Nimetazepam, sold historically as Erimin and known on the street as Erimin-5 or Happy-5, is a controlled benzodiazepine. A Class C controlled drug and Fourth Schedule specified drug in Singapore, with no named section 17 trafficking threshold.
⏳Pending medical review. This page has not yet been checked by a clinician, so read it as general information, not medical advice.
Overview
Nimetazepam is a benzodiazepine developed as a sedative-hypnotic medicine and marketed in parts of Asia under the Erimin name, including as Erimin 5. It is CAS 2011-67-8, PubChem CID 4496, molecular formula C₁₆H₁₃N₃O₃, and chemically a nitrobenzodiazepinone — IUPAC 1-methyl-7-nitro-5-phenyl-3H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one.
The original proprietary product is no longer a normal current medicine: UNODC reports that licit manufacture of Erimin 5 was discontinued in 2015. The name persists in illicit markets, where tablets are sold as Erimin-5 or Happy-5 — both names Singapore's Central Narcotics Bureau lists. That gap between a discontinued pharmaceutical and a continuing street name is exactly why this page exists: a reader who meets “Erimin”, “Erimin-5” or “Happy-5” in a judgment needs to be able to resolve it to nimetazepam.
It is controlled in Schedule IV of the United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971. The INCB Green List entry reads: “NIMETAZEPAM — 1,3-dihydro-1-methyl-7-nitro-5-phenyl-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one”.
Source: PubChem CID 4496; INCB Green List, 36th edition; UNODC, Synthetic Drugs in East and Southeast Asia 2026; Singapore Central Narcotics Bureau.
Chemistry & mechanism of action
Nimetazepam belongs to the benzodiazepine class. Benzodiazepines enhance inhibitory signalling at GABA-A receptors, reducing central nervous system activity and producing sedation, impaired alertness and other depressant effects. Experimental receptor work identified nimetazepam as a high-affinity benzodiazepine-receptor ligand.
Human metabolism studies identify nitrazepam and 7-aminonimetazepam among its metabolites, so a urine screen may detect nitrazepam in someone who took nimetazepam. The two are closely related but distinct compounds and should not be treated as the same drug.
These are class and laboratory findings describing pharmacology. They do not make nimetazepam an approved medicine.
Expected benzodiazepine effects include drowsiness, slowed reactions, impaired judgement, reduced coordination, and memory or concentration problems.
Impairment outlasts the subjective sense of being affected, which is what makes driving and similar tasks dangerous well after someone feels recovered.
Illicit tablets add a separate uncertainty that no description of effects can cover: the name or appearance of a tablet does not establish its actual contents or its strength.
Source: FDA benzodiazepine class boxed-warning update; Singapore Central Narcotics Bureau.
Risks & harms
Risks rise sharply when a benzodiazepine is combined with opioids, alcohol or other central nervous system depressants: profound sedation, respiratory depression, coma and death can occur. This is the substance of the FDA's boxed warning for the whole benzodiazepine class.
Repeated use can lead to physical dependence. Abrupt dose reduction or stopping after dependence has developed can cause serious withdrawal, including seizures. A taper needs a prescriber.
Because genuine Erimin 5 has not been manufactured since 2015, a tablet sold under that name has an unverified identity and an unverified dose. Neither can be established without laboratory analysis.
Source: FDA benzodiazepine class boxed-warning update; UNODC, Synthetic Drugs in East and Southeast Asia 2026.
Legal status (US)
International. Nimetazepam is controlled in Schedule IV of the United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances of 1971.
Singapore. The Misuse of Drugs Act 1973 lists nimetazepam in the First Schedule, Part 3, as a Class C controlled drug, and in the Fourth Schedule, item 10, as a specified drug. Section 8(a) prohibits unauthorised possession and section 5 addresses trafficking and possession for the purpose of trafficking. Because it is a specified drug, section 8(b)(ii) creates a named consumption offence, and section 8A extends the specified-drug consumption rule to Singapore citizens and permanent residents outside Singapore in the circumstances the Act states.
Section 17 trafficking presumption: NONE FOUND. Section 17 lists quantities for opium, morphine, diamorphine, cannabis, cannabis mixture, cannabis resin, cocaine, methamphetamine, ketamine and the MDMA-group compounds. It does not name nimetazepam. NONE FOUND is not zero. It means the section 17 presumption is not triggered by any named nimetazepam quantity — not that every quantity triggers it. Trafficking may still be proved by evidence.
Elsewhere. Nimetazepam is Schedule IV federally in the United States, Class C in the United Kingdom, Opium Act List II in the Netherlands, BtMG Annex III in Germany, CDSA Schedule IV in Canada, First Schedule Part III under Malaysia's Dangerous Drugs Act, a Category 2 psychotropic in Thailand, Category IV in Indonesia and Schedule 8 in the UAE. Three cautions on quantities: Canada's Schedule IV listing does not bring nimetazepam within the CDSA section 4(1) simple-possession offence; Japan's 150 mg figure and Thailand's prescribed-day rules are traveller administration thresholds, not criminal-law permissions; and Australia has no express Commonwealth Poisons Standard entry — the 25 g pure-drug traffickable quantity is Victoria only, from a generic 7-nitro-1,4-benzodiazepine entry, and is not a national rule.
This section is under editorial and legal review. Verify the position in the specific jurisdiction before relying on it.
Source: Misuse of Drugs Act 1973, First Schedule Part 3, Fourth Schedule item 10, ss 5, 8, 8A and 17 (Singapore Statutes Online, current version); INCB Green List 36th edition; 21 CFR 1308.14(c)(42); Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 Sch 2 Pt III; Opiumwet List II; BtMG Anlage III; CDSA Sch IV; Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 First Schedule Pt III; Thai Narcotics Code B.E. 2564; Indonesian MoH Reg 10/2022; UAE Federal Decree-Law 30/2021 Sch 8; Drugs, Poisons and Controlled Substances Act 1981 (Vic) Sch Eleven Pt 1.
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Before you travel
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If you’re detained or arrested abroad
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If it’s too intense
If an experience becomes overwhelming, the goal is to stay safe and let it pass, most difficult experiences ease as the drug wears off.
Get to a calm, safe space with someone you trust who is sober and can stay with you.
Cool down if you’re overheating, move somewhere cool, remove extra layers, rest. Overheating is especially a risk with stimulants and MDMA.
Sip water to thirst, but don’t over-hydrate. Drinking large amounts of plain water (especially after MDMA) can dangerously dilute your blood sodium (hyponatremia). Electrolytes help more than volume.
Slow your breathing, long, slow exhales help settle a racing heart and anxiety.
A sugary drink, fruit juice, or a snack can ease shakiness and the anxiety that comes with low blood sugar.
Do not take more, and do not add another substance to manage it. Redosing or adding something else (including a sedative like a benzodiazepine) can make things worse, not better.
With depressants, the danger is over-sedation: if someone is very drowsy, hard to wake, or breathing slowly, treat it as an emergency.
Call 911 (or Poison Control, 1-800-222-1222) right away for chest pain, a very high body temperature, a seizure, unconsciousness, or severe confusion. These are medical emergencies, not something to wait out.
Source: general harm-reduction guidance from SAMHSA, NIH/NIDA, and MedlinePlus, in our own words. Draft, not yet medically reviewed.
Nimetazepam is a 向精神薬, a psychotropic, designated by Cabinet Order in Japan under 麻薬及び向精神薬取締法別表第三第十一号. The entry is 「一・三―ジヒドロ―一―メチル―七―ニトロ―五―フェニル―二Ｈ―一・四―ベンゾジアゼピン―二―オン（別名ニメタゼパム）及びその塩類」 at 政令第四条第五十三号, which is 1,3-dihydro-1-methyl-7-nitro-5-phenyl-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one, otherwise called nimetazepam, and its salts. It is a 第三種向精神薬, the residual class the Act defines in 第五十条の九 as 「第一種向精神薬及び第二種向精神薬以外の向精神薬（以下「第三種向精神薬」という。）」, which carries the lightest record keeping. Nimetazepam is the N-methyl derivative of nitrazepam, which is one of the ten substances in the Act's own 別表第三, at 第八号; the two are listed separately. This is the position on the psychotropics tables status 3 October 2025, with the narcotics tables status 6 September 2026 and the designated substances list status 6 September 2026 read for the other lanes, and the e-Gov text as at 2 October 2026.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. No Japanese drug statute provides a death sentence: 死刑 appears in the main provisions of none of the 麻薬及び向精神薬取締法 (the Narcotics and Psychotropics Control Act), the 覚醒剤取締法 (the Stimulants Control Act), the あへん法 (the Opium Act), the 大麻草の栽培の規制に関する法律 (the Cannabis Plant Cultivation Act), the pharmaceuticals Act (the PMD Act) or the 麻薬特例法 (the Narcotics Special Provisions Act), each read on e-Gov on 2 October 2026. Japan has not abolished capital punishment: 刑法第九条 lists it among the principal punishments, 「死刑、拘禁刑、罰金、拘留及び科料を主刑とし、没収を付加刑とする。」, and 第百九十九条 provides it for murder. Every penalty below reads 拘禁刑, the single form of imprisonment that replaced 懲役 and 禁錮 on the day described in the ministerial ordinance's own words as 「刑法等の一部を改正する法律の施行の日（令和七年六月一日）」, 1 June 2025; under 刑法第十二条第一項 「有期拘禁刑は、一月以上二十年以下とする。」, so an open ended fixed term such as one year or more runs to twenty years, and 第十四条第二項 allows an aggravated fixed term to rise to thirty. The drug statutes took the new term from 令和四年法律第六十八号. Life imprisonment appears in the drug statutes in three places only: 麻薬及び向精神薬取締法第六十四条第二項 (heroin imported, exported or made for profit), 覚醒剤取締法第四十一条第二項 (stimulants imported, exported or made for profit) and 麻薬特例法第五条 (dealing in any 規制薬物 as a business). Nimetazepam is a 第三種向精神薬, and the psychotropic articles are the lightest of the controlled lanes. Importing, exporting, manufacturing, preparing or subdividing a 向精神薬 is 第六十六条の三第一項, 「向精神薬を、みだりに、本邦若しくは外国に輸入し、本邦若しくは外国から輸出し、製造し、製剤し、又は小分けした者」, up to five years, and up to seven with a fine of up to two million yen where the circumstances warrant if done for profit. Transferring one, or possessing it in order to transfer it, is 第六十六条の四第一項, 「向精神薬を、みだりに、譲り渡し、又は譲り渡す目的で所持した者」, up to three years, and up to five with a fine of up to one million yen for profit. Attempts are punished. Read the second of those carefully: it reaches possession only where the purpose is transfer, and no article from 第六十四条 to 第七十六条 punishes possessing, receiving or using a 向精神薬 for one's own use, so personal possession of nimetazepam is not an offence under this Act. An import that falls outside the carriage conditions described under documentation is an import by a person 第五十条の八 does not authorise, which is the conduct 第六十六条の三 punishes. Making a business of it is lifted further by 麻薬特例法第五条, whose 第一号 reaches the 向精神薬 import, export, manufacture and transfer offences in 第六十六条の三 and 第六十六条の四 (possession excluded), and whose penalty is 「無期又は五年以上の拘禁刑及び千万円以下の罰金に処する。」 That is life or at least five years and, cumulatively, a fine of up to ten million yen. So the seven year figure is the ceiling for a one off profit motivated import, not for a dealing business.
If prescribed / medical
Nimetazepam is a medicine lane substance in Japan rather than a prohibited one: a 向精神薬 reaches a patient through a 向精神薬処方箋 dispensed by a 向精神薬小売業者 (第二条第三十三号, 第五十条の十七), or directly from a hospital or clinic, which 第五十条の十六第一項第一号 allows: 「病院等の開設者が、施用のため交付される向精神薬を譲り渡し、又は譲り渡す目的で所持する場合」. Its class, the 第三種向精神薬, is set out under legal_status. A foreign prescription is not a Japanese 向精神薬処方箋 and does not on its own make the drug importable. What a traveller has instead is 第五十条の八第二号, which lets in 「本邦に入国する者のうち、自己の疾病の治療の目的で向精神薬を携帯して輸入する者であつて厚生労働省令で定めるもの」, with 第五十条の十一第二号 as the matching exit route. Ordering it from abroad by post is not carrying it, so that route does not cover a parcel.
Documentation
A foreign prescription does not make nimetazepam importable by itself, but no advance permission is involved within the quantity limit. 麻薬及び向精神薬取締法施行規則第二十七条第一号 admits a traveller carrying a psychotropic listed in its 別表第一 at or below the listed quantity, other than an injection, and for nimetazepam the listed quantity is 「一五〇ｍｇ」, that is 150 mg of the active ingredient in total, the same figure the Narcotics Control Department's traveller table gives as «Nimetazepam 150 mg». Above 150 mg, or for any injectable form, 第二十七条第二号 requires the traveller to hold 「自己の疾病の治療のため特に必要であることを証する書類」, which the Narcotics Control Department describes as a certificate from the prescribing doctor naming the disease, the need for the drug and the quantities. Leaving Japan follows 第三十条 on the same terms. The department also says «If you import the psychotropics more than 1 month supply, please contact the following E-mail adress.» Carry the medicine personally in its dispensing packaging. The quantity is of the 向精神薬 itself, because 別表第三第十二号 makes 「前各号に掲げる物のいずれかを含有する物」 a 向精神薬 too, so a tablet is the drug for this purpose. Unlike 別表第一第七十八号, which reads 「前各号に掲げる物又は大麻のいずれかを含有する物であつて、あへん以外のもの。」 and carves out plants in its ニ, 「麻薬原料植物又は大麻草以外の植物（その一部分を含む。）」, the psychotropic clause has no plant exception. The entry is in a Cabinet Order made under the empowering words of 別表第三第十一号, 「前各号に掲げる物と同種の濫用のおそれがあり、かつ、同種の有害作用がある物であつて、政令で定めるもの」, and the order's article opens 「法別表第三第十一号の規定に基づき、次に掲げる物を向精神薬に指定する。」 Placement relied on: the MHLW designation tables, psychotropics tables status 3 October 2025 (向精神薬の指定状況 令和７年10月３日現在: the Act's 別表第三 with 10 substances and the Cabinet Order's 第四条 with 80, counts that match the e-Gov text read on 2 October 2026).
Japan · e-Gov law data API (Digital Agency), XML fetched 2 October 2026 · the e-Gov web pages are JavaScript shells, so the API text was cached and read · 政令第四条第五十三号 of 麻薬、麻薬原料植物、向精神薬、麻薬向精神薬原料等を指定する政令 (平成二年政令第二百三十八号), entry 「一・三―ジヒドロ―一―メチル―七―ニトロ―五―フェニル―二Ｈ―一・四―ベンゾジアゼピン―二―オン（別名ニメタゼパム）及びその塩類」 · 麻薬及び向精神薬取締法 昭和二十八年法律第十四号, articles 第二条 第五十条の八 第五十条の十一 第五十条の十六 第六十六条の三 第六十六条の四, as amended by 令和五年法律第八十四号, 令和七年法律第三十七号 (promulgated 2025-05-21 · its two enforced revisions of this Act, 2025-05-21 and 2025-11-20, add only 附則 text, and its amendment of the Act's own text is not in force until 2027-05-20, per the e-Gov law_revisions record) and 令和七年法律第八十七号 (its change to this Act, 第五十八条の十五, in force 2026-10-01 per the e-Gov law_revisions record), https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/328AC0000000014 · 麻薬、麻薬原料植物、向精神薬、麻薬向精神薬原料等を指定する政令 平成二年政令第二百三十八号, last amended by 令和八年政令第二百五十八号 (in force 2026-09-06), https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/402CO0000000238 · 麻薬及び向精神薬取締法施行令 昭和二十八年政令第五十七号 第三条 and 第四条 (第一種 and 第二種向精神薬), https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/328CO0000000057 · 麻薬及び向精神薬取締法施行規則 第二十七条 第三十条 and its 別表第一, https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/328M50000100014 · 麻薬特例法 第五条, https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/403AC0000000094 · MHLW psychotropics tables status 3 October 2025, https://www.mhlw.go.jp/content/11120000/001597636.pdf · mhlw.go.jp · Narcotics Control Department traveller procedure and threshold table, read 2 October 2026, https://www.ncd.mhlw.go.jp/en/application2.html · Updated October 2, 2026
Singapore
Legal status
Class C controlled drug. Misuse of Drugs Act 1973 (Singapore), First Schedule, Part 3 (Class C Drugs), paragraph 1, which names "Nimetazepam". Flunitrazepam and Triazolam are named in the same paragraph. These three are the only benzodiazepines anywhere in the First Schedule.
Consequences if caught
Second Schedule reach: none. The Second Schedule carries 20 rows imposing "Death" and they name exactly eight terms: opium, morphine, diamorphine, cocaine, cannabis, cannabis mixture, cannabis resin and methamphetamine. This substance is none of those eight, so the Second Schedule sets no capital band for it. Trafficking in a Class C drug carries "Maximum 10 years and 5 strokes" with a minimum of "2 years and 2 strokes". Unauthorised import, export or manufacture carries a higher band. Possession is never capital.
If prescribed / medical
Authorised medical supply is under the Act and its regulations. Do not rely on a foreign prescription without checking with the Health Sciences Authority before travelling. Nothing here authorises possession.
Documentation
VERIFIED against the instrument. Instrument: Misuse of Drugs Act 1973 (Singapore). Section: First Schedule, Part 3, paragraph 1. URL: https://sso.agc.gov.sg/Act/MDA1973. Part 3 paragraphs 2 to 4 extend the listing to any stereoisomeric form, any salt, and any preparation or other product containing it. The whole Second Schedule was read before the capital statement above was written.
Misuse of Drugs Act 1973 (Singapore), First Schedule, Second Schedule, Third Schedule and Fifth Schedule, on Singapore Statutes Online at https://sso.agc.gov.sg/Act/MDA1973, read as at the version the page marks "Current version as at 17 Sep 2026", the most recent amendment shown on its own timeline being S 321/2026 with effect from 1 June 2026 · Updated October 2, 2026
United Arab Emirates
Legal status
Nimetazepam is an individually listed Schedule 8 psychotropic under Decision No. 158 of 2025, at the printed entry «نيميتازيبام». The dossier's finding is that it is not assigned a class wide benzodiazepine result, and on this member that is a substantive point rather than a formality: nimetazepam is not licensed in most markets and circulates chiefly as an illicit tablet, so a class rule would be the only way to reach it in a country that did not name it. This instrument names it, which is why the placement holds independently of anything said about the other five members. The row runs through Articles 11, 43 and 58, with Schedule 10 carrying the quantity bands. The placement was read on 20 September 2026.
Consequences if caught
Article 58 reaches Schedules 3, 6, 7 and 8, and nimetazepam is in Schedule 8, so the article applies to the row. The dossier records Article 58 as providing death or life imprisonment as alternatives for its stated trafficking or promotion trigger, so death is discretionary rather than mandatory, and it records that the article states no quantity. The Schedule 10 bands do not gate that route. Because this member circulates almost entirely as an illicit tablet rather than as a dispensed medicine, the trafficking and promotion trigger is the realistic exposure here rather than a prescription question, and it carries a capital ceiling with no threshold in front of it. Article 43 carries the personal use route, with its tariff unstated in the dossier.
If prescribed / medical
The dossier records at the modafinil row that a 268 entry ministry travellers list was checked and expressly not used as a schedule. Attached to this substance: nimetazepam is named individually in Schedule 8. The dossier records no medicinal product, prescribing route or permit procedure for it, and unlike the other benzodiazepine members in this table there is no widespread licensed product behind the entry, so the question of a lawful medical route is deferred and is unlikely to arise in the form it takes for the other members.
Documentation
No documentation route is recorded for nimetazepam, and tablets obtained without a prescription have no paperwork that would assist. Provenance: the Schedule 8 placement and the entry «نيميتازيبام» were read on 20 September 2026, with the capital analysis resting on Article 58 and its death or life alternative rather than on the Schedule 10 bands. If the medicine was dispensed under a licence somewhere it is held, carry the prescription and the original packaging, and put the permit question to the health ministry before departure.
United Arab Emirates, Decision No. 158 of 2025, Schedule 8, printed entry «نيميتازيبام» for nimetazepam, individually listed rather than reached by a class wide benzodiazepine rule · Updated September 21, 2026
China
Legal status
Not confirmed, verify with Chinese embassy
Consequences if caught
Zero-tolerance regime: under Criminal Law Article 347, smuggling, selling, transporting, or manufacturing drugs is punished regardless of quantity. Importing narcotics/psychotropics requires an Import/Export License from the State Council's drug regulatory department. This specific substance was not named by a reachable source.
If prescribed / medical
Not confirmed, verify with the Chinese embassy before travel.
Documentation
Written documentation from a medical institution proving the medicine is necessary; customs verifies the amount against the original prescription and retains a copy (one prescription = one inspection). Psychotropic-drug allowances can be as short as a 3-7 day supply.
Controlled in Russia. Decree 681 lists nimetazepam at the entry «Ниметазепам» (in English, nimetazepam), and the dossier's explanation for this row reads: “List III psychotropic.” The list number stated for this row is taken from the dossier's explanation column and is not printed in the quoted list entry. Decree 681 of 30 June 1998 sets the controlled lists and Decree 1002 of 1 October 2012 sets the amounts. The dossier read Decree 681 and Decree 1002 as amended up to Government Decree No. 880 of 11 June 2025, checked on 18 September 2026; a later government decree is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. The highest sentence the dossier records under articles 228 and 228.1 of the Criminal Code is life imprisonment, at article 228.1(5). For nimetazepam the dossier's ceiling column gives Decree 1002 amounts of over 2 g (significant), over 10 g (large) and over 2000 g (especially large), and the dossier's penalties section says the printed numbers are strict “over” thresholds, not inclusive cut-offs. Personal possession without intent to sell below the significant amount is an administrative offence under KoAP article 6.8, and the dossier gives no fine figure for it. Above the significant amount article 228 of the Criminal Code applies, and the dossier's penalties section gives up to 3 years for a significant amount, 3 to 10 years for a large amount and 10 to 15 years for an especially large amount, with the additional sanctions stated in the article. Production, sale or transfer is criminal at any amount under article 228.1, where, as the dossier puts it, there is no minimum quantity gateway and quantity instead aggravates the sentence; the especially large limb, article 228.1(5), carries 15 to 20 years or life imprisonment, plus the optional fine and disqualification stated there. The record this cell rests on does not set out separate import, export, cultivation or consumption offences, so none is stated here.
If prescribed / medical
The dossier's model section describes List III as psychotropics with lesser controls, and neither that section nor this row states a prescription route for nimetazepam or its conditions, so none is given here.
Documentation
The dossier this cell rests on does not state a traveller documentation or import permit rule for nimetazepam.
Nimetazepam is a Category 2 psychotropic substance in Thailand. The Ministry of Public Health naming notification published in the Royal Gazette in B.E. 2565 prints วัตถุออกฤทธิ์ในประเภท 2, psychotropic substances in category 2, and names nimetazepam beneath it. Nimetazepam sits in Category 2 with alprazolam rather than in Category 4 with the other benzodiazepines this table answers. Section 94 of the Narcotics Code B.E. 2564 is the psychotropic limb and section 149 carries the penalties. This is the criminal classification taken from the naming notification and not from a traveller permit label, and the two are different documents answering different questions.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Section 149 provides neither a death penalty nor life imprisonment, and for Nimetazepam that is the end of it: the maximum stated for a Category 2 psychotropic is 7 years, with no death penalty, no life imprisonment and no quantity threshold as the trigger. The limb of this Code that can reach life or death is section 145 paragraph 3, it belongs to Category I narcotics, and a psychotropic placement does not carry a person into it. English accounts that merge the narcotic categories with the psychotropic categories produce exactly that error, and it is the reason this row states the ceiling before anything else. Nimetazepam sits in Category 2 with alprazolam rather than in Category 4 with the other benzodiazepines this table answers, so its 7 year ceiling is the higher of the two this notification gives them.
If prescribed / medical
Nimetazepam sits in psychotropic Category 2 under the B.E. 2565 naming notification, with a 7 year section 149 maximum, and that placement is a classification rather than a permission. Thailand's country level traveller rule for personal medication was not established by this reading. The sources opened were the Narcotics Code B.E. 2564, the Thai FDA narcotics table updated 15 September 2025 and the B.E. 2565 psychotropic naming notices in the Royal Gazette, and the dossier is explicit that its findings come from those naming instruments and not from a traveller permit label, so no import permit route, no personal supply quantity ceiling and no certificate requirement can be stated here for Nimetazepam. The notification read here is the criminal naming instrument and not the permit schedule, so it cannot say whether a foreign prescription, a quantity limit or an advance certificate would make a lawful entry. What is missing from this row is the permission, not the classification, and the gap is in what was read rather than a finding that no lawful route exists. The class label does not predict the category here, which is the single reason the benzodiazepines row in this table can state no status at all.
Documentation
Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging with a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and do not assume they settle the question: what was established for Nimetazepam is a Category 2 psychotropic placement in the B.E. 2565 naming notification, not a traveller route. Check the individual name against the notification, because two of the benzodiazepines in this set are Category 2 and three are Category 4. The reading was taken on 20 September 2026 from the Royal Gazette psychotropic naming notification, at https://www.ratchakitcha.soc.go.th/DATA/PDF/2565/E/182/T_0008.PDF. No express open reuse licence was located on the cited page, so only the wording needed for verification is reproduced, with attribution and a direct link. The names and categories are set by ministerial notification, and the publications do not certify that no later notification exists, so re-read before relying on this.
Indonesia
Legal status
Psikotropika Golongan IV under Indonesia's Undang-Undang Nomor 5 Tahun 1997 tentang Psikotropika: Psikotropika Golongan IV of the Lampiran to Permenkes No. 14 Tahun 2025, item 46 「NIMETAZEPAM」. Nimetazepam is item 46 of Psikotropika Golongan IV with the designation 1,3-dihidro-1-metil-7-nitro-5-fenil-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-on. FLUNITRAZEPAM, the closely related nitrobenzodiazepine, is in Golongan III. The model: each Act carries its own list for the first time only, and every change since is a Ministerial regulation. Pasal 6(1) of Undang-Undang Nomor 35 Tahun 2009 tentang Narkotika divides narcotics into Golongan I, II and III. Pasal 6(2) then provides that 「Penggolongan Narkotika sebagaimana dimaksud pada ayat (1) untuk pertama kali ditetapkan sebagaimana tercantum dalam Lampiran I dan merupakan bagian yang tak terpisahkan dari Undang-Undang ini」, so the Act's own annex governs only the first classification. The empowering article is Pasal 6(3): 「Ketentuan mengenai perubahan penggolongan Narkotika sebagaimana dimaksud pada ayat (2) diatur dengan Peraturan Menteri」. The psychotropics Act is built the same way: Pasal 2(3) of Undang-Undang Nomor 5 Tahun 1997 tentang Psikotropika sets the four golongan 「untuk pertamakali」 in its annex and Pasal 2(4) provides that 「Ketentuan lebih lanjut untuk penetapan dan perubahan jenis-jenis psikotropika sebagaimana dimaksud pada ayat (3) diatur oleh Menteri」. So neither Act's annex is the operative list today. The narcotics list in force is the Lampiran to Peraturan Menteri Kesehatan Nomor 15 Tahun 2025 tentang Perubahan Penggolongan Narkotika, ditetapkan 21 November 2025, diundangkan 28 November 2025, Berita Negara Republik Indonesia Tahun 2025 Nomor 989, which revoked Permenkes Nomor 7 Tahun 2025. The psychotropics list in force is the Lampiran to Peraturan Menteri Kesehatan Nomor 14 Tahun 2025 tentang Penetapan dan Perubahan Penggolongan Psikotropika, Berita Negara Tahun 2025 Nomor 988, which revoked Permenkes Nomor 6 Tahun 2025. The Act itself was last amended by Undang-Undang Nomor 6 Tahun 2023. One part of the scheme is still in the Act and not in any regulation: the Prekursor Narkotika in Lampiran II, Tabel I and Tabel II, which neither Permenkes restates.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass: this substance is placed in Psikotropika Golongan IV. The entry read is «46. NIMETAZEPAM: 1,3-Dihidro-1-metil-7-nitro-5-fenil-2H-1,4-benzodiazepina-2-on». The KUHP Pasal 610 ayat (2) huruf a capital limb reaches a Golongan I narcotic only, and this row is not one. Capital exposure: none. The psychotropics offences sit in a different Act with a different shape. Pasal 59(1) of Undang-Undang Nomor 5 Tahun 1997 covers using, producing, distributing, importing and unlawfully possessing, storing or carrying a Golongan I psychotropic, at 4 to 15 years. Pasal 60 and the articles after it cover production, distribution and supply of psychotropics generally, in terms of years. There is no quantity ladder anywhere in this Act, so weight does not change the band, and there is no purity rule either. Indonesia places nimetazepam in the lowest psychotropic class, which is notable because several regional neighbours treat it far more severely. It carries no capital or life exposure here. Neither reaches this substance. Golongan IV is the lowest of the four psychotropic classes and the only capital provision in the Act, Pasal 59(2), applies to Golongan I alone. Golongan IV offences are dealt with under Pasal 60 and the articles after it, in terms of years with fines, and neither death nor life imprisonment is available on any facts. The narcotics ladder does not reach it either, because it is in no Golongan of the narcotics list.
Saudi Arabia
Legal status
Nimetazepam is a controlled psychotropic substance in Saudi Arabia, placed at Schedule II Category D of the schedules attached to the Law of Combating Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances, Royal Decree M/39 of 1426 AH, in the version of those schedules issued on 4 September 2026. The schedule prints «Nimetazepam» in Latin script under the heading «فئة (د):... المؤثرات العقلية», Category D psychotropic substances, and it is one of the five benzodiazepines the schedule names individually. Nimetazepam is barely prescribed anywhere and is encountered chiefly as a diverted tablet, so the entry is doing enforcement work rather than medicines work; it sits in the same category as the everyday anxiolytics, which is a reminder that the category letter is not a measure of how a substance is used. M/39 Articles 1 and 70 to 71 are cited for identification and for keeping the attached schedules current.
Consequences if caught
A Schedule II Category D placement brings nimetazepam inside Article 37(I), and that article states no quantity at all. There is no weight threshold in it: the conduct named is smuggling, receipt from a smuggler, and import, export, manufacture, production, extraction or cultivation with intent to promote, together with the repeat promotion histories the article sets out. Death under Article 37(I) is a statutory ta'zir penalty and it is not mandatory, because Article 37(II) gives the court the power to reduce it; where the court does reduce, the substitute is a prison term of not less than fifteen years with the lashes and the fine the article states. No express life imprisonment wording was found anywhere in M/39. Articles 38 to 41 are cited as the tiers below Article 37 for this placement.
