A hunter who lives in Norway goes on an elk hunt in Sweden, with a rifle and a hunting dog. On the way, 23 organisations and people in the two countries give the hunter documents, ask to see them, or set the rules. This page shows who they are, what the documents are today, and what they could be in an EUDI wallet.
Who issues each document, and who asks for it
Switch between the documents on the trip today and the credentials we propose for the wallet. Pick one to see what it is like today, the credential and standard it could have, who issues it and who asks to see it, with the statements that say so. A credential needs one issuer to sign it, and a common standard so that the other country can read it. Pick an organisation or person to see what it is and its part in the trip.
How we know it:✓Official sourceAssumptionNot confirmedSources disagreeAgency’s understanding
What the marks mean
✓Official sourceThe law or the agency’s own page says it. Hover over the link to see the passage.
AssumptionOur reading of a source, common practice or our proposal. No source says it outright.
Not confirmedWe looked for the answer, and didn’t find it.
Sources disagreeAgencies’ pages, or what they told us, say different things.
Agency’s understandingInformation an agency or organisation has given the project, for example in a workshop, not published in its official documentation. An indication of how it understands the process.
We read the law and the agencies’ own pages on 20 October – 10 November 2026, and checked that each quoted passage is on its page.
The documents on the trip today, who issues them, and who asks to see them.
Issues
Documents today
Asks to see it
IssuesAsks to see it: an official source says soAsks to see it: not verified in an official source
Passport or national ID card
pass, nasjonalt ID-kort
In a wallet (our proposal)
The identity in the wallet (PID), if it is accepted where ID is asked for today
Standard
Standard exists: EU identity in the wallet (PID)
Today
Today the Norwegian police recommend carrying a passport, ID card or driving licence on trips between the Nordic countries.✓Official source: Politiet
Issues
Asks to see it
· Before the huntAssumption The shop asks to see the Norwegian licence or European firearms pass, and ID. The law does not say what the shop must see.
· Crossing the borderSweden has border control at its internal borders, and has had it without a break since 12 November 2015. The decision for 12 May to 11 November 2026 was followed by one for 12 November 2026 to 11 May 2027. The police decide where and how to check. When someone travels into Sweden, the police check who they are.✓Official source: Regeringen✓Official source: Regeringen✓Official source: Polisen
Assumption On this trip the passport or ID card is only proof of identity, so the identity in the wallet can take its place. A digital travel credential is for the Schengen area’s external borders.COM(2024) 670
Not confirmed No source says whether Polisen accepts the identity in the wallet when it checks who someone is at the internal border.
Not confirmed No source says whether a Swedish gun shop may accept the identity in the wallet as ID.
Not confirmed Norway’s exemption from carrying a travel document is for Nordic citizens. The Swedish police say only the passport and the national ID card prove both identity and Swedish citizenship. No source says whether the nationality in the identity in the wallet would be accepted as proof of citizenship.Utlendingsforskriften § 2-1Polisen
Who has which role behind each credential
The technical issuer would sign the credential: that is our proposal. The actual issuer establishes what the credential says today, the register holds the data, and the responsible authority owns the rules. Pick a credential in the map to see the statements that say so, with their sources.
VåpenregisteretPolitiet owns itBrønnøysundregistrene runs it
Politiet
Digital European firearms passToday: europeisk våpenpass
PolitietAssumption
Politiet
VåpenregisteretPolitiet owns itBrønnøysundregistrene runs it
Politiet
Receipt for the firearms notificationToday: anmälan av skjutvapen och ammunition
TullverketAssumption
Tullverket
Not knownNot confirmed
Tullverket
Dog credentials: identity, owner and treatmentsToday: EU-kjæledyrpass
Not knownNot confirmed
Veterinarians (veterinær, veterinär)
DyreID’s registerDyreID keeps itNot confirmed
Mattilsynet
Along the trip
Who the hunter deals with, from planning at home in Norway to the trip back. Each line says what an organisation or person does, and which documents it issues or asks for. Open a line for the statements, with their sources.
At home in Norway
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Stage 1: Before leaving
IssuesPolitietPassport or national ID card (pass, nasjonalt ID-kort)2 statements, 1 not verified
Not confirmed The Norwegian police list a driving licence as one of the documents to carry on Nordic trips, but the Swedish police say a Nordic driving licence can be accepted as ID only in some cases.PolitietPolisen
IssuesDigdirIdentity in the wallet (PID)2 statements, 1 not verified
In Digdir’s plan for the Norwegian wallet sandbox, Digdir is the issuer of the identity in the wallet (PID).✓Official source: Digdir
Not confirmed No source says who will issue the identity in the wallet (PID) in the real Norwegian wallet.Prop. 1 S (2026–2027)
IssuesNaturvårdsverketSwedish state hunting card (statligt jaktkort)2 statements
Naturvårdsverket issues the Swedish state hunting card as a PDF once the fee is paid online. It is never posted to foreign hunters.✓Official source: Naturvårdsverket
IssuesHolder of the hunting rights (jakträttshavare)Permission to hunt, and invitation (inbjudan)Asks for: Shooting test for big game (skyteprøve for storviltjegere, vitnemål for bestått skyteprøve)3 statements, 1 not verified
Assumption A visiting hunter in Sweden needs permission from the holder of the hunting rights. This follows from the rules that the landowner holds the hunting rights and that the right of public access does not cover hunting, but no Swedish source we read says it directly.
