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Originally from – http://www.scotland.gov.uk/library4/ERADA/LAH/00017799.aspx

Dear Consultee

IMPLEMENTATION OF COMMISSION DECISION 2000/68/EC : EXTENSION OF THE HORSE PASSPORT SCHEME IN SCOTLAND

I am writing to invite your comments on the attached draft Scottish Statutory Instrument (SSI) which, when brought into force, will revoke and replace the existing Horse Passport Order 1997 (as amended).

These legislative changes are necessary in order to implement Commission Decision 2000/68/EC, the objective of which is to prevent horses, which have been administered in the previous 6 months with medicines that have not been authorised for use in food producing animals, being slaughtered for human consumption.

The new Order will be more extensive in its scope than the 1997 Order requiring all equines to have a passport. Owners of horses that do not currently have a passport will have to apply for one as soon as possible before the Order comes into force. Anyone who already has a passport for their horse which does not include a section for recording medicines administered will have to either obtain a new passport or the additional section for insertion into the existing passport. The cost of issuing these additional pages and the new passports will be determined by the individual Passport Issuing Authorities (PIAs), that is organisations recognised under the Horses (Zootechnical Standards) Regulations 1992. As it is intended that the legislation implementing these changes will be in place by the end of this year, the Department has publicised these new requirements in order to give horse owners sufficient time to make the necessary application to an appropriate PIA.

Comments on the draft SSI are requested by 14 September 2003 and should be sent to Kenny Gilchrist at the above address. When the consultation period is over, and in line with the Scottish Executive's policy on openness, all responses will be made publicly available in the Scottish Executive Library, K Spur, Saughton House, Broomhouse Drive, Edinburgh EH11 3DX (Tel: 0131 244 4565) unless organisations or individuals clearly indicate that they do not wish their views to be made public.

If you consider that we have omitted any relevant person or organisation from our consultee list, I would be grateful if you could advise me of their details and I will arrange for copies of these papers to be forwarded to them.

Yours sincerely

M Bradley

Animal Health and Welfare