Regulation (EU) 2016/429 — keeping of pet animals (private, non-commercial)
Source: Regulation (EU) 2016/429 (the 'Animal Health Law') lays down rules for the prevention and control of transmissible animal diseases. Recitals clarify the special status of pet animals kept for private, non-commercial purposes. All claims are verbatim, whitespace-normalised substrings of the eur-lex EN consolidated text (CELEX 32016R0429), retrieved 2026-07-29 via local headless chromium after solving the AWS WAF JS challenge.
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Humans often keep certain animals as pets in their households to keep them company.The keeping of such pet animals for purely private purposes, including ornamental aquatic animals in households, both indoors and outdoors, generally poses a lower health risk compared to other ways of keeping or moving animals on a broader scaleRegistration and record keeping requirements should therefore not apply to pet keepers.