IssuesPolitietNorwegian firearms licence (våpenkort)2 statements, 1 not verified
A person with a permanent Norwegian licence for hunting firearms may bring them into Sweden, without a Swedish licence, for temporary use in hunting, and hold them there for up to three months from the day they are brought in.✓Official source: Vapenlagen 8 kap. 4 §
Agency’s understanding A hunters’ organisation at the workshop said that for a newly bought firearm, the licence and the transfer of ownership can easily take a year, and the European firearms pass several more months after that.Workshop on firearms and identity, 2026
ReceivesTullverket1 statement
Tullverket receives the hunter’s notification of the firearms, on the web or at the border, and emails back a notification number.✓Official source: Tullverket
In Sweden, from 22 April 2026, new rules from the new EU legislation apply to vets who issue pet passports, meant to make the illegal trade in pets harder.✓Official source: Jordbruksverket
Svenska Jägareförbundet5 statements, 3 not verified
Many landowners and hosts require elk hunters to have passed the bronze test for Svenska Jägareförbundet’s elk shooting badge.✓Official source: Svenska Jägareförbundet
Assumption As far as we found, Swedish law asks for no shooting test for elk, and a Swedish host may accept the Norwegian shooting test instead of the elk shooting badge.
Agency’s understanding In Sweden the shooting test is not a legal requirement, but an agreement with the people you hunt with.Workshop on hunting, October 2026
Agency’s understanding Hosts may require liability insurance, and hunters from abroad may be asked for it too.Workshop on hunting, October 2026
Mattilsynet1 statement, 1 not verified
Agency’s understanding No one checks before the trip that the dog has what it needs: the owner is responsible. Mattilsynet answers questions on its website and by phone, and the vet also tells the owner.Workshop on travelling with dogs, October 2026
At the border
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Stage 2: Crossing the border
ChecksTolletatenAsks for: Form for taking firearms out of Norway (Melding om midlertidig utførsel uten våpenpass)4 statements, 2 not verified
A hunter without a European firearms pass stops at a staffed customs post when leaving Norway, or by plane or ferry at the airport or port. Customs officers check the form, both copies are certified, and one is kept.✓Official source: Tolletaten
With a European firearms pass, the hunter need not contact Tolletaten when leaving Norway or coming back. The hunter may use unmanned border crossings, and need not register the firearms out of or into Norway. Politiet says the same for a trip of up to three months. Going to Sweden, the hunter still notifies the firearms online to Tullverket.✓Official source: Tolletaten✓Official source: Politiet
Agency’s understanding Tolletaten said that a hunter without a European firearms pass declares the firearms when leaving Norway, and that Tolletaten does this on the police’s behalf.Workshop on firearms and identity, 2026
Agency’s understanding Hunters who often hunt in Sweden are advised to get a European firearms pass, so that they don’t have to stop at a border station.Workshop on hunting, October 2026
ChecksPolisenAsks for: Passport or national ID card (pass, nasjonalt ID-kort)1 statement
Sweden has border control at its internal borders, and has had it without a break since 12 November 2015. The decision for 12 May to 11 November 2026 was followed by one for 12 November 2026 to 11 May 2027. The police decide where and how to check. When someone travels into Sweden, the police check who they are.✓Official source: Regeringen✓Official source: Regeringen✓Official source: Polisen
ChecksTullverketAsks for: Permission to hunt, and invitation (inbjudan), Norwegian firearms licence (våpenkort), European firearms pass (europeisk våpenpass), Firearms notification (anmälan av skjutvapen och ammunition), Pet passport (EU-kjæledyrpass)15 statements, 8 not verified
A hunter who lives in Norway must be able to show Tullverket either a firearms licence from Norway or a European firearms pass. After notifying online, the hunter shows the notification number if a customs officer asks.✓Official source: Tullverket
Agency’s understanding The notification number is what the hunter refers to in a control, so the checker can look it up in Tullverket’s systems.Workshop on firearms and identity, 2026
Agency’s understanding A hunter who notified online can take the green or blue lane, with nothing to declare. Otherwise the hunter takes the red lane, shows the firearms and the licence or pass, and fills in a declaration.Tullverket, information to the project, October 2026
A hunter with a permanent Norwegian licence can bring the firearms under the rule for hunters from Denmark, Finland and Norway instead. That rule asks for no documentation of the hunt: Vapenlagen asks for it only under the rule for the European firearms pass.✓Official source: Vapenlagen 8 kap. 4 §✓Official source: Polisen
Agency’s understanding The hunter carries documentation that supports the hunt.Tullverket, information to the project, October 2026
Agency’s understanding Participants in the hunting workshop understood that only the European firearms pass is valid in Sweden, unlike Tullverket’s page.TullverketWorkshop on hunting, October 2026
Agency’s understanding At the firearms workshop the participants disagreed on whether the European firearms pass is valid for bringing firearms into Sweden. One agency said it is, under the new law from summer 2026, as its page says; others doubted it, or were unsure whether Sweden takes part in the cooperation. Another participant said the answer depends on whom you ask, and asked for a clear answer from the Swedish authorities. A hunters’ organisation had never seen it accepted for entry, nor any exemption for the Nordic countries, although Swedish law lets a hunter with a Norwegian licence bring hunting firearms in. The meeting concluded that the pass is accepted, but other requirements remain, so in practice it is no easier.Workshop on firearms and identity, 2026TullverketVapenlagen 8 kap. 4 §
In Sweden a firearm may be lent now and then for at most two weeks, for the same purpose as the owner’s licence: to someone with a permit to borrow it, or without one to someone licensed for the same type of firearm, or under the owner’s supervision. The rule for Nordic hunters covers firearms they hold a permanent licence for.✓Official source: Vapenlagen 9 kap. 3 §
Not confirmed We found no rule on taking a borrowed firearm out of Norway for a hunt abroad.
