With seven new services, the National Registry of Companion Animals, pet.gov.gr, is enriched, expanding digital possibilities for owners and managers of companion animals, veterinarians, breeders, animal welfare associations, shelters and municipalities. The services were put into productive operation within the framework of the cooperation of the Ministers of Digital Governance, Dimitris Papastergiou and of the Interior, Theodoris Livaniou with the aim of an integrated digital management system open to all life events relating to pets, stray animals or not, promote the responsibility of their property, the control of their health and well-being and the facilitation of the work of veterinarians and the bodies involved.
As stated in a relevant statement, the platform reinforces the monitoring and protection of pet animals with services related to the adoption of stray animals across the country, controlled breeding and better management of domesticated pet animals, while also making available the possibility of digital assistance in searching and locating lost pets.
Specifically, the following services are now available on the National Pet Registry directly at pet.gov.gr or on gov.gr in the “Citizen and everyday life” category:
- Pan-Hellenic Platform for Adoption of Stray Animals. Includes all pets, dogs and cats that are up for adoption with detailed information, photo and manager’s contact details. It simplifies and speeds up the adoption process in Greece and abroad and guarantees the legality of administrative procedures, guaranteeing transparency for municipalities, associations and animal welfare organizations and shelters.
- Breeder registration for professional and amateur breeders. Another Registry that brings together, under specific criteria, the country’s professional and amateur pet breeders. Through the platform, a registration request is submitted and information is collected regarding reproduction, the offspring of farmed animals, as well as the traceability of their ownership.
- Digital pet breeding license application service. With current legislation stipulating that each pet (female or male) can only have children once in its life, the owner’s respective Municipality of residence is the competent body to receive the request and digitally provide the necessary authorization.
- Digital Application Service for Pet Delivery to the Municipality and Digital Service for Pet Delivery to a Charity Institution, Association or Shelter. If the owner is no longer able to care for their animal, they have the possibility of handing it over to the Municipality of their permanent residence following institutional procedures. In the event of exceptional health reasons or in the event of the owner’s death, it is possible through the digital application to deliver the pet to an animal protection association or shelter and subsequently publish it for adoption on the digital adoption platform.
- Digital veterinary pet file viewing service. Includes all actions (mandatory or optional) registered in the animal’s National Pet Registry, so that owners and their managers can access their pet’s complete history.
- Digital Platform for Lost and Found Pets and Digital Service for Reporting Possible Finding of a Pet. The objective is to facilitate the location of animals that have been declared lost. Citizens who find a lost animal can use the digital service to inform the owner.
- Digital pet death notification service. With the aim of facilitating companion animal owners, it is now possible to declare the death of your animal through a responsible declaration in the National Registry of Companion Animals. For the definitive registration of the death, the accredited veterinarian is solely responsible.
The project’s new digital functions were implemented by the General Secretariat for Information Systems and Digital Governance of the Ministry of Digital Governance with the assistance of the Special Secretariat for the Protection of Companion Animals of the Ministry of the Interior.
The National Pet Registry in numbers
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- 1,224,519 pets owned by 657,125 owners
- 279,805 stray animals
- 2,476 veterinarians are users of the system.
It should be noted that since the start of its production operation, in December 2023, the following have occurred:
- 88,307 new animal registrations
- 36,680 new owner listings
- 123,449 records of animal sterilizations, of which 28,443 relate to sterilizations of stray animals
- 311,736 vaccination records
- 55,775 records of antiparasitic medications
- 9,575 property transfer records
- 8,206 adoption records
- 1,397 subscription listings
- 246 applications from animal welfare associations and organizations were submitted for registration in the respective Register and 173 of them were approved.
- 45 asylum requests were submitted for registration in the respective Registry and 19 of them were approved.
- 1,765 digital pet loss notifications
- 523 Digital Pet Location Statements
- 1,942 Digital Declarations of Transfer of Dominant Pet.