Oberlander Horse Association

Breeding Regulations

Licensing Regulations ~ Article 25

Prerequisites for the acquisition of a License
A stallion can only acquire a license when it satisfies the prerequisites for an entry in the Stallion Book I (article 12, SBR).
The Canadian Oberlander Horse Association can impose higher requirements which are to be specified by the advisory council.
The committee of judges may prolong the deadlines by no more than 15 months in individual cases due to special circumstances. If the deadlines determined are not kept, the stallion is considered as not entered and not licensed.

Admission to the Licensing Proceedings

The owner of the stallion is to be a member of the association
The dates of the licensing events and the method of execution are determined by the Canadian Oberlander Horse Association.
The licensing of a stallion is to be applied for at the office of the association.
The following conditions are to be satisfied
for the acquisition of the admittance of a stallion to the licensing event:
- The minimum age is two years
- The stallion is to be presented in advance if a
  pre-selection is to be carried out before the licensing event.
- The descent is to satisfy the conditions for an entry in the Stallion Book I.
- The account of descent is to be presented.
- The mothers of the stallions must have passed a performance test. The committee of judges is to decide on exceptions.
- The identity of the stallion is to be examined based on the account of descent before the licensing proceedings.
- Stallions lacking a sufficient identification are to be excluded from the licensing event.
- As a further required document for securing the identity an account of the submission of a DNA record or the results of the examination of other features for securing of the identity of the parents are to be presented
- An important prerequisite for the admittance to licensing and for the licensing event itself is that the stallion has no defects in the state health to affect the ability to breed and the breeding value. Defects of the health are among others:
  - An impairment of the sexual organs, justifying
    considerable objections against a use of the stallion in breeding.
  - Signs justifying the assumption of a hereditary disposition to diseases.
  - Operations for the purpose of correcting deficiencies of the body.

Execution
To assure orderly licensing events, the procedures are laid down in advance. The licensing event comprises at least two examinations, one of which is to take place on firm ground. Free running may be demanded.

The decision on the grant of a license may be:

licensed
not licensed
preliminary not licensed

The decision on the grant of a license shall be "preliminarily not licensed" when the stallion does not satisfy the requirements with respect to the exterior and/or the usefulness for breeding, it is, however, to be expected that it will satisfy those requirements in the future. Upon this decision concerning the license a deadline is to be determined upon the expiration of which the stallion can again be presented for the purpose of acquiring a license.

The decision on the grant of a license is to be published and to be communicated to the owner of the stallion in writting. The decision "Licensed" is to be entered into the account of descent, if necessary including a deadline for the participation in a stallion performance test.

Regulations on Medication Control
Stallions to which a doping substance or a drug prohibited according to the execution regulations associated with article 9.2 of the Regulations on Breeding Association (Appendix 5) have been administered or which have been operated or manipulated with the intention of influencing the performance, the efficiency or the serviceability are not admitted to the pre-selection / the licensing event, irrespective of the person responsible. The committee of judges is entitled to demand medication controls as random tests.

Withdrawal, Revocation, Protest
The license is to be withdrawn by the breeding association if a prerequisite for its bestowal has not been fulfilled. A license is to be revoked by the association if one of the prerequisites has subsequently been rendered invalid. It can be revoked by the association if a requirement is associated with it and the benefactor has not fulfilled the same or has not fulfilled it in due time. The owner of the stallion can protest against the decision on the grant of a license. The protest is to be justified in writting. The deadline for a protest is four weeks after the reception of the written decision on the grant of a license. The protest commission decides on the acceptance of the protest. If the protest its accepted, the same commission decides in due course on the place and date of the renewed presentation of the stallion and on the composition of the committee of judges, all members of which, with the exception of the stock supervisor, are newly appointed.

Protests have no suppressive effect. No right of recourse may be derived from the decisions of the stallion Book Commission.