If prescribed / medical
The Saudi traveller rule is a permit rule rather than a prescription rule. A controlled medicine may be brought in only under a clearance obtained from the SFDA before travel through its Controlled Drugs System, and that advance electronic clearance is required rather than optional. Nimetazepam sits inside that regime as a Schedule II Category D substance. It is not a commonly licensed medicine, so in most cases there is no prescription on which a clearance could be sought, and no Saudi dispensing route for it was recorded here.
Documentation
There is effectively nothing to carry for this substance, because no lawful import route was established for it. For any controlled medicine, apply through the SFDA Controlled Drugs System before travelling, carry the clearance and not the prescription alone, bring the medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a medical report translated into Arabic and dated less than six months before travel, keep to a one month supply or the length of the stay, and declare it at customs; advance electronic clearance has been required since 1 November 2025. The permit mechanics stated here are the SFDA traveller rules recorded on the current live cell and were not re-derived from the instrument in this pass. The Schedule II Category D placement was read in the 4 September 2026 schedules on 17 September 2026.
Malaysia
Legal status
Nimetazepam is named in Part III of the First Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952, so it is a dangerous drug and not merely a psychotropic. The Poisons List confirms it, carrying «Nimetazepam» with the «(DD)» marker. It is one of only two benzodiazepines in that Schedule; the other is Flunitrazepam. Every other benzodiazepine is caught only by the Poisons Act class formula for substances structurally derived from 1,4-benzodiazepine. Erimin is the trade name most often used for it in the region and has no separate entry.
Consequences if caught
Part III of the First Schedule names «Nimetazepam». It is one of only two benzodiazepines in that Schedule, the other being «Flunitrazepam», and the listing is what puts it inside section 39B(2), death or imprisonment for life, where every other benzodiazepine is outside it. The chain is short and it passes through no weight at any point. Section 2 defines a «dangerous drug» as «any drug or substance which is for the time being comprised in the First Schedule», section 39B(1) prohibits trafficking in «a dangerous drug», whether on your own behalf or on behalf of any other person, and section 39B(2) sets the penalty. And the word «trafficking» is itself defined in section 2, far wider than selling: it «includes the doing of any of the following acts, that is to say, manufacturing, importing, exporting, keeping, concealing, buying, selling, giving, receiving, storing, administering, transporting, carrying, sending, delivering, procuring, supplying or distributing any dangerous drug otherwise than under the authority of this Act or the regulations made under the Act». Keeping, carrying and storing are on that list, so nothing commercial has to be shown. It has no section 37(da) presumption weight, so no quantity of it raises the presumption. So there is no presumption to rebut and no threshold to stay under, and section 39B(2) applies in the same terms as it would to a weighed substance. The other presumption is still there. Section 37(d) provides that any person found to have had in his custody or under his control anything whatsoever containing a dangerous drug «shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed to have been in possession of such drug and shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed to have known the nature of such drug». The words «until the contrary is proved» put the defendant to proof on both limbs, on the possession and on the knowledge. Death is available and it is no longer mandatory, and the change has a date. Section 39B(2) once read simply «on conviction with death». The Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2017, Act A1558, in force 15 March 2018, opened a narrow gate out of that, a date carried forward from the earlier reading and not re-derived in this pass. The Abolition of Mandatory Death Penalty Act 2023, Act 846, came into operation on 4 July 2023, and section 54 of it is the whole of what it did to the Dangerous Drugs Act: it substituted «be punished with whipping of not less than twelve strokes» for fifteen strokes in subsection (2), and it deleted subsections (2A) and (2B), which were the mandatory death machinery. Section 39B(2) now reads, in full: «Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence against this Act and shall be punished on conviction with death or imprisonment for life and shall, if he is not sentenced to death, be punished with whipping of not less than twelve strokes.» So the court chooses between death and imprisonment for life with no precondition, and at least twelve strokes follow any sentence that is not death. Act 846 is widely described as replacing life with a term of thirty to forty years. It did that in the Penal Code, the Firearms (Increased Penalties) Act 1971, the Arms Act 1960, the Kidnapping Act 1961, the Strategic Trade Act 2010 and the Criminal Procedure Code. It did not do it here: the words «imprisonment for life» in section 39B(2) are untouched and no definition of that phrase appears anywhere in the Dangerous Drugs Act, so no year figure is stated in this cell. Section 55 of Act 846 applies the amended section to anyone sentenced after it came into operation even where the offence was committed before. Below trafficking, the possession offence is section 12. Section 11(1) provides that «This Part applies to dangerous drugs listed in Parts III, IV and V of the First Schedule», which is what brings a Part III substance inside Part IV of the Act. Section 12(2) then prohibits having such a drug in your possession, custody or control «unless he is authorized to be in possession, custody or control of such drug or is deemed to be so authorized under this Act or the regulations made thereunder», and section 12(3) punishes a contravention with «a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or both». Self-administration is section 15(1), at a fine not exceeding five thousand ringgit or imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, and section 38B(1) then requires supervision for not less than two and not more than three years after the sentence has been served. Three procedural consequences follow automatically. Section 41(1) removes a section 39B charge from the Sessions Court and the Magistrates' Court, so it is tried in the High Court, and section 41A(3) has it tried by a judge sitting alone. Section 41B(1) provides that bail «shall not be granted» where the offence is punishable with death, and also where it is punishable with imprisonment for more than five years. Section 38A, which lets a court deal with a drug dependant under eighteen under the Drug Dependants (Treatment and Rehabilitation) Act 1983 rather than punish him, is expressly unavailable for a section 39B offence. Section 39C separately escalates a repeat offender under the consumption and possession provisions to not less than five and not more than seven years with not more than three strokes. Erimin is the trade name most often used for it in the region and appears in neither Act. The gap between this substance and an ordinary benzodiazepine is the largest single cliff in Malaysian drug law, and it is invisible from the pharmacology: the two are prescribed for the same indications. The list can move under all of this. Section 45A is headed «Power of the Minister to vary First Schedule» and it operates either on a decision of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs or of the United Nations Organization altering the Schedules to the Single Convention, or simply where the Minister «considers it expedient to add a substance to, or remove a substance from, or vary the First Schedule, he may by order make the requisite modifications». An order takes effect on gazetting and there is no notice period. He has used it twice since the text read here, by P.U. (A) 97 gazetted 2 April 2024 and P.U. (A) 416 gazetted 25 November 2025, both carried forward from the earlier reading and neither re-read in this pass. The text read for this cell is the Attorney General's Chambers updated text headed «As at 4 July 2023», and a later order is not ruled out.
South Korea
Legal status
Not confirmed, verify with Korea's MFDS / your embassy
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not named by a reachable South Korean source. South Korea controls 478 substances under the Narcotics Control Act, with a minimum of 1 year's imprisonment for possession/use of narcotics/psychotropics. Distinctively, South Korea prosecutes its own citizens for drug use committed abroad even where it was legal there (hair-follicle testing on return, up to 5 years); foreign nationals face deportation and a re-entry ban.
If prescribed / medical
Controlled-substance medicines require MFDS advance approval before travel; verify this substance's status with the MFDS / your embassy.
Documentation
MFDS advance approval is required for controlled-substance medicines (including CBD/THC oil, amphetamines, opiates, and benzodiazepines), apply online before travel (email narcotics@korea.kr). Non-controlled medicines are allowed up to 6 bottles / a 3-month supply with a prescription and a doctor's letter.
Controlled as a Class C drug. Part III of Schedule 2 to the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 names it at paragraph 1(a) in the entry «Nimetazepam.», and section 2(1)(b) of the Act provides that «the expressions “Class A drug”, “Class B drug” and “Class C drug” mean any of the substances and products for the time being specified respectively in Part I, Part II and Part III of that Schedule». Schedule 2 was read as in force on 2 October 2026 in the legislation.gov.uk revised text, which records no known outstanding effects and incorporates S.I. 2024/1361, in force 15 January 2025; Schedule 2 moves by Order in Council under section 2(2), so this does not rule out a later amendment.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. No provision of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979 or of the Psychoactive Substances Act 2016 provides a death sentence; the highest punishment in Schedule 4 to the 1971 Act is imprisonment for life. Its salts are caught by paragraph 3 of Part III. The entry has been in Part III since S.I. 1985/1995; the same Part III list is where the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Amendment) Order 2023, S.I. 2023/1091, inserted nitrous oxide on 8 November 2023. This row is Class C, so the Class C drug involved column of Schedule 4 to the 1971 Act governs. Possession, section 5(2), carries on indictment «2 years or a fine, or both.» Tried summarily, Class C possession carries «3 months or £1,000, or both.» and Class C supply, production or possession with intent «3 months or £2,500, or both.» Possession with intent to supply, section 5(3), supplying or offering to supply, section 4(3), and production, section 4(2), each carry on indictment «14 years or a fine, or both.» Sale has no offence of its own: selling is supplying under section 4(3), and trafficking is not a separate offence in the Act, being concerned in another person's supply falling under section 4(3)(b) and (c). Importation and exportation are prohibited by section 3(1) and prosecuted as customs offences under sections 50(3), 68(2) and 170(2) of the Customs and Excise Management Act 1979, which Schedule 1 to that Act punishes for this class «on conviction on indictment, to a penalty of any amount, or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 14 years». Cultivation falls under production, because section 37(1) defines producing as «producing it by manufacture, cultivation or any other method». Use is not itself an offence: the Act reaches the user through possession, and its only offence of use is smoking or otherwise using prepared opium under section 9. An occupier who knowingly permits production or supply on premises commits the section 8 offence, also 14 years on indictment. The Act sets no quantity threshold and no statutory presumption of intent to supply; on indictment the fine has no stated maximum and runs with imprisonment or alone, because every band reads «or a fine, or both». No administrative disposal attaches by statute: the penalty notice table in section 1 of the Criminal Justice and Police Act 2001, which applies in England and Wales, lists possession only of cannabis, cannabinol and its derivatives, and khat. Section 28 gives a defence of lack of knowledge; under section 28(3) a belief that it was a different controlled drug is no defence unless, had it been that drug, no offence would have been committed. The Psychoactive Substances Act 2016 does not reach it: section 2(1) of that Act confines a psychoactive substance to one that «is not an exempted substance (see section 3).» and Schedule 1 exempts «Controlled drugs (within the meaning of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971).» The 1971 Act is therefore read first and governs alone.
Canada
Legal status
Controlled. Nimetazepam is in Schedule IV of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. Possession is not an offence under section 4, and trafficking is.
Consequences if caught
The entry read from the cached Act is 'Nimetazepam (1,3-dihydro-1-methyl-7-nitro-5-phenyl-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one)'. Schedule IV is the point. Section 4(1), the possession offence, names Schedule I, II and III and does not name Schedule IV, so possessing this substance is not an offence under section 4. Section 5(1) and 5(2), trafficking and possession for the purpose of trafficking, do name Schedule IV, and section 5(3)(c) sets that at up to three years on indictment. A prohibition list and an offence list are not the same list, and in this act they differ by one schedule. Section 5(1) and 5(2) cover trafficking and possession for the purpose of trafficking in a substance included in Schedule I, II, III, IV or V. Section 5(3)(a) makes trafficking in a Schedule I or II substance an indictable offence liable to imprisonment for life. Section 5(3)(b) sets Schedule III and V at up to ten years on indictment. Section 5(3)(c) sets Schedule IV at up to three years.
If prescribed / medical
Whether an authorised medicinal form exists in Canada was not established per substance here. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription.
Documentation
For a prescribed controlled medicine, carry it in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription or a letter from the prescriber. Canada is not in the Schengen area, so a Schengen certificate is not the Canadian document.
Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (S.C. 1996, c. 19), ss. 4 and 5 and Schedules I to IV · laws-lois.justice.gc.ca · consulted 16 September 2026 · Updated September 16, 2026
Australia
Legal status
Controlled as a prescription only benzodiazepine and a prohibited import; not a Criminal Code drug. Nimetazepam is not named in the Schedules of F2026L01327 as in force on 2 October 2026, but it is a 1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one (1-methyl-7-nitro-5-phenyl), squarely a benzodiazepine derivative, so the Schedule 4 class entry «# BENZODIAZEPINE derivatives except when separately specified in these Schedules.» places it in Schedule 4 with the Appendix D clause 5 possession control. Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations 1956 Schedule 4 item 164 names it («164 Nimetazepam»). It is not listed in Schedule 1 or Schedule 2 of the Criminal Code Regulations 2019 (Compilation No. 6). Nearest listed drug: bromazolam (Schedule 1 item 36A, Schedule 2 item 31A), the one benzodiazepine the Regulations list. Limb (a) of s301.9(1) does not reach it because it is not a stereoisomer, a structural isomer or an alkaloid of bromazolam; its molecular formula differs; limb (c) does not, because reaching it from bromazolam would remove the whole fused triazole ring with its methyl group, add a ring carbonyl and an N-methyl group and replace bromine with a nitro group, and removing a ring is none of the s301.9(1)(c) modifications; and on the method stated next limb (d) does not, because removing a whole ring puts it outside s301.9 on that method, whatever view is taken of the remaining swaps. The method used for every row is a reading, not a rule the Act states: a modification that limb (a) or limb (c) plainly describes is treated as making a drug analogue; one contestable modification (a swap within one paragraph of s301.9(2), or a core ring replaced), a single limb (d) change from the listed drug, or an express exclusion or different listing in the Regulations is treated as making the exposure conditional; anything more, including adding or removing a ring, is treated as outside s301.9. Because s301.9(1)(c) allows a modification «obtained in one or more of the following ways», the tier this gives can depend on how a change is described, and nothing read settles which description governs. No court decision applying s301.9 to nimetazepam was read, so this is a reading of the text. The Poisons Standard read is the Poisons Standard October 2026 (Federal Register of Legislation F2026L01327, made 28 September 2026, registered 30 September 2026, in force from 1 October 2026 under its s2, replacing the June 2026 issue; no later issue was registered when it was read). This cell states Commonwealth law only. The Poisons Standard has effect through adoption by each state and territory: its Reader's guide, which s5(1) of the instrument says is not part of it, states «The scheduling of poisons is implemented through relevant State and Territory legislation.» Most personal possession and use offences are state and territory law, which differs by jurisdiction, and Criminal Code s300.4 keeps those laws running concurrently with Part 9.1. Read as in force on 2 October 2026 against F2026L01327, the Criminal Code Act 1995 at Compilation No. 174 (compilation date 30 June 2026, C2026C00243), the Criminal Code Regulations 2019 at Compilation No. 6 (compilation date 13 December 2025, F2025C01260) and the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations 1956 at Compilation No. 147 (compilation date 13 July 2026, F2026C00751). The Criminal Code Regulations schedules are made by the Governor-General and the Poisons Standard by a delegate of the Secretary under Therapeutic Goods Act 1989 s52D, so a later instrument can change any of this, and this reading does not rule out a later amendment.
Germany
Legal status
Nimetazepam is a named narcotic in the prescribable tier of the German schedules, which is a notably different position from the one it holds in several Asian jurisdictions where it is treated as a prohibited drug. The dossier records the Anlage III row of the Betäubungsmittelgesetz as „Nimetazepam | - | 1-Methyl-7-nitro-5-phenyl-1,3-dihydro-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-on“. The nitro group at position seven and the methyl on the ring nitrogen are what identify it against the other nitrobenzodiazepines in the same table. Placement is under BtMG § 1 Abs. 1 and the tier is Anlage III, the marketable and prescribable one, so German law controls the substance through its supply route rather than prohibiting it.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. The dossier's penalty column records that no death-penalty regime applies in Germany, and that is worth stating plainly on this substance because the position elsewhere is materially harsher. The provisions are BtMG §§ 29 bis 30a and the dossier records the ceiling: not less than five years under § 30a Abs. 1, with a determinate sentence capped at fifteen years by StGB § 38 Abs. 2. No ordinary band is recorded and none is stated. The offence here is the handling outside an authorised route rather than the possession of a forbidden substance.
If prescribed / medical
Anlage III is prescribable. A medicine containing it may be prescribed in Germany, and a prescribed medicine carried with its prescription is lawful. For controlled medicines on Schengen travel see documentation.
Documentation
For a prescribed controlled medicine on Schengen travel, carry a Schengen certificate issued under article 75 of the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement, together with the original packaging and the prescription.
Germany, Betäubungsmittelgesetz, Anlage III, the table row „Nimetazepam | - | 1-Methyl-7-nitro-5-phenyl-1,3-dihydro-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-on“, placed by § 1 Abs. 1 with penal provisions at §§ 29 bis 30a · read at https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/btmg_1981/anlage_iii.html on 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026
France
Legal status
Nimetazepam is on the French psychotropics list rather than the narcotics list. The consolidated order of 22 February 1990 fixing the list of psychotropic substances carries the entry « nimétazépam », and the dossier keeps the two 1990 orders apart because the consequences they open are not the same. The entry is a single designation, nimétazépam, with nothing bracketed and no alternative spelling offered beside it. The list prints the accented French form nimétazépam where the English name is nimetazepam, and the French spelling is the string the list was searched under. This row is also one of the members the benzodiazepines class label in the same table resolves onto, which is why that label does not need to be left unanswered. The express clauses for salts, stereoisomers and preparations follow the psychotropics order's own wording, and no narcotics clause is borrowed to widen it. France's lists are closed, so the position for nimetazepam is settled by the psychotropics entry existing and not by any resemblance argument.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. France abolished the death penalty and no French drug provision carries one. What this row does not establish is the narcotics specific life route: Penal Code article 222-34 carries life imprisonment for directing or organising a group formed for illicit narcotics activity, and the dossier records that a place on the psychotropics order of 22 February 1990 does not by itself prove it. The psychotropics entry is « nimétazépam ». The entry is a single designation with nothing bracketed beside it, and the order prints the accented French form nimétazépam where the English name is nimetazepam, so the French spelling is the string the placement was found under. This row is also one of the six members the benzodiazepines label in this table resolves onto, and all six were settled on the psychotropics order rather than the narcotics one. Article L. 3421-1 of the Code de la santé publique addresses illicit use and stands apart from organised trafficking. The dossier prints no tariff for the psychotropics route, so no figure is stated here.
If prescribed / medical
France's country level rule, taken from the dossier rather than from any prescribing summary, is that a Schengen traveller certificate or a medicines carriage list is evidential and administrative and is not the criminal schedule. Attached to this substance: nimetazepam sits on the psychotropics order of 22 February 1990 at the entry « nimétazépam », so a certificate can evidence lawful carriage of a prescribed psychotropic while the listing itself is untouched by it. No per substance prescribing route for nimetazepam appears in the dossier and none is supplied here.
Documentation
Carry the Schengen traveller certificate and the prescribing document for nimetazepam with the medicine in its original dispensing packaging, and expect the certificate to be read as evidence rather than as an authorisation that changes the list. Provenance: the placement relied on is the entry « nimétazépam » in the Arrêté du 22 février 1990 fixant la liste des substances psychotropes, reached through the Légifrance consolidated search at https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/search/all?query=arr%C3%AAt%C3%A9+22+f%C3%A9vrier+1990+psychotropes and checked on 18 September 2026. The psychotropics order was followed through its terminal list material and its amendment links alongside the narcotics order.
Netherlands
Legal status
Controlled as a soft drug. Nimetazepam is named in lijst II of the Opiumwet and not in lijst I, and the row prints «nimetazepam». That places it under article 3 and article 11 rather than article 2 and article 10, which is a materially lower tier.
Consequences if caught
The row is the bare INN, sitting between medazepam and nitrazepam. Lijst II placement is the whole of the difference here, because it decides whether article 11 or article 10 supplies the ceiling. Use is not itself made an offence by the Opiumwet, which is why the Dutch position is often misread: article 2 and article 3 reach import, export, cultivation, preparation, sale, supply, transport, manufacture and presence, and presence is what a traveller carrying the substance has. Article 1, second limb, equates the salts of a substance with the substance itself. Article 11 carries the penalties for lijst II. Acting intentionally against article 3 under B, C or D carries imprisonment of up to 2 years, and up to 6 years where the person acts in the exercise of a profession or business. Intentionally bringing it into or out of the territory, article 3 under A, carries up to 4 years. Where the offence concerns a large quantity the two year and the four year cases both rise to 6 years. Article 1 of the Opiumwetbesluit fixes that large quantity at 500 gram hennep, 200 hennepplanten or 500 units of another lijst II substance. The fine is the fifth category, printed at 67.000 euro with an editorial note recording 110.000 euro from 1 January 2026. They describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. Article 11, seventh limb, disapplies the two year and four year cases to a small quantity intended for own use of a lijst II substance, with hennep and hasjiesj expressly withheld from that relief.
If prescribed / medical
Bijlage 1 to the Opiumwetbesluit admits the lijst II substances as a class, with hasjiesj excepted, so article 2 of that decree leaves a lawful prescription route open where an authorised medicinal product exists. Carry it in its original packaging with the prescription. For Schengen travel the route is the article 75 certificate issued via the CAK, valid 30 days and covering up to 4 Schengen countries, with a legalised medical certificate valid 1 year beyond Schengen.
Documentation
For a prescribed controlled medicine on Schengen travel, carry a Schengen certificate issued under article 75 of the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement, together with the original packaging and the prescription. In the Netherlands the certificate is issued by the CAK.
Opiumwet, artt. 1, 2, 2a, 3, 3a, 3aa, 10, 10b, 10c and 11, and lijsten I, Ia and II · wetten.overheid.nl · geldend van 17-09-2026, read 22 September 2026 · Updated October 2, 2026
Spain
Legal status
Controlled in Spain as a sustancia psicotrópica under Real Decreto 2829/1977. Nimetazepam is entry 48 of Lista IV in Anexo 1, the annex headed «Sustancias enumeradas en las listas al Convenio sobre Sustancias Psicotrópicas, hecho en Viena el 21 de febrero de 1971». The entry reads «NIMETAZEPAM 1,3 dihidro-1-metil-7-nitro-5-fenil-2H-1,4 benzodiacepín-2-ona», which is nimetazepam; nitrazepam is a separate entry 49.
Consequences if caught
Código Penal article 368 punishes «Los que ejecuten actos de cultivo, elaboración o tráfico, o de otro modo promuevan, favorezcan o faciliten el consumo ilegal de drogas tóxicas, estupefacientes o sustancias psicotrópicas, o las posean con aquellos fines» (those who cultivate, manufacture or traffic, or otherwise promote, favour or facilitate illegal consumption, or possess for those purposes). The penalty is «prisión de tres a seis años y multa del tanto al triplo del valor de la droga objeto del delito si se tratare de sustancias o productos que causen grave daño a la salud» (three to six years and a fine of one to three times the value of the drug, for substances causing grave harm to health) and «de prisión de uno a tres años y multa del tanto al duplo en los demás casos» (one to three years and a fine of one to two times the value, in other cases). Prison and fine are imposed together, not as alternatives. The article names no substance, so which branch applies is for the court; this cell does not assign one. Article 369 imposes the next higher degree and a fine «del tanto al cuádruplo» where an aggravating circumstance applies, among them «Fuere de notoria importancia la cantidad de las citadas sustancias» (the quantity is of notorious importance). No statute fixes that quantity. It is a sentencing aggravation the court assesses, not an amount anyone may lawfully hold. Membership of a criminal organisation under article 369 bis carries «prisión de nueve a doce años» for substances causing grave harm and «prisión de cuatro años y seis meses a diez años» otherwise. Article 368 itself allows a lower penalty: «los tribunales podrán imponer la pena inferior en grado a las señaladas en atención a la escasa entidad del hecho y a las circunstancias personales del culpable» (the courts may impose the penalty one degree lower in view of the minor scale of the act and the offender's personal circumstances), but not where article 369 bis or 370 applies: «No se podrá hacer uso de esta facultad si concurriere alguna de las circunstancias a que se hace referencia en los artículos 369 bis y 370.» (this power may not be used if any circumstance referred to in articles 369 bis and 370 is present). Article 370 goes the other way: «Se impondrá la pena superior en uno o dos grados a la señalada en el artículo 368 cuando» (the penalty one or two degrees above that of article 368 is imposed when), among other cases, the conduct is of extreme gravity, which includes where «la cantidad de las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 368 excediere notablemente de la considerada como de notoria importancia» (the quantity notably exceeds that regarded as of notorious importance). Article 368 reaches possession only when it is «con aquellos fines», that is, for those trafficking purposes. No provision read for this cell makes possession for one's own use in private a crime; that is not a legalisation, because supply stays criminal under the same article. In public the matter is administrative, not criminal. Ley Orgánica 4/2015 article 36 lists among the serious infringements, at item 16, «El consumo o la tenencia ilícitos de drogas tóxicas, estupefacientes o sustancias psicotrópicas, aunque no estuvieran destinadas al tráfico, en lugares, vías, establecimientos públicos o transportes colectivos» (illicit consumption or possession, even when not meant for trafficking, in public places, roads, establishments or collective transport). Article 39.1 sets the fine for a serious infringement: «las graves, con multa de 601 a 30.000 euros», in a minimum grade «de 601 a 10.400» and higher grades «de 10.401 a 20.200 euros» and «de 20.201 a 30.000 euros»; article 33.2 starts at the minimum grade «La comisión de una infracción determinará la imposición de la multa correspondiente en grado mínimo.» These figures are a fine range, not a permitted quantity. Import or export without authority is also smuggling: Ley Orgánica 12/1995 article 2.3 a) applies whatever the value «Cuando el objeto del contrabando sean drogas tóxicas, estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas», and article 3.1 sets «las penas de prisión de uno a cinco años y multa del tanto al séxtuplo del valor de los bienes, mercancías, géneros o efectos». Article 3.1 also directs that, outside three listed cases, «En los demás casos previstos en el artículo 2 las penas se impondrán en su mitad superior.» How a court combines that offence with article 368 in a given case is not settled in this cell.
Italy
Legal status
Controlled as a medicinal substance. The Ministry of Health compilation carries «nimetazepam» and routes it through Table IV and the table of medicinal products, which is the part of the DPR 309/1990 scheme built for substances that have a lawful prescribed form. Article 14 creates those tables by enumeration and extends them to the salts, stereoisomers and preparations the table text itself names, so the reach of the entry for nimetazepam is set by its own wording. Sitting in the medicinal group does not put nimetazepam outside the criminal articles; it means that supply inside the dispensing rules is lawful and supply outside them is what article 73 reaches. The compilation and its amendment index were read on 18 September 2026, and a later ministerial decree can move the placement.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Italy has no death penalty and DPR 309/1990 carries no life term, so the top of the range is a term of years. The ceiling is 30 years, and three provisions build it: article 73 of DPR 309/1990 creates the trafficking offence, article 80 supplies the aggravations, and article 78 of the Penal Code caps a combined temporary imprisonment calculation at 30 years. That figure belongs to the most aggravated trafficking calculation and not to a personal quantity. What puts nimetazepam inside article 73 at all is the table entry «nimetazepam», and the compilation routes that entry through Table IV and the table of medicinal products. The placement is what decides the band: a pharmacy supply of nimetazepam inside the dispensing rules is lawful, and it is supply outside those rules that the criminal article reaches. Acquisition or possession for personal use is handled administratively under article 75, a different track from article 73 and not a milder version of it.
If prescribed / medical
Italy's country level rule, in the dossier's own terms, is that a traveller certificate list or a prescribing summary is not a substitute for the statutory tables, and that acquisition or possession for personal use runs under article 75 of DPR 309/1990 as an administrative matter rather than under the trafficking article. Attached to nimetazepam, that rule meets a placement in Table IV and the table of medicinal products, entered as «nimetazepam», which is the group that does have a lawful prescribed and dispensed form in Italy. The documents that matter for this substance are therefore the prescription and the dispensing record for the actual product, while the table placement and not the paperwork is what decides the legal question if it is asked. The dossier sets out no Italian certificate scheme for travellers carrying nimetazepam and this cell does not invent one.
Documentation
Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging for any nimetazepam product, and keep them together, because the entry «nimetazepam» routes through Table IV and the table of medicinal products where a lawful dispensed form exists. The instrument is DPR 309/1990, its enumerating provision is article 14, and the placement was read in the Ministry of Health compilation of the tables and its ministerial amendment index on 18 September 2026. Classification changes by decree published in the Gazzetta Ufficiale rather than by a travel or prescribing summary, and the amendment horizon checked includes the 2026 update that added the nitazene class. The criminal articles remain articles 73 and 80 for supply outside the dispensing rules, with the cap of 30 years in article 78 of the Penal Code.