Sources disagree Tullverket says a dog coming from Norway with a microchip and a pet passport needs no notification, and it has told the project the same about a hunter from Norway with their own dog. Jordbruksverket’s general rule for dogs from the EU and Norway says every dog must be declared to customs, at a customs point or in advance on Tullverket’s website.TullverketTullverket, information to the project, October 2026Jordbruksverket
Agency’s understanding Checks are spot checks.Workshop on travelling with dogs, October 2026
In Sweden
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Stage 3: Before the hunt
ChecksLeader of the hunt (jaktledare)Asks for: Hunter exam (jegerprøven), Swedish state hunting card (statligt jaktkort)4 statements, 2 not verified
The leader of the hunt must tell the hunters that they need a firearms licence and a paid state hunting card.✓Official source: NFS 2011:7 48 §
Assumption The leader also checks each hunter’s documents. The rules only say the leader must inform the hunters.
Agency’s understanding A hunter from abroad documents that they are qualified to hunt in their home country. Beyond that, it is up to the leader of the hunt and the hunting team.Workshop on hunting, October 2026
When hunting elk in Sweden, a dog specially trained to track wounded game must be able to reach the place of the shot within two hours.✓Official source: Jaktförordningen 17 §
ChecksGun shop in Sweden (vapenhandlare)Asks for: Passport or national ID card (pass, nasjonalt ID-kort), Norwegian firearms licence (våpenkort)2 statements, 1 not verified
A gun shop may sell ammunition only to someone entitled to hold it. Someone entitled to hold a rifle may hold ammunition for it, if the ammunition is for the same purpose.✓Official source: Vapenlagen 6 kap. 4 §
Assumption The shop asks to see the Norwegian licence or European firearms pass, and ID. The law does not say what the shop must see.
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Stage 4: During the hunt
ChecksPolisenAsks for: Swedish state hunting card (statligt jaktkort), Norwegian firearms licence (våpenkort), European firearms pass (europeisk våpenpass)3 statements, 1 not verified
Agency’s understanding A hunters’ organisation at the workshop said the European firearms pass is never shown alone: the firearms licence is always shown with it. The Swedish rule and Tullverket’s page say either one is enough.Workshop on firearms and identity, 2026Vapenförordningen 10 kap. 11 §Tullverket
ChecksLänsstyrelsenAsks for: Swedish state hunting card (statligt jaktkort)1 statement
Deer and elk with signs of chronic wasting disease must always be reported, through SVA’s form, so they can be sampled. Sweden’s CWD surveillance ran from 2018 to 2021 and has ended.✓Official source: SVA✓Official source: Jordbruksverket
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Stage 5: After a kill
ReportsRepresentative of the elk area (företrädare)1 statement
Elk reported in Svenska Jägareförbundet’s Viltdata are passed on to Länsstyrelsen automatically.✓Official source: Viltdata
On the way home
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Stage 6: Going home
IssuesVeterinarians (veterinær, veterinär)Pet passport (EU-kjæledyrpass)5 statements, 1 not verified
A vet in Sweden treats the dog for tapeworm 24 to 120 hours before it enters Norway, and records it in the passport. Mattilsynet says the vet must be in the country the dog is leaving.✓Official source: Mattilsynet
A dog that crosses often can follow the 28-day rule instead, and must on a day trip, for example to Sweden: a treatment at least every 28 days, and, to stop, a last treatment in Norway within 28 days of the one before.✓Official source: Mattilsynet
Sweden is not exempt: only dogs coming straight from Finland, Malta or Ireland need no treatment.✓Official source: Mattilsynet
Nothing more is required once the dog is home, but Mattilsynet recommends an extra treatment if the dog was at risk of infection after the treatment, before coming home.✓Official source: Mattilsynet
Agency’s understanding The tapeworm treatment is what dog owners ask about most, and hunters find its timing the hardest part of travelling with a dog.Workshop on travelling with dogs, October 2026Workshop on hunting, October 2026
ReceivesTullverketAsks for: Firearms notification (anmälan av skjutvapen och ammunition)6 statements, 3 not verified
After the trip, the hunter deregisters the firearms with Tullverket, through a link in the confirmation email.✓Official source: Tullverket
Until the firearms are deregistered, Tullverket emails a reminder every day, from the day after the trip was to end.✓Official source: Tullverket
A hunter who notified online can take the green or blue lane when passing the Swedish border, and deregisters after the trip through the link in the confirmation email. Tullverket’s page names no stop at customs on the way out.✓Official source: Tullverket
