Equine Traceability System – Census 2024

The Equine Census 2024 will take place on Saturday 30th November 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.

Returns can be submitted by post or online through the ‘Equine Census 2024’ portal online via www.agfood.ie.

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.

Further details can be found at gov.ie/equinecensus2024.