Mexico
Legal status
Nimetazepam is named in Mexican law as a psychotropic, in the third of the five groups of article 245 of the Ley General de Salud, the group the Act describes as «Las que tienen valor terapéutico, pero constituyen un problema para la salud pública». The list there prints «NIMETAZEPAM». The Act prints this row immediately before nitrazepam, from which it differs by a single methyl group and by two letters in the Spanish name. Article 251 requires a doctor's prescription carrying the prescriber's professional licence number, filled once and retained by the pharmacy. The text read for this cell was the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught
Where this row sits in the two lists is what decides the rest. Nothing in the group makes the nitro benzodiazepines a class, so each of them stands on its own printed name. Article 479 gives this row no line: the table names eight narcotics and this is not one of them. Articles 475, 476, 477 and 478 all run on the narcotics listed in that table, and article 474 puts a narcotic outside it with the federal authorities, «El narcótico no esté contemplado en la tabla». The eight amounts recited below therefore belong to the eight narcotics the table names and not to this row. The two Ley General de Salud penalty articles that follow are printed here because the live cell printed them for every Mexican row. They run on the narcotics the table names, so they do not reach this row, and the federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages. Article 477 sets ten months to three years of prison, «Se aplicará pena de diez meses a tres años de prisión y hasta ochenta días multa al que posea alguno de los narcóticos señalados en la tabla». It applies to possession below one thousand times a table amount where the circumstances do not make it possession for supply. Its fine is up to eighty dias multa. Article 475 of the Ley General de Salud sets four to eight years of prison, in the words «Se impondrá prisión de cuatro a ocho años y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa». It applies to commerce or supply, even free of charge, below one thousand times a table amount. Its fine is two hundred to four hundred dias multa. Its second paragraph raises the prison term to seven to fifteen years where the person supplied is a minor or cannot resist, «se aplicará una pena de siete a quince años de prisión y de doscientos a cuatrocientos días multa», and the previous version of this cell called eight years the small-scale ceiling, so that figure is carried forward and corrected here rather than dropped. The federal code articles below are the ones this row's placement engages, because article 193 of that code names the second and third groups of article 245 and the first group through article 248. Article 194 of the Codigo Penal Federal sets ten to twenty five years of prison, «Se impondrá prisión de diez a veinticinco años y de cien hasta quinientos días multa». It applies to production, transport, traffic, commerce, supply or prescription of a narcotic without the authorisation the Ley General de Salud requires. Its fine is one hundred to five hundred dias multa. Article 195 sets five to fifteen years of prison. It applies to possession with one of those purposes. Its fine is one hundred to three hundred fifty dias multa. Article 195 bis sets four years to seven years six months of prison. It applies where possession cannot be so considered. Its fine is fifty to one hundred fifty dias multa. Article 196 raises the article 194 penalties by one half in the listed cases. Article 193 of the same code defines narcoticos in its first paragraph as those the Ley General de Salud determines, and in its second names a narrower set, «son punibles las conductas que se relacionan con los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias previstos en los artículos 237, 245, fracciones I, II, y III y 248 de la Ley General de Salud, que constituyen un problema grave para la salud pública». This row is inside the set that second paragraph names, so the reach of the federal chapter to it is stated by the code itself rather than inferred. Article 479 is not the controlled-substance list and is routinely misreported as one. It is a short table of eight maximum amounts used by articles 477 and 478 for strict, immediate personal consumption: opium two grams, heroin fifty milligrams, cannabis five grams, cocaine five hundred milligrams, LSD fifteen thousandths of a milligram, and MDA, MDMA and methamphetamine at forty milligrams or one tablet or capsule of not more than two hundred milligrams. Mexico has no death penalty for any offence, which article 22 of the Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos settles in the words «Quedan prohibidas las penas de muerte». Those figures are set out here because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
Brazil
Legal status
Controlled in Brazil. The entry read is item 66 of lista B1, psychotropic substances, and it reads in full: "Nimetazepam". The instrument is Portaria SVS/MS 344 de 12 de maio de 1998, whose Anexo I is the list that places a substance, and article 1 sole paragraph of Lei 11.343/2006 defines drugs for the purposes of that law as substances capable of causing dependence so specified in law or listed in lists periodically updated by the federal executive, which is the hinge between the two instruments. [Certain], the entry was read this pass in Anexo I as published with Resolucao 1.036 de 9 de julho de 2026, Atualizacao n. 101.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Article 5, XLVII, a of the 1988 Constitution provides that there shall be no penalty of death, save in the case of declared war under article 84, XIX, and article 5, XLVII, b bars any penalty of a perpetual character, so neither a death sentence nor a whole life sentence is available under the drug law. [Certain], the constitutional text was read this pass. Personal use is article 28 of Lei 11.343/2006, the statute the live Brazilian cells name in English as the Drug Law, and it carries no prison. The three penalties are a warning about the effects of drugs, provision of services to the community, and an educational measure of attendance at a programme or course. Paragraph 3 caps the second and third at five months, paragraph 4 at ten months on a repeat, and paragraph 2 leaves the personal use question to the judge on the nature and quantity seized, the place and conditions of the act, the social and personal circumstances, and the conduct and record of the agent. The statute itself fixes no quantity figure. The Supremo Tribunal Federal decided Tema 506, leading case RE 635659, on 26 June 2024, and how far it reaches beyond cannabis is genuinely contested. Read the narrow way, item 1 of the thesis says that no criminal offence is committed by a person who acquires, keeps, has in deposit, transports or carries for personal consumption the substance cannabis sativa, naming that substance and no other, and the andamento of 24 August 2023 records the relator adjusting his vote to restrict the declaration of unconstitutionality to seizures of the narcotic substance dealt with in that appeal, cannabis sativa. Read the wide way, items 2 and 3 are not limited to cannabis on their face: item 2 says the article 28 I and III sanctions are applied by the judge in a procedure of non penal nature with no criminal repercussion for the conduct, and item 3 gives the Juizados Especiais Criminais competence over the conduct of article 28 with any penal effect of the sentence forbidden. Nor is the operative order limited on its face: the plenary declared the unconstitutionality, without reduction of text, of article 28 of Lei 11.343/2006, so as to remove from that provision each and every effect of a penal nature, keeping the measures it provides until specific legislation arrives. Which reading governs a substance other than cannabis was not settled by the documents read this pass, and nothing here decides it. [Guessing] as to the reach. What does not turn on it, and is [Certain] either way, is that article 28 has carried no custodial penalty since 2006. Supply is article 33: reclusao of 5 to 15 years and payment of 500 to 1,500 dias-multa. Article 33 paragraph 4 allows a reduction of one sixth to two thirds for a primary agent of good record who is not dedicated to criminal activity and does not belong to a criminal organisation. Article 34 puts equipment at 3 to 10 years, article 35 association at 3 to 10 years, article 36 financing at 8 to 20 years and article 37 informing at 2 to 6 years. Article 40 increases articles 33 to 37 by one sixth to two thirds on its seven listed grounds, transnationality and proximity to schools, prisons and hospitals among them. Article 40-A, inserted by Lei 15.358 de 2026, applies articles 33 to 37 in double where the agent is a member of an ultraviolent criminal organisation, a paramilitary group or a private militia. Doubling article 36 gives 16 to 40 years, and 40 years is the highest figure the statute produces on its own face. That is my derivation from the two articles as read, tagged [Certain] for each figure and [Guessing] for whether the article 40 increase then stacks on top of the doubled figure, which the text read here does not settle.
India
Legal status
Controlled in India. The matched entry reads «63 NIMETAZEPAM 1,3 Dihydro-1 methyl-7 nitro-5-phenyl-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one», at serial 63 of the Act's Schedule, the list of psychotropic substances.
Consequences if caught
Section 22 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act 1985, the NDPS Act, punishes a contravention in relation to psychotropic substances in three quantity bands. A small quantity carries rigorous imprisonment which may extend to 1 year. A quantity greater than small but less than commercial carries rigorous imprisonment which may extend to 10 years. A commercial quantity carries rigorous imprisonment of 10 to 20 years, and that lower figure is a statutory minimum rather than a starting point. The fine runs with the band: up to 10,000 rupees at small quantity, up to 1 lakh rupees in the middle band, and 1 lakh to 2 lakh rupees at commercial quantity, and the court may record reasons for a higher fine. Section 27 punishes consumption, with rigorous imprisonment up to 1 year and a fine up to 20,000 rupees for cocaine, morphine, diacetylmorphine and any substance notified in that behalf, and imprisonment up to 6 months and a fine up to 10,000 rupees for anything else. Every offence under the Act is cognizable, but the section 37 bail bar reaches only sections 19, 24 and 27A and offences involving a commercial quantity. Section 31 raises the ceiling to one and one half times after a previous conviction, and section 64A gives an addict charged under section 27 or with a small quantity immunity on completing recognised de-addiction treatment. The band for this row is set by the small and commercial quantity notification at serial 220: a small quantity is 10 g and a commercial quantity is 250 g. Note 4 of that notification applies the figure to the entire mixture or solution in dosage form and not to the pure drug content, so packaging weight and cutting agents count toward the band. Section 31A does not reach this row: its table names only opium, morphine, heroin, codeine, thebaine, cocaine, hashish, LSD, the listed THC isomers, methamphetamine, methaqualone and amphetamine, with their salts and preparations, and this row is not among them. Nimetazepam is not marketed in India at all, so any quantity found here is by definition outside a lawful supply chain. Those figures are given because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
If prescribed / medical
It is not marketed in India, so a foreign prescription for it is the only documentation a traveller could hold and it carries no weight here.
Documentation
Nitrazepam, its des-methyl relative, is a separate entry at Schedule serial 64 and quantity serial 221, on looser figures of 20 g and 500 g. India's essential narcotic drugs for medical and scientific use, notified under section 2(viiia) by S.O. 1181(E) of 5 May 2015, are codeine, fentanyl, hydrocodone, methadone, morphine and oxycodone; a traveller carrying one should carry the prescription with the original packaging, bring only a reasonable personal quantity and declare it at customs. Tramadol was added to the Act's psychotropic Schedule in 2018 and its commercial quantity is 250 g.
Turkey
Legal status
Not confirmed. Nimetazepam is not confirmed as a controlled substance in Turkey on this row, and the dossier contradicts itself about it. The dossier searched the Turkish term «nimetazepam» and the transliteration nimetazepam against the classification decisions made under article 19 of Law No. 2313 on the Control of Narcotic Substances, confirmed no current entry, and rejected the near match «nitrazepam», because the 1-methyl derivative is not nitrazepam. The benzodiazepines class row in the same dossier names nimetazepam among its controlled members, so the dossier's two entries disagree, and this is the fifth and last of the named members to return an unconfirmed result on its own row. Nimetazepam is also the member with the least presence in European and Middle Eastern pharmacy: it was marketed mainly in Japan and is best known outside it as an illicit tablet, which makes a Turkish schedule entry plausible in principle and unverifiable from the consolidated text, since the decision annexes are not reproduced there.
Consequences if caught
Not established. The status of nimetazepam in Turkey was not established on this record, so no offence, penalty band, quantity threshold or capital position is stated for it here. A penalty attaches through a placement, and this row does not prove one. That is not a finding that nimetazepam is lawful in Turkey, and the absence of a penalty in this cell is not a statement that there is none.
If prescribed / medical
No prescription route is stated for nimetazepam in Turkey. The status was not established on this record, so there is no placement for a medical route, an import permit or a personal medicine allowance to attach to, and none is asserted here.
Documentation
No documentation requirement is stated for nimetazepam in Turkey, because the status it would depend on was not established on this record. Nothing in this cell is advice on carrying, declaring or importing it.
Turkey, Law No. 2313 on the Control of Narcotic Substances of 12 June 1933, articles 19 and 24, with the Turkish Penal Code No. 5237, articles 188(1), 188(3), 188(6) and 191(1) · the consolidated texts were read at https://www.mevzuat.gov.tr/mevzuatmetin/1.3.2313.pdf (HTTP 200, 220,153 bytes) and https://www.mevzuat.gov.tr/mevzuatmetin/1.5.5237.pdf (HTTP 200, 1,070,143 bytes), both fetched on 20 September 2026. The dossier's own url column holds one identical string for all 88 Turkey rows and that string is these two addresses run together with no separator, so the citation it supplies is document level rather than per substance. The annexes to the ten decisions footnoted to article 19 are not reproduced in the consolidated statute and were not read. · Updated October 4, 2026
Egypt
Legal status
Controlled in Egypt's Table 3, with a Table 1 Section 2 alternative. «الجدول رقم (٣) - المواد التي تخضع لبعض قيود الجواهر المخدرة», Table 3, the substances subject to some of the restrictions on narcotic substances, Section 4, «الجدول رقم (٣) - القسم الرابع», whose heading covers the listed substances «وأملاحها ونظائرها وإستراتها وإيثراتها». Item 2 is «البنزوديازيبين وجميع المواد المشتقة منها» «Benzodiazepine and it’s derivatives», printed as a «Drug class» (PDF page 28, gazette page 29). Nimetazepam is not printed by name. It is a 1,4-benzodiazepine, a derivative of benzodiazepine, so item 2 reaches it. That is a reading of the class entry, stated as such. Nimetazepam is flunitrazepam without its fluorine atom, and «Flunitrazepam» is the one benzodiazepine printed in Table 1, at Section 2 item 113 (PDF page 19, gazette page 20). A court reading «نظائرها» in the Section 2 heading as analogues could place nimetazepam there instead. The printed class entry, item 2, is the placement the tables give, so Table 3 is stated as the answer and Section 2 as the alternative. This batch applies one rule throughout: a printed placement governs, and the undefined heading word «نظائرها» decides a row only where nothing in the tables places it. The earlier citation of the Anti-Narcotics Law No. 182/1960 without a table is superseded, because Decision 44 replaced every table. This is the position under Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, as amended by Decision 242 of 2026, in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 179 of 17 August 2026 and in force the next day, replaced item 12 of Table 1 Section 1(b), the phenethylamine group, and added items 57 to 61 to Table 3 Section 3, four alkyl nitrites and «Cannabidiol (CBD)». Decision 44's preamble cites the Supreme Constitutional Court's judgment of 16 February 2026 in case 33 of judicial year 47, read on the court's own server on 3 October 2026, which held «بعدم دستورية قرار رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية رقم 600 لسنة 2023 باستبدال الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون رقم 182 لسنة 1960 في شأن مكافحة المخدرات وتنظيم استعمالها والاتجار فيها», striking Egyptian Drug Authority chairman's Decision 600 of 2023, and «بسقوط قرارات رئيس هيئة الدواء المصرية السابقة واللاحقة على القرار المقضي بعدم دستوريته، الصادرة في شأن تعديل الجداول الملحقة بقرار رئيس الجمهورية بالقانون المشار إليه», so that every earlier and later decision of the Authority's chairman amending the tables fell with it. Decision 44 and Decision 242 are decisions of the Minister of Health and Population, as their own first pages state, not of the Authority's chairman, so the judgment does not reach them. The Egyptian Drug Authority laws index read on 3 October 2026 lists no amendment to the tables later than Decision 242, which does not rule out one made since.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none under the Table 3 placement stated here; death if a court instead reads nimetazepam as an analogue of flunitrazepam in Table 1 Section 2, where Article 34 allows death or life imprisonment for trafficking. Article 1 of the Anti-Narcotics Law, Law 182/1960, makes Table 1 the narcotic substances and excepts the Table 2 preparations: «تعتبر جواهر مخدرة فى تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد المبينة فى الجدول رقم (١) الملحق به، ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (٢)». For Table 3: Article 33 and Article 34, which carry the death penalty, and Articles 35, 37, 38(1) and 38(2), which carry the aggravated imprisonment terms, are written for narcotic substances, with Articles 33, 37 and 38 also reaching Table 5 plants, and Article 39, which carries imprisonment, is written for narcotic substances too; none of them reaches a Table 3 substance. Article 44, as replaced by Law 122/1989, reads «يعاقب بالحبس مدة لا تقل عن سنة ولا تجاوز خمس سنوات وبغرامة لا تقل عن ألفى جنيه ولا تجاوز خمسة آلاف جنيه» for anyone who produces, extracts, separates, manufactures, imports, exports or possesses with intent to trade any substance in Table 3 outside the cases the law authorises, so one to five years and a fine of 2,000 to 5,000 pounds, with the substance confiscated in every case. Article 45 punishes «أية مخالفة أخرى لأحكام هذا القانون أو القرارات المنفذة له» by imprisonment of at least three months and a fine of up to 2,000 pounds, or either. The articles name no minimum quantity. The earlier note that synthetic cannabinoids were added to Schedule 1 by amendment, 'Voodoo' in 2014 and 'Strox' or AB-FUBINACA by Act 440/2018, is superseded: Decision 44 replaced every table, and «AB-Fubinaca» is now an example in group 3 of Table 1 Section 1(b). The earlier figure of three to ten years for Article 38(1) is not in the article, which as written reads only a term of hard labour, now aggravated imprisonment, three to fifteen years under Penal Code Article 14. Article 36, as an exception to Article 17 of the Penal Code, bars a court applying Articles 33 to 35 and 38 from «النزول عن العقوبة التالية مباشرة» to the prescribed penalty, so mitigation stops at the next lower penalty, and if that next penalty is aggravated imprisonment or imprisonment the term may not be less than six years. The UNODC English rendering, that the next penalty may not be conceded, reads as the opposite and is not followed. Law 95/2003, Article 2, abolished hard labour «أينما وردت», wherever it appears, in the Penal Code or any other law, putting «السجن المؤبد», life imprisonment, in place of life hard labour and «السجن المشدد», aggravated imprisonment, in place of hard labour for a term; Article 3 of the same Law replaced Penal Code Article 14, under which aggravated imprisonment runs from three to fifteen years unless the law provides otherwise. The penalties above are named as they stand after that Law, although Law 122/1989 wrote them as hard labour.
Greece
Legal status
Controlled narcotic under Law 4139/2013. Nimetazepam is entry 34 of ΠΙΝΑΚΑΣ Δ, the fourth table, an entry that opens «ΝΙΜΕΤΑΖΕΠΑΜΗ» and was placed by gazette 103 A of 25 May 2006. Nitrazepam, which it differs from by a methyl group, follows immediately at serial 35. The version read is the Ministry of Health consolidated edition of June 2026, and it does not rule out a later joint ministerial decision.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Greece abolished the death penalty for all crimes and no offence in the narcotics code carries it, which is carried forward from the published Greece entry and was not re-derived in this pass. Nimetazepam is entry 34 of ΠΙΝΑΚΑΣ Δ, the fourth table, an entry that opens «ΝΙΜΕΤΑΖΕΠΑΜΗ» and was placed by gazette 103 A of 25 May 2006, so every conduct below is available against it in Greece. Article 1 paragraph 1 of Law 4139/2013 defines «ναρκωτικά» by what a substance does, by its action on the central nervous system and its capacity to cause dependence, and article 1 paragraph 2 then says those substances «περιλαμβάνονται ιδίως στους πίνακες», are included in particular in the tables. Conduct, not the table a substance sits in, is what sorts the Greek drug offences. Article 29 paragraph 1 punishes obtaining, holding, using or growing for the offender's own exclusive use with «φυλάκιση μέχρι πέντε (5) μηνών», imprisonment of up to five months. There is no fixed gram threshold anywhere in the law. The court weighs instead the type, the purity, the quantity, the frequency and duration of use, the daily dose and the particular needs of the user. Article 29 paragraph 2 allows the court to leave the offender «ατιμώρητος», unpunished, where the act was entirely occasional and unlikely to be repeated, and paragraph 3 keeps such a conviction off the copies of the criminal record that are issued. Article 20 paragraph 1 punishes trafficking with «κάθειρξη τουλάχιστον οκτώ (8) ετών», at least eight years. The fine that goes with that article runs up to three hundred thousand euro. Article 22 raises the custodial minimum to ten years where the offence is committed by an official, inside a school, barracks, police cell, prison or sports ground, within a criminal organisation, or by a repeat offender. The fine under article 22 is fifty thousand to five hundred thousand euro. Article 21 drops the exposure to up to three years for a dependent person trafficking small amounts to cover their own use, or for supplying a relative without profit. Article 30 paragraph 4 treats dependence as a separate track: an article 29 offence goes unpunished, an article 20 offence falls to at least one year, and an article 22 offence falls to at most ten years. The ceiling in the code is life imprisonment, and it is article 23 that carries it. Article 23 paragraph 1 opens «Με ισόβια κάθειρξη ή με πρόσκαιρη κάθειρξη τουλάχιστον δέκα ετών», life imprisonment or a determinate sentence of at least ten years. The fine under that paragraph is fifty thousand to six hundred thousand euro. It applies where the substance can cause grievous bodily harm and did cause grievous harm or death to another or endangered the health of many, or where an adult acts professionally to bring a minor into use. Article 23 paragraph 2 opens «Με ισόβια κάθειρξη, καθώς και με χρηματική ποινή από πενήντα χιλιάδες ευρώ μέχρι ένα εκατομμύριο ευρώ τιμωρείται». That paragraph states no lesser alternative, so life imprisonment is the only sentence it offers. The fine it names runs from fifty thousand euro to one million euro. It applies to professional financing or professional trafficking where the expected gain exceeds seventy five thousand euro, and to using weapons during the offence or to escape. Every article number, Greek phrase and euro figure in this recital is carried forward from the published Greece entry and was not re-derived in this pass. Those articles describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
Portugal
Legal status
Controlled. Nimetazepam is named in table IV of Decreto-Lei n.º 15/93. Table IV carries a lower trafficking penalty than tables I to III. Acquisition and possession for own consumption have been an administrative offence at any quantity since 1 October 2023.
Consequences if caught
Decriminalised is not legalised. Lei n.º 55/2023 came into force on 1 October 2023. Article 40(2) of Decreto-Lei n.º 15/93 as amended reads 'A aquisição e a detenção para consumo próprio das plantas, substâncias ou preparações referidas no número anterior constitui contraordenação'. In translation, acquisition and possession for own consumption constitute an administrative offence, and there is no quantity limit on that sentence. Article 40(3) reads that a quantity exceeding average individual consumption over 10 days 'constitui indício de que o propósito pode não ser o de consumo', in translation an indication that the purpose may not be consumption. Article 40(4) provides that where the quantity is exceeded but the acquisition or possession is shown to be exclusively for own consumption, the competent judicial authority orders the case closed, a decision not to charge, or an acquittal, and refers the person to the commission for the dissuasion of drug addiction. Under article 15 of Lei n.º 30/2000 a dependent consumer may receive only non pecuniary sanctions and a consumer who is not dependent may receive a fine or a non pecuniary sanction. Nimetazepam is not listed in table IV of Portaria n.º 94/96, so no maximum daily individual dose and no ten day amount are published for it. Trafficking is punished under article 21(4) of Decreto-Lei n.º 15/93, which reads 'Se tratar de substâncias ou preparações compreendidas na tabela IV, a pena é a de prisão de um a cinco anos', in translation that where the substances or preparations are within table IV the penalty is imprisonment of one to five years. That is the table IV range and it is not the 4 to 12 years that article 21(1) sets for tables I to III.
If prescribed / medical
Nimetazepam has no authorised medicinal form in Portugal. It is a table IV psychotropic, so a prescription issued abroad for a product containing it would need to correspond to an authorised medicine, and none is authorised here.
Documentation
For a prescribed table IV medicine on Schengen travel, carry a Schengen certificate issued under article 75 of the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement, together with the original packaging and the prescription.
Decreto-Lei n.º 15/93, de 22 de janeiro, tabela IV and art. 21.º n.º 4 · Lei n.º 55/2023, de 8 de setembro, art. 3.º amending art. 40.º · Lei n.º 30/2000, de 29 de novembro, arts. 2.º and 15.º · Portaria n.º 232/2022, de 7 de setembro, republished annex item 121 · Updated September 18, 2026
Vietnam
Legal status
Controlled. Nimetazepam is printed in List III of the danh mục annexed to Nghị định 28/2026/NĐ-CP, in force 19 January 2026, which is the list the Criminal Code's own definition of chất ma túy points at, and the entry reads “Nimetazepam”. Nimetazepam is expressly named in List III and therefore maps to the general narcotic quantity bands for unauthorized trafficking conduct.
Consequences if caught
Death is available for two of the five conducts on this row, producing under Điều 248 khoản 5 and trading under Điều 251 khoản 5, and this row takes the general narcotic ceiling rather than the lower one the Criminal Code reserves for eight substances it names by name, because nimetazepam is expressly named in List III and therefore maps to the general narcotic quantity bands for unauthorized trafficking conduct. That general ceiling is 9 kg of solid or 22 L of liquid, and the transport top band is 300 g of solid or 750 mL of liquid. Vietnam sorts drug offences by conduct and the five conducts do not carry the same consequences, so they are set out one at a time here, on the Criminal Code as it stands after 1 July 2025. Producing, Điều 248, Tội sản xuất trái phép chất ma túy, is available at any amount, and khoản 5 reads thì bị phạt tù chung thân hoặc tử hình, life imprisonment or death, at the band Các chất ma túy khác ở thể rắn có khối lượng 09 kilôgam trở lên, that is 9 kg or more, or Các chất ma túy khác ở thể lỏng có thể tích 22 lít trở lên, that is 22 L or more in liquid form. Possessing, Điều 249, Tội tàng trữ trái phép chất ma túy, has khoản 4 at thì bị phạt tù từ 15 năm đến 20 năm hoặc tù chung thân, fifteen to twenty years or life, and this article never carried the death penalty, before the amendment or after it. Transporting, Điều 250, Tội vận chuyển trái phép chất ma túy, is the conduct the 2025 amendment changed. Khoản 4 now reads thì bị phạt tù 20 năm hoặc tù chung thân, twenty years or life. Before 1 July 2025 the same khoản read thì bị phạt tù 20 năm, tù chung thân hoặc tử hình, and the words hoặc tử hình are gone, so transporting no longer carries the death penalty in Vietnam at any quantity. Its ordinary quantity limb for Nimetazepam begins at 1 g of solid or 10 mL of liquid, and its top band is fifteen to twenty years or life from 300 g of solid or 750 mL of liquid. The life band shared by possessing, transporting and appropriating is Các chất ma túy khác ở thể rắn có khối lượng 300 gam trở lên. Trading, Điều 251, Tội mua bán trái phép chất ma túy, is available at any amount, and khoản 5 keeps life imprisonment or death at 9 kg of solid or 22 L of liquid. Appropriating, Điều 252, Tội chiếm đoạt chất ma túy, has khoản 4 at fifteen to twenty years or life and carries no death penalty. The five conducts named here are producing under article 248, possessing under article 249, transporting under article 250, trading under article 251 and appropriating under article 252, and they are articles of the Criminal Code. Death is discretionary and not mandatory in both articles that keep it, because each khoản offers thì bị phạt tù chung thân hoặc tử hình, life imprisonment or death, and the court chooses between them. No Vietnamese judgment was read for this cell, and it states no figure for how often a sentence is carried out.
Philippines
Legal status
A dangerous drug under RA 9165. Nimetazepam is printed as "50. NIMETAZEPAM" on page 22 of the Dangerous Drugs Board's Updated Lists of Scheduled Controlled Substances as at 06 July 2025, in its 1971 Schedule IV section. It is also listed in the annex to RA 9165, which section 3(j) makes "an integral part of this Act". It is printed apart from nitrazepam at entry 51.
Consequences if caught
Possession is section 11, measured "regardless of the degree of purity thereof". It falls in the limb for "other dangerous drugs such as" MDMA, PMA, TMA, LSD and GHB and "those similarly designed or newly introduced drugs and their derivatives, without having any therapeutic value or if the quantity possessed is far beyond therapeutic requirements": 10 grams or more carries life imprisonment and a fine of PHP 500,000 to PHP 10,000,000; 5 grams or more but less than 10 carries 20 years and 1 day to life imprisonment and a fine of PHP 400,000 to PHP 500,000; less than 5 grams carries 12 years and 1 day to 20 years and a fine of PHP 300,000 to PHP 400,000. These are penalty bands and not an allowance. For a medicine with therapeutic value the Act applies these bands where the drug is held without therapeutic value or in a quantity far beyond therapeutic requirements, as the Board determines; it states no separate band for an unauthorised quantity within therapeutic requirements, and none is asserted here. Section 13 imposes "the maximum penalties provided for in Section 11" on anyone found possessing a dangerous drug during a party, social gathering or meeting, or in the proximate company of at least two persons, "regardless of the quantity and purity", which is life imprisonment and a fine of PHP 500,000 to PHP 10,000,000. Importing or bringing a dangerous drug into the Philippines (section 4) and selling, giving away, delivering, distributing, transporting or brokering one (section 5) each carry life imprisonment and a fine of PHP 500,000 to PHP 10,000,000 "regardless of the quantity and purity involved", and manufacture (section 8) carries the same penalty. Each applies "unless authorized by law". Use is section 15: after a confirmatory test, a minimum of six months' rehabilitation in a government centre for a first offence, and 6 years and 1 day to 12 years with a fine of PHP 50,000 to PHP 200,000 for a second. RA 9165 prints "life imprisonment to death" in its penalty clauses, among them sections 4, 5, 8, 11 and 16. Republic Act No. 9346 of 24 June 2006 provides in section 1 that "The imposition of the penalty of death is hereby prohibited" and in section 2(b) substitutes life imprisonment where the law violated does not use the nomenclature of the Revised Penal Code, which RA 9165 does not. Section 98 of RA 9165 applies Revised Penal Code nomenclature to a minor offender, "reclusion perpetua to death", so for a minor RA 9346 section 2(a) substitutes reclusion perpetua. No drug offence carries death, and the fines set by RA 9165 are unchanged.
If prescribed / medical
Annex A to Board Regulation No. 1, Series of 2014 maps the 1971 Schedule IV to Philippine Schedule 4. Section 31(6) of that Regulation allows a PDEA licensed practitioner to prescribe only FDA registered dangerous drugs, for up to 30 days' supply per prescription of a Schedule 2, 3 or 4 drug, and up to 60 days of a Schedule 4 drug for epilepsy and dystonia. Whether any product containing nimetazepam is registered with the FDA was not checked for this cell. Board Regulation No. 10, Series of 2025, adopted 26 June 2025, authorizes an S2 licensed practitioner to use "ordinary prescriptions in prescribing any dangerous drug preparations", in three copies, to "effectively address the diseases, illnesses, infections, and symptoms associated with the global health concern on mpox; the regional increase in COVID19; and the local surge in HIV cases"; its section 9 kept it in force "until June 30, 2026", and it takes effect fifteen days after publication and registration. Board Regulation No. 5, Series of 2026, adopted 23 June 2026, extends it "until June 30, 2027" to relieve the "transportation, logistics, and financial burdens of obtaining special prescription forms", but takes effect only "upon its publication in two (2) newspapers of general circulation and its registration", dates the signed copy does not record, so whether the ordinary prescription route is in force today is not established. Board Regulation No. 8, Series of 2019, adopted 17 December 2019, provides a "License to Acquire, Possess, and Use Unregistered Drug Products Containing Dangerous Drugs for Personal Use", for drug products "currently unregistered or in the process of being registered with the FDA but are already registered in FDA reference countries". The patient, or a "parent, spouse, guardian, or relative within the fourth degree of consanguinity or affinity", applies to PDEA, and only for "Diseases covered by RA 10747 or the 'Rare Disease Act of the Philippines'", "Life-threatening and debilitating diseases", "Cancer and other terminal diseases", "Rare forms of neurological conditions", or "Other diseases with limited therapeutic options identified by the Department of Health". It takes effect fifteen days after publication and registration, dates the signed copy does not record.
Switzerland
Legal status
Controlled. The federal schedule ordinance BetmVV-EDI carries nimetazepam in list b, where the entry reads „Nimetazepam“. Article 1 of the ordinance defines the controlled set as narcotics, psychotropic substances, raw materials and products with a presumed narcotic like effect, precursors and auxiliary chemicals, and article 1(2) then extends each named entry to its salts, esters, ethers, carbamates and stereoisomers and to preparations containing it. The model is closed but extended, so a chemical resemblance to the list b entry is not by itself enough to bring a compound inside it. Article 2 assigns lists a to d to Annexes 1 to 5 and list e to Annex 6. The German consolidation read for this row is dated 13 March 2026, and the German, French and Italian texts are equally authoritative.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Switzerland has no death penalty and the Betäubungsmittelgesetz authorises no life term either, so the ceiling is 20 years: BetmG article 19(2) defines the aggravated forms of the offence and StGB article 40 supplies that maximum precisely because the drug act does not reach beyond it. What brings street conduct inside article 19 at all is the list b placement of the entry „Nimetazepam“ rather than the weight carried; quantity then separates the ordinary case from the aggravated serious case. Switzerland fits none of the three threshold models cleanly, because it combines one federal statutory cannabis figure, substance specific Federal Supreme Court thresholds for the aggravated serious case, and conduct based offences for which quantity is not the sole determinant, so no settled weight can be quoted here. Unauthorised consumption is a separate offence under BetmG article 19a and is not silently treated as trafficking.
