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        • OH4Surveillance
        • Joint Action on quality of medicines and implementation of the pharmaceutical legislation/strategy
        • Organisation and implementation of training activities to strengthen EU law enforcement in Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) fields under the “Better Training for Safer Food” initiative SC 2015 96 04 Chafea/2015/BTSF/04-OPERA
        • Border Management Programme in Central Asia – BOMCA Phase 10 ACA/2020/420-247
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        • Food irradiation import control
        • Food labelling, presentation and advertising of foodstuffs, vitamins and minerals, nutrition and health claims made on foods
        • Food supplements import control
        • General requirements, who concern all types of food
        • Genetic modified food import control
        • Imposed food safety, clasification and quality requirements for different types of food
        • Infants and toddlers food import
        • Materials and articles intended to come into contact with food import control
        • Novel food import control
        • Organic products import control
        • Procedure of prior notification of import of non-animal origin food/feed in European Union
        • Special safeguard measures for different food, materials and articles intended to come into contact with food, increased non animal origin food import control
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    • Areas of activity
      • Food Surveillance
      • Veterinary Surveillance
        • EC legislation on the officially free status of certain countries or regions thereof and in addition to guarantees
        • Nordic-Baltic Seminar on Animal Health Contingency Planning – focus on: vaccination, animal welfare, wildlife and costs/ presentations
      • Border Control
        • Animal feed and feed additives control
        • Information for travellers
        • Phytosanitary control
        • Quality control
        • Veterinary control
        • Imports of composite products from third countries
    • Researches
    • Laws and regulations
    • Whistleblowing
    • International cooperation
      • Audits carried out by auditors from European Commission
        • European Commission Directorate General for Health and Food Safety (SANTE), Health and Food Audits and Analysis Directorate
      • Inspections from other countries
      • Partnership in international organisations
    • Budget
    • Ethics
    • Properties
    • Procurements
    • Vacancies
    • Projects
      • Current projects
        • Single Market Programme (SMP) project "Implementation of the collection and reporting of data on sales and use of antimicrobials in animals for the period 2022 – 2027"
        • Strengthening the official control system and improving the compliance of aquaculture farms and establishments processing fishery products in the Republic of Uzbekistan according to EU standards
        • OH4Surveillance
        • Joint Action on quality of medicines and implementation of the pharmaceutical legislation/strategy
        • Organisation and implementation of training activities to strengthen EU law enforcement in Sanitary and Phytosanitary (SPS) fields under the “Better Training for Safer Food” initiative SC 2015 96 04 Chafea/2015/BTSF/04-OPERA
        • Border Management Programme in Central Asia – BOMCA Phase 10 ACA/2020/420-247
      • Implemented projects
  • Services
    • Authorisation of Veterinary Medicines
      • News
      • Manufacturing of Veterinary Medicinal Products
      • Data on the sales volume (VoS) and the avaibality status of VMPs in the Union Product Database (UPD)
      • Information on granted, amended marketing authorisations and other changes
        • Information on granted, amended marketing authorisations and other changes - 2025
        • Information on granted, amended marketing authorisations and other changes - 2024
        • Information on granted, amended marketing authorisations and other changes - 2023
      • Application forms and templates
        • Price-list and Payment Application
      • Price list and Payment Application
        • Payment procedure
        • The refund of an overpayment
        • Administration of the post-marketing surveillance annual fee for veterinary medicinal products
      • Procedure for e-submission
      • Requisites
      • Regulations and guidelines
      • Statistics on veterinary medicinal product consumption
      • Useful links
      • Quality defects of Veterinary Medicinal Products and the Rapid Alert System
      • Wholesale of Veterinary Medicines
    • Border control
      • Veterinary control
      • Food Safety control
        • Alcoholic and non alcoholic drinks import control
        • Drinking and mineral water import control
        • Food additives and food flavouring import control
        • Food intended for infants and young children, food for special medical purposes, and total diet replacement for weight control
        • Food irradiation import control
        • Food labelling, presentation and advertising of foodstuffs, vitamins and minerals, nutrition and health claims made on foods
        • Food supplements import control
        • General requirements, who concern all types of food
        • Genetic modified food import control
        • Imposed food safety, clasification and quality requirements for different types of food
        • Infants and toddlers food import
        • Materials and articles intended to come into contact with food import control
        • Novel food import control
        • Organic products import control
        • Procedure of prior notification of import of non-animal origin food/feed in European Union
        • Special safeguard measures for different food, materials and articles intended to come into contact with food, increased non animal origin food import control
      • Phytosanitary control
      • Quality control
      • Non-food product control
      • Animal feed and feed additives control
      • Border control posts and custom warehouses
      • Information for travellers
    • Export
      • Information for intra- community trade and import of live animals
      • Information for intra- community trade and import of products of animal origin not intended for human consumption
      • What is necessary for export of live animals and products of animal origin not intended for human consumption?
    • Price List of Services
    • Registers
    • Information for travellers
      • Import of non-commercial pet birds to LATVIA from non-EU countries
      • Non-commercial movement of pets to LATVIA (Dogs, cats and ferrets)
        • Travelling from third countries to Latvia
        • Travelling with pet animals between EU Member States
      • Travelling with pets
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Published: 29.04.2021.
Updated: 12.11.2025.
What private individuals need to know when entering Latvia from third countries 

Added: 17.01.2026
Keep animal diseases out of the European Union

Added: 30.12.2025
Keep plant pests and diseases out of the EU

Added: 30.12.2025
Diseases don’t respect borders

Added: 11.11.2025
Don't risk it! 

Added: 12.01.2026

 

  • Non-commercial movement of pets to LATVIA (Dogs, cats and ferrets)
  • Import of non-commercial pet birds to LATVIA from non-EU countries

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