Finland - Pets
Two useful European Commission links for traveling with pets in the EU:
Finland’s Rules if coming from an EU country
Dogs and cats must:
- Have a European pet passport.
- Be identified by a microchip or clearly readable tattoo.
- Be vaccinated against rabies with a valid vaccine at the time of travel and included in the passport.
Only dogs require anti-echinococcus treatment which must be administered 1 to 5 days before entering Finland.
Puppies under the age of three months as well as dogs travelling to Finland from e.g. Sweden have to be treated before they enter Finland.
Dogs traveling to Finland directly from Norway, Ireland, or Malta require no anti-echinococcus treatment.
Medication is not required for cats or ferrets.
Finland’s Rules if coming from outside the EU
To introduce a pet from a third country, you must enter with your pet through one of the designated Travelers’ Points of Entry and must contact the Customs authority and present the pet’s travel documents for inspection.
Pets arriving from Norway and Switzerland require a third country pet passport. Pet passports from other third countries are not accepted as identification documents.
In those cases where there is no European pet passport, the animals must be accompanied by:
- An animal health certificate in accordance with the EU model issued by an official veterinarian.
- The owner’s declaration regarding the non-commercial nature of the movement, and
- The original vaccination documents or certified copies.
Dogs and Cats must:
- Be identified with a microchip, or tattoo.
- Be vaccinated against rabies by an authorized veterinarian (After the anti-rabies vaccination the following has to be adhered to: either a qualifying period of 21 days if the country of origin is listed or your pet must undergo a rabies antibodies test 30 days after the vaccination).
Only dogs require anti-echinococcus treatment which must be administered 1 to 5 days before entering Finland.
More details at the Finnish Food Authority webpage.
Last updated: May 2023
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30MILES project – small ports on the eastern Gulf of Finland are developing fast.
The 30MILES international cooperation project was established to develop small ports on the eastern Gulf of Finland, and six Finnish and six Estonian small ports are participating in it. The objective of the project is to harmonise the level of services, security and convenience of use of the ports. The outcome of the 30MILES project will be a ring of quality small ports every 30 miles apart around the Gulf of Finland.
The deadline for completion of the project is May 2018.
Further information: http://www.merikotka.fi/30miles
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As you know, camping Gaz (butane) is not so easy to get in the Baltic. I am in Turku/Åbo in Finland and the harbourmaster of the yacht harbour on the North side of river Aura managed to get some containers delivered to Turku from Helsinki and is planning to arrange for a small storage to be kept at the harbour or nearby for the benefit of guests at the yacht harbour.
Clearance: when clearing out of Finland to a non-EU country, eg Russia, you must provide at least 4 copies of your crew list to be stamped. If then going from Russia eg to Estonia, get at least 5 copies stamped (4 for Russian border control, 1 for Estonian border control). Finland border control is relaxed about the regulation that after clearing out you must stay within a marked channel, but they emphasise that once in Russian waters you absolutely must stay within or just outside a marked channel.
Alan Wilson, Kiitaja (in 2011)