Agency’s understanding Deregistering online is tied to the date, not the place, so the hunter can do it from Sweden or from Norway.Tullverket, information to the project, October 2026
Agency’s understanding A hunter who declared the firearms at the border shows them again when leaving, and hands page 2 of the declaration to a customs officer as the deregistration.Tullverket, information to the project, October 2026
Agency’s understanding Tullverket does not check the dog’s tapeworm treatment, which is a Norwegian requirement.Tullverket, information to the project, October 2026
ChecksTolletatenAsks for: Form for taking firearms out of Norway (Melding om midlertidig utførsel uten våpenpass), Pet passport (EU-kjæledyrpass), Commercial document for an untreated trophy (handelsdokument)8 statements, 3 not verified
A dog coming from Sweden that has only been in Sweden and meets all the requirements may go through the green lane, but the dog and its papers must be shown if customs ask.✓Official source: Mattilsynet
A dog that doesn’t meet the requirements coming into Norway goes back with its owner to the country they came from, or the owner pays for boarding it.✓Official source: Mattilsynet
Up to 10 kg of meat from the hunter’s own hunt in an EEA country is free of duty and other charges. With more than 10 kg, the hunter uses the red lane, hands in a declaration that the meat is from their own hunt, and pays 15 percent VAT. Above 75 kg in a calendar year, customs duty is also due.✓Official source: Tolletaten
A hunter who took the firearms out without a European firearms pass goes to the red lane and hands the second copy of the form to Tolletaten.✓Official source: Politiet
Agency’s understanding Sweden reminds the hunter to deregister the firearms, while Norway follows up by hand.Workshop on firearms and identity, 2026
Coming back, Tolletaten checks the firearms against the form, and where they don’t match, tells the police district where the hunter lives. The form is for a trip of up to a year; for a trip of up to three months, the European firearms pass takes its place.✓Official source: Våpenforskrifta § 10-17
Not confirmed We found nothing on what happens when the hunter’s copy of the form is lost on the way back to Tolletaten.
Not confirmed Tolletaten lists only trophies of endangered or vulnerable species, and trophies from outside the EU and EEA, as restricted at the border. Mattilsynet says other trophies need a commercial document or health certificate, and an import notification. How the two fit together is not clear.TolletatenMattilsynet
Taxidermist (preparant)1 statement
A trophy of a hoofed animal or a bird that is fully prepared, ready to hang on the wall, can be brought into Norway without contacting Mattilsynet.✓Official source: Mattilsynet
Not confirmed No source says whether a Norwegian hunter needs a Swedish permit to take leftover ammunition bought in Sweden home to Norway.
Standards
The standards that exist or are on the way for these documents, and where a new one is needed for the two countries to read each other’s credentials.
Rulebooks: the EU’s method for defining a new wallet credential
How new standards are made
A rulebook for a kind of wallet credential must list every piece of data (attribute) that the credential may contain.✓Official source: ARF Annex 2, ARB_06
The Commission, with the member states’ expert group (EDICG), maintains the rulebooks for the identity (PID) and the mobile driving licence.✓Official source: ARF ch. 5.5.2 (rendered)
More (6)
Not confirmed Apart from the rulebooks for the identity and the driving licence, we found none in the framework, and none for hunting, firearms or pets anywhere.
Assumption Hunting licences and firearms licences fall under public permits and licences.
The EU wallet framework expects public administrations, or sectoral or cross-border organisations, to create EU-wide or sectoral rulebooks.✓Official source: ARF ch. 5.5.2 (rendered)
In the ARF, if a credential must be shown in person without using the internet, its rulebook must say it is issued in the ISO mdoc format.✓Official source: ARF Annex 2, ARB_02
EU identity in the wallet (PID)
Standard exists
An EU implementing regulation defines the provider of the identity in the wallet (PID) as the person or organisation responsible for issuing and revoking it.✓Official source: CIR 2024/2977 Art. 2
A 2026 EU implementing regulation says the identity must be issued according to the standards for two formats: SD-JWT VC and ISO mdoc.✓Official source: CIR 2026/1731 Annex I
EU law obliges public bodies, and some private services, to accept the wallet where they ask for electronic identification for an online service.✓Official source: Reg (EU) 2024/1183, Art. 5f
Not confirmed We found no rule that obliges anyone to accept the wallet in a check made in person, such as at the border or in a shop.
