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ByDepartment for Environment, Food & Rural Affairsdune_orbit_64956d

How to export or move ungulates (hooved animals) and captive-bred birds to the EU and Northern Ireland for conservation, display, education or research.

Adapted edition

Animal welfare
Document type
Reference Guide
Format
DOCX
Pages
5
Language
English
Version
1.0
Updated
2026-09-17
Category
Safety & operations
Licence
Open Government Licence v3.0
Description

How to export or move ungulates (hooved animals) and captive-bred birds to the EU and Northern Ireland for conservation, display, education or research. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.

Contents
  • Apply for confined establishment approval
  • Export from a confined establishment in Great Britain
  • Apply for approval
  • Lists of approved confined establishments
  • Apply for an export health certificate
  • If you cannot find an EHC
  • Checks at EU border control posts or points of entry in Northern Ireland
  • Giving advance notice to the EU BCP or point of entry in Northern Ireland
  • Attach documents to your import notification
  • Returning non-cattle consignments from Northern Ireland
  • Returning all other rejected consignments
Source and licence
Export ungulates and captive-bred birds to the EU and Northern Ireland

Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs

Original source OGL-UK-3.0

AttributionDepartment for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, ‘Export ungulates and captive-bred birds to the EU and Northern Ireland’ (updated 26 February 2025), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

ChangesNeutral text-only adaptation from the official GOV.UK Content API body: headings, paragraphs, ordered and unordered list items and clickable source-link destinations in an appendix preserved. Images, logos, page design, accessible-format request widgets and linked attachments excluded; normalised whitespace, invisible format marks and typography.

Version history
  • v1.017/09/2026
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