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Current rules for exporting horses and other equines (including ponies and donkeys) from the UK.

• Updated: 22 July 2024

Horses, ponies, asses, donkeys and zebras must have a horse passport and it must be with the animal at all times

• When you need a horse passport

  You must have a horse passport (sometimes called an ‘equine passport’) for…

• Apply for a horse passport

  If you own the horse or related animal, you must get a passport for it…

• Update or replace a passport

  You need to: update the passport’s details if they change, for example if…

• Import or export a horse or related animal

  What you need to do depends on whether you’re importing or exporting the…

• Get help

  Contact the Passport Issuing Organisation (PIO) that issued the horse…

Number of trips made by powered vehicles and unaccompanied trailers on each route to Europe for 2021.

• Updated: 3 March 2022

Number of powered vehicles and unaccompanied trailers carried on each route to Europe for July 2021 to June 2022.

• Updated: 10 August 2022

Statistics about the number of powered vehicles and unaccompanied trailers carried on each route to Europe for 2019.

• Updated: 13 February 2020

Upper Tribunal Administrative Appeals Chamber decision by Judge Caldwell on 23 October 2025.

• Updated: 1 December 2025

Information about the welfare of horses on farms and livery yards and how to dispose of waste and fallen stock.

Statistics of the number of powered vehicles and unaccompanied trailers carried on each route to mainland Europe for October to December 2016.

• Updated: 17 February 2017

Personal travel in Great Britain during 2022 by residents of England. It contains statistics on how and why people travel, driving licence holding, travel by age, sex and income.

• Updated: 30 August 2023

Quarterly statistics on the number of powered vehicles and unaccompanied trailers carried on each route to mainland Europe.

• Updated: 15 August 2014