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  • Registration of Equine Establishments - Questions and Answers

    Topics:
    • Animal Health, Welfare and Trade, 
    • Animal welfare, 
    • Identification, registration and movement

    Date published: 21 July 2025

    Last updated: 29 September 2025

    Registration of Equine Establishments (obtaining an Equine Establishment
    Number (EEN)) - Questions and Answers

    If you own or have day to day responsibility for any establishment (land and/or buildings) where equines are kept, you are legally required to register the establishment with DAERA. When you register, DAERA will issue you with a registration number known as Equine Establishment Number (EEN). Below is a questions and answers document for this process.

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