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Leaving the Czech Republic for another EU country, your belongings move in free circulation. No customs entry, no duty relief claim, no EORI number, no proof of address for clearance. The lorry drives and your things arrive. What remains is transport, access at both ends, and a short list of items that still need documents wherever you are going.
That is genuinely simpler than a move to or from Britain, and it is worth stating plainly because a lot of removals content treats every international move as though customs were involved. Here it is not.
What remains is transport and a short list of things that still need attention: a vehicle, a pet, anything with a firearms component. Those do not care about the single market and each has its own rules in the destination country.
One exception before you go further. Switzerland is not in the EU. A Czech to Swiss move needs a customs entry in the same way a British one does, so nothing on this page applies to it.
If an international moving company raises any of these on an intra-EU job, it has misread your enquiry. Set against a British move, where every one of those applies, this is a far shorter list. Say so and ask it to requote, because a removal service priced around customs work you do not need is priced wrong.
The inventory. You still want one, and any competent mover will produce one, because it is how you establish what went on the vehicle and what came off it. Insurance claims live or die on that document.
Nor does it remove the practical work. Access at both ends, the size of vehicle that can reach the property, whether a permit is needed, how long a shared load waits. Those are the same questions on any journey.
A car moving between member states still needs registering in its new country, with whatever inspection that country requires. Free circulation covers the goods, not the registration.
Travel documents, microchip and vaccination records. Handled separately from household goods and rarely by the same firm. Start early, because some vaccinations have waiting periods.
Including deactivated pieces, antiques and inherited items. Every country has its own regime and movers will not take them without documentation. Sort this weeks ahead, not days.
Anything containing ivory, protected species material, or certain cultural objects. Rules differ by destination and the single market does not override them.
Germany, Austria, Slovakia and Poland all share a border with the Czech Republic. Those are short road jobs, often a single day of driving, and the shared history with Slovakia in particular makes it one of the busiest movements out of the country.
Further out, Spain sits around 2,300 kilometres away across three countries and Portugal around 2,800 through Spain. Italy involves an Alpine crossing where winter restrictions on heavy vehicles are real. France, the Netherlands and Belgium are straightforward long hauls through Germany.
Ireland is the odd one out: the only EU destination from here needing a sea crossing, either a ferry or the British landbridge. Price it as a different kind of job.
Distance drives the price on these journeys far more than paperwork does, which is the reverse of a British move. A part load saves proportionally more the further you are going.
Free circulation is about the belongings. Your right to live and work in the destination country is a separate matter and depends on your nationality, not on where you are moving from.
A British passport holder living in the Czech Republic who moves to Spain is intra-EU for goods purposes and a third country national for residence purposes. Both things are true at once, and people routinely assume that because the furniture moves freely, they do too.
Your removal company handles the first and has no view on the second. Check residence requirements with the destination country's own authorities well before you book a vehicle.
No. Personal belongings move in free circulation between member states. There is no import entry, no duty relief claim and no EORI requirement for your household goods. That is the single biggest difference from a move to or from Britain and it removes most of the paperwork.
No. That regulation relieves duty on goods entering the EU from outside it. Moving between two member states, your belongings never leave the EU, so there is nothing to relieve. If a mover starts talking about transfer of residence relief on an intra-EU job, they have misread the enquiry.
Vehicles, pets, firearms and controlled items. A car moving between member states still has to be registered in its new country. Pets need their travel documents and vaccination records. Firearms, including deactivated and antique pieces, have their own regime in every country. None of that goes away.
No, and this matters. Switzerland is not in the EU, so a move between the Czech Republic and Switzerland needs a customs entry in the same way a British move does. Treat it as a third country move, not an intra-EU one.
Any EU member state. In practice the common ones from the Czech Republic are Germany, Austria, Slovakia and Poland across the borders, then Spain, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal, Ireland and the Nordic countries further out. Ireland is the only one needing a sea crossing.
The border formalities are, because there are none. The driving is the same or longer depending on where you are going. A move to Vienna is short. A move to Portugal is around 2,800 kilometres. Distance and vehicle availability set the timetable, not paperwork.
No. We are not a removal company and we do not own lorries. We are a free enquiry service. Your details go to one vetted mover that covers the journey, and that firm contacts you directly. We do not run a price comparison and we do not pass your details to a list of companies.
Collection address, destination country and town, move date and a rough inventory. One vetted moving company covering the journey will come back to you.
Get your free quoteComing into the Czech Republic instead? See removals to the Czech Republic from Europe. Moving to or from Britain is a different scheme entirely: see Czech Republic to UK removals and customs and duty relief. For collection areas start at our Czech Republic removals page.
| Import declaration | Not required |
|---|---|
| Duty relief claim | Not applicable |
| EORI number | Not required |
| The 12 month window | Does not apply |
| Still required | Vehicles, pets, firearms, controlled items |
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We are a free enquiry service, not a removal company. Your details go to one vetted mover from the AGM Group network. Accreditations held across the network include FIDI FAIM Certified, BAR Overseas, IAM, EUROMOVERS and FEDEMAC. Not every firm holds all five.
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