Not confirmed We have not confirmed when the rules on accepting the wallet apply in Norway, through the EEA agreement.
Digital travel credential
EU standard on the way
A Commission proposal from 2024 sets a uniform EU standard for digital travel credentials, and an EU app for using them.✓Official source: COM(2024) 670
Assumption The border between Norway and Sweden is inside the Schengen area, so for this trip we propose the identity in the wallet (PID) instead.
A second proposal, for credentials based on EU citizens’ identity cards, says holders should be able to keep them in the EUDI wallet.✓Official source: COM(2024) 671
Not confirmed We did not confirm whether the proposals had been adopted by October 2026.
Hunting licences, exams, shooting tests and tracking dogs
No standard yet
Not confirmed We found no EU act, ISO standard, Nordic agreement or proposal that defines a hunting licence shared across countries, or a common digital format for one.
Not confirmed We found no description of the electronic hunting card in Oma riista as a signed credential that an inspector can verify.
In Estonia, the hunting certificate, the firearms permit and the big-game shooting test certificate are issued electronically.✓Official source: Keskkonnaamet
Assumption Neither country sets a format for the documentation.
More (3)
The EU regulation on bringing firearms into and out of the EU asks a hunter to show the reason for the trip, in particular with an invitation or other proof of the hunt.✓Official source: Regulation (EU) 2025/41
Assumption Regulation (EU) 2025/41 sets no format for the invitation.
When a hunter applies for a Swedish import permit, the police have an invitation form of their own for the host’s certificate.✓Official source: Polisen
Assumption The data in the firearms registers is what a national firearms licence is based on.
More (2)
Not confirmed We found no EU act that defines a model or a data format for national firearms licences, only what the registers must contain.
The Norwegian police say each country decides for itself how it wants ownership of a firearm documented, and that the traveller must always check whether the country accepts Norwegian licences and passes.✓Official source: Politiet
Assumption The border between Sweden and Norway is an EU customs border, since Norway is not in the EU customs union.
More (3)
From 12 February 2029, a hunter leaving the EU with firearms needs no export authorisation, if they submit the trip details through the EU’s electronic licensing system at least 10 working days before.✓Official source: Regulation (EU) 2025/41
Assumption The EU electronic licensing system is for the authorities, not a credential in the hunter’s wallet, and Norway is not bound by the regulation.
Digital EU pet passport
No standard yet
Within two years, the Commission is to assess with the member states how the pet passport could be made digital, including the option of using the EUDI wallet.✓Official source: Commission statement C/2026/4812
Assumption The commercial document is for the authorities’ systems, not something the hunter needs to show from a wallet.
What we propose
Assumption Write a shared rulebook for hunting credentials (hunter, hunting fee, exam, shooting test and tracking dog), following the EU’s rules for rulebooks, so that Norway and Sweden can read each other’s credentials.
Assumption Register the rulebooks in the EU catalogue of schemes, so that other countries and wallets can find them.
Assumption Issue credentials that are checked in person in the field in the ISO mdoc format, since they must work without internet in the forest.
Assumption Ask, in the Commission’s evaluation of the Firearms Directive, for the digital European firearms pass to be a wallet credential.
Assumption Bring the needs of travel between Norway and Sweden into the Commission’s assessment of a digital pet passport, instead of defining a pet credential of our own.
Assumption Leave the felling permit and the trophy’s commercial document out of the hunter’s wallet: they belong to the hunting area and the authorities.
Open questions
The questions to take to the agencies, 58 in all: one for everything on this page that is an assumption, not confirmed, or where the sources disagree. Under each question is what we know so far, and who to ask: the organisation it is about, the authority behind the rule, or the European Commission for the EU’s rules.
Along the trip (11)
Who does what at each stage of the trip.
Before leaving: Politiet
Can a hunter from Norway use a driving licence as ID on this trip, or only a passport or national ID card?
Not confirmed The Norwegian police list a driving licence as one of the documents to carry on Nordic trips, but the Swedish police say a Nordic driving licence can be accepted as ID only in some cases.PolitietPolisen
Ask: Politiet
Before leaving: Digdir; Identity in the wallet (PID)
Who will issue the identity in the wallet (PID) in the real Norwegian wallet?
Not confirmed No source says who will issue the identity in the wallet (PID) in the real Norwegian wallet.Prop. 1 S (2026–2027)
Ask: Digdir
Before leaving: Holder of the hunting rights
Does a visiting hunter in Sweden need permission from the holder of the hunting rights, and where is that written?
Assumption A visiting hunter in Sweden needs permission from the holder of the hunting rights. This follows from the rules that the landowner holds the hunting rights and that the right of public access does not cover hunting, but no Swedish source we read says it directly.
Ask: Naturvårdsverket
Before leaving: Svenska Jägareförbundet
Is it right that Sweden asks for no shooting test for elk, and may a host accept the Norwegian shooting test instead of the elk shooting badge?
Assumption As far as we found, Swedish law asks for no shooting test for elk, and a Swedish host may accept the Norwegian shooting test instead of the elk shooting badge.
