---
id: "ueln"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: false
categories: ["agriculture"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 90
url: "https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/ueln"
---

# Universal Equine Life Number (UELN) (`ueln`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Lifelong 15-character number of a horse or other equine animal, required in the EU by Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/963 and used by studbooks in other countries. It is the three-digit ISO 3166-1 numeric code of the country of the database, three letters or digits for the database (for some Thoroughbred studbooks the country letters, as in 2500FR) and a nine-character individual number, zero-padded on the left.

- Personal data (PII): no
- Categories: Agriculture, livestock and food (agriculture)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: identifier

## Detection

Regular expression (Python `re`):

```
^\d{3}[0-9A-Z]{3}[0-9A-Z]{9}$
```

## Examples

- `25000105075734X` — Romane du Theil (France); Wikidata example
- `276441411396304` — Bella Rose (Germany); Wikidata example
- `2500FR11467509Q` — French Thoroughbred database code 0FR; Wikidata value
- `DE 431314403702` (invalid example) — Letter country code with a space and 14 characters

## Mappings

- wikidata: `P9544`

## Translations

- ru: Универсальный пожизненный номер лошади (UELN): Пожизненный 15-символьный номер лошади или другого животного семейства лошадиных — числовой код страны, код базы данных и индивидуальный номер из девяти символов.

## Sources

- doc: <https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2021/963/oj>
- doc: <https://www.ueln.net/ueln-presentation/rules-of-attribution-of-the-ueln>
- wikidata: <https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P9544>

## Quality

Score 90/100. Missing: detector coverage.

JSON: <https://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/ueln.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/agriculture/ueln.yaml>