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🌍 Send a pet abroad

What you need, country by country, and who can help: transporters, shared trips and shelters doing international adoptions.

💡 In short, before anything else

There are two legal ways. One: the adopter comes to Romania, adopts the animal, the passport is put in their name and they travel home with it. This is non-commercial travel, with no TRACES and up to 5 animals. Two: the animal travels without its new owner, through an association and a transporter. This counts as a commercial movement, even if nobody makes a profit and even if the adoption fee only covers costs. It needs an official DSVSA certificate in TRACES, a clinical exam within 48 hours, departure from an approved centre and an authorised transporter. A private person without an approved centre cannot send an animal to an adopter abroad on their own. EU rules for non-commercial travel are in Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/131, applicable from 22 April 2026, which replaced Regulation 576/2013.

Where is the animal going?

🇩🇪 Germany🇦🇹 Austria🇳🇱 Netherlands🇸🇪 Sweden🇫🇮 Finland🇩🇰 Denmark🇳🇴 Norway🇨🇭 Switzerland🇬🇧 United Kingdom🇯🇵 Japan

🔎 Quick check: is it possible? · 🇨🇭 Switzerland

📋 What you need: 🇨🇭 Switzerland

  1. Basic papers: chip, rabies vaccine at least 21 days before, passport. Switzerland applies the same health rules as the EU.
  2. Through an association: DSVSA certificate in TRACES. The receiver in Switzerland must be registered in TRACES before the first import.
  3. Organisations that place animals from abroad in Switzerland, even just to cover costs, need a permit from the cantonal vet.
  4. At the border the animal is declared to customs and VAT of 8.1 percent of its value is paid. If it is free, the market value is used.
  5. Within 10 days of arrival the dog is taken to a Swiss vet, who registers it in the AMICUS database.

⚠️ Watch out

  • Dogs with cropped ears or docked tails are not allowed into Switzerland.
  • Switzerland is not in the EU and has customs: enter through a staffed crossing during opening hours.
  • Some cantons have rules for certain breeds. Check the adopter's canton.
Steps common to all EU countries
  1. ISO microchip, implanted before the rabies vaccine.
  2. Rabies vaccine given at 12 weeks or older. It becomes valid after 21 days, so the animal is at least about 15 weeks old when it leaves.
  3. EU pet passport issued by an authorised vet, with the chip and the vaccine recorded.
  4. Dogs must be registered in RECS (the Romanian dog register).
  5. If the animal travels without its new owner: clinical exam no more than 48 hours before departure and an official certificate from the Romanian veterinary authority (DSVSA), sent through the EU TRACES system.
  6. The animal leaves from a shelter or centre approved by DSVSA for EU dispatch. If it goes through a collection centre, it stays there at least 48 hours.
  7. Transport is done by an authorised animal transporter (Regulation EC 1/2005).
  8. In the destination country, the adopter registers the animal in the national register within the local deadline.

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Official sources: Swiss Customs (BAZG): dogs, cats, pets · FSVO (BLV): live animals from the EU · Canton of Aargau: permit for trading and placing animals · Swiss FDFA: animals (AMICUS within 10 days) · European Commission: movements of dogs and cats within the EU · European Commission: travelling with a pet within the EU · European Commission: young animals · Romanian ANSVSA Order 10/2024 (approved establishments for intra-EU trade)

Indicative information from official sources, October 2026. Rules change often: always confirm with the Romanian veterinary authority (DSVSA) and the destination country.

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