Tue Jul 09, 2019 12:12 am
#1704851
Here’s one for the CAA Red Tape Challenge.....
let’s all push together at the CAA and DEFRA get this idiocy sorted out:
Our dog has a Pet Passport.
We can take him via ferry, EuroTunnel or scheduled airline abroad, and back.
BUT
Despite Oxford having all the microchip scanners and licences to allow import of dogs from Europe apparently you need to have a DEFRA licence to actually carry the dog. And DEFRA licences are only awarded to commercial aviation organisations. So we can’t fly him to France in our C182 (or to be more accurate we can’t bring him back).
Now if this isn’t a classic piece of lunatic bureaucracy, I don’t know what is. Surely I have a Pet Passport, I’m happy to comply with all the French vet stuff, Oxford has the scanner and the licence to use it, so what is DEFRA’s problem here?
Answers on a postcard please?
let’s all push together at the CAA and DEFRA get this idiocy sorted out:
Our dog has a Pet Passport.
We can take him via ferry, EuroTunnel or scheduled airline abroad, and back.
BUT
Despite Oxford having all the microchip scanners and licences to allow import of dogs from Europe apparently you need to have a DEFRA licence to actually carry the dog. And DEFRA licences are only awarded to commercial aviation organisations. So we can’t fly him to France in our C182 (or to be more accurate we can’t bring him back).
Now if this isn’t a classic piece of lunatic bureaucracy, I don’t know what is. Surely I have a Pet Passport, I’m happy to comply with all the French vet stuff, Oxford has the scanner and the licence to use it, so what is DEFRA’s problem here?
Answers on a postcard please?
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