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'Pet passports' are set to return for the first time since Brexit under a draft UK-EU deal

Dogs travelling to Ireland, Malta, Norway or Finland will still need tapeworm treatment under the proposed rules.
Dogs travelling to Ireland, Malta, Norway or Finland will still need tapeworm treatment under the proposed rules.

Under a 200-page draft sanitary and phytosanitary agreement due to be signed later this month, the expensive Animal Health Certificates introduced after Brexit are expected to be abolished and replaced with the old pet passport system for dogs, cats and ferrets. The certificates currently cost between £100 and £300 per trip and must be reissued within ten days of every journey, while pet passports were a one-off lifetime document costing around £60-£100.

The draft SPS text goes before EU ambassadors in Brussels today, with ratification anticipated before the end of November.

Dogs travelling to Ireland, Malta, Norway and Finland will still require tapeworm treatment at some point from one to five days ahead of departure under any new arrangement.

Pet owners with second homes in France, Spain and Italy previously exploited a loophole by getting local vets to issue EU passports — a workaround Brussels closed in April.

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