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I wrote to DEFRA regarding the dilemma over the anti-rabies booster /re-vaccination. Here is their reply:
"As from 1st Oct 04 the EC 998/2003 regulation says that for the purposes of non commercial movement of pets the manufacturer's datasheet recommendations should be followed, therefore if a dog/cat is vaccinated against rabies with a two year vaccine in the UK and travels to France it will have its booster in two years time, not annually as France once required.
Only pets that become resident in France after being there for 3 months will need an annual vaccination."
thanks Dave,
I certainly hope it helps everyone taking their pets abroad. We obviously had Jabulile revaccinated last year when it wasn't necessary. We had previously, when using the paper pets certificates had gone 2 yrs with no problems and then were told it was needed in France every year so started to comply but then with the new EU pets passport it changed but the vets nor DEFRA made this clear, in fact we did ask our vet but was told it was required every year, so at least now we have clarification and can follow what is stated in the EU pets passport i.e. follow the validity date as in the pets passport, UNLESS YOU PLAN TO BE IN AN EU COUNTRY MORE THAN 3 MONTHS THEN IT WILL NEED TO BE AS PER THAT COUNTRY I.E. 1 YEAR.
Rita .. is the south of Spain still coming under different rules (that is every year for rabies shot??) Do you know? I hate having all these chemicals pumped into our dogs.
I take the reply from the DEFRA Pets Helpline to mean THAT THE MANUFACTURERS VALIDITY DATE IN THE PETS PASSPORT IS WHAT MATTERS.
France is usually our first port of call but should also apply to all EU countries as they have all signed up to this new blue EU Pets Passport. If going to Spain for the winter and in the country for more than 3 months then the 1 year vaccination would apply. We were not checked at all when we went to Spain end 2004 and until mid march 2005 after that we were back in France and home by mid April.
Croatia is a permitted non EU country and we had no trouble recently going into Croatia they just asked if she had papers and we said yes. Going back into Slovenia they wanted to see her passport but only looked at her picture. Hungary, Poland & Slovakia no problems. We maybe going back to Croatia next year so hope all will be ok and that they will accept the validity as stated in the pets passport but we do not foresee any problems as pets travelling between countries is a common event in Europe.
Like Moondog we have printed out DEFRA's reply and put it with Jabulile's passport. We don't anticipate any problems coming back into UK as under the old scheme with the Pets certificate and all the various papers we took the 2 years to mean that and did in fact on our first time travelling with Jabulile go 2 yrs as stated on her papers and had no problem. Only one camp site ? the 2 yrs but as the paper had the validity date and she was within that they accepted it.
Lots of countries like 1 yr but if they have all signed up to the EU Blue Passport scheme then all should be ok providing the pet is travelling within the validity dates.
Hope that helps, certainly Defra's reply seems to make the issue clearer.
Please be very careful if you are just a day late getting the rabies booster done you have to go through the whole process again this happened to us . The last date our dog had her injection administered was 15/09/04 I booked an appointment with our vet and was given the 16/09/06 he rang me up the evening on the 15/09/06 and said the pet passport was now invalid and we had to get the injection, bloodtest and wait a period of another 6 months before we could take her abroad so please make sure you have the booster within the two years and not a day over
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I hate having all these chemicals pumped into our dogs. 
months before we could take her abroad so please make sure you have the booster within the two years and not a day over
