🌍 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? · 🇳🇴 Norway
📋 What you need: 🇳🇴 Norway
- Shelter or street dogs and cats cannot be brought to Norway through an association. Norway does not accept them as commercial imports.
- The only exception: the owner has owned and lived with the animal for at least 6 months and can prove it. The owner then travels with the animal personally.
- Dogs: treatment against fox tapeworm (Echinococcus) 24 to 120 hours before entry, recorded in the passport by the vet.
- For other animals (for example from registered breeders), commercial imports need importer registration with the Norwegian Food Safety Authority (Mattilsynet), notice at least 24 hours before, a TRACES certificate and a 48-hour clinical exam.
⚠️ Watch out
- Adoption does not change this: animals rehomed through foster homes still count as street animals.
- Norway is not in the EU, but it applies EU veterinary rules through the European Economic Area and adds its own rules.
- Some breeds are banned in Norway. Check the Mattilsynet list first.
Steps common to all EU countries
- ISO microchip, implanted before the rabies vaccine.
- 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.
- EU pet passport issued by an authorised vet, with the chip and the vaccine recorded.
- Dogs must be registered in RECS (the Romanian dog register).
- 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.
- 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.
- Transport is done by an authorised animal transporter (Regulation EC 1/2005).
- In the destination country, the adopter registers the animal in the national register within the local deadline.
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Official sources: Mattilsynet: importing street dogs and cats · Mattilsynet: commercial import of dogs and cats from EU/EEA · European Commission: travelling with a pet within the EU · 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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