Responsible Equine Ownership

Responsible Equine Ownership

Members of the European Horse Network (EHN) did meet several Members of the European Parliament (MEP’s) on March 2, 2016 to discuss initiatives to understand how guidance on responsible ownership can improve the health and welfare of equines. The British MEP...
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Australia – New FEIF associate member

The Icelandic Horse Association of Australia (IHAA) was formed in 2009 by a small group of Icelandic Horse owners and breeders. The aim was to form a group to facilitate the registration of the Australian bred Icelandic Horses and, to generally promote and protect the...
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Vaccination Rules

FEIF follows the international standard for horse vaccination by including the FEI rules for vaccination in our rules. These rules apply to all international horse competitions. An “international horse competition” being any Icelandic horse competition...
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Annual Education Meeting 2016

The education department has had a successful meeting with very positive discussions and intensive exchange of information concerning educational topics of the representative participants. Karen Rasmussen DK and Bert de Rooij NL were re-elected as members of the FEIF...
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Annual Leisure Riding Meeting 2016

We are very happy to see the growing interest in the leisure riding committee. Not only were more countries present at the meeting, but based on the reports, many countries seem to have a growing interest to make things happen for their leisure riders. We exchanged...
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Delegates’ Assembly 2016

13 out of 18 FEIF member countries participated in the Delegates’ Assembly 2016 in Haarlem, Netherlands. The delegates unanimously elected Inge Kringeland from Norway as the new breeding Leader as Marlise Grimm did not stand for re-election. Silke Feuchthofen,...
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Annual YouthWork Meeting 2016

All participants of the FEIF youth meeting enjoyed a stimulating and creative set of meetings. The reports for the award ‘FEIF Youth Country of the Year 2015′ (won by Sweden – congratulations) and the oral reports from the countries, received during...
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Chairperson Meeting 2016

The chairpersons had a very good and productive meeting with intensive discussions on the finances of FEIF, the voting structure and the consequences for the member countries. The meeting agreed unanimously on a proposal to increase the fees by 15% that will be...
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Annual Sport Meeting 2016

The Delegates Assembly adopted a total of 13 proposals from the Sport Department on a variety of topics ranging from some simple editorial changes to simplify repeated text to the final rule change resulting from the FEIF Hoof Study. The Sport Leaders reelected Vicky...
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Annual Breeding Meeting 2016

The Breeding leader meeting decided to implement a ‘positive list’ with around 8000 horse names for Worldfengur and all other names must be applied for. A proposal of having the same requirements for new breeding judges will be sent to the DA 2017 as a...