Originally from: mona parr
                        
Picked up a leaflet in tack shop today issued by SEERAD

It answers some questions but poses others:
Quote 1:
Commission Decision 2000/68/EC requires all horses to be accompanied by a passport which includes a section to record the date when certain veterinary medicines were administered to the horse. This new requirement is to ensure that horses treated with certain veterinary medicines do not enter the food chain and examination of the passport is to form part of the checks undertaken at slaughterhouses.

Sounds good if a stolen horse cannot be presented at the abattoir without its passport BUT we need a double checking system where both the slaughterhouse and owner must report back to PIO, like when you sell a car.
If the owner?? keeps the passport instead of returning it to the PIO, what stops them stealing another v similar looking horse.

Quote2
Passports should be made available to your vet when your horse is being treated to enable the vet to record medicines administered.

That poses several questions--cant imagine a vet refusing treatment but will they then be obliged to be policeman.
Are people without passports going to seek veterinary treatment--we have a potential welfare issue here!!!