WHIRDEC Meeting - 2026

FREE - OnLine Event - WHIRDEC MEETING

The WHIRDEC (World Horse Identification and Registration Data Exchange Committee) meeting is normally held each year during the WBFSH General Assembly and run by Ifce (French Horse Riding Institute). Since 2021, the WHIRDEC meeting is organised on line. 

This meeting is for Studbook managers, the National Federation, experts on EU legislation, central database managers and government representatives. They used to gather once or twice a year to discuss and share information on EU legislation, horse identification and traceability of equidae and germinal products, horse registration in central database and data exchange...

This year, we will focus on the implementation of Animal Health Law, the electronic passport and data exchanges.

This 2026 Virtual Whirdec Meeting is free of charge.

The meeting will begin at 2:00 pm (CET Paris Time), the 5th of May.

The provisional agenda is :

1. Implementation of animal health law
   1. Equine identification
   2. Registration of the place where horses are habitually kept and movements of Equidae
   3. Validation mark and license
2. Electronic Passport
3. Data exchanges

More information  :

• https://www.ifce.fr/ifce/appui-filiere/international/whirdec/