Einreise mit Tier: Zypern (2026)

Key points

• Cyprus applies the EU non-commercial pet movement rules through its own Veterinary Services, and publishes several national conditions on top of them
• A pet may only enter from a designated point of entry — an airport, port or marina — and entry from any other point is prohibited
• If your pet is coming from a country outside the EU you must tell the District Veterinary Office of that entry point at least 48 hours before you arrive, giving the date, the time and your flight number or ship name
• Cyprus sets a hard minimum age: because a pet must be at least 12 weeks old to be vaccinated and then wait 21 days, no pet under 105 days old may enter, whatever its country of origin, and an unvaccinated pet may not enter at all
• Four dog breeds are banned outright regardless of origin — Pit Bull Terrier or American Pit Bull, Japanese Tosa or Tosa Inu, Dogo Argentino or Argentinian Mastiff, and Fila Brasileiro or Brazilian Mastiff — and the ban extends to crosses of those breeds and to crosses where a registered veterinarian certifies that the dangerous-breed characteristics are dominant
• On the cat side the rule is by species rather than by breed: only the domestic cat, Felis silvestris catus, may enter, so Savannah, Bengal, Caracat and other hybrids are banned
• Pets flown in must travel in a container meeting IATA specifications
• Up to five pets may accompany one person on a single non-commercial movement; above five the movement is treated as commercial unless the pets are over six months old and registered for a competition, exhibition or sporting event
• A rabies antibody titration test is only needed when the pet is coming from a country that is not listed in Annex II of Regulation (EU) No 577/2013, and since 16 September 2024 it has also been required for pets moved from Belarus and Russia
• Two country-specific bars apply as well: dogs and cats from Peninsular Malaysia need a Nipah disease declaration and a negative IgG capture ELISA test, and cats from Australia need a Hendra disease declaration, in both cases unless the animal stays within the perimeter of an international airport in transit
• Quarantine is not part of the normal route: it is one of the outcomes, alongside return to the country of origin and euthanasia, when a pet arrives without meeting the requirements
• Inspection fees are payable on entry from a third country and whenever the entry requirements are not met

Downloadable forms

• 📄 Regulation 577 2013 eng
• 📄 Animal health certificate for third countries 29102019