EU Pet passport.. latest information??

[Martyn911]

Thanks for pointing out that I need to sign our passport.

The posts on this forum are very strange as they differ so much. Here in The 3 Valleys France I had to show my CDS to the vet, he coped the address from the card on to the French Passport, then gave it to my wife to sign on page of 4/32. PITY WE LEFT THE EU

 

[maz]

Hi Maz, again, I have some catching up to do, Haven't been on here for a while , following engine blowing out a piston on return from Ireland. I also Have Fibromyalgia and suffered a massive flare up of symptoms after covid vaxine, like having long covid, still not over it.
This PP thing needs more dots and eyes than we seem to have thought originally.
Most expensive holliday I have had for a while, Scotland, west coast Ireland and back then BANG on M62. £4000 for engine rebuild Ouch. Merc parts not cheap. Bruce.

Sorry you’ve been having a rough time of it lately, Bruce. On the bright side tho’ you do now have an EU Pet Passport.

The EU Pet Passport scheme is not really that complicated however there seem to be various inaccurate claims appearing (particularly on Facebook) about what you can/can’t must/mustn’t do concerning them.

 

[Camdoon]

Having visited the vet this week, he would not even touch the old EU passport. I think only the dog performing his business would have had him moving further away. He voluntarily advised I could get a new EU passport In Europe and that future rabies passports would need to be given and recorded there.

 

[Peg Star]

Well I've found a vet in France that has said they will administer a 3 year rabies booster and record it into the existing French E.U. pet passport issued in 2019. They didn't mention our address or the I CAD registration so neither did I ....... I did say we were 'visiting France' and the email was written in English so pretty big hints were are not French!!! See how it goes.

 

[maz]

Well I've found a vet in France that has said they will administer a 3 year rabies booster and record it into the existing French E.U. pet passport issued in 2019. They didn't mention our address or the I CAD registration so neither did I ....... I did say we were 'visiting France' and the email was written in English so pretty big hints were are not French!!! See how it goes.

That’s great. Let us know how you get on.

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[Peg Star]

That’s great. Let us know how you get on.

Will do

 

[Landy Andy]

All the negative post are about issuing a new passport to uk residents. So I’m hoping that is with French eu passports will be ok, as we already have the paperwork. Will find out in easter as we need a rabies booster.

 

[Peg Star]

All the negative post are about issuing a new passport to uk residents. So I’m hoping that is with French eu passports will be ok, as we already have the paperwork. Will find out in easter as we need a rabies booster.

Yes that’s what I thought until I started contacting vets in France and they were advising the same documents (I CAD registration card & French address) just to administer the booster on a current French passport - we too are going at Easter to get the booster as due by June!!

 

[maz]

Yes that’s what I thought until I started contacting vets in France and they were advising the same documents (I CAD registration card & French address) just to administer the booster on a current French passport - we too are going at Easter to get the booster as due by June!!

Ridiculous isn’t it? They are getting well above themselves. Thankfully tho’ there are still some French vets out there with common sense.

 

[Peg Star]

I suppose the real test will be if border control start with the same requirements. From my research this hasn’t been the case at all. Hopefully vets will continue to document the wormer & health check for returning to the UK into the EU passport. That is going to be an issue if they won’t !!!

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[Manic]

Any list of vets still giving Eu pet passport, we have a French address we could use.
cheers.

 

[Shrimp]

Friend living in France has asked her vet if we can use her address to get EU dog passport-said not without proof of residency so could we use friends name & address on EU passport and would that be a problem?
Any ideas?

 

[maz]

I suppose the real test will be if border control start with the same requirements. From my research this hasn’t been the case at all. Hopefully vets will continue to document the wormer & health check for returning to the UK into the EU passport. That is going to be an issue if they won’t !!!

Under Reg 576/2013 I don’t believe Border Control are able to introduce more stringent ‘requirements’ of their own as the Reg is harmonised at EU level, meaning all Member states have to apply it in the same way.

 

[maz]

Any list of vets still giving Eu pet passport, we have a French address we could use.
cheers.

I have just started to keep a list of French vets that are known to have very recently issued Pet Passports to Brits. This is based on posts on Facebook so the quality of the information will vary but will hopefully provide a good starting point. I am not going to post this list publicly as I do not believe it would be diplomatic to do so, but will make the information available to any subscribing Funster that PMs me.

 

[glenn2926]

Friend living in France has asked her vet if we can use her address to get EU dog passport-said not without proof of residency so could we use friends name & address on EU passport and would that be a problem?
Any ideas?

Can’t you just get your friend to take the dog to their vets for a passport? My mum has a rescue dog that has a Spanish passport. It came with this passport.

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[Shrimp]

Can’t you just get your friend to take the dog to their vets for a passport? My mum has a rescue dog that has a Spanish passport. It came with this passport.

That could work but as I said could it be a problem when her passport has a different name & address to us on it?

 

[John Barrett]

That could work but as I said could it be a problem when her passport has a different name & address to us on it?

Is it not a given that the dog 'owns' the passport, not the person transporting it? That should work.

