If you wish to travel to the EU with your pet after 29th March 2019 we recommend speaking with your vet at least four months in advance of your date of travel.
Amazon halts alcohol sales in Northern Ireland and prepares to de-list more products due to new Brexit customs rules
26/01/2021
Amazon has stopped selling wines, beers and spirits to its customers in Northern Ireland as it wrestles with new customs rules post-Brexit.
Animal lovers are uncertain over travel rules, worried about pet food and do not want to lose European veterinarians.
Brexifornia: Checking out but never leaving
08/06/2020
Brexit will never be over.
Brexit and the pandemic have been blamed for a shortage of vets that is leading to increasing numbers of surgeries having to close their doors.
Shoppers frustrated by delays, shortages and rising costs.
How, indeed whether, Britain will leave the European Union on the 29th March will impact animals and their welfare. Political paralysis in the UK means however that there are more questions than answers at the turn of 2019.
Grace period will stop at end of 2022 with talks on a solution stalled. / Boris Johnson's Brexit deal is set to create a shortage of veterinary medicines for sick animals in Northern Ireland, a parliamentary committee has warned.
The rules on travelling with your pet to countries in the European Union changed a year ago, following the UK's departure from the EU.
Bob Stewart says his dogs regularly cross the Channel and should not lose out.
British Veterinary Association responds to UK Government’s commitment to securing Northern Ireland’s access to veterinary medicines
01/02/2024
If an agreement is not found, Northern Ireland faces potentially losing access to an estimated 51% of veterinary medicines, including vaccines for zoonotic diseases such as salmonella and leptospirosis, as well as insulin for dogs and cats and flu and tetanus vaccines for horses.
Pet Passports will become invalid when the Brexit transition period ends in December
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has advised that should the UK leave the EU next year without a deal, there would be important implications for pet owners wishing to travel overseas with their animals from 30 March 2019.
Conwy pet food firm hit by Brexit red tape and added costs with fears customers will be lost
27/01/2021
Pero Foods in Betws-y-Coed has spoken of the post-Brexit 'chaos' in the system for exporting to the EU.
For some weeks the British government has been planning a “shock and awe” campaign to warn British businesses that they have less than six months to prepare for Brexit; but the EU has beaten them to it.
Dog and cat owners with holiday homes in France say they have been left “high and dry” by a tightening of Brexit travel rules on French pet passports.
The UK and European Union are poised to enter the final stretch of negotiations over post-Brexit trading arrangements for Northern Ireland. After years of distrust and tension both sides are optimistic that a settlement is within reach.
We could find no evidence that this has ever been successfully put forward as a reason for an asylum seeker to be granted the right to remain in the UK. A similar claim made in 2011 by Theresa May was widely debunked at the time.
Three Connexion readers' experiences of the changes caused by the UK’s ‘third country’ status since Brexit on January 1.
No-deal Brexit: Guide dog users may have to travel by sea to cross from Northern Ireland to Ireland
05/10/2019
Blind people and people who require assistance dogs for other medical reasons would need to enter Ireland at “approved” entry points.
Northern Ireland Brexit deal: At-a-glance
27/02/2023
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen have announced they have reached a new deal, aimed at fixing post-Brexit problems in Northern Ireland.