sywell
Well-Known Member
New DEFRA plans to take over all passport issuing and stop all organisations issuing passports is a body blow to the breed societies who rely on this income to keep the society afloat. They intend to sell this revenue source off to the highest bidder and so have a central database at zero cost to the taxpayer which means of course that you will have to pay more for your passport as you will be paying for all the governments total expenditure. The claim that the economies of scale will reduce costs is nonsense as most small breed societies are run by dedicated volunteers who are not paid. The NED contract will expire in October 2011. The DEFRA claim that standardisation will improve the quality of passports means that the best passports will be worse. It is quite laughable that Weatherbys Passports would be issued by a commercial orgaisation approved by DEFRA. The complexity of Sports Horse passports which are controlled by studbook experts with years of knowledge leads to a better control of fraud as how many people would spot that a new passport application with a 528 chip number was a false claim as 528 is a KWPN number and the horse would have been issued with a KWPN passport.
DEFDRA was told in 2003 that allowing anyone to issue passports was a mistake an so it has proved.
The directive says the organisation or association officially approved or recognised by the Member State or by an official agency of the Member State concerned as referred to in the first indent of Article 2(c) of Directive 90/427/EEC which manages the studbook for that breed for that breed of animal, as required in accordance with Article 2(c) of Directive 90/426/EEC
(b) a branch with its headquarters in a Member State of an international association or organisation which manages horses for competition or racing as referred to in Article 2(c) of Directive 90/426/EEC;
How does that define the Veteran Horse Society?
The proposal goes on to say that breed societies will continue to be responsible for breed preservation and the verification of the pedigree information. So how will they be paid for that service and by whom and how will that be cheaper than letting them do the passports.
DEFDRA was told in 2003 that allowing anyone to issue passports was a mistake an so it has proved.
The directive says the organisation or association officially approved or recognised by the Member State or by an official agency of the Member State concerned as referred to in the first indent of Article 2(c) of Directive 90/427/EEC which manages the studbook for that breed for that breed of animal, as required in accordance with Article 2(c) of Directive 90/426/EEC
(b) a branch with its headquarters in a Member State of an international association or organisation which manages horses for competition or racing as referred to in Article 2(c) of Directive 90/426/EEC;
How does that define the Veteran Horse Society?
The proposal goes on to say that breed societies will continue to be responsible for breed preservation and the verification of the pedigree information. So how will they be paid for that service and by whom and how will that be cheaper than letting them do the passports.