Ask: Naturvårdsverket, Svenska Jägareförbundet
Crossing the border: Tullverket
May a hunter take a borrowed firearm out of Norway for a hunt abroad, and what must they carry?
Not confirmed We found no rule on taking a borrowed firearm out of Norway for a hunt abroad.
Ask: Politiet
Crossing the border: Tullverket
Must a dog coming from Norway with a microchip and a pet passport be declared at the border?
Sources disagree Tullverket says a dog coming from Norway with a microchip and a pet passport needs no notification, and it has told the project the same about a hunter from Norway with their own dog. Jordbruksverket’s general rule for dogs from the EU and Norway says every dog must be declared to customs, at a customs point or in advance on Tullverket’s website.TullverketTullverket, information to the project, October 2026Jordbruksverket
Ask: Tullverket, Jordbruksverket
Before the hunt: Leader of the hunt
Does the leader of the hunt check each hunter’s documents, or only tell the hunters what they need?
Assumption The leader also checks each hunter’s documents. The rules only say the leader must inform the hunters.
Ask: Naturvårdsverket
Before the hunt: Gun shop in Sweden
What must a Swedish gun shop see before it sells ammunition to a hunter from Norway?
Assumption The shop asks to see the Norwegian licence or European firearms pass, and ID. The law does not say what the shop must see.
Ask: Polisen
Going home: Tolletaten
What happens when the hunter’s copy of the form for taking firearms out of Norway is lost before it is handed back?
Not confirmed We found nothing on what happens when the hunter’s copy of the form is lost on the way back to Tolletaten.
Ask: Tolletaten
Going home: Tolletaten
Which rules apply to an elk trophy brought from Sweden into Norway, Tolletaten’s or Mattilsynet’s, and how do they fit together?
Not confirmed Tolletaten lists only trophies of endangered or vulnerable species, and trophies from outside the EU and EEA, as restricted at the border. Mattilsynet says other trophies need a commercial document or health certificate, and an import notification. How the two fit together is not clear.TolletatenMattilsynet
Ask: Tolletaten, Mattilsynet
Going home: Polisen
Does a hunter from Norway need a Swedish permit to take leftover ammunition bought in Sweden home?
Not confirmed No source says whether a Norwegian hunter needs a Swedish permit to take leftover ammunition bought in Sweden home to Norway.
Ask: Polisen
Documents and credentials (22)
What the documents are today, and who is behind each credential.
Passport or national ID card
On a trip between Norway and Sweden, can the identity in the wallet take the place of the passport or ID card?
Assumption On this trip the passport or ID card is only proof of identity, so the identity in the wallet can take its place. A digital travel credential is for the Schengen area’s external borders.COM(2024) 670
Ask: Polisen, Politiet
Passport or national ID card
Does Polisen accept the identity in the wallet when it checks who someone is at the internal border?
Not confirmed No source says whether Polisen accepts the identity in the wallet when it checks who someone is at the internal border.
Ask: Polisen
Passport or national ID card
May a Swedish gun shop accept the identity in the wallet as ID?
Not confirmed No source says whether a Swedish gun shop may accept the identity in the wallet as ID.
Ask: Polisen
Passport or national ID card
Is the nationality in the identity in the wallet accepted as proof of citizenship, as the passport and ID card are?
Not confirmed Norway’s exemption from carrying a travel document is for Nordic citizens. The Swedish police say only the passport and the national ID card prove both identity and Swedish citizenship. No source says whether the nationality in the identity in the wallet would be accepted as proof of citizenship.Utlendingsforskriften § 2-1Polisen
Ask: Polisen, Politiet
Norwegian hunting fee card
Has Landbruksdirektoratet delegated its role as register owner to Brønnøysundregistrene, and which of them formally issues the hunting fee card?
Not confirmed Who formally issues the card: the regulation lets Landbruksdirektoratet delegate its role as register owner, but we found no published delegation to Brønnøysundregistrene.Jegerregisteret regulation § 1-1
Ask: Landbruksdirektoratet, Brønnøysundregistrene
Shooting test for big game
Where can a hunter download the diploma for a passed shooting test, now that Landbruksdirektoratet has taken over from Miljødirektoratet?
Sources disagree Brønnøysundregistrene’s page says the diploma can be downloaded from Miljødirektoratet’s website, but Landbruksdirektoratet has taken over game that may be hunted from Miljødirektoratet.BrønnøysundregistreneLandbruksdirektoratet
Ask: Brønnøysundregistrene, Landbruksdirektoratet
Permission to hunt, and invitation
Who writes the invitation to hunt in practice: the landowner, the hunting team, the leader of the hunt or a tour operator?
Assumption In practice the landowner, the hunting team, the leader of the hunt or a tour operator may write the invitation.
Ask: Svenska Jägareförbundet
Norwegian firearms licence
On a hunt in Norway, is the digital firearms licence enough, or must the hunter still bring the physical card?