If prescribed / medical
Nimetazepam sits in list b of BetmVV-EDI, entered as „Nimetazepam“, and the only country level rule this dossier establishes for a person carrying a drug in Switzerland is the personal use regime: BetmG article 19a keeps unauthorised intentional consumption punishable in its own right, article 19b makes the preparation of a negligible quantity for one's own consumption nonpunishable, together with qualifying free sharing for simultaneous joint consumption, and article 19b(2) fixes that negligible quantity at 10 g of cannabis and at nothing else. The figure is federal law rather than a cantonal tolerance, so it gives no margin to a list b substance such as nimetazepam, and cantonal police and prosecutors administer the rule without being able to replace it. No prescription, import certificate or traveller exemption specific to nimetazepam was established in this dossier, so nothing here authorises a foreign prescription at the Swiss border.
Documentation
Carry no nimetazepam into Switzerland on the strength of this row, and keep any medicine you are lawfully entitled to in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a prescriber's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient and the dose. The provenance is the EDI ordinance BetmVV-EDI in its German consolidation dated 13 March 2026, read at the Fedlex classified compilation on 18 September 2026, where the list b entry reads „Nimetazepam“; the penalty articles are BetmG article 19 with StGB article 40 supplying the 20 year maximum, and the 94 page consolidation was read through its final page, so no further drug schedule follows it.
Czechia
Legal status
Nimetazepam is a psychotropní látka, a psychotropic substance, in Czechia. Nařízení vlády č. 463/2013 Sb. o seznamech návykových látek carries it at příloha č. 7, seznam č. 7 psychotropních látek, and the printed entry is „Nimetazepam“, in the international non proprietary name column. It is printed between „Midazolam“ and „Nitrazepam“, and nitrazepam on the next line differs from it only by the N-methyl group, so the two were read together. The IUPAC column reads „5-fenyl-1-methyl-7-nitro-1,3-dihydro-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-on“, the N-methylated nitrobenzodiazepine. The placement rests on that printed entry read in place together with the rows on either side of it, and not on a substring match or on family resemblance. This placement is read as those lists stand after nařízení vlády č. 107/2026 Sb. which is consolidated version 17 of the nařízení, in force from 25 June 2026, read at https://www.zakonyprolidi.cz/cs/2013-463 on 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Article 6(3) of the Listina základních práv a svobod, ústavní zákon č. 2/1993 Sb. reads „Trest smrti se nepřipouští“, the death penalty is not permitted, so no Czech drug provision carries one. The ceiling that does run on this row is eight to eighteen years under § 283 odst. 4 of the Criminal Code, zákon č. 40/2009 Sb. which reaches unlawful production of or other dealing in an omamná or psychotropní látka where the act causes grievous bodily harm to at least two people or a death, or is done for profit of large extent, or is done in connection with an organised group operating in several states. In the instrument the entry this row turns on is identified by the chemical name 5-fenyl-1-methyl-7-nitro-1,3-dihydro-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-on, and it is that printed chemical name rather than the English common name that a Czech charge is built from. On quantity, no greater than small figure was published for this row in the sources reachable for it, and none is invented here. The fine is separate from every custodial band above. Holding no more than a small amount for personal use is an administrative misdemeanour rather than a crime, and the live cell records the penalty for that misdemeanour as a fine of up to CZK 15,000. Read in the consolidated Criminal Code, § 283 odst. 1 sets one to five years for unlawful production, import, offer, sale or holding for another, § 283 odst. 2 sets two to ten years for the first aggravated tier and § 283 odst. 4 sets eight to eighteen years for the gravest. Possession above a small amount for one's own use is § 284, up to two years at odst. 1, six months to five years at odst. 2 and two to eight years at odst. 3. Growing or processing a plant or fungus for one's own use, and other dealing with it for one's own use, is § 285, whose odst. 2 is cannabis possession at more than 200 g in the dwelling or more than 50 g away from it, and whose bands are up to six months at odst. 1 and odst. 2, up to three years at odst. 4 and six months to five years at odst. 5. Making, obtaining or holding a precursor or other object intended for unlawful manufacture is § 286, up to five years at odst. 1 and two to ten years at odst. 2. The live cell stated these as up to one year for cannabis and up to two years for other drugs under § 284, six months to five years under § 285, and one to ten years under § 283 rising to eighteen in aggravated cases, and those live figures are carried forward here beside the bands re-derived from the consolidated text. Those bands and that fine are set out here because the live cell carried them, and they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
Uruguay
Legal status
Controlled. The national list is the Anexo I enacted by article 6 of Decreto 198/025 of 25 September 2025, which substitutes the whole consolidated list rather than adding to it, published in the Diario Oficial of 3 October 2025 and carried there only as page images, which have now been read: 526 entries across its three annexes, made under article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294. The annex entry read for this row is "nimetazepam" in the Sicofármacos section at Lista Verde, Lista IV of the 1971 Vienna Convention. The annex prints entry names in capitals; they are given here in lower case. This row takes the same treatment as the lorazepam row, both being named in their own right at the same list, and the cells say the same thing because the answer is the same; the sibling risk is not. This entry is printed between midazolam and nitrazepam, and six entries in the whole 503 open with the letters ni: this one, nitrazepam, nitrato de etilo and the three 1961 narcotics nicomorfina, nicocodina and nicodicodina. A search truncated there crosses three sections, where the equivalent search on lorazepam stays inside one. All six were read and rejected [Certain, read from the annex in its printed order]. Article 1 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 names Listas I and II of the 1961 Convention and Lista I of the 1971 Vienna Convention, which this entry is outside, so article 35 is the specific provision for it. That does not by itself exclude article 31, see the street note. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently and says nothing about having expired: the annexes were read as at 25 September 2025, the date of the decreto that enacts them, from the Diario Oficial page images of 3 October 2025, and the power that moves it is article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 in the wording given to it by article 2 of Ley 17.016. The replacement of the whole annex that the earlier cell could not rule out has happened and has been read, and so have the three generic groups made under article 8. This does not rule out a later individual entry or a later decreto. The annex this row rests on is the current one and it was read from the source, not inferred. Article 6 of Decreto 198/025 does not add to the 2020 annex, it substitutes its own Anexo I for the whole consolidated list, and article 8 adds a control with no counterpart in Decreto 265/020: "Quedan sujetas a control todas aquellas sustancias que se encuadren dentro de los grupos genericos incluidos en el ANEXO II", all substances falling within the generic groups of its Anexo II. The official site carries those annexes only as Diario Oficial page images, 174 carillas of the edition of 3 October 2025, number 31.766, and they have been read: Anexo I Estupefacientes at carillas 7 to 12, Anexo II Sicotropicos at 12 to 21 ending in the three generic groups, Anexo III Tablas I and II at 22 to 24, 526 entries in all. The optical character recognition of those pages is not sound enough to search: it carries only about 400 of the 526 entry names and none of the fourteen on carilla 24, so the entries were read off the page images by eye and every statement here about what the annex prints rests on that reading [Certain as to what the annexes print].
Argentina
Legal status
Controlled. Named individually in Anexo I, Fila 692 of Decreto 560/2019 as substituted by Decreto 122/2026, and so an estupefaciente for article 77 of the Penal Code and for every offence in Ley 23.737.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass from the consolidated text of Ley 23.737 published by InfoLEG: the words muerte and perpetua each return zero hits across the whole Act, so it carries neither a capital route nor a life route, and the heaviest term anywhere in it is the eight to twenty years of article 7. The scope of that measurement is this Act. It is not a statement about any other body of Argentine law. [Certain] Argentina places substances by delegated executive list. Article 40 of Ley 23.737 rewrote the last paragraph of article 77 of the Penal Code to read that el término estupefacientes comprende los estupefacientes, psicotrópicos y demás sustancias susceptibles de producir dependencia física o psíquica que se incluyan en las listas que se elaboren y actualicen periódicamente por decreto del Poder Ejecutivo nacional. Article 2 of Decreto 560/2019 then makes that a dual list: it considers estupefacientes las sustancias incluidas en la lista del Anexo I y las sustancias que queden incluidas en los grupos químicos de la lista del Anexo II. Anexo I was substituted by Decreto 122/2026, published 02/03/2026, and now runs to 886 numbered rows. Anexo II carries seventeen chemical groups and has not been substituted. A search of Ley 23.737 for a substance name is therefore not a scheduling result. [Certain] Placement read in this pass at Anexo I, Fila 692. The entry reads: Sustancia "Nimetazepam", Denominación Química "1,3-dihidro-1-metil-7-nitro-5-fenil-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-ona". [Certain] Fila 696 is Nitemazepam and Fila 698 is Nitrazepam, both separate rows. [Certain] The list read for this row is the complete Anexo I, all 886 numbered rows, taken from the text-layer PDF that the Boletín Oficial publishes and that the decree's own NOTA names as the place its annexes appear. Its sha256 is 197fce006cd7388d4eb06adae573487d2fe820976f55f242d0623e3215deca62 and a copy is kept at research/instruments/argentina/. The low resolution image served on the two normativa pages omits one page of that annex, Fila 614 to 651; the Boletín Oficial PDF does not, and every figure here was read from the PDF. [Certain] Every statement above about what the list does and does not contain was read as at the Anexo I substituted by Decreto 122/2026, published 02/03/2026, read together with Anexo II of Decreto 560/2019, which was the current text when this cell was written. This does not rule out a later decree substituting or amending either annex, and it does not rule out a placement under some instrument other than these two. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass from the articles themselves. Article 14 first paragraph sets prisión de uno a seis años, one to six years, and a fine for anyone who holds estupefacientes. Article 14 second paragraph reduces that to un mes a dos años, one month to two years, when, por su escasa cantidad y demás circunstancias, surgiere inequívocamente que la tenencia es para uso personal. Article 5 sets prisión de cuatro (4) a quince (15) años, four to fifteen years, y multa de cuarenta y cinco (45) a novecientas (900) unidades fijas, for anyone acting sin autorización o con destino ilegítimo who sows or cultivates, produces, manufactures, extracts or prepares, trades or holds for the purposes of trade, distributes, gives in payment, stores or transports, or delivers, supplies, applies or facilitates to others for payment. A delivery free of charge is tres (3) a doce (12) años, three to twelve years. Article 5 drops to un mes a dos años, one month to two years, where the escasa cantidad sown or cultivated shows unequivocally it was to obtain estupefacientes for the person's own consumption, and to seis (6) meses a tres (3) años, six months to three years, where a free and occasional supply was plainly for the recipient's own use. Article 6 sets the same four to fifteen years for importing and then illegitimately altering the declared destination, dropping to three to twelve years where the quantity shows unequivocally the goods were not for trade. Article 7 sets prisión de ocho (8) a veinte (20) años, eight to twenty years, y multa de noventa (90) a mil ochocientas (1.800) unidades fijas for organising or financing any of the article 5 or article 6 activities. Article 11 raises the penalties in the preceding articles en un tercio del máximo a la mitad del mínimo for its six listed aggravations, among them use of a person under eighteen, violence or deceit, three or more organised participants, and commission near a school, a health centre, a place of detention or a sporting or cultural institution, and the same sentence caps the increase in its own words, sin que las mismas puedan exceder el máximo legal de la especie de pena de que se trate. Arithmetic on article 7 plus article 11 gives twenty six years and eight months, which is a derivation and not a figure the Act states, and the species cap governs it. Article 17 lets the court suspend the sentence in an article 14 second paragraph case where personal use and dependence are proved and order a curative measure instead, and a satisfactory result exempts the person from the penalty. Article 16 adds a curative measure to the sentence of any dependent person convicted of any offence. [Likely] Carried from the live cell rather than re-derived here, because the ruling is not on the instrument pages read in this pass: the 2009 Corte Suprema decision in Arriola held the article 14 second paragraph penalty unconstitutional for consumption in private that harms nobody else, under article 19 of the Constitution. That ruling binds its own case. Lower courts vary, police still arrest, and the statute fixes no gram threshold, so decriminalised is not legalised and sale and purchase remain criminal.
Colombia
Legal status
Controlled. Anexo Técnico 1 of Resolución 116 de 2026, the Ministry of Health resolution of 27 January 2026 that replaced article 4 and the four technical annexes of Resolución 315 de 2020, lists it at entry 344, Nimetazepam, chemical name 1,3-dihidro-7-nitro-5-fenil-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-ona, Lista Verde, Lista IV. The entry carries the Lista Verde, which the source note to Anexo Técnico 4 identifies as the list of psychotropic substances under international control, so Penal Code article 376 reaches it on the article's own words. [Certain]
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Article 11 of the Constitución Política reads, in its own words, that el derecho a la vida es inviolable and that no habrá pena de muerte, so no Colombian drug offence carries a capital penalty. [Certain] The entry read for this row is entry 344, Nimetazepam, chemical name 1,3-dihidro-7-nitro-5-fenil-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-ona, Lista Verde, Lista IV. Penal Code article 376, as replaced by article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011, punishes unauthorised import, transit, export, transport, carrying, storage, keeping, manufacture, sale, offer, acquisition, financing or supply of a narcotic, psychotropic or synthetic drug contemplated in schedules one, two, three and four of the 1971 United Nations Convention on Psychotropic Substances, with 128 to 360 months of imprisonment and a fine of 1,334 to 50,000 monthly legal minimum wages. Its second and third paragraphs graduate that by quantity, to 64 to 108 months up to 200 g of droga sintética and to 96 to 144 months up to 4,000 g. Article 384 doubles the minimum of those figures in its listed aggravations, among them use of a minor and commission in or near a school. [Certain] Ley 30 de 1986 article 2(j) fixes the dosis para uso personal at not more than 20 g of marihuana, 5 g of marihuana hachís, 1 g of cocaine or any cocaine-based substance and 2 g of metacualona, and adds that it is not a personal dose, whatever the quantity, where the purpose is distribution or sale. Sentencia C-221 de 1994 declared article 2(j) exequible and articles 51 and 87 of Ley 30 inexequibles, resting on article 16 of the Constitution, the right to the free development of personality. The protection is judicial rather than statutory: article 11 of Ley 1453 de 2011 rewrote article 376 without the words salvo lo dispuesto sobre dosis para uso personal that the earlier text carried, and Sentencia C-491 de 2012 then upheld the rewritten article only on the understanding that it does not criminalise carrying or keeping a dose exclusively destined for personal consumption. Decriminalised is not the same as lawful: sale and supply stay criminal at any quantity. No printed figure covers this substance. [Certain]
If prescribed / medical
Colombia's traveller rule runs through the medicamentos de control especial regime. This substance is listed at entry 344, Nimetazepam, chemical name 1,3-dihidro-7-nitro-5-fenil-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-ona, Lista Verde, Lista IV. No presentation of it appears on any of the three medicamentos de control especial lists in Anexo Técnico 3, so the resolution shows no prescribable form for it. Ley 30 de 1986 article 3 limits the use and possession of estupefacientes to medical and scientific ends under Ministry of Health regulation, and article 20(a) routes import and sale through the Fondo. Penal Code article 379 punishes a doctor, dentist, nurse or pharmacist who illegally prescribes, supplies or applies a dependence-producing drug with 48 to 144 months and 80 to 180 months of professional disqualification. The specific traveller certificate requirements were not established in this pass, because Resolución 1478 de 2006 could not be retrieved from an official source. [Certain] as to the listing.
Costa Rica
Legal status
Controlled. Article 1 of Ley 7786, as integrally reformed by Ley 8204, fixes the scope by reference to the substances included in the 1961 and 1971 Conventions and the 1988 Convention, and the Ministerio de Salud reproduces those listas in Spanish in its national fiscalizacion list and adds a short Otros agregados section of national additions. This row was read as a named entry in Lista IV of the 1971 Convention. The offence articles are 58 and 77. [Certain] for the placement, with the entry text recorded in the documentation.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Article 21 of the Constitution provides "La vida humana es inviolable", the human life is inviolable, and the word "muerte" appears zero times across the 81 pages of the consolidated Act. Both of those were measured in this pass and together they are what carries the heading. Costa Rica is an abolitionist state of long standing, [Likely] on the nineteenth century date, which was not re-derived here. Unauthorised trafficking conduct carries eight to fifteen years. Article 58 provides "Se impondra pena de prision de ocho a quince anos a quien, sin autorizacion legal, distribuya, comercie, suministre, fabrique, elabore, refine, transforme, extraiga, prepare, cultive, produzca, transporte, almacene o venda las drogas". That is eight to fifteen years for unauthorised distribution, commerce, supply, manufacture, processing, extraction, preparation, cultivation, production, transport, storage or sale. Article 77 raises the range to eight to twenty years where one of its eight enumerated aggravating circumstances is present, and twenty years is the ceiling this Act identifies. No article states a weight threshold, so the trigger is the unauthorised act and never a quantity. The second paragraph of article 58 reaches possession only "para cualquiera de los fines expresados", that is possession for one of those trafficking purposes. Ley 7786 creates no offence of consumption and no offence of simple possession for personal use. Article 79 answers a person consuming in a public place with voluntary and free treatment in a public or private health centre, not with a penalty.
If prescribed / medical
A lawful medical route exists only through the authorisation the Act itself demands. Article 58 opens with the words "sin autorizacion legal", so conduct carried out under a Costa Rican authorisation falls outside the offence and conduct without one falls inside it whatever the amount. Article 2 confines handling to the quantities needed for medical treatment, toxicological and chemical analysis and research, and requires authorised prescribers to use the official forms supplied by the Ministerio de Salud, whose entries carry the character of a sworn declaration. The Direccion de Drogas y Estupefacientes administers that control under Decreto 45161-S of 17 June 2025 and publishes the fiscalizacion list. The national list files this row among the psicotropicos rather than the estupefacientes, which is the less strict of the two prescription regimes it operates.
Dominican Republic
Legal status
Not listed. Nimetazepam has no entry among the twelve benzodiazepines of acápite I of Categoría IV. The listed clonazepam at number 6 under code 2737 is also a nitrobenzodiazepine, so the law lists one member of that subgroup and not this one, and it prints no class rule that would carry the listing across. It is not named in the five Categorías of article 8 of Ley 50-88, which are the only substance schedules the law prints and which no statute has amended since 7 June 1990, nor in the article 2 definitions, nor in the precursor table of Capítulo V of the Reglamento as that chapter was replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21 on 26 April 2021, as at 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught
The dossier for this country recorded this substance inside a quoted entry. That name is not printed in either government copy read here. Article 75 sets the prison band by the role the case is classified into: six months to two years for simple possession, three to ten years for a distributor, a seller or an intermediary, five to twenty years for a trafficker, and thirty years for a patrocinador. The quantity scales that decide which of those roles a case falls into are printed for cocaine in article 5 and for marihuana and hashish in article 6, and Ley 50-88 prints no quantity scale for any other substance. The fines run with the same roles: RD$1,500 to RD$2,500 for simple possession, RD$10,000 to RD$50,000 for a distributor or an intermediary, not less than the value of the drugs seized and never less than RD$50,000 for a trafficker, and not less than RD$1,000,000 for a patrocinador. Article 59 adds five to twenty years with a fine of not less than RD$250,000 for taking a controlled drug into or out of the national territory in international traffic, and thirty years with a fine of not less than RD$1,000,000 where the Dominican Republic is the final destination. Article 58 classifies illicit trafficking, the manufacture, distribution or possession of equipment for producing controlled drugs, and the acquisition or laundering of the proceeds, as delitos graves to be punished with the maximum of the penalties and the fines, and its párrafo calls illicit trafficking an international offence. Article 85 doubles the penalty for a reincident trafficker or patrocinador and caps the resulting prison term at thirty years, and article 87 withdraws provisional liberty on bail, conditional liberty and the conditional pardon of the sentence from every offence in this law. Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as the Dominican Republic's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure. Ley 50-88 provides no death penalty for any drug offence, and the highest prison term it prints anywhere is thirty years.
If prescribed / medical
Nimetazepam is a hypnotic licensed in few countries. Because it carries no entry in the Categorías of Ley 50-88, its position is a matter for the general medicines regime under Ley 42-01. Carry any prescribed supply in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm the requirement with your embassy before travel.
Jamaica
Legal status
No entry for Nimetazepam was proved in the Dangerous Drugs Act. The member check was run on this name alone and not inferred from the class row. A full page image read of all 43 pages of the consolidated text obtained from the single download this compilation cites returns no occurrence of the stem azepam, the stem zolam, or this name, and section 10(1) lists only medicinal opium, any extract or tincture of the plant cannabis sativa, morphine and its salts, diacetylmorphine and the other esters of morphine, cocaine and ecgonine with their salts and esters, the dihydrocodeinone and morphine N oxide group, and thebaine with the ethers of morphine. An earlier working note recorded this row as verified against a printed schedule entry, «nimetazepam»; that entry could not be reproduced from the instrument and it is not relied on here. The row checks a nitro benzodiazepine medicine separately from nimetazepam-like spellings. Section 11 lets the Minister extend Part IV by order and such orders are separate Legal Notices that this consolidation does not reproduce, so absence from section 10 is not a finding that the substance is uncontrolled in Jamaica; medicines and pharmacy law are also reserved.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. The words death, capital and hanging appear nowhere in the 43 page consolidated Dangerous Drugs Act, and every penalty limb in it stops at imprisonment: thirty five years on conviction before a Circuit Court under sections 7B, 8A and 8B, and five years or less on summary conviction before a Resident Magistrate. No penalty limb is assigned to this row, because no placement was proved and a ceiling copied across from a neighbouring row would be an invention. The searches recorded were «nimetazepam», and the row checks a nitro benzodiazepine medicine separately from nimetazepam-like spellings. If an identification or a Ministerial order under section 11 were to bring the material within Part IV, sections 8A and 8B would carry the thirty five year Circuit Court ceiling and the summary alternative of a fine not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars or five years. If it were identified as ganja or its resin, the ounce based scale in sections 7B and 7C would apply instead. Neither of those is asserted here.
If prescribed / medical
Where this substance is carried as a prescribed medicine, the question Jamaican law asks is not the quantity but the authorisation. Section 8B(1) prohibits possession of a Part IV drug save as authorized by a licence or under regulations made under the Act, section 9(1)(c) provides for regulations «for regulating the issue by medical practitioners of prescriptions containing any such drug and the dispensing of any such prescription», and section 19 provides that licences, permits and authorities «issued or granted by the Chief Medical Officer» carry whatever terms the Minister prescribes. A foreign prescription is not a Jamaican authorisation and does not become one on arrival. No schedule placement attaches to this row on the face of this instrument, so nothing in the Act tells a traveller which authorisation, if any, would be the right one to hold. The term recorded for this row in the compilation is «nimetazepam», and the identification question that has to be settled before any authorisation answer is given is the one this row was drawn around, which checks a nitro benzodiazepine medicine separately from nimetazepam-like spellings.
Ireland
Legal status
Nimetazepam is a controlled drug in Ireland. The placement recorded for this row is: Schedule 4, Part 1; S.I. 210/2022, Sch. 4 Part 1. The entry relied on prints “Nimetazepam”, and that is the wording this placement rests on. Nimetazepam is individually listed in Schedule 4, Part 1. Section 2 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977 is what turns a scheduled substance into a controlled drug for that Act's offences, and the schedules themselves are set by the Regulations named above rather than by the Act, so a placement moves when an amending instrument moves it. This row is one of the six benzodiazepine member rows this table carries. The other five are diazepam, alprazolam, clonazepam, lorazepam and etizolam. All six are placed in Schedule 4, Part 1 by S.I. No. 210 of 2022 and all six carry the same exposure, which is what lets the benzodiazepines label in this table resolve rather than defer.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Ireland has no death penalty, so nothing on this row can reach one. The exposure that does run is imprisonment, and it runs because of where this row sits: Schedule 4, Part 1; S.I. 210/2022, Sch. 4 Part 1. The entry that puts it there prints “Nimetazepam”, so what follows runs from that entry and not from the substance's reputation. Section 3 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977 makes simple possession an offence and section 27(1)(b) permits up to 7 years on indictment for it. Section 15 reaches possession for unlawful sale or supply and section 27(3) permits life imprisonment for that. Section 15A is the presumptive offence and the source read here records it applying at €13,000, which is a market value of the drugs and is not a weight, a dose count or a quantity threshold of any kind. Sections 27(3C) and 27(3D) then carry the ten year presumptive minimum and the narrow grounds on which a court may go below it. The 2010 Act does not run alongside any of this, because section 2(1)(f) of that Act puts a controlled drug outside it. The source's own ceiling line for this row reads: For nimetazepam, 1977 Act s. 27(1)(b) permits up to 7 years for possession on indictment; s. 27(3) permits life for s. 15 supply; s. 15A applies at €13,000 with the s. 27(3C)-(3D) ten-year rule; 2010 Act excluded by s. 2(1)(f). Read as at 20 September 2026. These are the statutory ceilings the source records and they are not a prediction of what any court would impose.
If prescribed / medical
Not established for Ireland in the source read here, and deferred rather than guessed. The dossier this cell was authored from carries no prescription column and no traveller column, and no source for one, so nothing is asserted about whether a visitor may bring nimetazepam into Ireland, what a foreign prescription is worth at an Irish border, or what licence, certificate or authorisation Ireland requires for it. That was not researched and it is not inferred here. What the row does establish is its placement, which reads: Schedule 4, Part 1; S.I. 210/2022, Sch. 4 Part 1. Attached to this substance, the wording read for it is “Nimetazepam”, and that is a scheduling record rather than anything about medicine. This row's own words record no medical limb, no exemption and no prescribing route of any kind, so there is nothing in it to attach to even conditionally. A scheduling fact is not a prescribing route, and the silence in this field is an absence of research rather than a permission.
Austria
Legal status
This is a designated psychotrope in Austria, which is the lighter of the country's two drug designations. In the Psychotropenverordnung, Annex 1 point 2 carries Nimetazepam. It is listed on the same footing as the therapeutic benzodiazepines even though it has no Austrian market, which shows the list is a control list rather than a formulary. Reading the entry yields the placement only. No article, condition or operative provision sits inside it, and the working law is SMG §5(1) together with the §30, §31 and §31a offences. Designation here is delegated in the same way as for narcotics. SMG §3(1) sets the convention and regulation test, the Psychotropenverordnung answers it, and the offences sit in SMG §§30, 31 and 31a rather than in §§27 to 28a. Annex 1 reaches the salts and preparations of the substances it names. There is no general derivative or isomer extension in this instrument, so an unlisted designer analogue is not brought in by resemblance.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Ten years is the maximum, under SMG §§31(3) and 31a(3) for the specified criminal association preparation and trafficking conduct. The life ceiling in the narcotics instrument is not available against a psychotrope, and Austria is not a capital jurisdiction. Nimetazepam is a point 2 psychotrope, and its absence from Austrian pharmacies does not move it to a different tier. Section 31 covers preparation above the threshold with intent to put it into circulation at two years, rising to five years above fifteen times the threshold, and §31a covers trafficking at three years and then five. The fine and the custodial term in the basic offences are alternatives, and confiscation under SMG §34 is a separate consequence from both. Separately from that, and carried forward from this site's published Austria entry rather than re-derived from the Suchtmittelgesetz in this pass, the published penalties are these. Austrian practice is depenalised and not legalised, and the published entry says so in those terms. There is no legal minimum quantity, and possession of any amount for personal use is punishable under section 27, up to six months in prison or a fine. Under Therapie statt Strafe at section 35, small quantity personal use is typically provisionally suspended from prosecution on one to two years of probation where the person accepts counselling or treatment. Consumption itself is not criminalised, but the possession that precedes it is. Above the Grenzmenge, the threshold quantity, the offence becomes dealing or trafficking under sections 28 and 28a, up to one to three years, escalating to ten to fifteen years for commercial or organised cases. Every figure in this paragraph is a penalty range or a fine and none of them is a quantity threshold. They describe the offences that this row's placement in the Austrian Suchtgift and psychotrope lists brings into play.
If prescribed / medical
The rule that governs every traveller in Austria is SMG §5(1). It confines the acquisition, possession, production, processing, carriage, import, export, offering, transfer and procurement of a Suchtmittel to medical, dental, veterinary and scientific purposes, and the particular travel, licensing and dispensing provisions operate inside it rather than around it. Because this substance is a designated psychotrope, SMG §30(3) is available on its own terms. It removes punishment under §30(1) and §30(2) where a medicine containing a psychotropic substance, not exceeding the threshold, is acquired, possessed, carried, imported or exported for personal use or for the needs of an animal, or is offered, transferred or procured without the person drawing an advantage from it. It is not a blanket exception for psychotropic powder. The Psychotropenverordnung closes its Annexes 2 and 3 with travel certificate fields, which is where this system's documented route lives. Nothing read here establishes an authorised Austrian nimetazepam medicine, so a foreign supply is not shown to be a medicine within the SMG §30(3) exception, which turns on the item being one.
Poland
Legal status
Controlled. Poland names this substance in its own national list. «NIMETAZEPAM» is entry lp. 54 in group IV-P of Załącznik nr 1, the psychotropic annex, with a nitro benzodiazepine designation. Article 33(1) of the 2005 Act allows group IV-P to be used for medical, industrial or research purposes. Flunitrazepam, its closest relative in the annex, sits a tier higher at lp. 5 of group III-P, so the two nitro benzodiazepines are not treated alike. The published Poland entry said Poland controls it by incorporating the 1971 Convention rather than by naming it in a national list, and the entry at lp. 54 is the correction.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Poland has no death penalty, and the heaviest band the 2005 Act reaches for any conduct with this substance is a term of years. Possession is an offence under article 62(1) of the 2005 Act and the band there is up to three years. Where the quantity is considerable, article 62(2) sets a band of one year to ten years. In a case of lesser gravity article 62(3) provides instead for a fine, a restriction of liberty or up to one year. Article 62a lets proceedings be discontinued, even before the decision to open an investigation, where the quantity is insignificant and intended for the holder's own use and a penalty would be inexpedient. That is a power of the prosecutor and not an entitlement of the holder, so it is not decriminalisation. The difference in tier between this entry and flunitrazepam governs the permitted uses under article 33 and not the possession band, which article 62 fixes for every psychotropic substance alike. Supply offences sit apart from possession. Article 56 punishes putting such a substance on the market with a fine and six months to eight years, and article 56(3) raises that to a fine and two years to twelve years where the quantity is considerable. Article 59(1) punishes supply for gain with one year to ten years.
If prescribed / medical
There is no authorised medicinal product with this substance in Poland, so no prescription route exists for it. No authorised medicinal product with nimetazepam exists in Poland.
Documentation
No personal import route exists, because a listed substance may be brought in only under the licensing chapter of the 2005 Act and not on a traveller's own account. The certificate issued under article 75 of the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement is the route for a prescribed controlled medicine and does not reach a substance for which no prescription can be written. No authorised product exists in Poland, so a foreign prescription cannot be documented onto a Polish supply route.
