🇧🇾Taking a dog or cat to Belarus: entry rules and flights

Not required from every departure country — checking your own route gives the exact answer.

Microchip (ISO 11784/11785) or tattoo identification, recorded in the pet passport. Rabies vaccination must be done after the chip. Union requirements do mention identification, but the Russian regulator explicitly allows non-identified animals to be brought in for keeping at home: we strongly recommend a chip (an individual border post may still refuse without one), but it is not formally mandatory.

No later than 20 days before dispatch, animals must be vaccinated if they have not been vaccinated within the last 12 months: dogs — against distemper, hepatitis, parvovirus infections, adenovirus infections, and leptospirosis.

Not required from every departure country — checking your own route gives the exact answer.

Dogs only. dogs — against distemper, hepatitis, parvovirus infections, adenovirus infections, and leptospirosis (if not treated prophylactically with dihydrostreptomycin or an equivalent substance registered in the exporting country);

Not required from every departure country — checking your own route gives the exact answer.

Import of carnivores is permitted if the veterinarian issuing the veterinary certificate confirms that the immunity period of the rabies vaccine (more than one year) has not expired, or upon laboratory confirmation of sufficient rabies antibody levels.

An alternative to “Pet passport”: you need one of the two, and which one depends on the departure country.

Import of dogs (cats) for personal use in quantities of no more than 2 animals is permitted without an import permit or quarantine, accompanied by an international passport which in this case is equivalent to a veterinary certificate.

Not required from every departure country — checking your own route gives the exact answer.

Import of dogs (cats) in quantities of more than 2 animals or for commercial purposes requires a permit from the Department of Veterinary and Food Supervision of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Republic of Belarus, accompanied by a veterinary certificate.

An individual transporting a pet subject to veterinary control, and accordingly customs declaration, must use the 'red' channel (where a dual-corridor system is in place) and declare the animal.

An alternative to “Veterinary health certificate”: you need one of the two, and which one depends on the departure country.

Not required from every departure country — checking your own route gives the exact answer.

A pet passport is accepted INSTEAD of the veterinary certificate. This cancels no procedure: the microchip, the rabies vaccination and — where required — the antibody titre remain mandatory. The passport merely attests that they were done, and takes the place of the document otherwise issued for the trip. That is exactly why it is more convenient: a certificate lasts days, a passport lasts years, and it shows the vaccination never lapsed.