Travel from the European Union *
* Including Andorra, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Monaco, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican and Norway.
To know the conditions according to the country of origin and the animal, click here.
Which animals are allowed?
It is possible to travel to Sweden with a cat. In fact, cats are allowed as part of a non-commercial trip in a maximum of 5 animals per trip (except if the purpose of the trip is to attend a competition, a show, a sporting event or a training session. relationship with this type of event **) under certain conditions that we will explore. They must be at least 16 weeks old.
** Attention: Exceptions exist, please contact authorities, animals must be over six months old and the owner must be able to prove that the animal is registered to participate in such an event, or is registered with an organization that arranges such events.
What are the entry requirements?
Traveling to Sweden with a cat requires fulfilling a few conditions:
- The movement of the animal must be done because the owner needs to go to Sweden.
- The move must take place a maximum of five days before or after the arrival of the owner.
- Transportation must be done with the owner, or with another person having written permission from the owner to travel with the animals on behalf of the owner.
- The animal is identified by a chip or a clearly legible tattoo
- Chip: Complies with ISO 11784 standards, using HDX or FDX-B technology, can be read with a chip reader conforming to 11785 standards. If this is not possible, the owner must provide a chip reader capable of reading the chip.
- Tattoo: Accepted if done before July 3, 2011
- Identification: Performed before rabies vaccines
- The animal has a rabies vaccine. ***
- The vaccine is performed by a licensed veterinarian.
- The vaccine is given when the animal is at least 12 weeks old. It is entered in the passport, as is the period of validity (a section is reserved for it).
- The vaccine is given after identification.
- Validity: The vaccine is valid 21 days after the end of the vaccination protocol required by the manufacturer for a primary vaccination. During a revaccination, there is no waiting period if it is carried out within the validity period of the previous one. If the revaccination is not carried out within the validity period of the previous one, it is considered as primary vaccination.
- The vaccine should be either an inactivated vaccine of at least one antigenic unit per dose (World Health Organization recommendation) or a recombinant vaccine expressing the immunizing glycoprotein of rabies virus in a live viral vector. If administered in an EU country, the vaccine must have received marketing authorization.
- The animal must be reported when crossing the border.
*** Except for animals from Norway, for which it is not necessary. There is no minimum age either.
What documents are needed?
Here are the documents needed to travel to Sweden with your cat:
- If the animal is not traveling with the owner, the person traveling with the animal must have written permission to travel with the owner. It must also have a copy of the passenger’s ticket to have proof of the passenger’s departure date.
- Animal passport issued by an authorized veterinarian.
- It gives details about: identification, description of the animal, ownership, details of the veterinarian who issued it, information about the rabies vaccine
- It is in accordance with the model: Part 1 of Annex III to Regulation (EU) No 577/2013
- In the event of travel from a country connected to the EU: Form E9.207 instead
- Animals from Andorra, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Monaco, San Marino, Switzerland, Vatican:
- Owner’s declaration for pets
Travel from a listed third country *
* Including Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Aruba, Ascension, Australia, Barbados, Bahrain, Belarus, Bermuda, Bosnia and Herzegovina, British Virgin Islands, Canada, Cayman Islands, Chile, Netherlands Antilles, Fiji, Falkland Islands, Polynesia French, Guam, Hong Kong, Iceland, Jamaica, Japan, Liechtenstein, Macedonia, Malaysia, (Special rules for Malaysia), Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Monaco, Montserrat, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Russia, Saint Helena , Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Switzerland, Singapore, Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago, United Arab Emirates, United States, Vanuatu, Vatican, Wallis, Futuna and Saint Lucia.
To know the conditions according to the country of origin and the animal, click here.
Which animals are allowed?
It is possible to travel to Sweden with a cat. In fact, cats are allowed as part of a non-commercial trip in a maximum of 5 animals per trip (except if the purpose of the trip is to attend a competition, a show, a sporting event or a training session. relationship with this type of event **) under certain conditions that we will explore. They must be at least 16 weeks old.
** Attention: Exceptions exist, please contact authorities, animals must be over six months old and the owner must be able to prove that the animal is registered to participate in such an event, or is registered with an organization that arranges such events.
What are the entry requirements?
Traveling to Sweden with a cat requires fulfilling a few conditions:
- The movement of the animal must be done because the owner needs to go to Sweden.
- The move must take place a maximum of five days before or after the arrival of the owner.
- Transportation must be done with the owner, or with another person having written permission from the owner to travel with the animals on behalf of the owner.
- The animal is identified by a chip or a clearly legible tattoo
- Chip: Complies with ISO 11784 standards, using HDX or FDX-B technology, can be read with a chip reader conforming to 11785 standards. If this is not possible, the owner must provide a chip reader capable of reading the chip.
- Tattoo: Accepted if done before July 3, 2011
- Identification: Performed before rabies vaccines
- The animal has a rabies vaccine.
- The vaccine is performed by a licensed veterinarian.
- The vaccine is given when the animal is at least 12 weeks old. It is entered in the passport, as is the period of validity (a section is reserved for it).
- The vaccine is given after identification.
- Validity: The vaccine is valid 21 days after the end of the vaccination protocol required by the manufacturer for a primary vaccination. During a revaccination, there is no waiting period if it is carried out within the validity period of the previous one. If the revaccination is not carried out within the validity period of the previous one, it is considered as primary vaccination.
- The vaccine should be either an inactivated vaccine of at least one antigenic unit per dose (World Health Organization recommendation) or a recombinant vaccine expressing the immunizing glycoprotein of rabies virus in a live viral vector. If administered in an EU country, the vaccine must have received marketing authorization.
- The animal must be reported when crossing the border at an entry point of the European Union.