Rozporządzenie Ministra Zdrowia z dnia 17 sierpnia 2018 r. w sprawie wykazu substancji psychotropowych, środków odurzających oraz nowych substancji psychoaktywnych, tekst jednolity Dz.U. 2024 poz. 1139 · Updated September 21, 2026
Croatia
Legal status
Nimetazepam is a psihotropna tvar, a psychotropic substance, in Croatia. The Popis droga, psihotropnih tvari i biljaka iz kojih se može dobiti droga te tvari koje se mogu uporabiti za izradu droga, NN 19/2023, carries it at Odjeljak 4. of the psychotropic list, the section for substances under Schedule 4 of the 1971 Convention, and the printed entry is »nimetazepam«, with »Nimetazepam« in the column of English names and »1,3-dihidro-1-metil-7-nitro-5-fenil-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-on« as its description or chemical name. It sits between »midazolam« and »nitrazepam«, and that placement was taken from the rows read on either side of it rather than from a substring match. It sits between mezokarb and nitrazepam, and nitrazepam on the next row differs by a single methyl group and is a separate entry. This placement is read in the Popis as published at NN 19/2023 of 17 February 2023, in force 18 February 2023, together with its only amendment, NN 154/2024 of 30 December 2024, read at https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2023_02_19_331.html on 21 September 2026.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Article 21 of the Ustav Republike Hrvatske reads »U Republici Hrvatskoj nema smrtne kazne«, there is no death penalty in the Republic of Croatia, and Article 41 of the Kazneni zakon lists the only punishments as a fine, imprisonment and long term imprisonment. A charge on this row is built from the printed entry »nimetazepam« at the psychotropic list, Odjeljak 4. and it is that Croatian entry rather than an English common name that identifies the substance for Croatian purposes. Article 190 of the Kazneni zakon supplies the criminal bands, and its subject is »tvari koje su propisom proglašene drogom«, substances declared a drug by regulation, so a Popis entry is what brings a row within it. Article 190(1) sets six months to five years for unauthorised production or processing. Article 190(2) sets three to twelve years for producing, processing, transporting, exporting, importing, acquiring or possessing such substances intended for unauthorised sale, and for offering, selling or brokering them. Article 190(3) sets three to fifteen years where the sale is to a person with severe mental disturbance or to a child, or takes place at or near a school or another place serving the education, upbringing, sport or social activity of children, or in a penal institution, or where an official commits it in the course of duty. Article 190(4) sets not less than three years for organising a network of resellers or intermediaries, and Article 190(5) not less than five years where the act causes considerable damage to the health of a larger number of people or the death of the person sold to. Article 190(8) requires confiscation of the substances, the plants and fungi they come from, and the means of production, transport and consumption. Article 190(2) read one to twelve years until Article 10 of the Zakon o izmjenama i dopunama Kaznenog zakona, NN 136/2025, replaced the word »jedne« with »tri«, and it has read three to twelve years since that Act came into force on the eighth day after its publication on 5 November 2025. Article 44(1) of the Kazneni zakon caps a term of imprisonment at twenty years, which is what bounds the open ended minima in Article 190(4) and Article 190(5), and Article 46 puts long term imprisonment of twenty one to forty years outside the reach of Article 190. The neighbouring row differs by a single methyl group and is a separate entry. The live cell recorded that since 1 January 2013 personal use possession of any drug has been reclassified from a kazneno djelo, a criminal offence, to a prekršaj, a misdemeanour, and that is carried forward here. It recorded the misdemeanour fine as roughly 660 to 2,650 euro. It recorded possible short misdemeanour detention of up to 90 days, confiscation, and no arrest for possession alone. On quantity it recorded that there is no statutory personal use quantity and that courts decide case by case, and that hedge is carried forward as it stood. It recorded cultivation or production without intent to sell as six months to five years. It recorded sale, import, export or possession for sale as three to twelve years. It recorded aggravated cases, near schools, to children or organised, as up to fifteen to twenty years. It recorded that medical cannabis has been legal since October 2015 on prescription, capped at 0,75 g of THC per month and limited to residents. It recorded that claims of a 2026 reform introducing a five gram cannabis threshold are not supported by any primary source and should be disregarded. Read against the control Act, the misdemeanour the live fine belongs to is Article 54(1) point 1 of the Zakon o suzbijanju zlouporabe droga read with Article 54(3), which makes possession contrary to Article 3(1) a misdemeanour for a natural person. The fine that provision prints is 5.000,00 to 20.000,00 kuna or imprisonment of up to 90 days, because the Act's consolidation still carries the pre euro figures, and at the fixed conversion rate that range is about 663 to 2,654 euro, which reconciles with the live figure rather than replacing it. Article 190 as read carries no possession for own use offence at all, which is consistent with the live cell's 2013 reclassification but is not proof of it. The words without intent to sell are the live cell's gloss and not the statute's: Article 190(1) is unauthorised production or processing, and Article 190(7) deems unauthorised growing of a plant or fungus from which a drug can be obtained to be production. The 0,75 g monthly cap appears in nothing read for this cell; Article 13(6) to (9) of the control Act permits cannabis cultivation and production for medical purposes on an approval from the health ministry, and the monthly figure is carried forward from the live cell and was not re-derived. Those bands, that fine and those quantity words are set out here because the live cell carried them, and they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
Hungary
Legal status
Controlled. Nimetazepam is a named entry of the P4 jegyzék carried in the 2. melléklet to 78/2022. (XII. 28.) BM rendelet az ellenőrzött anyagokról. Column A of row 49 reads «Nimetazepam (nimetazepám)». Column C reads «1,3-dihydro-1-methyl-7-nitro-5-phenyl-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one». Paragraph 4.2 of the P4 jegyzék extends the entry to «a fenti anyagok sztereoizomerjei, ha azok a feltüntetett kémiai névnek megfelelnek», and to their salts where those exist. Hungary carries the list outside the Act: the Criminal Code names no substance and the delegated rendelet carries the jegyzékek, which is the outward reference model and the second of the three. Section 459(1a) of the Criminal Code, 2012. évi C. törvény, inserted by section 26 of 2025. évi XIX. törvény, reads «E törvény alkalmazásában kábítószer a 78/2022. (XII. 28.) BM rendelet 1. mellékletében a kábítószerek 1. vagy 2. jegyzékén szereplő anyag, 2. mellékletében a pszichotróp anyagok 1. vagy 2. jegyzékén szereplő anyag, valamint 3. mellékletében meghatározott anyag.», so the K1 and K2 jegyzékek of the 1. melléklet, the P1 and P2 jegyzékek of the 2. melléklet and the whole of the 3. melléklet are inside the Criminal Code definition and the P3 and P4 jegyzékek are not. The P3 and P4 jegyzékek remain controlled schedules of the rendelet, and an entry there alone does not place a substance in the ordinary section 176 trafficking lane. This is read from the consolidated text of the rendelet as in force on 29 June 2026, as those lists stand after the amendment made by 1/2026. (VI. 19.) EÜM rendelet, which is the last amendment reflected in the text that was read.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Hungary has no death penalty. It does have life imprisonment for a drug offence, and that is the ceiling here. In Hungary Nimetazepam sits at row 49 of the P4 jegyzék of 78/2022, which section 459(1a) does not carry into the Criminal Code. Criminal Code section 176(1) makes offering, handing over, putting into circulation or trading in a drug a bűntett punishable by two to eight years, «Aki kábítószert kínál, átad, forgalomba hoz, vagy azzal kereskedik, bűntett miatt két évtől nyolc évig terjedő szabadságvesztéssel büntetendő.». Section 176(3) raises that to five years to twenty years or life imprisonment where the offence is committed in respect of a significant quantity, «A büntetés öt évtől húsz évig terjedő vagy életfogytig tartó szabadságvesztés, ha a bűncselekményt jelentős mennyiségű kábítószerre követik el.». The live Hungary cell recorded the life ceiling under section 176(3) and this pass re-derived the same provision from the Act and adds the five to twenty year band printed beside it. Section 178(6) makes consuming a drug, and acquiring, holding or ordering for import a small quantity for consumption, a vétség punishable by up to two years, «Aki kábítószert fogyaszt, illetve csekély mennyiségű kábítószert fogyasztás céljából megszerez, tart vagy az ország területére történő behozatal céljából megrendel, ha súlyosabb bűncselekmény nem valósul meg, vétség miatt két évig terjedő szabadságvesztéssel büntetendő.». Section 180(1) is a conditional non punishment route and not a numerical decriminalisation rule: it requires the offender to admit the offence, «a bűncselekmény elkövetését beismeri,», to prove by document before the first instance decision at least six months of continuous treatment for dependence, other care for drug use or a preventive and informative service, «az elsőfokú ügydöntő határozat meghozataláig okirattal igazolja, hogy legalább hat hónapig folyamatos, kábítószer-függőséget gyógyító kezelésben, kábítószer-használatot kezelő más ellátásban részesült, vagy megelőző-felvilágosító szolgáltatáson vett részt, és», and to disclose the circumstances and enable the seller to be identified before the indictment, «a vádemelésig az elkövetés körülményeit feltárja, illetve lehetővé teszi a kábítószert értékesítő személy kilétének a megállapítását.». The live Hungary cell recorded those three conditions and this pass re-derived them from the Act. Section 180(2) closes that route where within the preceding two years the proceedings were suspended on that ground or the offender was held liable for drug trafficking or drug possession, and section 180(2a) closes it where the offender has already taken it twice, «Az (1) bekezdés nem alkalmazható akkor sem, ha az elkövető az (1) bekezdés b) pontja szerinti lehetőséget már két alkalommal igénybe vette.». Section 461 supplies the quantity definitions that grade the offence, so a quantity figure in Hungary selects the band rather than creating a lawful allowance. No section 461 small quantity value follows from this row. Section 459(1a) carries the K1 and K2 jegyzékek, the P1 and P2 jegyzékek and the 3. melléklet into the Criminal Code and does not carry the P3 or the P4 jegyzék, so the graduated quantity scheme in section 461 has nothing to attach to here. The live Hungary cell recorded the same result for a P3 or P4 entry, and this pass re-derived it from the text of section 459(1a). No fine figure attaches to any of those provisions in the text read: the Criminal Code states them as custodial bands and the rendelet states no penalty of its own. Those are Criminal Code provisions rather than rendelet provisions, and this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Hungary's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
Cambodia
Legal status
Not confirmed, status not individually verified; confirm with Cambodia's authorities (Law on the Control of Drugs) / your embassy
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not named in the cited Cambodian source (Law on the Control of Drugs 1996, as amended), do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. Cambodia ABOLISHED the death penalty in 1989 (constitutional), there is NO death penalty for any drug offence; the maximum is LIFE imprisonment. ENFORCEMENT: a 2017 anti-drug campaign sharply increased arrests and post-2019 tourist-area enforcement tightened, foreigners are routinely jailed, and the old 'smokers' paradise' reputation is OUTDATED.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
Cambodia ABOLISHED the death penalty in 1989 (constitutional); the maximum penalty for any drug offence is LIFE imprisonment. There is no medical, recreational, or industrial cannabis provision. Enforcement tightened sharply after a 2017 anti-drug campaign and post-2019 in tourist areas, foreigners are routinely jailed and the old 'smokers' paradise' reputation is OUTDATED. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Law on the Control of Drugs (1996, amended 2005, 2011/2012), Arts 40/45 · UNODC and Amnesty International (corroborative) · cdc.gov.kh · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Sri Lanka
Legal status
Dangerous drug under Sri Lanka's Poisons, Opium and Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Chapter 218): Group B Section 2, 「Nimetazepam」. Nimetazepam is named, alongside flunitrazepam at item 94. Both are nitrobenzodiazepines and both are treated exactly as the ordinary benzodiazepines are in this schedule, with no separate tier. The model: the list is inside the Ordinance and the power to change it is delegated, with a parliamentary lock on the delegation. Section 48 provides that 「the drugs, substances, articles or preparations, specified for the time being in Groups A, B, C, D and E in Part I of the Third Schedule, shall be deemed to be dangerous drugs」. Section 2(1) then provides that 「regulation」 means a regulation made under this Ordinance and published in the Gazette, 「and includes the First, Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Schedules」, so the Third Schedule is itself a regulation. The empowering section is section 80. Section 80(2)(b) lets the Minister make regulations 「for adding any item to or deleting any item from, or altering, varying or amending in any other way, any of the lists or Groups of poisons and dangerous drugs set out in the First and Third Schedules」, and section 80(3) then provides that 「No regulation so made shall have effect unless it has been approved by Parliament and notification of such approval has been published in the Gazette」. So the delegation is real but it is locked to an affirmative vote, and in practice the 2022 changes were made by primary legislation rather than by regulation. The Act was last amended by the Poisons, Opium and Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act, No. 7 of 2026, certified 6 March 2026. The Third Schedule was last amended by section 6 of the Poisons, Opium and Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act, No. 41 of 2022, certified 23 November 2022 and published as a supplement to Part II of the Gazette of 25 November 2022, which substituted Group B of Part I and the whole of Part III. Act No. 7 of 2026 does not touch the Third Schedule.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Section 54A(1) has four limbs and they do not carry the same exposure. Limb (a) punishes any person who 「manufactures any of the following dangerous drugs, namely heroin or cocaine or morphine or opium」 with 「a sentence of death or life imprisonment」, with no quantity stated. Limbs (b), (c) and (d) punish trafficking, importing or exporting, and possession, of 「any dangerous drug set out in Column II of Part III of the Third Schedule in excess of the amount set out in the said Column II」, with the penalty in Column III. Part III Column II is headed 「Pure Quantities」, and Column I is headed 「Traffics, possess, imports or exports」, so possession is inside the same ladder as trafficking. Section 54B extends the same punishment to abetting, attempting and acts preparatory to or in furtherance of a section 54A offence. Since Act No. 7 of 2026 a parallel section 54AA applies the same two structures on the high seas, aboard a ship registered in Sri Lanka or a stateless ship. For a dangerous drug that is not in Part III, section 54A never engages, because limbs (b), (c) and (d) operate only on a drug 「set out in Column II of Part III」. The charge is the general penalty in section 78(5): on summary conviction by a Magistrate a fine of one thousand to ten thousand rupees or up to five years or both, and on conviction before the High Court a fine of ten thousand to twenty five thousand rupees or six months to seven years or both. Section 78(6) requires the written consent of the Attorney-General before non-summary proceedings. Sri Lanka's schedule has no tiering at all within Group B. A substance is a dangerous drug or it is not, and the only graduation is Part III. Neither reaches this substance, at any quantity, and the reason is structural rather than a matter of degree. The death and life penalties in this Ordinance live in exactly two places. Section 54A(1)(a) attaches them to the manufacture of 「heroin or cocaine or morphine or opium」 and names no other drug. Limbs (b), (c) and (d) attach the Column III penalties to 「any dangerous drug set out in Column II of Part III of the Third Schedule」, and Column II names only opium, 「Morphine, Cocaine, Heroin and Methamphetamine」, and cannabis. This substance is in none of those, so section 54A cannot engage however much of it is involved, and section 54AA cannot either, because it is built on the same two structures. Being a dangerous drug under section 48 is not the same thing as being in Part III, and the corpus this cell replaces repeatedly ran the two together.
Morocco
Legal status
Not confirmed. This substance is in no entry of tableaux A, B or C annexed to the dahir of 2 December 1922 as annexed in 1922, read complete in the ONSSA consolidated text on 22 September 2026, and in no entry of tableaux I to IV of the 1971 Convention as printed at Bulletin officiel 3590 on 19 August 1981, thirty two entries read complete from the page image. That pair of absences does not make it lawful. Article 1 of the 1922 dahir provides that substances are inscribed in tableaux A, B and C by arrêté. Those arrêtés were read on 3 October 2026: tableau B, « Produits stupéfiants », as abrogated and replaced by arrêté n° 1850-96 of 3 September 1996, Bulletin officiel 4422, pages 713 to 716, read in full from the page image, and tableaux A and C as published by arrêté n° 171-66 of 11 March 1966, Bulletin officiel 2817 of 26 October 1966. Nimetazepam is in no entry of that tableau B, which names no benzodiazepine at all. Tableau A of 1966 prints, on page 1181, « Nitro-7 phényl-5 (3 H) benzodiazépine-1,4 (1 H) one-2 et ses sels », which is nitrazepam; nimetazepam is its 1-methyl derivative, and that entry names only the substance and its salts, so it does not reach nimetazepam. Arrêtés amending tableau B after 1996, or tableaux A and C after 1966, were searched for and not found, but the gazette was not swept issue by issue, so the list in force today was not established. Nimetazepam is a nitrobenzodiazepine marketed in Japan from 1977. No benzodiazepine is printed in the 1922 annex or in the 1981 Convention print, because the Convention scheduled benzodiazepines in 1984 and that annex was printed in 1981. The 1966 tableau A does print three by name, diazepam on page 1179, oxazepam and nitrazepam on page 1181, and the 1966 tableau C prints chlordiazepoxide on page 1185; none of those entries names nimetazepam, and none is a class clause.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. No article of dahir portant loi 1-73-282 of 21 May 1974 provides death or life imprisonment. The dahir was read from the page image of Bulletin officiel 3214, pages 928 and 929, on 3 October 2026, and the longest term it sets is ten years, the ceiling of article 2 and of article 3. Article 12 applies the penal code's rules on recidivism, which were not read for this cell. Conduct distinction. Article 2 of dahir portant loi 1-73-282 of 21 May 1974 punishes whoever imports, produces, manufactures, transports, exports or unlawfully holds « les substances ou plantes classées comme stupéfiants » with five to ten years and a fine of 5.000 to 500.000 dirhams. Article 8 punishes unlawful use of one of those substances or plants with two months to one year and a fine of 500 to 5.000 dirhams, or one of those two penalties only, and suspends prosecution where the person consents to a cure de désintoxication after medical examination on the requisition of the procureur du Roi. Both articles operate only once classification as a narcotic is established, and for this row it is not: the substance is in no entry of tableau B as replaced by arrêté 1850-96 in 1996, and no later amendment placing it there was found, although none can be ruled out. So no penalty range can be attached to this substance with confidence, and the ranges above are stated to show the ceiling that would apply if it were classified, not to assert that it is. Article 13 lets the sentencing court ban a foreign national from the territory for five to ten years, without prejudice to administrative expulsion. Article 11 requires confiscation of substances seized in the cases the dahir covers.
Qatar
Legal status
Controlled as a psychotropic medicine in Qatar under Law No. 19 of 1993, named at entry 55 of the Ministry of Public Health list of controlled psychotropic medicines in the State of Qatar, and it is not named in Table 1 or Table 2 of Law No. 9 of 1987. Nitrazepam, from which it differs by a methyl group, is the next entry at 56. Article 1 of Law No. 19 of 1993 makes the substances, medicines, drugs and pharmaceutical preparations set out in its attached schedules psychoactive substances for that Law, and article 14 gives the Minister of Public Health the parallel power to amend those schedules. The distinction between the two Laws is the whole of this row: a controlled-medicine listing is not a placement in the criminal tables. The current substance schedule of Law No. 19 of 1993 is not published on the Al Meezan portal, whose schedule note for that Law returns only the 1993 preparations schedule as two images, so the Ministry's own list is the best published evidence located for this placement. Article 1 of Law No. 9 of 1987 provides «تعتبر مواد مخدرة أو مؤثرات عقلية خطرة في تطبيق أحكام هذا القانون المواد والمؤثرات العقلية المبينة في الجدولين رقمي (1) و(2) الملحقين به. ويستثنى منها المستحضرات المبينة بالجدول رقم (3).», making the narcotic drugs and dangerous psychotropic substances for this Law those set out in attached Tables 1 and 2, and excepting from them the preparations set out in Table 3. The power to move a substance in or out is article 33, «يجوز بقرار من وزير الصحة العامة تعديل الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بالحذف أو الإضافة أو تغيير النسب الواردة فيها.», which lets the Minister of Public Health amend the attached tables by deletion, addition or change of the stated percentages. This reading is stated as at the Ministry list and the ministerial decisions read at the publisher on 22 September 2026.
Consequences if caught
The exposure here is not capital and not life, and saying so precisely is the point of this row. Law No. 19 of 1993 carries its own penalties and they are nothing like Law No. 9's. Article 15 provides at most three years, or a fine of at most ten thousand riyals, or either of them alone, for a breach of its article 3, doubles that on recidivism, and orders confiscation of the substance and of the apparatus and vessels used in every case. Article 16 provides at most two years or a fine of at most ten thousand riyals for a doctor who issues a prescription without medical justification, and adds closure of the clinic and revocation of the licence on recidivism. Article 17 provides at most one year or a fine of at most five thousand riyals for supplying for consumption or facilitating it, and for a licensee who uses the substance outside the permitted purpose. There is no capital or life term in that Law and no quantity threshold anywhere in it. For completeness, the figures Law No. 9 of 1987 carries are these. Article 34 opens «يعاقب بالإعدام أو الحبس المؤبد وبغرامة لا تزيد على خمسمائة ألف ريال ولا تقل عن ثلاثمائة ألف ريال», punishment by death or life imprisonment, and the word or is what leaves death discretionary at the base tier. The same article then provides «وتكون العقوبة الإعدام وبغرامة لا تزيد على خمسمائة ألف ريال ولا تقل عن ثلاثمائة ألف ريال في حالة العود.», making death the punishment on recidivism, and extends that same result to an offender who is a public official charged with drug control and to one who involves a person under eighteen, an ascendant, a descendant, a spouse or a person in his charge. Article 35 opens «يُعاقب بالحبس مدة لا تزيد على عشرين سنة ولا تقل عن عشر سنوات وبغرامة لا تزيد على أربعمائة ألف ريال ولا تقل عن مائتي ألف ريال», ten to twenty years for possession, acquisition, purchase, sale, delivery, receipt, transport, cession, exchange, dispensing or brokering with intent to traffic, for supplying for consumption for consideration and for keeping a place for consumption for consideration. Article 35 then provides «وتكون العقوبة الحبس المؤبد وبغرامة لا تزيد على أربعمائة ألف ريال ولا تقل عن مائتي ألف ريال في حالة العود.», life imprisonment on recidivism, and attaches life to its stated aggravations as well. Article 37 sets six months to three years for personal use, possession for use or consumption, lets the court order treatment instead for a proved addict for not less than three months and not more than a year, and article 38 bars prosecution altogether for a user who presents for treatment of his own accord. No quantity threshold appears anywhere in articles 34, 35, 37 or 41. Weight does not select the tier and a foreign threshold table has no work to do here. The fines are stated in the same articles and are separate from the custodial terms: article 34 adds a fine of not more than five hundred thousand riyals and not less than three hundred thousand, article 35 not more than four hundred thousand and not less than two hundred thousand, its no-consideration limb and article 41 not more than two hundred thousand and not less than one hundred thousand, and article 37 not more than twenty thousand and not less than ten thousand. This row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Qatar's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
Kuwait
Legal status
Controlled substance under Decree Law 159 of 2025. Nimetazepam is listed at Group 2, table 4, serial P4-60. It is not on the Group 4 list.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: not established. Articles 42 and 43 of Decree Law 159 of 2025 are the articles that carry death or life imprisonment, and both take «المواد أو المستحضرات المخدرة أو المؤثرة عقلياً» as their object, which article 1 defines by reference to the decree's tables. Three routes were tried for those tables in this pass and none produced them: the full-text page for the decree returned 404, a Kuwaiti practitioner guide states that the schedules are not reproduced, and a search of the Official Gazette located the 84 articles but not the annexes. So whether this substance sits in a table that articles 42 or 43 reach was not established, no capital provision is asserted for this row, and none is ruled out. Conduct distinction. Article 49 punishes taking or possessing Nimetazepam for personal use with imprisonment not exceeding five years and a fine not exceeding five thousand dinars, rising to ten years where the offence happens in a prison, police station, rehabilitation or addiction treatment centre, place of worship, educational place or sports club. Article 48 punishes possession, import, smuggling, purchase, production or manufacture without any of the statutory intents with up to ten years, rising to fifteen in those same places. Article 50 punishes running a place for consumption with up to ten years, or fifteen years and a fine of fifty thousand to one hundred thousand dinars if done for money. Intent to traffic is what moves the conduct into the capital articles. Article 42 of Decree Law 159 of 2025 reaches bringing in or smuggling with intent to traffic, producing or manufacturing with intent to traffic, and cultivating a plant listed in table 5 with intent to traffic. It opens يعاقب بالإعدام أو الحبس المؤبد, death or life imprisonment, with a fine of one hundred thousand to two million dinars, so death is discretionary on the article's own wording. Article 43 reaches possessing, buying or selling with intent to traffic, promoting, and bartering or supplying for money for consumption, and opens the same way, with a fine of fifty thousand to five hundred thousand dinars. Neither article sets a quantity threshold. The trigger is بقصد الإتجار, the purpose of trafficking, and it is the fine, not the penalty, that scales to the value of the goods. Article 44 makes death mandatory where an article 42 or 43 offence carries an aggravating circumstance. It reads تكون العقوبة الإعدام في الجرائم المنصوص عليها في المادتين السابقتين إذا توفر فيها ظرف من الظروف المشددة and states no alternative penalty. The circumstances are recidivism, using a minor or a person of unsound mind or anyone under the offender's authority, giving the substance to a minor to consume, commission in a prison, police station, rehabilitation or addiction treatment centre, place of worship, educational place or sports club, and abuse of official position. Article 45 makes death mandatory for founding or running a gang organisation, even abroad, for article 42 or 43 offences, reading يعاقب بالإعدام alone.
Peru
Legal status
This substance is carried by Peru's controlling schedule. Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA carries it at Lista IV B item 54, which prints Nimetazepam, and what the list prints is the operative text rather than any chemical resemblance to it. The search was run over Anexo N. 2 under nimetazepam. The substance sits on a list the Reglamento allows to be prescribed and dispensed under control rather than on the prohibited Lista I A or Lista I B. The listing read is Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, in the Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas published by the Direccion General de Medicamentos, Insumos y Drogas and marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1, which is the version this row was settled against as at 21 September 2026. Article 86 of Decreto Ley 22095 and the closing provisions of that Decreto Ley let the annexed lists be altered by Resolucion Suprema, so reading that version does not rule out a later list. Placement decides only that the substance is controlled; the criminal classification still turns on the conduct and on whether it was authorised. The convention limb of article 2 reaches it as well: the 1971 Convention Schedule IV carries this substance at code PN 001, printed NIMETAZEPAM, read in the INCB list this pass, so the placement does not stand on the domestic catalogue alone.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. This is not a flat abolition. Article 140 of the 1993 Constitution, read in the official text in this pass rather than carried, provides that la pena de muerte solo puede aplicarse por el delito de traicion a la patria en caso de guerra, y el de terrorismo, conforme a las leyes y a los tratados de los que el Peru es parte obligada. The penalty therefore exists in Peruvian constitutional law and reaches two offences, neither of which is a drug offence. Read against the offence articles themselves, every one of Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 states pena privativa de libertad with a numeric range and none of them states death. The ceiling that does run is 25 to 35 years under the final paragraph of article 297, which reaches the agent who acts as jefe, dirigente o cabecilla of an organisation dedicated to illicit drug trafficking or to the inputs for its elaboration, and applies the same range where a person uses illicit drug trafficking to finance terrorist activity. That ceiling is available on this row because Anexo N. 2 carries the substance at Lista IV B item 54, which prints Nimetazepam. Article 296 first paragraph sets 8 to 15 years and 180 to 365 dias-multa for promoting, favouring or facilitating illegal consumption by acts of manufacture or trafficking; its second paragraph sets 6 to 12 years for possession for illicit trafficking; its third paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for supplying raw materials or chemical substances, controlled or not controlled, destined for illegal drug elaboration; and its fourth paragraph sets 5 to 10 years for a conspiracy of two or more persons. Article 297 raises the range to 15 to 25 years for its listed aggravations. Article 298 sets 3 to 7 years for microcomercializacion and microproduccion within its own quantity bands, rising to 6 to 10 years where the conduct also answers aggravations 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6 of article 297. Article 298 sets its own quantity bands, which are the figures that keep conduct inside the lesser offence: 50 g of pasta basica de cocaina and its illicit derivatives, 25 g of clorhidrato de cocaina, 5 g of latex de opio or 1 g of its derivatives, 100 g of marihuana or 10 g of its derivatives, and 2 g of extasis. Article 297 numeral 7 sets the ceilings at the other end: 20 kg of pasta basica, 10 kg of clorhidrato, 5 kg of latex de opio or 500 g of its derivatives, 100 kg of marihuana or 2 kg of its derivatives, and 15 g of extasis. The 2003 amendment the previous cell cited, Ley 28002 of 17 June 2003, is part of this lineage and derogated article 296-D, but it is not the current wording of these articles: articles 296, 297, 298 and 299 were replaced again by Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, and articles 296 and 297 again by Decreto Legislativo 1237 of 26 September 2015, which is the text read here. Article 299, in the wording given it by article 2 of Decreto Legislativo 982 of 22 July 2007, makes possession for the holder's own and immediate consumption not punishable in a quantity not exceeding five grams of pasta basica de cocaina, two grams of clorhidrato de cocaina, eight grams of marihuana or two grams of its derivatives, one gram of latex de opio or two hundred milligrams of its derivatives, or two hundred and fifty milligrams of extasis containing Metilendioxianfetamina, Metilendioximetanfetamina, Metanfetamina or sustancias analogas. Its second paragraph excludes the possession of two or more kinds of drug from that protection, so two substances each under their own figure is an offence where either alone would not have been. Article 299 prints no figure for this substance. Its five limbs name cocaine paste, cocaine hydrochloride, marihuana and its derivatives, latex de opio and its derivatives, and extasis, and nothing else, so the non-punishable quantity rule has no stated figure to offer this row. Article 303, as replaced by the second complementary modifying provision of Ley 30219 of 8 July 2014, provides that a foreign national who has served the custodial sentence imposed, or who is granted a penitentiary benefit, is expelled from the country and barred from returning. Carried from the previous cell and not re-derived in this pass: police frequently treat a possessor as a trafficker, and up to 15 days of preventive detention can apply. Article 89 numeral 13 of Decreto Ley 22095, defining droga, closes by providing that para los efectos de la represion penal se considera unicamente las listas I y II A, so the Decreto Ley's own definition limits criminal repression under it to Lista I and Lista II A. The Codigo Penal articles set out here speak instead of drogas toxicas, estupefacientes o sustancias psicotropicas without naming a list, and which of the two framings governs a prosecution is not settled by anything read in this pass. This entry sits outside Lista I and Lista II A.
