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Regulation (EU) 2016/429 — trade / transfer of pet animals (duty to inform)

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Regulation (EU) 2016/429 — trade / transfer of pet animals (duty to inform)

Source: Regulation (EU) 2016/429 governs trade in and movements of animals, including pet animals. Operators who sell or otherwise transfer ownership of future pet animals must give the future keeper basic information. All claims are verbatim, whitespace-normalised substrings of the eur-lex EN consolidated text (CELEX 32016R0429), retrieved 2026-07-29 via local headless chromium.

Claims (verified C1 substrings of source_file)

  • Operators selling or otherwise transferring the ownership of future pet animals shall provide basic information to the future pet keeper, regarding the matters referred to in paragraph 1, as relevant for the pet animal in question.
  • The specific nature of movements of pet animals represents an animal health risk which deviates significantly from that of other kept animals.

Sources

Regulation (EU) 2016/429 — trade / transfer of pet animals (duty to inform)
Source document: Regulation (CELEX 32016R0429)
Regulation (CELEX 32016R0429)eur-lex CELEX 32016R0429 (local chromium --dump-dom --virtual-time-budget=15000)retrieved 2026-07-29

Verification file: pdf-raw/eu-animal-welfare/reg_2016_429.txt