Portugal → Brazil

DGAV certificate "Certificado veterinário para cães e gatos como animais de companhia, com ou sem carácter comercial, de Portugal para o Brasil" (three pages, Portuguese), issued by the DGAV official veterinarian, valid 60 days from issue while the rabies vaccination is valid. It covers accompanied and unaccompanied pets, any number of animals, and shows/events; it is NOT valid for the return to Portugal.

Microchip (ISO 11784/11785) number, implant date and location on the certificate "if applicable" — not mandatory for Brazil, but required for the return to the EU.

Rabies vaccination given from 12 weeks of age; no need to wait 21 days before travelling to Brazil, even for a first vaccination (agreement between the two countries, printed on the form). The expiry date written in the animal's documents (vaccination record or EU pet passport) prevails — Brazil accepts Portuguese boosters with validity longer than one year. Under 12 weeks: unvaccinated, with the form's alternative statement.

Broad-spectrum internal and external parasite treatment within the 15 days before the certificate is issued, with products authorised by the competent authority, per the manufacturer's instructions.

Examined within the 10 days before the certificate is issued: no clinical signs of infectious or parasitic disease, fit for transport.

Brazil may refuse entry to an animal previously diagnosed with leishmaniasis. No test is required; the exam and certificate must not show the disease.

Declare the pet on the e-DBV (Declaração Eletrônica de Bens do Viajante) and go through the "Bens a Declarar" (goods to declare) channel to the Vigiagro unit at the airport, port or border post. Where there is no such channel, go straight to the customs inspection. Unaccompanied baggage or cargo: a DAT-PF (agricultural transit declaration for individuals) and the air waybill / cargo manifest instead of the e-DBV.

The Vigiagro inspector (AFFA) checks the documents, verifies the animal's identity against the certificate and inspects its health; the original CVI stays with the owner. A pet travelling on to another Brazilian state is released with a Vigiagro transit attestation. Pets with clinical signs of disease are refused (returned or destroyed); with no papers at all, refused and returned; with errors or missing items in the papers, the inspector may impose home quarantine supervised by a private vet at the owner's cost (TC-IAC undertaking: exam, rabies shot, parasite treatments, isolation for a set number of days).

Industrialised (commercially made, heat-processed, canned, pouch, pelleted or extruded) pet food and treats for the pet's own use may enter from any country in the original, intact, labelled packaging; the pack used during the trip may be open. Raw or home-made food and treats, raw hides/ears/hooves and feed additives are prohibited. (MAPA's older FAQ says leftover food is prohibited outright — the 2026 list, made under Portaria 872/2025, is the current rule.)