Chile
Legal status
Controlled. Decreto 867 artículo 2, the lista of substances that do not produce those grave effects.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Chile abolished the death penalty for ordinary crimes by Ley 19.734 of 2001 [Likely, carried from a secondary source], and the escala general de penas in artículo 21 of the Código Penal, re-derived in this pass from the consolidated text of 20 November 2018, opens at presidio perpetuo calificado and names no death penalty [Certain]. No provision of Ley 20.000 carries a death penalty [Certain]. Ley 20.000 splits substances in two. Artículo 1 inciso primero reaches those capable of grave toxic effects or considerable harm to health, and inciso segundo reaches other drugs of the same kind that do not produce those effects. Decreto 867 puts the first group in its artículo 1 and the second in its artículo 2, so which artículo an entry sits in is what fixes the penalty range [Certain]. Placement: Decreto 867 artículo 2. The entry read in full is "Nimetazepam". It is one of the few entries printed out of alphabetical order, sitting between "Midazolam" and "Mirofina" rather than after "Nicomorfina", which is how the official text prints it and is quoted here as published [Certain]. The related "Flunitrazepam" is in artículo 1, the heavier lista, so the two nitrobenzodiazepines fall on opposite sides of the split [Certain]. Artículo 1 inciso primero of Ley 20.000 sets presidio mayor en sus grados mínimo a medio, five years and one day to fifteen years, with a fine of forty to four hundred unidades tributarias mensuales, for unauthorised elaboration, manufacture, transformation, preparation or extraction. Artículo 3 applies the same penalties to trafficking, and its second inciso treats importing, exporting, transporting, acquiring, transferring, abstracting, possessing, supplying, keeping or carrying as trafficking [Certain]. Artículo 1 inciso segundo allows the penalty to be reduced by up to one degree for substances in this group, which takes the floor to presidio menor en su grado máximo, three years and one day to five years. The reduction is discretionary on the wording podrá rebajarse, so the inciso primero band stays available to the court [Certain]. Artículo 4 punishes possessing, transporting, keeping or carrying small quantities with presidio menor en sus grados medio a máximo, five hundred and forty one days to five years, and a fine of ten to forty unidades tributarias mensuales, unless the holder justifies a medical treatment or exclusive personal use proximate in time [Certain]. Artículo 19 raises the penalty by one degree where any of its twelve listed aggravations applies, and permits two degrees where two or more concur. One degree above the artículo 1 band is presidio mayor en sus grados medio a máximo, ten years and one day to twenty years [Certain]. The two degree ceiling turns on Código Penal degree arithmetic that I did not settle in this pass, so it is not established here. Artículo 50 makes consuming in a public place, and holding or carrying in such a place for exclusive personal use proximate in time, a falta punished by a fine of one to ten unidades tributarias mensuales, attendance at a prevention programme for up to sixty days or treatment for up to one hundred and eighty days, or community work of up to thirty hours, with an accessory driving licence suspension of up to six months. The same penalties reach consumption in a private place where those present agreed beforehand to consume [Certain]. Artículo 50 refers to the drugs mentioned in artículo 1 of the law, which covers both incisos and so both listas [Certain]. A falta is not a prison sentence, but it can become one and this cell previously said it could not. Artículo 52 provides that where the fine under artículo 50 letter a) is not paid, the court may substitute the prevention, treatment or community service penalty, that any such substitution requires the agreement of the convicted person, and that in the absence of that agreement the court shall impose reclusion by way of substitution and enforcement of the fine, at one day for each third of a unidad tributaria mensual, never exceeding six months [Certain]. The same reclusion follows revocation where an imposed treatment or prevention penalty is not complied with [Certain]. Because the artículo 50 fine runs from one to ten unidades tributarias mensuales, one day per third of a unidad puts the ceiling reachable from that fine at thirty days, and the six month figure is the statutory cap rather than an outcome this route can reach [Certain]. Artículo 52 also lets the court waive the fine or set it below the legal minimum in duly qualified cases [Certain]. Artículo 51 requires the pecuniary sanction to be applied at its maximum where the falta is committed in a place of detention, a military or police precinct by an outsider, or in an educational or health establishment by someone who works there [Certain]. Decreto 867 states no numerical quantity for any substance and artículo 4 works from the open phrase pequeñas cantidades, so the line between artículo 4 and artículo 3 is judicial and not arithmetic [Certain]. The artículo transitorio of Ley 21.817 orders the Ministerio de Seguridad Pública to amend Decreto 867 within six months of publication, so by 23 November 2026, to add a new classification for substances harmful even in low quantities. The consolidated Decreto 867 read in this pass carries no list framed on quantity, so that classification is still pending [Certain].
New Zealand
Legal status
Controlled, and named rather than inferred. Schedule 3 of the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975 names or describes nimetazepam, a nitrobenzodiazepine, as a Class C controlled drug, and the entry reaches the relevant salts and preparations. New Zealand's list is closed for named substances, so a named entry settles the class without recourse to the section 2 controlled-drug-analogue limb that carries sixteen other rows in this table. It is treated in several other jurisdictions as a higher risk benzodiazepine, but this dossier places it in the same Schedule 3 class as the other five this table names. The reading is against the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975 consolidation current at 20 September 2026, whose latest commenced classification instrument is the Misuse of Drugs (Classification and Presumption of Supply) Order 2025, in force from 27 November 2025.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. New Zealand has no death penalty. Section 6 caps dealing in a Class C controlled drug at 8 years, subject to the adult-supply distinctions the Act draws, and that is the ceiling on nimetazepam. Possession is charged under section 7, where the maximum is 3 months. Section 7 also directs prosecution discretion toward a health-centred response in qualifying possession cases, which is not decriminalisation and does not make possession lawful. Several jurisdictions place this substance far higher than New Zealand does, and the figure here comes from Schedule 3 rather than from any international grading.
If prescribed / medical
Not established for a traveller. This dossier carries no country-level rule for entering New Zealand with a prescribed medicine: it records that medicines status has to be checked alongside the analogue exclusions and the Psychoactive Substances Act 2013 route, and that a court-grade conclusion can turn on the medicine exclusions, but it states no declaration requirement, no permit, no quantity allowance and no carry limit at the border, and none was researched for this cell. What is established is the placement a traveller would be read against: nimetazepam is a Class C controlled drug under Schedule 3, with sections 6 and 7 supplying the offences. Anyone who has read a harsher foreign classification should not carry that reading into New Zealand, where the placement is the lowest of the three classes. Do not read that placement as a ruling on a lawfully prescribed and lawfully carried supply, which is a different question this cell does not answer. Settle the border question with the Ministry of Health, whose classification order implementation page this dossier cites, and with the New Zealand border authority, before travelling.
Documentation
Carry the Misuse of Drugs Act 1975 consolidation current at 20 September 2026, which is the official New Zealand Legislation text rather than a secondary summary. Read the Schedule 3 nimetazepam entry, and do not import another country's harsher placement into the New Zealand reading. Carry the class and the ceiling as two separate readings, because Schedule 3 supplies the class for nimetazepam while sections 6 and 7 supply the maximum. Carry the classification chain this finding was read against as well: the 2022 and 2025 Classification and Presumption of Supply Orders with their commencement orders, the 2024 pseudoephedrine amendment, and the 2026 Order, which was made but is not treated as law in this dossier because its own section 2 leaves commencement to the Governor-General and no commencement instrument was located by the horizon. Carry the date as well, 20 September 2026, because in New Zealand a classification order can move a substance between classes without a word of the Act changing.
South Africa
Legal status
Controlled as a Specified Schedule 5 substance under the Medicines and Related Substances Act 101 of 1965, reached by the class entry for benzodiazepines and not by name, as at the SAHPRA consolidation of 1 August 2025; it is not printed in the Drugs and Drug Trafficking Act 140 of 1992.
Consequences if caught
It is reached by class, not by name. Schedule 5 prints on page 168 "Benzodiazepines and their derivatives, unless listed in another Schedule and except flunitrazepam. (S6)", with the specified marker after both "Benzodiazepines" and "derivatives", which this cell describes rather than reproduces. Nimetazepam is itself a 1,4-benzodiazepine, the 1-methyl relative of nitrazepam, which Schedule 5 prints on page 174 as "Nitrazepam" with the same marker. It is not listed in another Schedule: the benzodiazepine-type names in Schedule 7 are clonazolam, diclazepam, flualprazolam, flubromazolam and etizolam, and Schedule 6 carries flunitrazepam alone. That nimetazepam is a benzodiazepine is chemistry brought to the entry, and it is the only step between the printed words and this row. Section 22A (1) of the Medicines Act says no person shall "sell, have in his or her possession or manufacture any medicine, Scheduled substance, medical device or IVD, except in accordance with the prescribed conditions." Section 22A (16) (b) lets any person possess a Schedule 3, Schedule 4, Schedule 5 or Schedule 6 substance "if he or she is in possession of a prescription issued by an authorised prescriber", and section 22A (5) confines the sale of a Schedule 5 substance to a pharmacist acting on a prescription or on the verbal instructions of an authorised prescriber, to a manufacturer or wholesale dealer, and to the prescribing professions it lists. Section 22A (10) adds that no person shall sell or administer any Scheduled substance or medicine "for other than medicinal purposes". Section 29 (k) makes it an offence to contravene "any provision of section 22A", and section 30 (1) makes a person convicted of an offence referred to in section 29 "liable to a fine, or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding 10 years." Section 30 (2) lets the court declare the substance forfeited to the State, and section 30 (4) makes a magistrate's court competent to impose the penalty. Section 22A (11) (a) says no person shall import or export "any specified Schedule 5, Schedule 6, Schedule 7 or Schedule 8 substance" without a permit from the Director-General, and (11) (b) says such a permit "may be issued for any purpose other than the satisfaction or relief of a habit or craving". Under the Drugs Act the position is different. Of every member of this class, this one is the closest to the single printed entry. Schedule 2 Part I prints "Flunitrazepam." and the two compounds share the nitro group at the same ring position and the methyl group on the diazepine nitrogen, differing only in a fluorine on the pendant phenyl ring. That makes this the strongest homologue case in the class and it is still not one the Act settles, because Part I has no isomer limb, because a fluorine substitution is not an esterification or a salt, and because nothing in the Act says how much similarity is enough. The Drugs Act limb that could still reach it is Part I paragraph 2 (c), "(c) all homologues of the listed substances (being any chemically related substances that incorporate a structural fragment into their structures that is similar to the structure of a listed substance or exhibit pharmacodynamic properties similar to the listed substances in this Part of the Schedule), unless listed separately in any Part of Schedule 2." Parts II and III carry the same words as paragraph 2 (e). Because the printed relative sits in Part I, the scale that would follow is the Part I scale: use or possession under section 4 (a), an offence under section 13 (c) punishable under section 17 (b) by a fine, imprisonment for a period not exceeding five years, or both, and dealing under section 5 (a), an offence under section 13 (e) punishable under section 17 (c) by a fine, imprisonment for a period not exceeding 10 years, or both. The heavier scale, section 4 (b) with section 17 (d) and section 5 (b) with section 17 (e), at up to 15 and 25 years, applies only where the relative relied on is printed in Part II or Part III. If the limb does not reach the substance, the Drugs Act does not reach it at all. The Act supplies no test for deciding a homologue case. Capital exposure: none, and life exposure: none. Section 30 (1) of the Medicines Act fixes the penalty for an offence under section 29 at a fine or imprisonment for a period not exceeding 10 years, and section 17 sets out the whole penalty scale of the Drugs Act, whose highest figure is 25 years for dealing; neither Act carries a death sentence or a sentence of life imprisonment.
Kenya
Legal status
Controlled under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act, Cap. 245, by name in the Second Schedule list of psychotropic substances, which prints the entry "NIMETAZEPAM", as at 31 December 2022.
Consequences if caught
The Second Schedule list of psychotropic substances prints the entry "NIMETAZEPAM", so the substance this row is filed under is named in the Act itself and reaches the offences by that entry rather than by inference. The entry stands against the chemical name 1, 3-dihydro-1-methyl-7-nitro-5-phenyl-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one. Section 3(2)(b) sets imprisonment of not less than 5 years for possession of a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance other than cannabis, and section 4, which reaches trafficking and possession alike, sets a term of 30 years on its lower band and of 50 years on its upper one. The quantity bands are possession of less than 1 gram under section 3(2)(b), between 1 and 100 grams under section 4(a)(i), and more than 100 grams under section 4(a)(ii). The fines are not less than 5,000,000 shillings under section 3(2)(b), not less than 30,000,000 shillings under section 4(a)(i), and not less than 50,000,000 shillings or three times the market value, whichever is greater, under section 4(a)(ii), each expressed as an alternative to imprisonment or in addition to it. Cap. 245 carries no death penalty, and imprisonment for life appears only at section 4(b)(i), for precursor chemicals and for substances held out to be narcotic or psychotropic, and at section 4B(5), for conspiracy. Those figures are carried across every Kenyan row because Cap. 245 sets them country wide rather than substance by substance, and here they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
If prescribed / medical
Section 3(3) takes possession outside the offence where the substance is held under a licence issued pursuant to section 16, or by a medical practitioner, dentist, veterinary surgeon or registered pharmacist for medical purposes, or for medical purposes from or pursuant to a prescription of a medical practitioner, dentist or veterinary surgeon, or by a person authorised under the regulations. Section 2 defines each of those practitioners by registration in Kenya, a medical practitioner and a dentist under the Medical Practitioners and Dentists Act (Cap. 253), a registered pharmacist under the Pharmacy and Poisons Act (Cap. 244) and a veterinary surgeon under the Veterinary Surgeons and Veterinary Para-Professionals Act (Cap. 366), so the exemption as written does not on its face name a prescription written abroad. Carry the prescription and the dispensing label, and put the question to a Kenyan mission before you travel rather than after you land.
Documentation
The placement was decided by reading the matched entry. The Second Schedule list of psychotropic substances of Cap. 245 prints "NIMETAZEPAM". Cap. 245 is the controlling instrument. It carries four schedules, the First for narcotic drugs, the Second for psychotropic substances, the Third for prohibited plants and the Fourth for precursor chemicals, and none of the four uses entry numbers, so no numbered placement is asserted anywhere in this batch. The text read incorporates the Narcotics, Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) (Amendment) Act, 2022 (No. 4 of 2022), assented on 24 February 2022 and commenced on 21 March 2022, which replaced the whole of section 3(2), replaced section 4 outright, inserted sections 4A and 4B, inserted the word tramadol in the First Schedule, inserted the word ketamine in the Second Schedule and added the Fourth Schedule, and which carries no transitional or savings provision. This is stated as at the Kenya Law revised edition of Cap. 245, being the text as at 31 December 2022 as revised by the 24th Annual Supplement (Legal Notice 221 of 2023), read on 22 September 2026, which the publisher marks as the latest version of the Act. Section 87 lets the Cabinet Secretary by order add a substance or plant to the First, Second or Third Schedule or delete one from it, and no order made after 31 December 2022 was found by the routes tried, which does not rule out a later one.
Belgium
Legal status
Nimetazepam is a controlled substance in Belgium because it is listed. The Royal Decree of 6 September 2017 prints it at Annex III, where the entry is the name nimetazepam and no further text. That entry proves listing and does nothing more. It carries no article number and no operative provision of its own, and every operative provision comes from the instrument named for this row, the Royal Decree of 6 September 2017, where article 2 defines the controlled substances through Annexes I to V and article 61 routes a breach back to the Law of 24 February 1921. Belgium works a delegated model: article 2bis §1 of the Law of 24 February 1921 punishes breaches concerning substances whose list is settled by the King, and the Royal Decree of 6 September 2017 supplies that list. The named lists are closed, so pharmacological resemblance, a similar spelling or a substring match cannot enlarge them. It is one of the less familiar Annex III benzodiazepines and it is printed by name, which is another instance of Belgium refusing a class wide description.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Belgium's drug law carries no death penalty and no life sentence. What does attach to nimetazepam is the article 2bis ladder in the Law of 24 February 1921, which article 61 of the decree routes a breach to once the substance is listed, and here the benzodiazepine is named in the third annex in its own right. Article 2bis §1 sets the ordinary band at three months to five years of imprisonment with a fine of EUR 1,000 to 100,000. Article 2bis §3 raises that to ten to fifteen years for its stated aggravations, including where use following the offence causes death. Article 2bis §4 carries the ceiling, fifteen to twenty years, where the offence concerns a child under twelve or participation as a leader in an association, so twenty years is the maximum imprisonment this statute exposes. Article 2bis §5 allows a further fine of EUR 1,000 to 100,000 in the §2 to §4 cases, which makes that fine available rather than automatic. Annex III carries most of the prescribed sedatives and hypnotics, and the limb settles the traveller document question rather than the band, which article 2bis applies to any listed substance.
If prescribed / medical
The rule that applies to a traveller here is Belgium's own and it is one rule for the whole country: article 3(4)(4) of the Royal Decree of 6 September 2017. It is a document exception rather than a schedule, and it is not a prescribing right. It covers a medicine that was lawfully obtained, carried for the traveller's own personal use, and limited to no more than three months of treatment, and it expressly excludes the substances in Annex II limb A. The placement that attaches to nimetazepam is Annex III, which article 3(4)(4) does not exclude, so the exception can apply on its own terms where the medicine was lawfully obtained and the personal use and three month limits are both met. No authorised Belgian medicine containing it is recorded, so a lawful source would have to be shown. No route specific to nimetazepam was found in this dossier and none has been invented for it.
Sweden
Legal status
Controlled. Nimetazepam is named in Förteckning IV of the Swedish narkotikaförteckningar, which are Läkemedelsverkets föreskrifter (LVFS 2011:10) om förteckningar över narkotika, made under 3 § förordningen (1992:1554) om kontroll av narkotika. The version read for this cell is the consolidated text, which states on its own first page that it contains amendments through HSLF-FS 2026:26. The row reads «Nimetazepam 1,3-dihydro-1-metyl-7-nitro-5-fenyl-2H-1,4-bensodiazepin-2-on», and its international column reads P IV, which is Schedule IV of the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances. Förteckning IV sits inside the II to IV band, which is the tier for substances with a medical use. The live cell for this row said that Sweden controls the substance by incorporating a convention rather than by naming it in a national list, or that Sweden has no national list in the criminal act. Sweden does have a national list, it is the föreskrift named here, and this substance stands in it by name.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Sweden has no death penalty for any offence, so no drug offence here carries capital exposure. The live block for this row was a recital of the statutory definition rather than a statement about this substance, and it opened on the premise corrected above. Every figure in it is carried forward here. 8 § of the Narkotikastrafflag defines narkotika as medicines or goods hazardous to health with dependence forming properties or euphoriant effects, or goods readily convertible into such, which are subject to control under an international agreement Sweden has acceded to, or have been declared narkotika by the government. The second limb is the one that carries the national list: the declaration is made by föreskrift, and the föreskrift is the one quoted in this cell. The entry the live cell read from the cached Green List is «PN 001 2011-67-8 NIMETAZEPAM 1,3-dihydro-1-methyl-7-nitro-5-phenyl-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one». That reading was stated as at the INCB Yellow List 65th edition and the Green List 36th edition of 2025, read on 16 September 2026. An ordinary narkotikabrott carries up to three years. A ringa offence, which is the minor form, carries a fine or up to six months. A grov offence carries two to seven years and a synnerligen grov offence six to ten years. The penalty figures above describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
If prescribed / medical
Whether an authorised medicinal form exists was not established per substance here. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription.
Documentation
For a prescribed controlled medicine on Schengen travel, carry a certificate issued under article 75 of the Convention implementing the Schengen Agreement, together with the original packaging and the prescription.
Läkemedelsverkets föreskrifter (LVFS 2011:10) om förteckningar över narkotika, konsoliderad version, as amended through HSLF-FS 2026:26, read on 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026
Norway
Legal status
Controlled in Norway. Nimetazepam is named in the narkotikaliste, the list made under section 4 of the Forskrift 14 February 2013 no. 199 on narcotics (narkotikaforskriften) and given effect by legemiddelloven section 22, where it appears as "Nimetazepam". Column 2 of its row records P IV, which cross refers it to the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances, schedule IV. It is listed without a reference to section 5, so it is a controlled narcotic with a lawful medical route rather than an outright prohibition.
Consequences if caught
Possession and use are forbidden by legemiddelloven section 24 first paragraph and punished under section 31 by a fine or imprisonment for up to six months, or both. Unlawful manufacture, import, export, acquisition, storage, sending or transfer is a narcotics offence under straffeloven section 231, punished by a fine or imprisonment for up to two years, and negligent commission by up to one year. An aggravated narcotics offence under section 232 carries up to ten years, a very substantial quantity carries from three to fifteen years, and under particularly aggravating circumstances up to twenty one years. The narkotikaliste read here is the Lovdata consolidation as at 16 September 2026. Its own amendment note ends with forskrift 26 August 2026 no. 1682, in force 1 September 2026, and no instrument after that was read, so this cell does not rule out a later change to the list.
If prescribed / medical
Narcotic medicines may be carried for personal medical use under narkotikaforskriften section 19 if a doctor or dentist prescribed them and the traveller can document that, for example by the package label, the prescription or a doctor's declaration. A visitor without a registered address in Norway may bring up to one month's supply at the stated dosage. A person registered as living in Norway may bring one month's supply bought in Norway, but only one week's supply bought abroad, extended to one month with a declaration from a doctor in Norway on the form set by the Directorate for Medical Products. Travellers resident in the Schengen area may present an original Schengen certificate instead, issued for Norwegian residents by a pharmacy. Customs may require the documentation at the moment of entry.
Documentation
Narcotic medicines may be carried for personal medical use under narkotikaforskriften section 19 if a doctor or dentist prescribed them and the traveller can document that, for example by the package label, the prescription or a doctor's declaration. A visitor without a registered address in Norway may bring up to one month's supply at the stated dosage. A person registered as living in Norway may bring one month's supply bought in Norway, but only one week's supply bought abroad, extended to one month with a declaration from a doctor in Norway on the form set by the Directorate for Medical Products. Travellers resident in the Schengen area may present an original Schengen certificate instead, issued for Norwegian residents by a pharmacy. Customs may require the documentation at the moment of entry.
Denmark
Legal status
Controlled under the Danish euphoriants legislation. Named on liste E of bekendtgoerelse nr. 405 af 26. marts 2026 om euforiserende stoffer at nr. 64, where the entry reads: Nimetazepam INN. Bilag 1 says liste B, D and E cover stoffer, der kun må benyttes til medicinsk og videnskabelig brug, substances that may be used only for medical and scientific purposes.
Consequences if caught
The placement was read off the list itself, and the entry at liste E nr. 64 reads: Nimetazepam INN. Liste E carries the great majority of the benzodiazepines, and this is one of them. Nitrazepam INN, to which it is closely related, is placed immediately after it at liste E nr. 65. The offence is not in the bekendtgoerelse. Section 30 says a breach of it is punished under section 3 and sections 3 a to 3 d of lov om euforiserende stoffer, and that where the circumstances in section 191 of straffeloven apply the breach is punished under that provision instead. Section 3(1) of the Act sets the ordinary penalty as a fine. The same sentence sets the custodial ceiling at imprisonment for up to 2 years. In fixing the penalty, including a fine, the court must weigh the harmful effects of the substance and, since 1 July 2025, its dangerousness. Section 191 of straffeloven raises the ceiling to imprisonment for up to 10 years where a person transfers euphoriant substances to a larger number of people, or for significant payment, or under other particularly aggravating circumstances. That ceiling rises again to imprisonment for 16 years where the transfer concerns a significant quantity of a particularly dangerous or harmful substance, or where the transfer of such a substance was otherwise of a particularly dangerous character. Section 191(2) applies the same band to importing, exporting, buying, delivering, receiving, manufacturing, processing or possessing such substances with intent to transfer. Section 3(2) of the Act treats four things as significantly aggravating, and lov nr. 724 af 20. juni 2025 added the last two of them: repeated sales of a particularly harmful or dangerous substance, sale or free transfer for later sale at restaurants including discotheques or at concerts or music festivals or other events mainly attended by children or young people, sale or free transfer for later sale through social media, and sale or free transfer for later sale in shops carrying on retail trade. Section 3 c, in force since 1 July 2025, allows a motor vehicle used in a serious breach to be confiscated, and requires confiscation where the vehicle's owner committed an offence falling under section 191, unless special grounds exceptionally tell against it. Section 3 d lets a court disqualify a person from retail shop work for supplying euphoriant substances from a shop, and impose an area ban whose breach carries imprisonment for up to 2 years. Denmark is widely described as refusing warnings for personal possession, and that description now rests on a repealed sentence. The rule that a warning could in general not be given was section 3(1) third sentence, and lov nr. 667 af 11. juni 2024 repealed it with effect from 1 July 2024. In its place section 3(4) says that a withdrawal of the charge shall be given for possession of euphoriant substances for own use where social circumstances speak for it and the possession is due to a strong dependence on hard euphoriant substances following prolonged and sustained misuse, and it says that this applies in repeat cases as well. These are Denmark's general drug penalties rather than a tariff for this substance, and they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. Read against bekendtgoerelse nr. 405 af 26. marts 2026 om euforiserende stoffer as in force on 29 March 2026, which repealed bekendtgoerelse nr. 2446 af 12. december 2021 at its section 33(2), and against lov om euforiserende stoffer as consolidated on 9 December 2019 and amended by lov nr. 667 af 11. juni 2024 and lov nr. 724 af 20. juni 2025, all read at retsinformation.dk on 22 September 2026. The minister may add a substance to the lists at any time under sections 1 and 2 of the Act, so a placement and an absence are both statements about the lists as they stood on that date.
Finland
Legal status
Controlled. Nimetazepam is a narcotic in Finland by name. Section 1 of valtioneuvoston asetus huumausaineina pidettävistä aineista, valmisteista ja kasveista 543/2008 makes the substances, preparations and plants in annexes I to V narcotics, and this row's entry sits in Liite II, the annex headed as the substances and preparations in lists I to IV of the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances, under list IV, which the instrument itself heads as a schedule of the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances, an attribution read off the annex heading and not checked against the INCB list in this pass. The entry reads «Nimetatsepaami (1,3-dihydro-1-metyyli-7-nitro-5-fenyyli-2 H -1,4-bentsodiatsepin-2-oni)». The instrument italicises part of that entry and the spacing around the italicised locants is as Finlex serves it. Section 5 subsection 1 of huumausainelaki 373/2008 then forbids production, manufacture, import into Finland, export from Finland, transport, transit, distribution, trade, handling, possession and use, and allows departure from that ban only for medical, research, supervisory and industrial purposes as separately provided. The same list closes by extending itself, in the words «tämän luettelon aineiden suolat, mukaan luettuna edellä mainittujen isomeerien suolat, jos sellaisten olemassaolo on mahdollista; sekä». That annex stands as amended by 4.12.2025/1119.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. The ceiling anywhere in this regime is the ten year maximum that Criminal Code chapter 50 section 2 sets for an aggravated narcotics offence. Chapter 50 of the Criminal Code (39/1889) carries the narcotics offences. Section 1 sets a fine or up to two years for a huumausainerikos covering manufacture, cultivation, import, export, transport, sale, supply, distribution and possession. Section 2 sets one to ten years for a törkeä huumausainerikos where the object is a very dangerous narcotic or a large quantity, or substantial gain is sought, or the act is part of an organised group, or serious danger to life or health is caused to several people, or the drug is spread to minors. Section 2 a sets a fine or up to six months for a huumausaineen käyttörikos, unlawful use or possession of a small quantity for own use. Section 3 sets a fine or up to two years for preparation and section 4 the same for promotion, while section 4 a sets four months to six years for aggravated promotion. Section 7 allows the charge or the sentence to be waived where the quantity, the circumstances and the use situation make the act minor as a whole, or where the suspect has entered approved treatment. This row sits in Liite II under list IV of the decree, so those are the provisions its placement engages. The live Finland cell recorded the same three provisions and asserted no custodial term at all, and every provision it named is carried here: Criminal Code (39/1889) chapter 50, the substantive prohibitions in Narcotics Act 373/2008 section 5 with the lawful exceptions in section 3, and the consumer market conduct offence in Criminal Code chapter 44 section 5 a. The bands stated above are new to this pass and were read off the Criminal Code itself, not carried from that cell. They describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. This row in particular. Its entry sits in Liite II, which the decree heads as the substances and preparations in the lists of the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances, under list IV of that annex, at printed position 53 of the 71 entries that list carries in the consolidated text read here, and the entry reads «Nimetatsepaami (1,3-dihydro-1-metyyli-7-nitro-5-fenyyli-2H-1,4-bentsodiatsepin-2-oni)». In the printed order of that list the entry above it is Midatsolaami and below it comes Nitratsepaami. The same list closes by extending itself beyond its named entries, in the words «tässä luettelossa mainittuja aineita sisältävät valmisteet.». The annex that carries this row stands as amended by 4.12.2025/1119, which is the amendment that last touched this row's annex rather than the decree as a whole. Section 5 subsection 1 of huumausainelaki 373/2008 is the prohibition that placement engages, «Huumausaineen tuotanto, valmistus, tuonti Suomen alueelle, vienti Suomen alueelta, kuljetus, kauttakuljetus, jakelu, kauppa, käsittely, hallussapito ja käyttö on kielletty.», and chapter 50 section 5 subsection 1 of the Criminal Code makes the word huumausaine in those offences mean a narcotic under huumausainelaki, so the annex entry above is what puts this row inside them. Criminal Code chapter 50 section 2 a is the small quantity limb and it opens «Joka laittomasti käyttää taikka omaa käyttöä varten pitää hallussaan tai yrittää hankkia vähäisen määrän huumausainetta, on tuomittava», so the käyttörikos reaches this row on its own terms. No quantity figure is printed anywhere in chapter 50: whether a quantity is a suuri määrä, and whether the substance is an erittäin vaarallinen huumausaine under chapter 50 section 5 subsection 2, are findings of fact and the annex position does not settle either of them. No fine figure is printed either, because a Finnish fine is a day fine set on the offender's income.
Bolivia
Legal status
Controlled. The Anexo to Ley 913 of 16 March 2017 carries the entry NIMETAZEPAM in Lista IV under the heading psicotrópicos, and article 5(c) of that Law defines sustancias controladas as the substances named in Listas I, II, III, IV and V of the Anexo. The entry is printed NlMETAZEPAM in the text layer of both copies, which is the capital letter I set as a lowercase letter l, and the reading is NIMETAZEPAM. The offence articles are not in Ley 913 at all. They stayed in Ley 1008 of 19 July 1988, Título III, which Ley 913 left standing, and trafficking is article 48. [Certain]
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Article 15 I of the 2009 Constitution reads, in its own words, No existe la pena de muerte, and no limb of the Bolivian drug law carries a capital penalty. Article 48 reaches this row because Ley 913 article 5(c) makes a substance named in the Anexo a sustancia controlada, and Lista IV of the Anexo carries the entry NIMETAZEPAM. Ley 1008 of 19 July 1988 article 48 punishes whoever traffics in sustancias controladas with presidio de diez a veinticinco años y diez mil a veinte mil días multa, ten to twenty five years and ten thousand to twenty thousand day fines, and it makes trafficking in larger volumes an aggravating circumstance. Article 48 takes its conduct from article 33(m) of the same law, which Ley 913 left standing and which defines tráfico ilícito as producing, manufacturing, knowingly possessing, holding in deposit or storage, transporting, delivering, supplying, buying, selling, donating, bringing into the country, taking out of the country and financing. The rest of the ladder sits in the same title. Article 46, cultivating or harvesting controlled plants, one to two years and two to four on a second offence. Article 47, manufacture, five to fifteen years. Article 50, administering to another, ten to fifteen years. Article 51, supplying to another, eight to twelve years. Article 52, fifteen to twenty years where the administering or supplying gravely harms health and twenty to thirty where the conduct results in a death. Article 53, a third more where two or more people organise. Article 55, transport, eight to twelve years with definitive seizure of the vehicle. The day fine unit is the statute's own and is not converted here. Article 49 sends the dependent user and the non habitual user caught holding a minimum quantity for immediate personal consumption to a farmacodependencia institute for treatment rather than to prison. That minimum is fixed case by case on the opinion of two specialists from a public institute and no gram figure is printed anywhere in the statute. Holding more than the minimum falls into article 48. A foreign national without permanent residence who commits these acts has the residence law applied and a fine of five hundred to one thousand days, which is the sentence in the article most likely to reach a traveller and which the live cell did not carry.
