Horse passports: Minimum Operating Standards (MOpS) for Passport Issuing Organisations (PIOs)

Pre-2016 Passports without a Section IX

109. Where the PIOs records indicate that a passport issued before 10 June 2004 has not been updated to add in the required Section IX, the PIO must send a letter informing the keeper that they need to update that passport as it is no longer valid.

110. Upon its return, the PIO must issue a new passport in accordance with Article 29 or 32 of the 2016 Regulation and in either instance sign the animal out of the human food chain in Part II of Section II of the passport. These animals must be signed out of the food chain because in the absence of Section IX it is not possible to determine if the animals have been treated with a substance that cannot be administered to food producing animals.