Brazil: A decree waives the issuance for non-commercial transport of all equines

Decree 16,509, published on October 22, extends the exemption from requiring an invoice for the internal transportation of animals for non-commercial purposes to all equines, including horses, donkeys, and mules. This amends a previous decree that only applied to horses. Those transporting the animals must have other documents verifying the animal's health and origin. The decree, which took effect on the day of its publication, is enforced by Iagro, an agency under the Secretariat of Environment, Development, Science, Technology and Innovation (Semadesc).

Decree 16,509, published in the State Official Gazette on Tuesday, October 22, extends the exemption from issuing an invoice for the internal transportation of animals for non-commercial purposes to all equines, which include animals of the equine (horse), asinine (donkey) and mule (mule) species. Decree 16,509 amended decree 9,203 of September 1998, which already provided for this benefit, but restricted to the transportation of equines, as explained by Jaqueline Marques de Oliveira, manager of Animal Health Inspection and Protection at Iagro (State Agency for Animal and Plant Health Protection), an agency linked to the Secretariat of Environment, Development, Science, Technology and Innovation (Semadesc). To ensure the benefit of the exemption from issuing an invoice, the taxpayer must carry other documents that attest to the health and origin of the animal, such as the GTA (Animal Transit Guide), proof of a negative test for Equine Infectious Anemia, and a certificate of ...