Bringing a dog, cat or ferret into Sweden from another EU country rests on the same three EU-wide pillars that apply across the bloc: an electronic microchip (or a legible tattoo applied before the EU's cutoff date), a rabies vaccination given at least 21 days before travel, and a valid EU pet passport recording both. Norden.org's own official travel guidance for the Nordic region confirms this is exactly what's needed for a dog or cat travelling from one EU or Nordic country into Sweden, and that your vet can issue the passport alongside the chip and the vaccination in a single visit.

Sweden doesn't require a tapeworm treatment on entry, unlike the UK, Ireland, Finland, Malta and Norway, and it has no breed-specific import ban — Norden.org's guidance states plainly that Sweden bans no particular breed, though a dog that is aggressive and bites or attacks a person or another animal can still face restriction under Swedish supervision law once it's here, a very different mechanism from a country-of-origin or breed-based entry ban.

The one step that has no real equivalent in Italy, Switzerland, the UK, France or Spain is specific to Sweden: non-commercial pet movements from another EU country must be separately reported to Tullverket, Swedish customs, either in person at the border or in advance through an online form — covered in its own article in this section, since it's easy to miss and genuinely different from anything else in this guide.