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About FVE
Affiliated Organisations
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| FEEVA (Federation of European Equine Veterinary Associations) |
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FEEVA was created in Strasbourg in 1998 when equine veterinary
practitioners from different EU countries met to discuss with European
Parliament members the issue of medicine regulations concerning
horses. Restriction of authorized medicines to treat horses was
a thread to horse health and welfare. Since that time, numerous
national equine veterinary associations have joined FEEVA to work
on all matters related to horse health and welfare throughout Europe
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The FEEVA Board members are elected by the yearly General Assembly.
- President: Joe Collins (Ireland)
- Honorary Treasurer: Michael Duë (Germany)
- Secretary: Josh Slater (UK)
- Further members: Marco Pepe (Italy), Erik Gostelie (Netherlands),
Bodo Gabor (Hungary)
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FEEVA member organisations are:
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Is your Equine organisation not yet a member? Join FEEVA! Contact
us at info@feeva.org
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| Meetings: the European
Equine Meeting of the Year |
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Every year, the FEEVA board one upcoming equine scientific congress
held in Europe as the "European Equine Meeting of the Year."
Do you want your upcoming Equine congress to receive this title?
Criteria for such recognition are:
- English language adoption or English simultaneous translation
- easy venue
- scientific and cultural interest
- rotation amongst FEEVA members' nations.
The FEEVA European Equine Meeting of the year is the ideal place
for all equine veterinarians in Europe to meet and exchange opinions
on the latest scientific and technical updates. The FEEVA General
Assembly is held in conjunction with the EMY and exchanges at a
European level are promoted to the best of our common interests.
Consider attending the next EMY for the latest in equine veterinary
science and policy combined, each year at a novel venue.
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Future EMY’s & other equine meetings:
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> Internation Symposium on Laminitis (Gesellschaft
fuer Pferdemedizin)
Date: November 11-13, 2008
Location: Berlin, Germany
More info on gmp |
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> European Equine Meeting of the Year 2009
Date: November 2009
Location: Ireland
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| Interesting presentations: |
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Presentations given during the 2008 FEEVA AM in Venice:
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Identification of horses (2000)
"FEEVA considers that electronic ID of horses in combination with the passport and diagram is the method of choice to guarantee reliable access to information about the status (food versus non food producing animals) of the horse, in order to ensure the safety of the consumers eating horsemeat. A single database related to the microchip registration should contain this information and veterinarians should be allowed direct electronic access to the information about that status."
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Hot branding (2001)
FEEVA recognizes that hot branding is a mutilation. However it is
used in some situations as a necessary means of identification and
can be tolerated. In all other situations, FEEVA considers that
hot branding should be banned and that electronic identification
should be used to replace hot branding, freeze branding or tattoo
marks.
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FEEVA considerably enlarged medicines availability for horses!
In 1998, FEEVA representatives met with several Members of the
European Parliament to propose an official passport for horses.
And, 7 years later the passport was there, which now makes that
you can declare a horse a companion animal and thereby considerably
enlarging medicine availability for horses.
Furthermore, thanks to FEEVA a essential list of products
for treatment of horses was adopted end 2006 (CR
No 1950/2006). Veterinary practitioners will be allowed to make
use of the listed products for the treatment of horses and other
equidae intended for human consumption. The administration of these
products will need to be registered in the horse passport and the
withdrawal period for all products is 6 months. Horses NOT intended
for human consumption according to their passport can already be
treated with these products following the so-called cascade for
non-foodproducing animals – provided the national authority
has implemented this possibility in the national legislation.
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| FEEVA Origin: |
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The concept of FEEVA was born in late 1997 out of reaction to the
loss of licensed Equine veterinary medicines such as 'bute'. Tribute
for its birth must be given to Henk Vaarkamp and Willem Back, both
from the Netherlands. Further issues appearing on the agenda were
besides ‘Medicine availability’, Passports and Microchipping, EU
Recognized Equine Clinicians, Equine Welfare and Horse Transport.
FEEVA Presidents: from 1997 to today:
1999-2003 Willem Back (Netherlands) - Founding President
2003-2005 Jacques Bardiès (France)
2005-2007 Alistair Barr (UK)
2007-200x Joe Collins (Ireland)
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The FEEVA secretariat is seated in Brussels at the following address:
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1 rue Defacqz
B-1000 Brussels
Tel.: +32 2 533 70 20
Fax: +32 2 537 28 28
e-mail: info@feeva.org
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