Travel in the European Union - Documents required:
- European passport and health card issued by the veterinarian.
The passport must contain details about the date of birth, sex, color, microchip, date of implantation of the microchip, data of the veterinarian who completed the passport, date of passport issuance, vaccinations according to age, internal and external deworming, clinically healthy. Important rules when issuing this passport:
1. Microchip implantation is done before or on the same day as the anti-rabies vaccination (not after);
2. The passport issuance date cannot be prior to the anti-rabies vaccination date, but can be on the same day or after the anti-rabies vaccination;
3. Anti-rabies vaccination is given at least 12 weeks. After the anti-rabies vaccination, wait at least 21 days for the antibodies to form. After this interval, the pet is allowed to leave Romania;
4. The validity of a rabies vaccine in Romania is 1 year;
5. The internal and external deworming carried out before the trip is completed in the passport min 24 hours - max 72 / 120 hours before the flight depending on the country of destination;
6. The pre-flight veterinary check is completed under the clinically healthy heading min 24 hours - max 72/120 hours before the flight depending on the country of destination;
- The Traces certificate is requested for a commercial transport (commercial transport = the transport of the animal unaccompanied by the owner or the transport of the animal that exceeds the grace period allocated by the EU rule, i.e. +/- 5 days from the date on which the owner travels or the owner changes ).
The European Union includes the following 27 member states: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Netherlands, Hungary.
Traveling outside the European Union - Required documents:
- The same rules related to the issuance of the passport from the trip to the European Union;
- The International Health Certificate issued by the State Veterinary Sanitary Directorate within the county where the animal's sender is domiciled (which is issued by a veterinarian at least 24 hours before transport and is valid for up to 10 days).
- Other documents depending on the destination country can be: rabies antibody test, import permit, analyzes specific to the destination country.
For certain destination countries that allow entry without rabies vaccination (min 10 weeks), passports are completed in the same way, minus the rabies vaccine.