If prescribed / medical
The country level rule is Ley 913 article 20. Medicines containing sustancias controladas of Listas II, III and IV, and where applicable those of Lista I, may be made or divided only by laboratories the Ministry of Health has authorised, and they are dispensed to the public only in authorised establishments and pharmacies and only on a doctor's prescription or on Ministry of Health forms. Article 18 II puts the import, export, commercialisation and production of medicinal controlled substances of Listas I to IV behind a prior Ministry of Health authorisation, and article 21 I obliges carriers to require a Ministry of Health or Ministry of Government authorisation before a controlled substance of the Anexo lists is brought into, carried through or taken out of the national customs territory. Attached to this row: the entry NIMETAZEPAM sits in Lista IV, so the Lista IV limb of article 20 is the one that applies.
Ecuador
Legal status
Not confirmed, status not individually verified; confirm with Ecuador's authorities (COIP; Constitution Art 364) / your embassy
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not named in the cited Ecuadorian sources (COIP Arts 220/228; Constitution Art 364; the repealed CONSEP table), do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. Personal-use possession is non-punishable in Ecuador (Constitution Art 364 treats consumption as a public-health matter and bars criminalizing consumers; the COIP confirms personal-use possession is not punishable, and CNJ Resolution 14-2023 confirmed this remains fully in force). CRITICAL: the former CONSEP quantity table was [repealed] by Executive Decree No. 28 on 24 November 2023, the old bright-line thresholds NO LONGER EXIST, there is now NO defined personal-use quantity, and trafficking intent is assessed case-by-case (a legal grey area). Trafficking is tiered (COIP Art 220): minimum 3-5 years, medium 5-7, high 19-22, large 22-26.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
Personal-use possession is NON-PUNISHABLE: Constitution Art 364 treats consumption as a public-health matter and bars criminalizing consumers, and the COIP confirms personal-use possession is not punishable (CNJ Resolution 14-2023 confirmed this remains fully in force). CRITICAL: the former CONSEP quantity table (Resolution 001-CONSEP-CO-2013, about 10 g cannabis, 1 g cocaine, 0.1 g heroin, 0.015 g MDMA) was [repealed] by Executive Decree No. 28 on 24 November 2023; those gram thresholds NO LONGER EXIST. There is now NO defined personal-use quantity, trafficking intent is assessed case-by-case (a legal grey area). Trafficking is tiered (COIP Art 220): minimum 3-5 years, medium 5-7, high 19-22, large 22-26. Medical cannabis is legal (2019 Assembly vote; products under 1% THC via pharmacy). [contested] A REDCAN citizen cannabis-regulation initiative was pending in the National Assembly in 2025. Ecuador has NO death penalty for drugs. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Constitution (2008) Art 364 + COIP Arts 220/228 + CNJ Resolution 14-2023 + Executive Decree No. 28 (24 November 2023) · asamblea.gob.ec · defensoria.gob.ec · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Paraguay
Legal status
Controlled. Named in Lista IV of the psicotropicos sheet of the schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988, as the entry Nimetazepam. That sheet is headed Psicotropicos incluidos al Convenio de 1971, so the list it reproduces is the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances schedule of the same number, given effect nationally through article 1.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte, so no capital penalty is available in Paraguay, and no article of Ley 1.340/1988 provides one. [Certain] This row is placed. The schedule made under article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 names it in Lista IV of the psicotropicos sheet as the entry Nimetazepam. Ley 1.340/1988 sets the conduct offences. Article 13 punishes supply without authorization with 6 to 15 years penitentiary, forfeiture of the goods and a fine of four times their value. Article 14 raises that to 10 to 25 years where the supply is to a minor, and article 15 applies the same range to supply in teaching, religious, welfare, sporting, cultural or social premises, at public entertainments, or in places of detention. Article 16 punishes supply made to prepare, facilitate, commit or conceal another offence with 5 to 15 years. Article 21, as replaced by Ley 1.881/2002, punishes unauthorized introduction into the country or dispatch abroad with 5 to 10 years, forfeiture and the same fine, and article 22 applies that penalty to any plant, substance or product usable in making these substances. Article 25 punishes bringing them in under temporary admission or in transit with 10 to 20 years. Article 26 punishes activity carried on from national territory aimed at sending them abroad with 10 to 25 years. Article 33 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting or gathering the plants that serve to make them, and financing that, with 10 to 20 years and destruction of the crop. Article 27, which punished unauthorized possession with 5 to 15 years, was repealed by article 4 of Ley 1.881/2002, so there is no longer a freestanding possession offence in this law. [Certain] The highest range stated in the statute is 10 to 25 years, but that is not the maximum it can reach, because four articles multiply a penalty rather than state one. Article 17 punishes causing a person to consume these substances by deceit, threat or violence with 10 to 20 years, and raises the penalty by one third to one half where the victim is a minor, mentally ill, a relative within the second degree of consanguinity or affinity, or the spouse, or where the author is a health professional, which reaches 30 years. Article 37 punishes instigating or persuading another, or achieving production or trafficking by deceit, threat or violence, with the same 10 to 20 years and the same uplift, where the victim is a minor, a relative within the second degree, the spouse, or a person in a relationship of obedience or dependence. Article 41 punishes committing offences to procure or force the release of someone held for an offence under this law with the maximum penalty for the offence committed, and imposes double that penalty where the release is actually achieved, which on a 25 year offence reaches 50 years. Article 42 punishes belonging to an association formed to commit these offences with 5 to 15 years on that fact alone, and doubles the penalty for its leader or promoter, which reaches 30 years. None of the four is a separate drug offence, so each applies on top of whichever article above is charged. [Certain] Article 30 exempts from penalty a person holding a substance to which the law refers that a doctor prescribed for them, or holding it for their exclusive personal use, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed or than personal use requires with 2 to 4 years penitentiary and forfeiture. Its second paragraph treats as the exclusive personal use of a farmacodependiente the holding of enough substance for daily use, the amount to be fixed case by case by the Medico Forense, a specialist doctor designated by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social and another designated by the affected person at their own cost if they ask for one, and then states in its own words: En el caso de la Marihuana no sobrepasara los diez gramos y de dos gramos en el de la Cocaina, Heroina y otros opiaceos. [Certain] Article 30 states a figure only for marihuana and for cocaina, heroina y otros opiaceos. It states none for this row, so any personal use quantity for it falls to the case by case determination in the second paragraph and no gram figure can be quoted for it. [Certain]
Ghana
Legal status
Nimetazepam is a controlled substance for medical supply in Ghana, reached through the guideline's definition rather than its table. The Food and Drugs Authority's Guidelines for the Sale, Supply and Use of Controlled Substances (FDA/DRI/TSA/GL-SSCS/2020/07, version 01, adopted 8 December 2020, effective 1 January 2021), issued «In pursuance of Section 126 of the Public Health Act, 2012 (ACT 851)», define «"Controlled Substances" or "Controlled drug"» as «a Narcotic drug, Psychotropic substance or Precursor chemical» and a psychotropic substance as «those natural or synthetic substances or any natural material listed in the four Schedules of the 1971 Convention». Section 148(1) of Act 851 says persons in the food and drugs industry «shall comply with the guidelines and codes of practice». The guideline's own Schedule IV table does not name nimetazepam, and its appendix says its list «includes but not limited to» the Green List. The Green List, 36th edition 2025, carries nimetazepam in Schedule IV as PN 001, «1,3-dihydro-1-methyl-7-nitro-5-phenyl-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one». It has been in Schedule IV since a decision of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs adopted on 7 February 1984 and communicated on 29 March 1984, which placed thirty three benzodiazepines there, read in the Spanish transposing Order of 30 May 1984 in Boletín Oficial del Estado of 9 June 1984, where «Nimetazepam» appears in the list. So it was listed long before the guideline was adopted, and its reach does not turn on whether the guideline's definition follows later additions. Under Act 1019 the answer is not settled. Nimetazepam is not named in the Fifth, Sixth or Seventh Schedule of Act 1019 as read on 3 October 2026. Fifth Schedule S of the Narcotics Control Commission Act 2020 (Act 1019) reads, as printed, «Flunitrazeparn (5-(o-fluorophenyl)-1,3-dihydro-1-methyl-7-ni-tro-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one) and any of its salts or derivatives». The Act does not define «derivatives», and no instrument or decision applying item S to any benzodiazepine other than flunitrazepam was found in the instruments read or in the case law search described below. Nimetazepam is one change away from item S. Its printed name is flunitrazepam's printed name with the o-fluoro on the phenyl ring removed and nothing else changed: the same N1 methyl, 7-nitro and 2-one. Of the benzodiazepines in this batch it is the strongest case for the «derivatives» limb, and it is still not decided by any text read. So whether nimetazepam is also a narcotic drug under Act 1019 through item S is open, and it is stated as open here rather than answered either way. The nearest text the earlier cell gave, «Amphetamines and their analogues», is that cell's paraphrase of Fifth Schedule R, which names amphetamines with their «derivatives, isomers and analogues», and it has no bearing on a benzodiazepine. This is stated as the Schedules stand after the Narcotics Control Commission (Amendment) Act, 2023 (Act 1100), which the judy.legal consolidation read on 3 October 2026 records as the Act's only amendment, «Amended by Narcotics Control Commission (Amendment) Act, 2023 (Act 1100 of 2023) on 2 August 2023». The Bill for that Act, read the same day, is «composed of a single clause» and was introduced «to substitute section 43»; the enacted text of Act 1100 was not itself read. The power to move the lists is in section 112: its subsection (1) gave a power to revise the Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Schedules within twelve months of commencement, and its subsection (2)(b) gives a continuing power to make Regulations specifying «the classification of drugs and the appropriate penalties». The only Regulations found under the Act, L.I. 2475 of 2023 on cannabis cultivation, list ninety six regulations and five Schedules of their own on the table of contents read on 3 October 2026 and revise no Schedule of the Act, and this does not rule out a later instrument that was not found.
Israel
Legal status
Not confirmed, not named in the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance as read; confirm with Israel's authorities / your embassy
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass from the Ordinance itself: the words מוות, תלייה and הוצאה להורג return zero hits across the whole text, and so does עולם, so there is no life route either, and the heaviest sentence anywhere in it is the 25 years of section 21 for involving a minor. [Certain] This substance is not named anywhere in the Ordinance as read. Searching the whole text in both scripts for azepam, zolam, epam and the Hebrew אזפ and זולא returns exactly one hit, Flunitrazepam פלוניטראזפאם at חלק ב' סימן ג' פרט 3א, 5-(o-flurophenyl)-1,3-dihydro-1-methyl-7-nitro-2h-1,4-benzodiazepin 2-one, which is a different substance from this row. There is no benzodiazepine class entry and no sweep clause in any סימן that would reach one, since חלק א' סימן ב' פרט 14, חלק ב' סימן א' פרט 100, חלק ב' סימן ב' פרט 7 and חלק ב' סימן ג' פרט 6, which are the four of them, all extend only to optical isomers, stereoisomers, esters and ethers. [Likely] Being outside the Ordinance is not the same as being unregulated: prescription medicines in Israel are controlled under the Pharmacists Ordinance and the regulations made under it, and that body of law was not read in this pass. Read against the consolidated First Schedule whose own amendment note at its head ends at התשע"ח and whose schedule pages carry the 1.4.2018 update stamp, with section 7 stamped 1.1.2019 and the file closing with (סוף הפקודה); a later amendment to the Schedule is not ruled out, and this reading is of that version and no other. [Certain] Section 1 defines סם מסוכן as חומר מן המפורטים בתוספת הראשונה לרבות כל מלח שלו, וכן כל תכשיר, תרכובת, תערובת או תמיסה של חומר כאמור ומלחיהם, a substance listed in the First Schedule including any salt of it, and also any preparation, compound, mixture or solution of such a substance and of their salts. That definition reaches salts and mixtures and stops there: it says nothing about isomers, analogues or structural derivatives, so those come only from the words of an individual פרט or of a סימן wide sweep clause. Section 7(c) sets up to 20 years or a fine 25 times the fine in section 61(a)(4) of the Penal Law 5737-1977 for possession or use, dropping to 3 years or the plain section 61(a)(4) fine where the drug was held or used for the person's own consumption alone. Section 6 sets the same 20 years for growing, manufacturing, producing, preparing or extracting without the Director's licence. Section 19A sets 20 years for the trade and transit offences of sections 13 to 18, which reach export, import, brokering, dealing, any other transaction and supply whether or not for payment. Section 21 raises it to 25 years on any of its three limbs, giving a dangerous drug to a minor, being responsible for a minor and allowing him to obtain or use one, or inducing a minor to obtain or use one, and section 25 bars a wholly suspended sentence or a probation order on that conviction. [Certain] Section 20 is not a penalty provision at all, it is the customs inspection power over a consignment carried in transit through Israel. No Second Schedule quantity is set for this substance, so the section 31(3) reverse onus, which presumes possession beyond personal consumption above a listed weight, has no threshold to run from here.
Panama
Legal status
Controlled. Nimetazepam is reached by the Panamanian criminal definition of a drug, not by a national chemical annex. Article 324 of the Código Penal defines the criminal object for the whole drug chapter, and it does so functionally and by incorporation rather than by a closed national list: «droga es toda sustancia que produzca dependencia física o síquica, como los narcóticos, fármacos, estupefacientes y todos aquellos productos, precursores y sustancias químicas esenciales que sirven para su elaboración, transformación o preparación, de conformidad con las disposiciones legales en materia de salud, convenios y acuerdos internacionales vigentes en la República de Panamá.». The entry read for this row is «NIMETAZEPAM» in Schedule IV of the 1971 Convention. The name sits in the international non-proprietary column of that schedule. It is not named in Resolución 200 of 2025, which is the national list of substances permitted for medical and scientific use. That is an absence from a medical permission list and not an absence from the offence. It has its own treaty entry with a registry number, but it is the one member of its class read for this corpus that is absent from Panama's national list while fourteen of its relatives are named there. So within a single class this row has a treaty placement and no national permission.
Consequences if caught
The conduct and not the substance decides which article applies, and the placement established above is what lets these articles reach Nimetazepam at all. Because no national permission exists for it while it exists for fourteen of its relatives, a prescription issued elsewhere has nothing on the national list to match. Article 321 sets 8 to 12 years of prison for unlawful possession in circumstances objectively showing it is not for consumption, and its printed words are «Quien ilícitamente posea drogas, en circunstancias que objetivamente permitan determinar que no es para el consumo, será sancionado con ocho a doce años de prisión.». Article 312 sets the same 8 to 12 years where two or more people agree to commit a drug offence. Article 313 sets 10 to 15 years for bringing a drug into the national territory, even in transit, and raises that by a third to a half where the drug is brought in for local sale or distribution. Article 314 sets 10 to 15 years for sowing, cultivating, extracting, transforming or manufacturing, and article 318 sets 10 to 15 years for buying, selling, storing or exchanging for commercial purposes, doubled in the five aggravated cases it lists. Article 319 sets 8 to 12 years for devoting premises or a vehicle to drug activity, rising to 10 to 15 years for the owner of a commercial place open to the public. Article 322 sets 20 to 25 years where conduct under articles 312, 313 or 321 is carried out by the leaders, directors or organisers of a criminal band, and its words are «la pena será de veinte a veinticinco años de prisión.», so the ceiling this chapter carries is 25 years. The dossier for this country stated that ceiling as 20 years and that is corrected here against the article itself. Article 320 covers buying or possessing for one's own consumption in scarce quantity, and its penalty is a fine of 50 to 250 day units, weekend arrest or community work, in the words «Quien ilícitamente compre o posea drogas para su consumo en escasa cantidad será sancionado con cincuenta a doscientos cincuenta días-multa o arresto de fines de semana o trabajo comunitario.». Where the person is physically or psychically dependent and the quantity is scarce, article 320 imposes a security measure instead. The live cell attributed a band of 2 to 4 years to article 320; that band is in the third paragraph of article 313 and it applies where a drug is brought into the country and the scarce quantity and the other circumstances show unequivocally that it is for personal consumption, in the words «La sanción será de dos a cuatro años de prisión o su equivalente en días-multa o medidas curativas cuando, por su escasa cantidad y demás circunstancias, se determine inequívocamente que la droga es para el consumo personal.». Panama publishes no numerical quantity table for this corpus. Article 320 provides that scarce quantity for personal use is the measure the Instituto de Medicina Legal y Ciencias Forenses determines in each case according to the person's state of dependence, «Se entenderá por cantidad escasa destinada a su uso personal la medida que determine el Instituto de Medicina Legal y Ciencias Forenses, en cada caso, según el estado de dependencia de la persona.», so the live cell's gloss of a single dose is corrected here as not what the article says. Article 323 directs the court to weigh the dangerousness of the drug and its market value when placing a sentence inside a band. Panama provides no death penalty for any drug offence. Those figures are carried forward from the live cell and re-derived against the Penal Code itself, and they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
Nigeria
Legal status
Controlled. The Nigeria dossier places nimetazepam under sections 11, 20 and 52 of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Act, Cap N30 (the NDLEA Act), on the incorporated schedule entry «Nimetazepam.», and states that section 52 defines the controlled class by the 1961 or 1971 Convention schedules. The dossier does not say which of the two Conventions or which of their schedules prints the entry, and it does not name the edition of the schedules it read; it records the entry as checked on 20 September 2026 against the INCB list cited in source_url.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. The ceiling the dossier records for nimetazepam is imprisonment for life: it states that sections 11(a) to (c) and 20(2)(a) of the Act prescribe life imprisonment for the specified production, trafficking or dealing conduct, that no quantity threshold is stated, and that the words «shall» and «be imprisonment for life» make the life term mandatory on the section's face. The row records no band beyond that ceiling. The dossier's penalty note states «Sections 19 and 20(2)(b) use 15 to 25 years for other conduct.»; it does not say which conduct that covers, so this cell does not attach the band to any particular act.
If prescribed / medical
The dossier row this cell rests on does not state a prescription or medical route for nimetazepam.
Documentation
The dossier row this cell rests on does not state a traveller documentation rule for nimetazepam.
incb.org · National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Act, Cap N30, sections 11, 20 and 52 · Updated October 3, 2026
Bangladesh
Legal status
Nimetazepam is named in Class 'ga' at serial 3 of the First Schedule, between Midazolam and Nitrazepam.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Section 9(1) prohibits, for every narcotic except alcohol, cultivation, production or processing, carrying, transport or transfer, import and export at limb (a); supply, marketing, buying, selling, transfer, receipt, sending, dealing, auction, holding, possession, storage, warehousing and display at limb (b); consumption, application or use at limb (c); and any attempt, investment of money, establishing, running or patronising an operation, or a false declaration, at limb (d). Section 36 then sets the penalty from a 34 row table whose second column names a First Schedule class and serial number, not a substance, so what a substance is punished by depends entirely on which serial it sits in. Nimetazepam sits in Class 'ga', the lightest class, at serial 3 of the First Schedule. Section 36 row 33 covers Class 'ga' serial 3 under either limb of section 9(1): up to 1 kilogramme or litre is 1 to 3 years, above 1 and up to 5 kilogrammes or litres is 3 to 5 years, above 5 kilogrammes or litres is 5 to 7 years, with a fine at every tier. Seven years is the ceiling for this class. The death penalty under the section 36 table reaches only three entries in the whole First Schedule, Class 'ka' serials 4, 5 and 6, and nimetazepam is not in any of them, so the table's capital tier does not reach it. Nor does imprisonment for life: the ceiling for this serial is a term of years. Consumption is not capital and neither is financing. Section 9(1)(c) consumption of a Class 'ka' narcotic is table row 16 at 3 months to 2 years, and section 9(1)(d), which covers «কোনো প্রচেষ্টা অথবা উদ্যোগ গ্রহণ, অর্থ বিনিয়োগ, কোনো প্রতিষ্ঠান স্থাপন অথবা পরিচালনা কিংবা উহার পৃষ্ঠপোষকতা», any attempt or initiative, investment of money, establishing or running an operation or patronising one, is table row 17 at the same 3 months to 2 years. Section 36(2) doubles the maximum for a second offence after a sentence has been served, and section 36(3) sets a floor of 20 years for a third, in each case only «উক্ত অপরাধের দণ্ড মৃত্যুদণ্ড অথবা যাবজ্জীবন কারাদণ্ড না হইলে», where the penalty for that offence is not already death or life. Section 36A, inserted by the Narcotics Control (Amendment) Act 2026 on 16 July 2026 and in force at once, adds a capital route that has no quantity threshold and no class restriction at all. Buying, selling, supplying, offering, advertising, brokering or communicating about a narcotic or a psychoactive substance through cyberspace, a digital device, a website, social media, a mobile application, an online platform or any other digital medium, or using a digital payment system, an e-wallet, a virtual asset or a cryptocurrency for those purposes, is punishable under section 36A(2) by «যে কোনো মেয়াদের কারাদণ্ডে অথবা সর্বোচ্চ মৃত্যুদণ্ডে», imprisonment for any term or at the maximum death, with a fine of up to 20 lakh taka. Its proviso states that recovery of the drug from the offender is not required. This reaches any substance that is a narcotic under section 2(29), which is anything in the First Schedule, and the schedule's own Explanation at clause (ক) defines a psychoactive substance as anything in Class 'ka' serials 4, 5 and 6, Class 'kha' serials 4 and 5, or Class 'ga' serials 3 and 4.
Pakistan
Legal status
Nimetazepam is a psychotropic substance under the Control of Narcotic Substances Act, 1997. Section 2(za) defines the term as 'the substances, specified in the Schedule-I to this Act' plus anything the Federal Government declares by gazette notification, and Schedule-I carries it: serial 58 of Schedule-I, 'NIMETAZEPAM'. Column 3 gives the chemical name as '1, 3-dihydro-l-methyl-7-nitro-5-phenyl-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one'.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. The entry being applied is serial 58 of Schedule-I, 'NIMETAZEPAM'. Section 9(2) sets nine quantity bands for a psychotropic substance, from 'Up to 20 grams' at one year with a floor of two months, through 'More than 500-grams and up to one kilo grams' at seven years, to 'Exceeding four kilo grams', which reads 'imprisonment which shall not be less than life imprisonment along-with fine which shall not be less than two million rupees'. This substance is punished through the section 9(2) bands and not through the section 9(1) narcotic table, which names only seven narcotics and does not name it. Death is not available. Act No. XXXVIII of 2023, section 2, assented on 2 August 2023 and published in the Gazette of Pakistan, Extraordinary, on 5 August 2023, removed every death reference from section 9. The words at the heroin and morphine band of 6000 grams or more and at the cocaine band of 5000 grams or more were omitted, and the Pakistan Code now prints a bracketed omission mark where they stood. In the fourth proviso to section 9(2) the words 'may be death or' were replaced by 'shall be'. The word death survives twice in the whole fifty page Act and both are procedural. Because death is unavailable, the question whether it is mandatory does not arise. The ceiling is life, and section 9A(3) says what that means: 'Notwithstanding anything contained in any other law for time being in force, imprisonment for life under this Act means imprisonment in jail for the period of twenty-five years.' Section 9A(2) bars probation and parole, and section 9A(1) bars remission except for a juvenile or a female convict.
If prescribed / medical
Where a prescription for nimetazepam exists at all, rule 2(1)(xxix) says what it has to be: 'a written direction by a practitioner that a stated amount of a drug of abuse be dispensed for the person named therein'. Section 6 prohibits possession and the rest 'except for medical, scientific or industrial purposes in the manner and subject to such conditions as may be specified by or under this Act or any other law for the time being in force'. The conditions are the Control of Narcotic Substances (Regulation of Drugs of Abuse, Controlled Chemicals, Equipment and Materials) Rules, 2001, which run a registration, licence and permit system under rules 5 to 18. Rule 14 provides for permits in relation to first-aid kits and rule 15 for programmes for medical and scientific purposes, and rule 11 governs import, export and transit permits. A traveller carrying a prescribed medicine should hold the prescription and the dispensing label, in the prescriber's name, and should expect the quantity to be measured against the section 9 bands if the substance is scheduled.
Taiwan
Legal status
Category 3 narcotic (第三級毒品) under Taiwan's Narcotics Hazard Prevention Act (毒品危害防制條例), named at 附表三第23項「硝甲西泮（硝甲氮平）（Nimetazepam）」. Nimetazepam is Category 3, one tier above the ordinary benzodiazepines in Category 4, along with 第17項「氟硝西泮（Flunitrazepam）」 and 第246項「甲氯硝西泮（Meclonazepam）」. The nitro substituted members of the class are graded higher than the rest. The model: the four grades and their anchor substances are in the Act itself, article 2(2) reading 「毒品依其成癮性、濫用性及對社會危害性，分為四級，其品項如下」, and the full item lists are the Act's own four schedules, 附表一 to 附表四. The power to change them is delegated. Article 2(3) reads 「前項毒品之分級及品項，由法務部會同衛生福利部組成審議委員會，每三個月定期檢討，審議委員會並得將具有成癮性、濫用性、對社會危害性之虞之麻醉藥品與其製品、影響精神物質與其製品及與該等藥品、物質或製品具有類似化學結構之物質進行審議，並經審議通過後，報由行政院公告調整、增減之，並送請立法院查照」, a review committee of the justice and health ministries reviewing every three months, adjustment by Executive Yuan announcement, reported to the Legislative Yuan. The Act was last amended 4 May 2022. The list was last amended by the Executive Yuan announcement of 25 June 2026, in force 27 June 2026, which moved etomidate and eight related compounds from Category 2 up to Category 1.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Article 4(3) punishes manufacture, transport or sale of a Category 3 narcotic by seven years upward, with a fine of up to NT$10 million. Article 5(3) punishes possession with intent to sell by three to ten years. Use and simple possession are not crimes at this tier: article 11-1(2) makes holding or using a Category 3 narcotic without proper reason an administrative fine of NT$10,000 to NT$50,000 plus four to eight hours of drug hazard education. Article 11(5) turns possession criminal at 5 grammes pure weight, up to two years. Article 9(1) increases the penalty by up to one half where an adult sells to a minor, and article 9(2) does the same where the buyer is known to be pregnant. Article 19 confiscates the property used in an article 4 offence and, for an article 4 offence specifically, the vehicle, vessel or aircraft used. That split is the single most useful thing to know about benzodiazepine grading here. Flunitrazepam and nimetazepam are article 4(3) substances at seven years upward, while diazepam and alprazolam are article 4(4) substances at five to twelve years. Neither reaches this substance, at any quantity. Article 4(3), the Category 3 trafficking limb, reads 「製造、運輸、販賣第三級毒品者，處七年以上有期徒刑，得併科新臺幣一千萬元以下罰金」, seven years upward, with no life and no death. The public official aggravation in article 15(1) does not change that: its first sentence attaches death or life only to article 4(2) and article 6(1), and its second sentence gives an article 4(3) offence only 「加重其刑至二分之一」, an increase of up to one half, which cannot produce a capital or a life sentence from a fixed term floor. One qualification, and it is about the charge rather than about this substance. Article 9(3) reads 「犯前五條之罪而混合二種以上之毒品者，適用其中最高級別毒品之法定刑，並加重其刑至二分之一」: where the offence involves a mixture of two or more graded narcotics, the statutory penalty of the highest grade among them governs the whole offence, with up to one half added. So holding this substance mixed with a Category 1 narcotic is charged at the article 4(1) rate. The capital exposure in that case is supplied by the Category 1 component, which carried it already; what article 9(3) adds is that this material is swept into the same charge rather than treated separately.
Hong Kong
Legal status
A dangerous drug in Hong Kong. Part I of the First Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Cap. 134), in the version in force from 18 July 2025 (last amended by L.N. 172 of 2025) as read in the Department of Justice consolidation dated 12 June 2026, paragraph 1(a), prints «Nimetazepam (硝甲西泮)», and section 2 defines a dangerous drug as «any of the drugs or substances specified in Part I of the First Schedule».
Consequences if caught
Nimetazepam is a dangerous drug because paragraph 1(a) of Part I names it. Trafficking: section 4(1)(a) forbids any person to «traffic in a dangerous drug» except under the Ordinance or a licence, and section 2 says trafficking «includes importing into Hong Kong, exporting from Hong Kong, procuring, supplying or otherwise dealing in or with the dangerous drug, or possessing the dangerous drug for the purpose of trafficking», so bringing it into Hong Kong falls within trafficking, whatever the amount. Section 4(3) sets the maximum «on conviction on indictment, to a fine of $5,000,000 and to imprisonment for life», and «on summary conviction, to a fine of $500,000 and to imprisonment for 3 years». Manufacture: section 6(2), «liable on conviction on indictment to a fine of $5,000,000 and to imprisonment for life». Supply to a person not authorised to possess it: section 5(2), on indictment «to a fine at level 6 and to imprisonment for 15 years». Possession and consumption are each an offence under section 8: section 8(1) forbids a person to «have in his possession» or to «smoke, inhale, ingest or inject» a dangerous drug, and section 8(2) sets «on conviction upon indictment to a fine of $1,000,000 and, subject to section 54A, to imprisonment for 7 years», or «on summary conviction to a fine at level 6 and, subject to section 54A, to imprisonment for 3 years»; level 6 is $100,000. Section 54A requires the court to consider a report of the Commissioner of Correctional Services before passing a custodial sentence for possession, except where section 54A(1A) applies: the person is in the same proceedings sentenced for another offence to imprisonment for more than 9 months, or is already serving a term of more than 9 months. Each of these provisions joins the fine and the imprisonment with the word and, so both may be imposed; the figures are maxima. Imprisonment for life is the highest penalty the Ordinance states. The Ordinance sets no quantity below which possession is lawful, and section 47 is not a quantity rule: a person proved to have had in physical possession «anything containing or supporting a dangerous drug», or the keys of a container holding one, «shall, until the contrary is proved, be presumed to have had such drug in his possession», and is presumed to have known its nature. This is stated as at the consolidations named in this cell, and for the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance as at the consolidation dated 12 June 2026. Section 50(1) provides that «The Chief Executive may by order published in the Gazette amend the First and Third Schedules», so this does not rule out a later amendment. The Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Amendment of First Schedule) Order 2026, made by the Chief Executive on 24 September 2026 under section 50(1) and scheduled for gazettal on 2 October 2026, adds N-pyrrolidino isotonitazene, N-desethyl etonitazene and MDMB-FUBINACA to Part I, and its section 1 reads «This Order comes into operation on 27 November 2026.» Those three additions are therefore not in force on 2 October 2026.
