🇧🇪 Pet Import to Belgium

Belgium applies the standard EU pet movement rules: microchip before rabies vaccination, a valid EU pet passport for EU-origin animals or an EU health certificate for third-country pets, and the mandatory 21-day wait following a first-time rabies vaccination. No quarantine is required for compliant pets arriving from the EU or listed non-EU countries. As with other EU states, the most common failure points are the reversed microchip/vaccination order and third-country pets lacking the rabies antibody titer test and three-month wait required from unlisted countries. Belgium additionally restricts import of a small number of exotic or invasive species and enforces limits on the number of pets travelling non-commercially with an owner (generally up to five). Ferries and the Eurotunnel, heavily used for UK-Belgium pet travel post-Brexit, require the EU health certificate rather than the former pet passport for UK-origin pets.