 

[maz]

Friend living in France has asked her vet if we can use her address to get EU dog passport-said not without proof of residency so could we use friends name & address on EU passport and would that be a problem?
Any ideas?

There are still French vets who will issue Pet Passports to Brits without the need for a French address. PM me.

 

[maz]

That could work but as I said could it be a problem when her passport has a different name & address to us on it?

The Pet Passport needs to have your name on it. The address is irrelevant as you can change it yourself.

 

[maz]

To add a bit more information, the following screenshot is taken from the APHA ‘Guidance for Authorised Pet Carriers and Checkers’ when we were still members of the EU and therefore bound by EU rules:

Source: <Broken link removed>

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[Jac Sprat]

Today, on the recommendation of our English vet - to avoid us paying £180 each time for our dog’s health certificate - we got a rabies jab in France and requested a pet eu passport. It seems you have to send a cheque for 9e with the microchip number on the back. As we had no cheques the kindly receptionist agreed to use one of hers on our behalf. It seems that vets have to go above and beyond to get us these passports now. (If we had had our own cheque that would have worked too apparently!)
Any one else encountered this?

 

[Manic]

Today, on the recommendation of our English vet - to avoid us paying £180 each time for our dog’s health certificate - we got a rabies jab in France and requested a pet eu passport. It seems you have to send a cheque for 9e with the microchip number on the back. As we had no cheques the kindly receptionist agreed to use one of hers on our behalf. It seems that vets have to go above and beyond to get us these passports now. (If we had had our own cheque that would have worked too apparently!)
Any one else encountered this?

What vet did you use to get the eu pet passport, please

 

[Jac Sprat]

Argenton vet just round the corner from the aire at espace Jean Frappat

 

[maz]

Today, on the recommendation of our English vet - to avoid us paying £180 each time for our dog’s health certificate - we got a rabies jab in France and requested a pet eu passport. It seems you have to send a cheque for 9e with the microchip number on the back. As we had no cheques the kindly receptionist agreed to use one of hers on our behalf. It seems that vets have to go above and beyond to get us these passports now. (If we had had our own cheque that would have worked too apparently!)
Any one else encountered this?

That 9€ will be the I-cad registration fee. Did you have to give a French address, or could you use a UK one?

 

[Jac Sprat]

No there was no need to give an address
Just this cheque was very important l

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[maz]

No there was no need to give an address
Just this cheque was very important l

Interesting. I wonder what I-cad will make of that!

 

[Peg Star]

Today, on the recommendation of our English vet - to avoid us paying £180 each time for our dog’s health certificate - we got a rabies jab in France and requested a pet eu passport. It seems you have to send a cheque for 9e with the microchip number on the back. As we had no cheques the kindly receptionist agreed to use one of hers on our behalf. It seems that vets have to go above and beyond to get us these passports now. (If we had had our own cheque that would have worked too apparently!)
Any one else encountered this?

That 9€ will be the I-cad registration fee. Did you have to give a French address, or could you use a UK one?

No there was no need to give an address
Just this cheque was very important l

So can I just check if the I CAD can use a UK microchip for registration or do they need a French one - I’d read on maybe this or another thread where some dogs had two chips??

 

[maz]

So can I just check if the I CAD can use a UK microchip for registration or do they need a French one - I’d read on maybe this or another thread where some dogs had two chips??

They definitely don’t need a French microchip. The more I read about I-cad, the more convinced I become that it’s a load of b*ll*x when applied to dogs that don’t actually spend the majority of their time in France.

If the dog lives in France or spends a lot of time there, then it makes sense to have them registered on the I-cad system so that they can easily be reunited with their owner if they get lost. However, there are also organisations like Europetnet that link pet registration databases across Europe, including I-cad in France and Petlog in the UK. Provided that your dog has an ISO microchip it can easily be read throughout Europe.

’That page’ on the I-cad website about Br*x*t and the subsequent issuing of pet passports doesn’t even make sense when you look at it closely.

The bit highlighted with red marker states that the vet can register the pet on I-cad ‘if it will be staying in France for more than 3 consecutive months’. The Article 22 that it refers to says no such thing. All it actually says is that I-cad registration is not required for pets staying in France for less than 3 months.

The I-cad registration form itself has provision for an address in a country other than France. So if you wanted to register your pet on I-cad (even though you were not legally required to do so), you could do so using a UK address.

I still have not managed to track down any official directive (and certainly no actual law) that says you can only obtain a French pet passport if your dog, cat or ferret stays in France for more than 3 consecutive months. If any of you happen to be in a French vet clinic, please can you ask them for a copy of this supposed directive together with its source and actual position in law. Thank you.

 

[Louie25]

I have just started to keep a list of French vets that are known to have very recently issued Pet Passports to Brits. This is based on posts on Facebook so the quality of the information will vary but will hopefully provide a good starting point. I am not going to post this list publicly as I do not believe it would be diplomatic to do so, but will make the information available to any subscribing Funster that PMs me.

Excuse my ignorance but how do I PM you?

 

[maz]

Excuse my ignorance but how do I PM you?

Hi there. Just click on my name under my avatar, and then click ‘Start Conversation’.

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