- Stockholm Arlanda Airport
- Landvetter Airport in Gothenburg
- From Malaysia:
- The animal fulfills all the conditions, including if necessary the clinical examination
- The animal has not been kept in an institution that has had a case of Nipah disease in the past 60 days (this must be certified in writing by the owner of the animal)
- The animal has not come into contact with pigs in the 60 days immediately prior to export (this must be certified in writing by the owner of the animal).
- The animal was tested by a laboratory approved for Nipah within ten days of export and showed negative ELISA results for lgG.
- From Australia:
- The animal fulfills all the conditions, including if necessary the clinical examination
- The animal has not been kept in an establishment that has had a case of Hendra disease in the last 60 days (this must be certified in writing by the owner of the animal)
What documents are needed?
Here are the documents needed to travel to Sweden with your cat:
- If the animal is not traveling with the owner, the person traveling with the animal must have written permission to travel with the owner. It must also have a copy of the passenger’s ticket to have proof of the passenger’s departure date.
- All the following documents must be attached and numbered, the reference number being noted on each page, signed and stamped by the veterinarian on each page:
- Form E9.207 or Animal Passport ():
- Including a veterinary certificate (not necessary if there is a European passport, and valid rabies vaccination)
- Completed by a licensed veterinarian
- The animal has 10 days after the completion of the certificate to travel, it can then travel 4 months from the date it will be stamped inside the EU with it, or until the rabies vaccination expires if it arrives before
- Identification certificate
- Rabies vaccination certificate
- Owner’s Declaration for Pets (Form E9.204)
- Form E9.207 or Animal Passport ():
Travel from an unlisted third country
To know the conditions according to the country of origin and the animal, click here.
Which animals are allowed?
It is possible to travel to Sweden with a cat. In fact, cats are allowed as part of a non-commercial trip in a maximum of 5 animals per trip (except if the purpose of the trip is to attend a competition, a show, a sporting event or a training session. relationship with this type of event **) under certain conditions that we will explore. They must be at least 16 weeks old.
** Attention: Exceptions exist, please contact authorities, animals must be over six months old and the owner must be able to prove that the animal is registered to participate in such an event, or is registered with an organization that arranges such events.
What are the entry requirements?
Traveling to Sweden with a cat requires fulfilling a few conditions:
- The movement of the animal must be done because the owner needs to go to Sweden.
- The move must take place a maximum of five days before or after the arrival of the owner.
- Transportation must be done with the owner, or with another person having written permission from the owner to travel with the animals on behalf of the owner.
- The animal is identified by a chip or a clearly legible tattoo
- Chip: Complies with ISO 11784 standards, using HDX or FDX-B technology, can be read with a chip reader conforming to 11785 standards. If this is not possible, the owner must provide a chip reader capable of reading the chip.
- Tattoo: Accepted if done before July 3, 2011
- Identification: Performed before rabies vaccines
- The animal has a rabies vaccine.
- The vaccine is performed by a licensed veterinarian.
- The vaccine is given when the animal is at least 12 weeks old. It is carried in the passport, just like the period of validity (a section is reserved there).
- The vaccine is produced after identification.
- Validity: The vaccine is valid 21 days after the end of the vaccination protocol required by the manufacturer for a primary vaccination. During a revaccination, there is no waiting period if it is carried out during the validity period of the previous one. If the revaccination is not carried out during the period of validity of the previous one, it is considered as primary vaccination.
- The vaccine must be either an inactivated vaccine of at least one antigenic unit per dose (recommendation of the World Health Organization), or a recombinant vaccine expressing the immunizing rabies virus glycoprotein in a living viral vector. If administered in an EU country, the vaccine must have received marketing authorization.
- The animal must be reported when crossing the border at an entry point to the European Union.
- Stockholm Arlanda Airport
- Landvetter Airport in Gothenburg
- Rabies antibody test performed.
- The test is performed on a blood sample taken at least 30 days after the date of vaccination and at least three months before entering Sweden.
- This is done by an authorized veterinarian.
- The collection is reported in the veterinary certificate or passport (appropriate section)
- Performed in an approved laboratory
- The test must measure a level of neutralizing antibodies against the rabies virus in the serum equal to or higher than 0.5 IU / ml and using a method prescribed in the relevant part of the chapter on rabies in the Manual of tests for World Organization for Animal Health terrestrial animal diagnostics and vaccines.
- The cat must be accompanied by an original report or a certified copy of the report from the approved laboratory on the results of the anti-rabies antibody test.
- It is not necessary to repeat the test after a satisfactory result provided that the pet is revaccinated during the period of validity of the previous vaccination.
- Three-month period: The veterinary certificate must be issued at least 3 months after the blood collection, the rabies vaccination must not expire (it must therefore be revaccinated if the old one expires) during this period. Not applicable in the case of the reimportation of an animal whose pet passport attests the antibody titration carried out with a positive result before the animal leaves the territory of importation or the territory of a Member State of the EU, Iceland or Norway.
What documents are required?
Here are the documents necessary to travel to Sweden with your cat:
- If the pet is not traveling with the owner, the person traveling with the pet must have written permission to travel with the pet. She must also have a copy of the passenger ticket to have proof of the passenger’s departure date.
- All the following documents must be attached and numbered, the reference number being noted on each page, signed and stamped by the veterinarian on each page:
- Form E9.207 or an Animal Passport ():
- Including a veterinary certificate (not necessary if European passport is present, and if the rabies vaccination does not expire during the trip abroad)
- Completed by a licensed veterinarian
- The animal has 10 days after the completion of the certificate to travel, it can then travel 4 months from the date it will be stamped inside the EU with it, or until the rabies vaccination expires if it arrives before
- Identification certificate
- Rabies vaccination certificate
- Owner’s Declaration for Pets (Form E9.204)
- Rabies Antibody Test Result
- Form E9.207 or an Animal Passport ():