Sources disagree Landbruksdirektoratet’s page on what to bring on a big-game hunt says both that the physical licence card must always be brought, and a picture of it doesn’t count, and that the digital licence must always be at hand, with the physical card valid for a transition period.Landbruksdirektoratet
Ask: Landbruksdirektoratet, Politiet
Pet passport
Does a Norwegian dog’s passport still follow the older EU model?
Assumption A Norwegian dog’s passport may still follow the older EU model, since Norway has not adopted the 2026 rules.
Ask: Mattilsynet
Pet passport
Must a wallet credential for the dog name the vet who issued it, as the paper passport does?
Not confirmed No source says whether a wallet credential must name the issuing vet, as the paper passport does.Workshop on travelling with dogs, October 2026
Ask: Mattilsynet
Pet passport; Dog credentials: identity, owner and treatments: technical issuer
Who would issue a vaccination credential for a dog: each vet clinic, a vets’ association, DyreID, or a shared vaccine register?
Not confirmed No source says who would issue a vaccination credential: each vet clinic, a vets’ association, DyreID, or a shared vaccine register.
Ask: Mattilsynet
Pet passport
Does anything other than the pet passport prove the dog’s microchip at the border, such as DyreID?
Not confirmed No source says whether anything other than the passport proves the dog’s microchip at the border. A Norwegian dog’s chip can be registered in DyreID, which can be searched across Europe, and the DyreID app keeps the dog’s profile and documents.DyreIDDyreID
Ask: Tullverket
Commercial document for an untreated trophy
What does the commercial document for an untreated trophy look like for a private hunter?
Not confirmed We found no description of what the commercial document looks like for a private hunter.
Ask: Mattilsynet
Commercial document for an untreated trophy
Who issues the commercial document for a private hunter’s trophy?
Not confirmed No source says who issues the commercial document for a private hunter.
Ask: Mattilsynet
Commercial document for an untreated trophy
Does the hunter fill in the commercial document, or the taxidermist who sends the trophy?
Assumption The hunter, or the taxidermist who sends the trophy, fills it in.
Ask: Mattilsynet
Identity (PID): technical issuer
Will Digdir issue the identity in the real Norwegian wallet, as it does in the sandbox?
Not confirmed No source says who will issue the identity in the real Norwegian wallet. In Digdir’s plan for the sandbox, a test environment, Digdir issues it.Digdir
Ask: Digdir
Identity (PID): register
Which register will the identity in the Norwegian wallet come from: Folkeregisteret, as in Digdir’s sandbox?
Not confirmed No source says which register the identity in the real Norwegian wallet would come from. In Digdir’s plan for the sandbox, Folkeregisteret is the source of the person’s identity.Digdir
Ask: Digdir
Identity (PID): responsible authority
Which authority will be responsible for the Norwegian wallet, and when will a law say so?
Not confirmed No law yet names the authority responsible for the Norwegian wallet: the government is at an early stage of the law work. The ministry has made developing the wallet one of Digdir’s main priorities for 2026.Prop. 1 S (2026–2027)Tildelingsbrev 2026, Digdir
Ask: Digdir
Invitation to hunt: register
Does any register hold permissions to hunt or invitations?
Assumption As far as we found, no register holds permissions to hunt or invitations: they are agreements between the hunter and the holder of the hunting rights.
Ask: Naturvårdsverket
Invitation to hunt: responsible authority
Is any authority responsible for permissions to hunt or invitations?
Assumption As far as we found, no authority is responsible for permissions to hunt or invitations: they are agreements between the hunter and the holder of the hunting rights.
Ask: Naturvårdsverket
Receipt for the firearms notification: register
Is the firearms notification kept in a register, and which one?
Not confirmed No source names a register for the notifications. By law, Tullverket reports firearms brought into or out of Sweden to Polisen.Förordning 2006:527 1 §
Ask: Tullverket
Dog credentials: identity, owner and treatments: register
Must a dog’s microchip be registered in DyreID, or will Mattilsynet’s national register take its place?
Not confirmed DyreID runs a register of microchipped animals together with Norsk Kennel Klub, but no source says a dog’s chip must be registered there today. Under new EU rules, Mattilsynet will be responsible for a national register of dogs and cats.DyreIDMattilsynet
Ask: Mattilsynet
Standards (20)
Whether standards exist or are on the way, and how they apply.
Rulebooks: the EU’s method for defining a new wallet credential
Are rulebooks on the way for hunting, firearms or pets?
Not confirmed Apart from the rulebooks for the identity and the driving licence, we found none in the framework, and none for hunting, firearms or pets anywhere.
Ask: European Commission
Rulebooks: the EU’s method for defining a new wallet credential
Do hunting licences and firearms licences fall under public permits and licences?
Assumption Hunting licences and firearms licences fall under public permits and licences.
Ask: European Commission
EU identity in the wallet (PID)
Must anyone accept the wallet in a check made in person, such as at the border or in a shop?
Not confirmed We found no rule that obliges anyone to accept the wallet in a check made in person, such as at the border or in a shop.
Ask: European Commission
EU identity in the wallet (PID)
When do the rules on accepting the wallet apply in Norway, through the EEA agreement?
