Mr. Michael Sheahan:

It definitely needs to be looked at again. It is something we constantly monitor. It improved significantly over the years, particularly over the past ten years. It would be fair to say that 15 years ago the entire issue of the identification of horses was not great. The quality of the passports was poor. People could literally produce one on a photocopier or a printer if they wanted to. Since then things have tightened up considerably.

Security features on passports include holograms and so on. One cannot easily fraudulently produce a fake passport. It is not that simple.