Travelling horses outside the UK requires export certification. Rules have changed after January 2021, and SHE is here to help you with any related matter.
We have excellent working relationships with many transporters in the area and can carry out any pre-testing and examinations that may apply to your traveling documentation, particularly when competing a horse abroad, or at the time of breeding season and sales.
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Following Brexit, horses are no longer able to travel on DOCOMs even if within the Tri-Partite Agreement (TPA) between UK, IRL, France and therefore need to carry an Export Health Certificate (EHC) when travelling to any EU country as well as to the rest of the world.
‘Registered’ and ‘unregistered’ horses
All the UK studbooks are now recognised as Passport Issuing Organisation (PIO) by the EU, therefore horses carrying a passport issued by a recognised studbook or an FEI passport will be considered as “registered horses”.
Instead, those horses carrying a passport issued by a PIO which is neither a recognised studbook or the FEI will travel as “unregistered horses”
Travelling registered horses abroad for less than 90 days
Horses travelling abroad for less than 90 days, for instance competition horses, will need an 8336EHC (‘Temporary export’). The following rules apply:
- Within 90 days of travel – Negative result to blood test for Coggins (Equine Infectious Anemia) by the APHA Weybridge labs. Time: test currently run daily.
- Within 21 days of travel – Negative result of EVA (Equine Viral Arteritis) test by the APHA Weybridge labs for stallions/colts over 180 days age. Time: test run on Tuesday and Thursday, results take 4 days (up to 12 days)
- Horses must be held under veterinary supervision* for 40 days in GB or any country with similar health status to the UK (Sanitary group A).
- Horses may not have any contact with any Equidae carrying infectious disease in the 15 days prior to export
Travelling registered horses abroad permanently (more than 90 days) and unregistered horses
- Registered horses travelling abroad for more than 90 days will need an 8335EHC (‘Permanent export’). The following rules apply:
- Within 30 days of travel – Negative Coggins test (as above)
- Within 21 days of travel – EVA test (as above)
- Horses must remain isolated from horses of different premises (lower health status) or that did not have a negative test in the 30 days prior to travel.
- Horses must be held under veterinary supervision* for 90 days in GB or any country with similar health status to the UK (Sanitary group A). Or from its arrival in GB if travelled from the EU less than 90 days prior to export.
- Horses may not have any contact with any Equidae carrying infectious disease in the 15 days prior to export.
*Veterinary supervision
Is intended that a veterinarian must be aware that the horse is stabled in the premises and of any infectious disease that may arise within these, and must be familiar with the way that health status is managed in those premises.
It does not imply the need for daily veterinary supervision of the animal.
Border Control Post (BCP)
When entering the EU, a dedicated Equine BCP will receive ‘registered’ horses, while an Ungulate BCP will receive ‘unregistered’ horses.
Please contact our office on 01306 249 944 or email info@surreyhillsequine.com with any related enquiry.
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