pony Club and £27 for non-members. £10 for registered charities and discounts for proprietors of BHS Approved Yards.
British Miniature Horse Society, Tel: 01747 861619, Email: zealshouse@aol.com Cost: £15.00, discretionary discounts for bulk requests.
British Palomino Horse Society (BPS), Tel: 01239 851387, Email: britpal@lineone.net No information available.
British Percheron Horse Society, Tel:01954 204637, Email: secretary@percheron.org.uk Cost: £30.00, £15.00 for members.
British Skewbald and Piebald Association (BSPA) Tel: 01354 638226, Email: sandralawrence@hotmail.com Cost: £15.00 basic, £20.00 full showing.
British Spotted Pony Society Ltd, Tel: 01536 770673, Email: bspps@spotted-pony.com Cost £10.00, plus 75p postage.
British Warm-Blood Society (BWBS)/British Sports Horse Registry, Tel: 0151 5491631 No information available.
Caspian Breed Society(UK), Tel: 01249 782246, Email: uk.caspiansociety@virgin.net Cost: £14.00 filly and £8.00 colt, including registration, £10.00 without registration.
Caspian Horse Society, Tel: 01509 561845, Email: esharman@ntlworld.com Cost: £9.50 (subject to change), free to members who have registered since 1998, £5.00 for members who wish to have passports for animals registered before 1998 (subject to change).
Cleveland Bay Horse Society (CBHS), Tel: 01904 489731, Email: cbay@stephenson.co.uk Cost: £15.00 (possibly increasing for non-members).
Coloured Horse & Pony Society (CHAPS), Tel: 01685 845045, Email: chapsuk@compuserve.com Cost: £23.50 (special offer until Dec 2003) £20.56 for members; discounts for bulk request of more than three passports.
Dales Pony Society, Tel: 01629 640 439, Email: dalespony@dalespony.fsnet.org Cost £15.00 pure-bred (until April 2003, then £25.00); unregistered cost to be confirmed.
Dartmoor Pony Society, Tel: 01487 822635, Email: dartmoorponysociety@talk21.com Cost: £10.00 upwards, £10.00 for members.
Donkey Breed Society, Tel: 01732 864414, Email: carol@morse.freeserve.co.uk Cost: £18.00, £12.00 for members.
English Connemara Pony Society, Tel: 01398 341490, Email: connemara@ecpsconnemaras.freeserve.co.uk Cost: £10.00 (subject to change).
Eriskay Pony Society, Tel: 01764 670626, Email: marymcg@hotmail.com Cost: £20.00 colt, £25.00 filly (including registration), £10.00 for registered ponies foaled before 1998.
Exmoor Pony Society, Tel: 01398 341 490, Email: secretary@exmoorponysociety.org.uk Cost: £10.00, £5.00 for members (subject to change).
Farmkey, Email: info@farmkey.co.uk, Tel: 0870 870 7107 Cost: £ 14.95 for Farmkey members, £19.95 for non members
Fell Pony Society, Tel: 01461 600606, Email: fpsoc@bhs-inter.net Cost: £5.00 colt, £12.00 filly, £15.00 older registered horses (subject to change).
Fjord Horse National Stud Book Association Of GB Tel: 01570 480090, Email: info@fjord-horse.co.uk Cost: £15.00, free to members.
Fjord Horse Registry of Scotland and Fjord Horse UK Tel: 01651 891712, Email: fhrs@norwegian-fjord-horse.co.uk Cost: £20.00 (subject to change).
Friesian Horse Association of GB & Ireland Tel: (0)115 952 98 65, Email: sam@friesians.freeserve.co.uk No information available.
Hackney Horse Society (HHS), Tel: 01985 840717, Email: hackney.horse@talk21.com Cost: £30.00 + DNA charge for pure-breds, £20.00 for members.
Highland Pony Society (HPS), Tel: 01738 451 861, Email: info@highlandponysociety.com Cost: £15.00 for six generation passport.
Hurlingham Polo Association, Tel: 01367 242828, Email: enquiries@hpa-polo.co.uk Cost: £25.00 plus VAT, possibility of a discount for members.
Icelandic Horse Society of GB, Tel: 01489 782087, Email: mike@oakwoodicelandics.freeserve.co.uk Cost: £20.00, £5.00 for members.
International Miniature Horse and Pony Society, Tel: 01558 650141, Email: imphs@hotmail.com Cost: £5.00; upgrade from young stock to maturity passport if free.
Irish Draught Horse Society (GB) (IDHS) Tel: 01722 714970, Email: administrator@irishdraughthorsesociety.com Cost: £32.00 breed society, £22.00 utility, £27.00 members.
