Microchip your horse before travelling?

[MJC]

Just following up on an earlier thread and a post from Spider Monkey re. whether or not you need to microchip your horse before travelling to Holland - 'Does this mean that anyone taking horses to a competition in Holland i.e. Ede, Breda, Boekelo has to have their horses microchipped before leaving the UK if they want to be able to bring their horses home?'

As I understand it, it is not a legal requirement, but if anyone has experienced otherwise, please tell us what happened!

 

[Tia]

I've never heard this before. I can only assume this is a new thing. Will be interesting to see how this affects imported WBs if this is the case.

 

[MJC]

Hi
To my knowledge it isn't EU law yet, certainly not just for a competition, although it is of course recomended! It is an interesting one though......

 

[flohelf]

It is now a legal requirement for all horses in France to be microchipped. Which of course does not apply to horses coming for a competition. But if you import a horse for good, then you will have to microchip him if he is to stay on French territory.

 

[Tia]

That would make sense. Horses in transit don't need microchipping, therefore the WBs who are exported through a French port wouldn't need to be micro-chipped either.