Mr. Michael Sheahan:

We have contacted the European Commission, as this is going to take an EU approach. The Commission is arranging a meeting for next Wednesday as far as I know - we do not have the final details on it yet - to bring the member states together to see what needs to be done to close that loophole, if it is a loophole. There seems to be a loophole in the fact that each country's central database does not talk to the others and this seems to have exposed some bit of a weakness. That is one element.

The second element is that with regard to the individual horse that we saw being implanted with the microchip, we are still not sure how that horse apparently beat the system. It is not just as simple as putting a microchip in as one also has to have a matching passport and to have the horse registered on the database. We have a theory as to how that might have happened but we are not sure yet.