Not confirmed We have not confirmed when the rules on accepting the wallet apply in Norway, through the EEA agreement.
Ask: Digdir
Digital travel credential
Is the identity in the wallet enough at the border between Norway and Sweden, without a digital travel credential?
Assumption The border between Norway and Sweden is inside the Schengen area, so for this trip we propose the identity in the wallet (PID) instead.
Ask: Polisen, Politiet
Digital travel credential
Have the proposals for a digital travel credential been adopted?
Not confirmed We did not confirm whether the proposals had been adopted by October 2026.
Ask: European Commission
Hunting licences, exams, shooting tests and tracking dogs
Is there any standard, agreement or proposal for a hunting licence shared across countries, or a common digital format for one?
Not confirmed We found no EU act, ISO standard, Nordic agreement or proposal that defines a hunting licence shared across countries, or a common digital format for one.
Ask: European Commission
Hunting licences, exams, shooting tests and tracking dogs
Is the hunting licence harmonised anywhere in the EU?
Assumption Hunting licences are therefore not harmonised in the EU.
Ask: European Commission
Hunting licences, exams, shooting tests and tracking dogs
Is the electronic hunting card in Oma riista a signed credential that an inspector can verify?
Not confirmed We found no description of the electronic hunting card in Oma riista as a signed credential that an inspector can verify.
Ask: Suomen riistakeskus
Invitations to hunt
Does either country set a format for the documentation of the hunt?
Assumption Neither country sets a format for the documentation.
Ask: Polisen, Politiet
Invitations to hunt
Does Regulation (EU) 2025/41 set a format for the invitation?
Assumption Regulation (EU) 2025/41 sets no format for the invitation.
Ask: European Commission
National firearms licences
Is the data in the firearms registers what a national firearms licence is based on?
Assumption The data in the firearms registers is what a national firearms licence is based on.
Ask: Politiet, Polisen
National firearms licences
Is there an EU model or data format for national firearms licences?
Not confirmed We found no EU act that defines a model or a data format for national firearms licences, only what the registers must contain.
Ask: European Commission
Digital European firearms pass
Is a digital European firearms pass being specified?
Not confirmed We found no proposal or technical specification for a digital European firearms pass.
Ask: European Commission
EU electronic licensing for firearms at the EU border
Is the border between Sweden and Norway an EU customs border for firearms?
Assumption The border between Sweden and Norway is an EU customs border, since Norway is not in the EU customs union.
Ask: Tullverket, Tolletaten
EU electronic licensing for firearms at the EU border
Is the EU electronic licensing system only for the authorities, and is Norway bound by it?
Assumption The EU electronic licensing system is for the authorities, not a credential in the hunter’s wallet, and Norway is not bound by the regulation.
Ask: European Commission
Digital EU pet passport
Does the optional QR code make the pet passport digital?
Assumption The optional QR code does not make the pet passport digital.
Ask: European Commission
Digital EU pet passport
Is a digital or wallet version of the pet passport being specified?
Not confirmed We found no EU specification yet for a digital or wallet version of the pet passport.
Ask: European Commission
Dog microchips and registers
Are the EU dog register rules only for registers, or could a dog owner show the registration from a wallet?
Assumption The EU dog register rules are for registers, not a credential that a dog owner could show from a wallet.
Ask: European Commission
Commercial document for trophies
Does the hunter ever need to show the commercial document for a trophy, or is it only for the authorities’ systems?
Assumption The commercial document is for the authorities’ systems, not something the hunter needs to show from a wallet.
Ask: Mattilsynet
Our proposals to discuss (5)
Who we propose signs each credential: not questions for an agency to answer, but proposals to discuss.
Norwegian hunter exam credential, Norwegian shooting test credential: technical issuer
Would Landbruksdirektoratet sign this credential, or Brønnøysundregistrene on its behalf?
Assumption Our proposal: Landbruksdirektoratet signs it, or Brønnøysundregistrene on its behalf, as the data is in Jegerregisteret.
Ask: Landbruksdirektoratet
Swedish hunting card credential: technical issuer
Would Naturvårdsverket sign the Swedish hunting card credential?
Assumption Our proposal: Naturvårdsverket signs it, as it provides the card and keeps the register of who has paid.
Ask: Naturvårdsverket
Invitation to hunt: technical issuer
Could the host who invites the hunter sign the invitation, on behalf of the holder of the hunting rights?
Assumption Our proposal: the host who invites the hunter signs it, on behalf of the holder of the hunting rights.
Ask: Svenska Jägareförbundet
Digital European firearms pass: technical issuer
Would Politiet sign the digital European firearms pass?
Assumption Our proposal: Politiet signs it, as the police issue the pass today.
Ask: Politiet
Receipt for the firearms notification: technical issuer
Would Tullverket sign a receipt for the firearms notification?
Assumption Our proposal: Tullverket signs the receipt, as it receives the notification.
Ask: Tullverket
What this page is
A first map of the hunting case, for the project’s working groups to correct and complete. The credentials are our proposals, to discuss with the agencies that would issue them.
