Submitted on Thursday 31st December 2020
Rejected on Wednesday 6th January 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Introduce a cap on how much vets may charge to issue Animal Health Certificates.
Vets quotes vary from £70 up to £231!
(These prices do not include any other work such as doing vaccinations, but are just for the 5 minute animal check and filling in of the AHC form).
The price range for the same service shows just how much vets are exploiting the public over this AHC.
Hundreds of thousands of people travel from the UK to the EU each year with their pets, many for multiple visits.
The previous Pet Passport was valid for the life of the animal, and incurred no further bureaucratic cost once issued.
This new UK government issued AHC is a ONE TRIP ticket, valid only for 4 months. A new one must be purchased before EVERY trip to the EU.
The exploitative prices that vets, with a monopoly on the issue of AHC's, are charging are completely unfair to UK consumers.
You can't sign this petition because it was rejected. But you can still comment on it here at Repetition.me!
The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
The Government is not responsible for setting the prices that veterinary practices charge for their services. The Government could fix the price of providing certain services, but it would then be up to veterinary practices whether they chose to offer these services.
We could accept a petition calling on the Government to set up a national system to provide animal health certificates at a fixed cost, if that is what you want to happen.
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