Lusitano Breed Society of GB (LBS), Tel/Fax: 0239 891273, Email: studbook@lusitano.co.uk, The Lusitano Cost: £30.00, discretionary discount on bulk registrations.
Lipizzaner National Stud Book Association of GB Tel: 01570 480090, Email: info@lipizzaner.org.uk Cost: £15.00, free to members.
National Pony Society (NPS), Tel: 01420 88333, Email: secretary@nationalponysociety.org.uk Cost: Dependent on horse's sex and age, showing society membership and registration, discounts available for members.
New Forest Pony & Cattle Breeding Society (NF) Tel: 01425 672775, Email: forestpony@enterprise.net Cost: £15.00 for animals under four years, £20.00 over four years, additional £5.00 for five generation pedigree, £10.00 members' animals under four years, £15.00 members' animals over four years, additional £2.50 for members' five generation pedigree.
Tel: 0870 7779100 Annual membership £20.00. Passport free to members.
Scottish Icelandic Horse Association, Tel: 01569 764166, email: chairman@siha.org.uk Cost: free when horses are registered.
Shetland Pony Stud Book Society, Tel: 01738 623 471, Email: registrations@shetlandponystudbooksociety.co.uk Cost: £24.00 adult, £38.00 filly with registration, £23.00 colt with registration, £8.00 members, £18.00 members' filly with registration, £11.00 members' colt with registration.
Shire Horse Society (SHS), Tel: 01733 234451, Email: shire.horse@eastofengland.org.uk Cost: £30.40
Sport Horse Breeding of Great Britain Tel: 01732 866277, Email: office@sporthorsegb.co.uk Cost: £22.00 for a basic passport, SHB (GB) studbook animal passports, auxiliary (for horses with one SHB (GB) graded parent: animals must be DNA tested (£35.00), plus £32.00 for foals, (if registered before 1 December in year of birth); £37.00 for older foals. Full (where both parents are graded); animals must be DNA tested (£35.00), plus £22.00 for foals (if registered before 1 December in year of birth); £37.00 for older foals. Variable discounts on passports for bulk applications for three or more horses.
Spotted Horse & Pony Society, Tel 01621 816106 Cost £10.00, free for any spotted animal owned by a welfare organisation.
Spotted Pony Breed Society (GB), Tel 01773 748502, Email spbsgb@yahoo.co.uk Cost: £20.00, £10.00 for members.
Standard and Trotting Horse Association of Great Britain and Ireland, Tel: 01953 789367, Email: office@standardbred.org Cost: Dependent on age, price will appear on application form and will be in the range of £25-50 including membership.
Suffolk Horse Society, Tel: 01394 380643, Email: sec@suffolkhorsesociety.org.uk No information available.
Trakehner Breeders Fraternity (TBF), Tel: 01424 813830, Email: sian@trakehnerbreeders.com Cost: £47.00 for part-breds, including registration; £97.00 pure-breds, including registration and branding.
United Saddlebred Association UK Ltd, Tel: 0121 784 8171, Email : perryfields@ic24.net Cost: £18 with discounts for USA-UK and WES members and for offspring by licensed stallions. We also offer group/bulk discounts for 6 or more passports for the same owner or same yard.
Weatherbys, Tel: 01933 440077, Email: studbook@weatherbys-group.com Cost: £60.00 for a non-thoroughbred mare, costs for other animals to be confirmed.
Welsh Pony & Cob Society (WPCS) Tel: 01970 617 501, Email: secretary@wpcs.uk.com Cost: £20.00
ILPH Issues Warning to Horse Owners with New Equine Passports
Encouraging talks were held this week with DEFRA officials at a BEF (British Equestrian Federation) meeting at the National Agricultural Centre, Stoneleigh.
DEFRA officials had been invited, together with other interested parties from the horse industry, to discuss the draft equine passport order released by the Government earlier this year.
During the meeting the ILPH (International League for the Protection of Horses) tabled a proposal to change the controversial declaration or ‘opt out’ clause, which was a cause for concern among horse welfare organisations.
The ILPH proposal, endorsed by the BEF Working Party and received very favourably by DEFRA official Allan Buchan, was that “the declaration that the horse could not go for human consumption could only be made at the time that an Annex IV drug was administered, or at the end of its life.”
Comments John Smales, ILPH Chief Executive, “By removing the responsibility of the declaration away from the first owner registering the horse, the horse’s welfare at the end of its life will not be compromised and the possible closure of England’s 2 equine abattoirs can be averted.
“As DEFRA is seriously considering our proposal we strongly advise those horse owners acquiring new passports not to fill in the declaration section, as this could be changed.”
Allan Buchan stated that should DEFRA take the proposal on board a statement would be issued prior to the passports order going onto the statute books at the end of November.
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