Bringing a Pet to Morocco

How Morocco handles your pet

Which certificate you need depends on where you are flying from. ONSSA publishes a different model health certificate per origin — "Espèce Pays concerné Référence Chiens et chats Afrique du sud I.CT.CN.AFRIQ.SUD.SEPT.2020 Chiens et chats Emirats Arabes Unis Certificat sanitaire du 03 octobre 2024 Chiens et chats Slovénie Certificat sanitaire Chiens et chats Nouvelle Zélande Certificat sanitaire Chiens Tunisie IMP.TUNISIE.CN/CT Mars 2016 Chiens et chats USA I.Dog.Cat.USA.Dec.2017 Chiens et chats Union Européene I.CN-CT UE.JUIL.2023 Chiens et Chats ( Importation définitive ou temporaire) Espagne ASE-3131 RCC0322 Chiens et chats Portugal Mod.1132/DGAV/02/2022 Chiens et chats Pays-Bas Certificat sanitaire du 16 Juin 2026 Chiens et chats Russie Certificat sanitaire Chiens et chats Royaume-Uni Certificat sanitaire, référence : Du 15 Août 2025 Chiens et chats Autres I.CT.CN.JUIL.2025" — so an EU traveller uses I.CN-CT UE.JUIL.2023 and everyone else uses the general third-country model I.CT.CN.JUIL.2025. The requirements on this plan are the general model. The rabies antibody test depends on how long you are staying, and this is the single thing most often got wrong about Morocco. The certificate makes point 5 an either/or. For a long move: "5) Seront exportés pour une période supérieure à 12 mois/ Will be exported for a period more than 12 months" — no blood test at all. For a trip: "Will be exported temporarily for a period less than 12 months, and have been submitted to a blood sample, taken by the competent authority, for an antibody titration test at least 30 days after the previous rabies vaccination, with a positive result, of at least 0.5 IU/ml." Because a travel plan is normally a trip, this plan shows the test as required. If you are relocating to Morocco for good, ask your official vet to strike the temporary-export line instead and you can skip the test. Where the pet has lived matters as much as its paperwork: "Have been maintained in rabies free country or free zone since their birth or at least during the last six months prior to their loading," A pet that has spent the last six months somewhere Morocco does not treat as rabies-free cannot be certified on this model at all — check with the veterinary service before booking. The clinical examination is a 24-hour window, not a number of days: "Were examined in the last 24 hours, found to be in good health and show no clinical signs of contagious diseases specific to species, the day of their loading," So the certificate has to be signed the day before or the day of loading, not a week ahead. Your titre result travels as an attachment, and it needs a countersignature: "The laboratory analysis reports for the test referred to above mentionned tests, countersigned by the veterinarian authority of the country of origin, are attached to this veterinary health certificate." A bare laboratory printout is not enough — the official veterinary authority of the country you are leaving has to countersign it. Arrival is at a border inspection post, not any airport: "In Morocco 16 PIF are opened by regulation to the import/export of animals and the sanitary control is carried out by veterinarians of the National Office of Health Safety of Food Products (ONSSA)." For anything specific, ONSSA directs you to your local veterinary service rather than to a central desk: "Pour toute information veuillez contacter le Service vétérinaire de votre lieu de résidence" ("For any information please contact the Veterinary Service of your place of residence.") ONSSA publishes the provincial contact list at onssa.gov.ma/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Coordonnees-SV-SVP-ONSSA — -.pdf Where you may land, and it is not every airport. The arrêté that opens border posts to animal import lists, for air: "L’Aéroport Mohammed V – Casablanca, les aéroports d’Agadir, Fès, Tanger, Oujda, Rabat‐Salé, Marrakech, Laâyoune, Dakhla, Ouarzazate et Tantan." plus thirteen seaports and the Guergarate land crossing. ONSSA's own page says there are 16 such posts while the arrêté enumerates 25, so confirm your point of entry is staffed for live animals before you book. Your paperwork has a three-day shelf life at the border: "Les animaux de compagnie doivent être accompagnés, à leur importation, de documents sanitaires établis 3 jours avant l’embarquement et justifiant qu’ils sont indemnes des maladies propres à l’espèce, délivrés par les autorités sanitaires officielles du pays d’exportation." ("Pets must be accompanied on import by health documents drawn up 3 days before boarding, certifying that they are free from the diseases specific to the species, issued by the official health authorities of the exporting country.") Read that together with the certificate's own 24-hour examination window — the vet visit is the tighter of the two. What happens on arrival: "A leur arrivée au Maroc, ils seront soumis au contrôle sanitaire vétérinaire, opéré par le vétérinaire, relevant de l’Office National de la Sécurité Sanitaire des Produits Alimentaires (ONSSA), responsable au poste frontière. Leur admission sera autorisée par les services douaniers après production de l’attestation d’inspection vétérinaire délivrée par ledit vétérinaire responsable." In plain terms, the ONSSA vet at the border post inspects your pet, issues an inspection attestation, and customs admits the animal on production of it. There is no quarantine step for a compliant pet. How many pets you may bring: Morocco publishes no number. The customs Guide du voyageur sets out the pet requirements in full without capping the count, and it does state numeric limits elsewhere in the same document where they exist ("des objets en quantité limitée et sans caractère commercial dans la limite d’une valeur globale de 2.000 dirhams."). Travel with a household's own animals and the constraint you will actually meet is the airline's per-passenger limit, not a Moroccan one — but a group large enough to look like a consignment should expect to be treated as a commercial import.

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