The FEI has welcomed two major advances in its ongoing global campaign to improve the international movement of sport horses.

The European Commission and Chinese authorities jointly signed off amended legislation that will allow for the temporary importation of EU horses to Shanghai for the CSI5* Longines Shanghai Masters, just days after the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) had separately passed a resolution that called for the development of new standards and guidelines for the temporary international movement of a specific sub population of high-health, high-performance competition horses and the establishment of Disease Free Zones in its member countries.

The OIE resolution, tabled in direct response to what the OIE terms “the benefits and challenges posed by the worldwide expansion of equestrian events”, was passed unanimously by delegates attending the 81st OIE General Session in Paris (FRA). More than 800 participants attended the General Session on 28 May, including government representatives, ministers of agriculture, livestock and fisheries, and chief veterinary officers from 178 member countries.

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