22/11/2024
‼️ Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine NOTICE‼️
New Equine Traceability System – Census 2024
To improve equine traceability, the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine is introducing a new equine traceability system.
The new system will be based on equine census returns; it is therefore critically important that all people keeping equines complete a census.
Failure to return a census or, submission of a nil return, will result in an equine premises registration number (EPRN) being made inactive on the Departments systems which may in future prevent keepers of equines from being able to
• Register foals
• Export horses
• Sell horses.
Where EPRNs are deactivated, those keepers, who intend to keep horses in the future, will have to reapply to their Regional Veterinary Office to reactivate their EPRN.
The 2024 census will be held on the night of Saturday 30th of November 2024.
Below is the full correspondence from the Department regarding the 2024 Equine Census and further details can be found at www.gov.ie/equinecensus2024