Transporting animals to, from or through Great Britain
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Find out what documents you need, and records you must keep, to meet animal welfare in transport requirements.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 4
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-17
- Category
- Safety & operations
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
Find out what documents you need, and records you must keep, to meet animal welfare in transport requirements. Consult the original guidance for current legal and operational details.
Contents
- Journey logs
- UK issued journey log
- Prove the purpose of your export
- EU issued journey log
- Control posts
- Transporting animals between Great Britain and the EU
- EU issued transporter authorisation
- EU issued certificate of competence
- EU issued certificate of vehicle approval
- Importing, exporting and transiting animals
- Animal welfare in transport
Source and licence
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
AttributionDepartment for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, ‘Transporting animals to, from or through Great Britain’ (updated 1 January 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