Venezuela
Legal status
Controlled. Ley Orgánica de Drogas article 3 identifies estupefacientes as the substances figuring in lista I or lista II of the 1961 Single Convention, “Enmendada por el Protocolo de 1972”, and sustancias psicotrópicas as those figuring in listas I to IV of the 1971 Convention, which carries no amendment wording at all. This substance was read as a named entry in Schedule IV of the 1971 Convention, as the INCB Green List prints it. The offence articles are 149, 150, 151 and 153. [Certain] for the placement, with the entry text recorded in the documentation.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. The Constitution forbids it at article 43, read here in the Contraloría General de la República text: “El derecho a la vida es inviolable. Ninguna ley podrá establecer la pena de muerte, ni autoridad alguna aplicarla.” [Certain], re derived from that text in this pass. The abolition itself is usually dated to the Decreto de Garantías of 1863. [Likely] and carried, not re derived: that decree was not read here, and the year 1863 appears nowhere in the Constitution or in the Ley Orgánica de Drogas. This substance is a named entry in Schedule IV of the 1971 Convention, as the INCB Green List prints it, which article 3 of the Law incorporates, so the offence articles reach it. Consumption is a separate route and it is not in the offences title. Article 141 provides that a person found consuming, or who declares themselves a consumer, or who holds a quantity not above the personal dose for consumption of article 131 numeral 2, is put at the disposal of the Ministerio Público, which has toxicological tests run on urine, blood or other organic fluids and a chemical and botanical examination made of the substance seized, and then asks the control judge for the person's liberty subject to attending a specialised rehabilitation centre. Where consumption is confirmed the outcome is obligatory treatment and a social reinsertion programme. Article 130 has the judge order obligatory rehabilitation in a specialised centre and allows reinserción social, seguimiento and servicio comunitario alongside it. Article 142 has the judge also suspend the driving licence and any firearms carry licence. Article 139 separately suspends a driving licence for not less than six months for driving under the effects of these substances, with obligatory treatment. Those provisions sit in Título V, Del Consumo y el Procedimiento, not in the offences and penalties title that carries articles 149 to 153, and the route turns on the quantity being at or below the personal dose. Article 153 punishes illicit possession of estupefacientes, sustancias psicotrópicas, their mixtures, salts or pharmaceutical specialities, or controlled chemicals, for purposes other than the licit activities the Law declares or the personal consumption of article 131, with one to two years. Article 149 punishes trafficking, commerce, supply, distribution, concealment, transport by any means, storage or brokerage with fifteen to twenty five years. That falls to twelve to eighteen years where the quantity does not exceed 5,000 g of marihuana, 1,000 g of genetically modified marihuana, 1,000 g of cocaine or cocaine based narcotic substances, 60 g of poppy derivatives or 500 units of synthetic drugs, and to eight to twelve years where it exceeds the article 153 maxima but does not pass 500 g of marihuana, 200 g of genetically modified marihuana, 50 g of cocaine, 10 g of poppy derivatives or 100 units of synthetic drugs. Directing or financing those operations carries twenty five to thirty years, and thirty years is the ceiling of this Law, not the twenty five of the first paragraph. Article 150 punishes illicit manufacture, elaboration, refining, transformation, extraction, preparation, mixing or production with fifteen to twenty years, and directing or financing those operations with twenty five to thirty years; that, not article 149, is the governing article for a clandestine producer. Article 151 punishes sowing, cultivating, harvesting, storing, trafficking, transporting, concealing or distributing seeds, resins and plants containing these substances with twelve to eighteen years, six to ten years where the seed or resin does not exceed 300 g or the plants do not exceed 10 units, and twenty five to thirty years for directing or financing, and where the plants are genetically modified marihuana it increases the penalty by half. Article 163 lists fourteen aggravating circumstances for trafficking in all its forms, for illicit manufacture and production and for trafficking in seeds, resins and plants, among them using children, people with disabilities, people living on the street, older adults or indigenous people, commission by public officials or by someone simulating that condition, commission in a home, an educational, cultural, sporting or religious institution, a prison, a public transport vehicle, a public office or a treatment and rehabilitation centre, and commission within 500 m of such places. For numerals 2, 7, 9, 10 and 13 the penalty rises by one third to one half, and in the remaining cases by one half. Applied to the twenty five to thirty year limb that uplift would pass thirty years, while Constitution article 44 numeral 3 provides that there shall be no perpetual or infamous sentences and that custodial penalties “no excederán de treinta años”. The Law does not say how the two are reconciled. Article 153 prints its possession figures only for cocaine and its derivatives, compounds or mixtures at up to 2 g, marihuana at up to 20 g, genetically modified marihuana at up to 5 g and poppy derivatives at up to 1 g, and article 149 prints its band figures only for those families and for units of synthetic drugs. No figure is printed for this substance. Where the offence reaches it, the amount that counts as a personal dose falls to the court: article 131 defines the personal dose by tolerance, degree of dependence, individual pattern of consumption, the psychophysical characteristics of the person and the nature of the substance, and states that the judge shall appreciate it rationally and scientifically on the report of the forensic experts, while the third paragraph of article 153 has the judge determine, using the maximum experience of experts as a reference, what may constitute a personal dose of the substance concerned for an average person. Those figures are not in article 131, which prints no gram amount at all.
Guatemala
Legal status
Illegal under the Ley contra la Narcoactividad (Decreto 48-92), articles 38 and 39.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. This is established rather than assumed, because Decreto 48-92 as enacted did carry a death penalty: article 12 lists "De muerte" first among the principal penalties for natural persons, and article 52, "Delitos calificados por el resultado", provided that "Si como consecuencia de los delitos tipificados en esta ley, resultare la muerte de una o más personas, se aplicará la pena de muerte o treinta años de prisión, según las circunstancias del hecho". Two things remove it. First, the Corte de Constitucionalidad expelled article 12 literal a) and the words "muerte o" from article 52 by judgment of 24 October 2017, expediente 5986-2016 [Likely, taken from secondary reports; the Court's own record was not reached, and one of those reports contradicts itself on the expediente number]. Second, and independently of that judgment, article 52 was never conditioned on a substance or on a quantity but only on a resulting death, so no row of this table carried capital exposure even on the 1992 text [Certain, re-derived from the gazette this pass]. Readers should know that the government's own published text of the law, at senabed.gob.gt, still prints both capital passages intact. Decreto 48-92 annexes no list of substances. Article 1 reaches the drugs "incluidos en los convenios y tratados internacionales al respecto, ratificados por Guatemala y en cualquier otro instrumento jurídico internacional que sobre esta materia se apruebe", and article 2(b) defines "Estupefacientes y sustancias psicotrópicas" as "Cualquier droga natural o sintética, así considerada en tratados o convenios internacionales de observancia obligatoria en la República de Guatemala, el Código de Salud y demás disposiciones que se emitan para determinar las drogas de uso prohibido a que se refiere la presente ley". An anchored search of the whole 57 KB law text returned no substance name at all, which is the measurement behind that reading. The health authority says the same thing in its own words: MSPAS Normativa 22-2001, section 2, states that "Los Estupefacientes y Sicotrópicos son los enumerados en la Convención Unica de 1961 sobre Estupefacientes, en el Convenio sobre Substancias Sicotrópicas de 1971 y en la Convención de las Naciones Unidas contra el Tráfico Ilícito de Estupefacientes y Sustancias Sicotrópicas y otras Sustancias consideradas como tales por las leyes del país y por las disposiciones dictadas por la autoridad de salud". The entry read was PN 001, "NIMETAZEPAM", in 1971 Convention Schedule IV. Article 2(b) therefore reaches it, because that list is a treaty list of obligatory observance in Guatemala, and articles 38 and 39 then apply to it as a drug, estupefaciente or psicotrópico. Article 38, "Comercio, tráfico y almacenamiento ilícito", sets prison of twelve to twenty years and a fine of Q50,000 to Q1,000,000, both of those figures being money and neither of them a quantity of any substance. Article 39, "Posesión para el consumo", makes possession for one's own consumption an offence in its own right, at four months to two years and a fine of Q200 to Q10,000, consumption being made out where the seized drug "no exceda de la cantidad razonable para el consumo inmediato". No article states a gram figure for any substance, so the line between personal use and trafficking is judicial. Article 36 sets five to twenty years for sowing or cultivation and article 37 eight to twenty years for manufacture, which puts the ceiling on the conduct articles at twenty years. Article 15 names article 39 among the sentences that may be commuted where the prison term does not exceed five years, at Q5 to Q100 per day. One penalty in article 12 speaks directly to a non-Guatemalan reader. The principal penalties for natural persons are listed there, and literal f) is "Expulsión del territorio nacional de extranjeros", expulsion of foreign nationals from the national territory. It is a principal penalty in its own right and not an administrative consequence.
Nepal
Legal status
Not confirmed, status not individually verified; confirm with Nepal's authorities (Narcotic Drugs (Control) Act, 2033) / your embassy
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not named in the cited Nepali sources (Narcotic Drugs (Control) Act, 2033 (1976 AD), amended through 1998), do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. Controlled drugs carry tiered penalties up to life imprisonment; Nepal has NO death penalty (the maximum is life).
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
Nepal has NO death penalty, the maximum drug penalty is life imprisonment (jiban kaidi), under the Narcotic Drugs (Control) Act, 2033 (1976 AD, amended through 1998). Historically cannabis was legal through government shops until 1973; a cannabis-legalization bill is currently tabled but NOT enacted (proposed, not law). Cannabis consumption draws up to 1 month or an NPR 2,000 fine (first-time minor offenders may be released on a bond, and there is no punishment for a person in recognized treatment, Sec 19A). Cannabis possession is tiered: 50 g or less up to 3 months; 50-500 g up to 1 year; 500 g, 2 kg up to 2 years; 2-10 kg up to 3 years; 10 kg or more 2-10 years plus a fine (a reported personal-use line is about 5 g cannabis / 2 g hashish). Heroin and cocaine: 5 g or less 2-5 years; 5-100 g 5-10 years; over 100 g or any trafficking 10 years to life plus an NPR 500,000-2,500,000 fine. Cultivation: 25 plants or fewer up to 3 months; more than 25 plants 3 months, 3 years. Other hard drugs (methamphetamine/'yaba', MDMA, LSD) are controlled, with trafficking punishable up to life. Foreigners face the same law, no bail, and deportation after sentence. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Narcotic Drugs (Control) Act, 2033 (1976 AD), amended through 1998, Secs 19/19A · lawcommission.gov.np · Updated July 14, 2026
Romania
Legal status
Nimetazepam is controlled in Romania. The entry relied on reads «Nimetazepam = 1,3-dihydro-1-methyl-7-nitro-5-phenyl-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one», located at Legea 143/2000, Tabelul III; arts. 1(d), 2(1), 4(1). The Romanian schedule names Nimetazepam or its exact chemical identity as a risk drug in Tabelul III. Romania uses the simplest of the three models: the schedule sits inside the Act. Article 1(a) makes Tables I to IV integral to Legea 143/2000 and supplies the mechanism for adding, deleting or moving an entry. Tables I and II are droguri de mare risc, high-risk drugs; Table III is droguri de risc. A mixture is reached through a listed constituent. Legea 194/2011 is a separate products regime and does not turn an unlisted name into a scheduled drug. This reading is stated as in force on 18 September 2026. The consolidated text identifies Legea 30/2025 as the latest schedule amendment included, effective 29 March 2025, and states that it contains all officially published amendments through that Act.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Romania has no death penalty and no life sentence for a drug offence. In Romania nimetazepam sits in Tabelul III of Legea 143/2000, and which table it sits in is what selects the article below. The scale runs by table and by conduct. Article 4(1) sets 3 months to 2 years or a fine for unauthorised own-use acts involving a Table III risk drug, and article 4(2) sets 6 months to 3 years where the drug is high-risk. Article 2 sets 3 to 10 years for risk-drug circulation and 5 to 15 years for high-risk. Article 3(2) sets 10 to 20 years for unauthorised import or export of a high-risk drug. Article 9 raises the special limits by one third where the act finances drug consumption, and article 13(2) permits up to 5 further years in the specified education-related circumstance. The overall custody ceiling is 30 years, which comes from Cod penal article 60 as the general maximum rather than from any single drug article. Romania prints no statutory gram threshold and no per-substance personal-use quantity anywhere in Legea 143/2000. The table a substance sits in, not its weight, is what selects the article.
If prescribed / medical
There may be a lawful medical route for nimetazepam and this row does not settle it. What is settled is the control status: nimetazepam is on the Romania controlled list, so any supply runs inside the control regime rather than around it. The prescribing, dispensing and import conditions sit in the Romania medicines and pharmacy regime, which this row did not audit, and the Romanian National Agency for Medicines and Medical Devices is the body that states them. Do not read this row as a statement that nimetazepam cannot be a prescribed medicine, because that is a different question and this row does not reach it. Treat the route as unread rather than as absent.
Documentation
Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging for nimetazepam, and get the Romanian National Agency for Medicines and Medical Devices or the relevant embassy to confirm the position in writing before you travel rather than at the border. That is the carriage answer and it is short because no traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance for nimetazepam appears anywhere in what was read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists. Provenance follows. The controlling text was read on Portal Legislativ, the official legislation portal of the Ministry of Justice, and the ANMDMR consolidated text on 18 September 2026, at Legea 143/2000, Tabelul III; arts. 1(d), 2(1), 4(1).
Slovakia
Legal status
Nimetazepam is controlled in Slovakia. Annex 1 to Act No. 139/1998 names nimetazepam. The entry relied on reads «Nimetazepam, chemicky 5-fenyl-1-metyl-7-nitro-2,3-dihydro-1H-benzo[f]1,4-diazepín-2-ón», and the source states that its Slovak spelling, synonym and printed chemistry were checked together rather than matched on an English name alone. The entry sits in Group III of Annex 1, among the psychotropic substances. Two statutes divide the work. Act No. 139/1998 decides whether a substance is in the three-group list at Annex 1, and section 3(1) classifies narcotic and psychotropic substances by their effects on health into those three groups. The Criminal Code, No. 300/2005, decides the amount category through sections 135c to 135f and supplies the offences at sections 171 to 173. This reading is stated as in force on 18 September 2026. The consolidation of Act No. 139/1998 read was effective 1 January 2026 and incorporates amendment No. 293/2025; the Criminal Code consolidation read was effective 18 August 2026 and incorporates amendments through No. 168/2026.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Slovakia has no death penalty, but it is the one country in this set whose drug ceiling is life imprisonment rather than a fixed term: Criminal Code section 173(5) reaches 10 to 25 years or life for unauthorised manufacture and trafficking, and it applies to nimetazepam. The scale runs from one year to life. Section 171 covers unauthorised possession: one year for a negligible amount of cannabis or tetrahydrocannabinol, two years for another drug in a negligible amount, three years for a small amount, and six years in the aggravated form. Section 172 covers cultivation and reaches fifteen years at subsection (7). Section 173 covers unauthorised manufacture and trafficking, reaching 8 to 20 years at subsection (4) and 10 to 25 years or life imprisonment at subsection (5). Criminal Code Annex 1 prints no figure for this substance, so section 135c(2) supplies the statutory residual: a negligible amount is at most one gram of material containing the active substance. That one gram is a default that applies to every controlled drug absent from the printed table, and it is not a measurement of this substance. Section 135d then scales everything from the negligible amount by fixed multiples: five for a small amount, 250 for a larger one, 1,500 for a substantial one and 5,000 for a large one, with anything above 5,000 classed as extraordinarily large.
If prescribed / medical
Whether there is a lawful route for nimetazepam is a question this row does not answer, and the source says why: it is a schedule and penalty verification, not advice about licensing, medicines, precursors, food, tobacco or other regulatory regimes. What is established is the control status under Act No. 139/1998 and the amount category under the Criminal Code. Annex 2 to the Act is the exempt preparations list and is a separate question again. The State Institute for Drug Control is the body that states the prescribing and dispensing conditions for nimetazepam. Treat the route as unread rather than as absent.
Trinidad and Tobago
Legal status
Not confirmed. Nimetazepam does not appear in the 2016 consolidation's First, Second and Fourth Schedules and the Orders LN 343/2019, LN 345/2019, LN 346/2019, LN 166/2023, LN 131/2024 and LN 293/2026, read as at 3 October 2026, and searches for azepam and benzodiazep found no benzodiazepine at all. The only similar looking heading is First Schedule item 5, «Phenazepines», whose only example is proheptazine, with ethoheptazine printed after «but not including:»; it is a different class and is not read as reaching nimetazepam. The substance is not listed by name in any Schedule read, as at 3 October 2026, the date the instruments were read.
Consequences if caught
Not confirmed. Searches for nimetazepam, azepam and benzodiazep returned nothing, so no section 5 penalty is attributed.
If prescribed / medical
Not confirmed. The Act as read lists no benzodiazepine, so the section 5(2) exemption does not arise for nimetazepam, and medicines legislation outside Chapter 11:25 was not read.
Documentation
Not confirmed. The «Phenazepines» item that was read and rejected sets no document rule, and nothing read names nimetazepam.
Not confirmed. Searched: Dangerous Drugs Act, Chap. 11:25, consolidation «UPDATED TO 31ST DECEMBER 2016», which the Ministry prints as an «UNOFFICIAL VERSION», revision 105641, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/105641?type=act · LN 343/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108636?type=amendment · LN 345/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/108640?type=amendment · LN 346/2019, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/110214?type=amendment · LN 166/2023, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/117076?type=amendment · LN 131/2024, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/119398?type=amendment · LN 293/2026, https://laws.gov.tt/ttdll-web/revision/download/124452?type=amendment · searched for nimetazepam, azepam and benzodiazep · First Schedule item 5 read and not relied on. Read on 3 October 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026
Ukraine
Legal status
Controlled in Ukraine by its own printed heading. Постанова № 770, таблиці I to IV, consolidated text read on 20 September 2026, prints «Німетазепам» at CAS 2011-67-8 and record UKR-69 accepts that row; the heading is in sentence case here because the list prints in capitals. It is the sixth of the diazepine group members that the Ukrainian list names individually, and its presence is the strongest single answer to the class question raised elsewhere in this source: a list that prints six members by name is not silent on the class merely because it does not print the class label. This compound has no current authorised medical use in most health systems and is encountered largely as diverted or counterfeit tablets.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Ukraine has no death penalty. The trade article the source names is Кримінальний кодекс України, стаття 307, twelve years of imprisonment at the ceiling of its third part, no life sentence in the article. Because the heading at CAS 2011-67-8 is matched, наказ МОЗ № 188 supplies the small, large and especially large bands for this molecule individually rather than for the class. Tablets sold under this name are commonly counterfeit and may contain another listed diazepine, each of which carries its own heading and band, so the assay settles the grading. No figures are reproduced and no separate possession article is named. Separately from that, and carried forward from this site's published Ukraine entry rather than re-derived from the Code in this pass, the published penalties are these. Personal use of a small amount is administrative under article 44 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, a fine of 25 to 50 tax free minimum incomes, 20 to 60 hours of community service, or administrative arrest of up to 15 days. Above small, personal use under article 309 is criminal, a fine, correctional labour of up to two years, or restriction of liberty of up to five years, rising to up to three years where aggravated or large and up to eight years where a minor is involved. Trafficking or sale under article 307 draws four to twelve years with property forfeiture. Smuggling under article 305 draws five to eight years, and up to eight to ten years aggravated. The published entry records the small, large and especially large quantity thresholds as very low, and that trace amounts have triggered article 309. Drug use itself, other than in public, is not criminal there. Every figure in this paragraph is a penalty range or a fine and none of them is a quantity threshold. They describe the offences that this row's placement in the Ukrainian list brings into play.
If prescribed / medical
Ukraine allows no personal use quantity in the narcotics sense, наказ МОЗ № 188 grades criminal conduct rather than licensing carriage, and a scheduled medicine must additionally satisfy Закон України «Про лікарські засоби» on prescription, packaging, import and customs. On this row the placement is a matched heading at CAS 2011-67-8 and there is no widely authorised medicinal product containing this compound, so a prescription route is unlikely to arise and none is established here. No import permit, personal allowance or recognition of a foreign prescription was found, and none was researched.
Bahrain
Legal status
Controlled. Nimetazepam is placed in Group II Schedule 4 of the annex, in Bahrain's Law 15 of 2007 on narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, where the entry reads «NIMETAZEPAM; 1,3-dihydro-1-methyl-7-nitro-5-phenyl-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one». It is listed in its own right rather than reached through nitrazepam, which is a separate entry immediately below it.
Consequences if caught
Article 34 of Law 15 of 2007 punishes trafficking and the related commercial conduct in the psychotropic substances of Group II Schedules 2, 3 and 4 by imprisonment of not more than five years. The same article adds a fine of not more than 3,000 Bahraini dinars. Article 35 sets not more than six months for the same conduct done for personal use or without payment, with a fine of not more than 100 dinars. The Law states no quantity threshold anywhere, and no table states one for Nimetazepam. Article 50 of the Penal Code, Decree-Law No. 15 of 1976, puts civil deprivation of 1 to 3 years on a misdemeanour, which is the tier Article 35 sits in, while Article 49 puts civil deprivation of 3 to 15 years on a felony. Bahrain's published drug penalties also include Article 30, which carries death or life imprisonment with a fine of 5,000 to 50,000 dinars, and Article 30(b), which makes the penalty death in five listed cases; but this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Bahrain's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure. Article 51 makes confiscation of the substance, the equipment and any vehicle prepared for the purpose mandatory in every case. Article 54 lets the court add permanent deportation of a foreign national to the sentence. Bahraini courts have passed drug death sentences, including in a 2019 smuggling case, and executions for drug offences have not been carried out, sentences being commonly commuted; that last point is carried forward from the cell this replaces and was not re-derived here.
If prescribed / medical
Nimetazepam is dispensable in Bahrain only against a prescription on a Ministry of Health form under Article 23 of Law 15 of 2007, and that prescription is valid for seven days for a psychotropic substance rather than the three days a Group I narcotic gets. Article 24 requires a prescription covering more than a month of use to be dispensed in two instalments. A patient who has been treated abroad may bring in a treatment quantity of a Group II substance for not more than one week from the date of entry, under Article 26(c), against a prescription approved by the competent authorities in the country of treatment.
Documentation
The version read for this cell is the annex to Law 15 of 2007 as printed in Official Gazette 2804 of 16 August 2007 at pages 20 to 34, together with the publisher's amendment register for the Law, which on 22 September 2026 listed exactly three amendments and showed a site update of 17 September 2026. The register does not certify that no other instrument exists, so the consolidation is silent on that stronger point. The power that moves these tables is article 4 of the Law, which lets the Council of Ministers add to the attached schedules or change their percentages on the Minister's proposal after a committee of specialists approves, so the list can move without a new Law and all three amendments so far were made that way. The twelve tables reproduce the convention lists: the Group I Schedule 3 heading names Schedule III of the 1961 Convention in its English line and the 1971 Convention in its Arabic line, which is a mismatch inside the Gazette itself, Group II carries the four schedules of the 1971 Convention, and Group III mirrors the two tables of the 1988 Convention down to the note excluding the salts of hydrochloric and sulphuric acid. The entry for this row sits in Group II Schedule 4 of the annex and was read on the rendered Gazette page rather than taken from a text layer, because the published file is a scan with no extractable text. It is listed in its own right rather than reached through nitrazepam, which is a separate entry immediately below it. The group and schedule placement stated here is not printed in the quotation column of the dossier this lane was given: that column carries a bare entry name on its placement rows and a synthesised Arabic search record on its absence rows, and no group marker on any of its 88 rows, so every placement in this batch was read from the Gazette annex page instead. Bahrain's drug law carries capital exposure, and which offences reach it is set out in the street section of this cell rather than recited as a general fact about the country.
Brunei
Legal status
Class B controlled drug. It sits in the First Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Act, Chapter 27 of the Laws of Brunei Darussalam, Revised Edition 2013 (B.L.R.O. 2/2013) at Part II, which is headed Class B Drugs, and is named in its own right, as "Nimetazepam".
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Nimetazepam is a Class B drug, entered as "Nimetazepam", so the Class B columns of the Second Schedule govern. Trafficking is defined very broadly by section 2 as "to sell, give, administer, transport, send, deliver or distribute", or to offer to do any of those, so passing a share to a friend is trafficking and not sharing. Trafficking under section 3 carries a maximum of 20 years and 10 strokes with a minimum of 3 years and 3 strokes. Possession for the purpose of trafficking under section 3A carries the same. Manufacture under section 4 carries a maximum of 30 years and 15 strokes with a minimum of 10 years and 5 strokes. Import or export under section 5 carries a maximum of 30 years and 15 strokes with a minimum of 5 years and 5 strokes. Simple possession under section 6(a) carries a maximum of 10 years, a fine of 20,000 Brunei dollars or both, rising to a minimum of 2 years on a second or subsequent conviction. Consumption under section 6(b) carries the same maximum with a minimum of 3 years on a second or subsequent conviction. Section 29(3) doubles the punishment for a second or subsequent offence under Part II other than section 6. Death is not available for this substance. It appears in no row of the specified drug column of the Second Schedule, which names only opium, morphine, diamorphine, cocaine, cannabis, cannabis resin, methylamphetamine and MDMA, and the Class B column carries no death entry against any offence. Where death does appear it is mandatory. Section 29(2) provides that the columns "show respectively the punishments to be imposed on a person convicted of the offence", and each death row gives death alone with no maximum, no minimum and no alternative. No provision of the Act confers a sentencing discretion on a capital conviction. The Act creates no sentence of life imprisonment. The phrase appears nowhere in its text, and the longest determinate term it reaches is 30 years. One defect in the Act bears on this. Section 29(2) describes a seven column table where the Second Schedule prints eight, because the Class D column was inserted by S 28/1994 without redrafting the subsection. So 29(2)(b), which attaches the specified quantity punishments, names the sixth column when the specified column is now the seventh. The subsection describes the contents of each column unmistakably, so the numbering is read purposively, but the capital penalties sit in the column the defect touches.
If prescribed / medical
Nimetazepam is scheduled for prescribing purposes as follows. It is named in no schedule of the Misuse of Drugs Regulations, Chapter 27, Rg 1 at all. The schedules to the Regulations were last amended by S 36/1998 while the First Schedule to the Act runs to S 12/2012, so the supply and register machinery in regulations 7 to 9 and 14 to 16 is keyed to lists that never caught up with the Act. What does reach it is regulation 5(2), which authorises any medical or dental officer of Brunei Darussalam or of a visiting force, acting in the course of duty, "to manufacture, possess, prescribe, administer or supply any controlled drug", and regulation 11, which governs the form of a prescription for any controlled drug "other than a drug specified in the First Schedule" to the Regulations. What was not checked for this cell is Brunei's medicines and poisons regime, which is a separate body of law that was not fetched. Absence from the Misuse of Drugs Act is not a statement that a substance is freely available.
Iran
Legal status
Nimetazepam is placed at entry 44 of Schedule 4 of the four psychotropic schedules adopted 1384/09/13, printed as «نیمتازپام» beside the roman form Nimetazepam.
Consequences if caught
The Psychotropics Law of 1354/02/08 sets the penalties for its Schedules 2, 3 and 4, and they are prison terms rather than capital ones. Article 4 gives 61 days to three years plus seizure for unauthorised manufacture, import or export, Article 6 the same range for unlawful distribution, Article 7 gives 61 days to six months for supplying a consumer otherwise than by a pharmacy against a prescription, and Article 8 up to six months for unauthorised possession. No fine is stated in those articles, and no quantity threshold appears in them either. Article 9 extends the same rules to a medicinal product whose main ingredient contains a Schedule 2, 3 or 4 substance. Iran keeps the death penalty for drug offences and uses it. Article 45, added by the Act of 1396/07/12, which is 4 October 2017, and approved by the Guardian Council on 1396/07/26, which is 18 October 2017, reaches only offences that already carry death or life imprisonment under this Law, and its paragraph (t) sets the quantity limb: «کلیه جرائم موضوع ماده (4) این قانون مشروط بر اینکه بیش از پنجاه کیلوگرم باشد و مواد موضوع ماده (8) این قانون مشروط بر اینکه بیش از دو کیلوگرم باشد و در خصوص سایر جرائم موضوع ماده (8) در صورتیکه بیش از سه کیلوگرم باشد». The quantities are more than 50 kilograms for Article 4 offences, more than 2 kilograms for the Article 8 supply limb, and more than 3 kilograms for the other Article 8 offences of buying, keeping, concealing or transporting, which is how the Head of the Judiciary circular of 1396/10/16, meaning 6 January 2018, reads that paragraph at its own paragraph 7. Below those quantities the older capital wording does not lapse by itself, because Article 45 converts a former death case to grade one imprisonment of up to thirty years and a former life case to grade two imprisonment, with confiscation of drug proceeds in both. The money runs beside that conversion: a grade one fine up to twice its minimum for the former death case and a grade two fine for the former life case. Paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of Article 45 carry no quantity floor at all, and reach an offender who drew or carried a weapon, a ringleader, a financial backer or investor, an offender who used a person under eighteen or a person lacking capacity, and an offender with a final prior conviction under this Law for death, life or more than fifteen years. Advisory opinion 7/99/136 applies paragraph (c) to the transport of 80 grams of heroin and to the possession of 200 kilograms of opium, which is why a weight under two kilograms is not a safe limit. At least 503 drug related executions were recorded in 2024 and 471 in 2023, roughly half of all executions and carried out by hanging, which the US Library of Congress Global Legal Monitor reports and Harm Reduction International and Amnesty International corroborate. A second figure of 485 for 2024 also sits in this project’s earlier Iran records, unattributed there, and the two were not reconciled, so both are printed rather than one being chosen. Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Iran’s published drug penalties and not as this substance’s exposure.
Laos
Legal status
Not confirmed, status not individually verified; confirm with Laos's authorities (Lao Penal Code Art 146; Law on Narcotics No. 22/NA) / your embassy
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not named in the cited Lao sources (Lao Penal Code 2017, Art 146; Law on Narcotics No. 22/NA of 2012), do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. The Art 146 death thresholds are stated for heroin/morphine/cocaine (more than 500 g) and amphetamines/methamphetamine/ecstasy/psychotropics (more than 3 kg). [retained; abolitionist in practice, no executions since 1989, routine commutation] The death penalty is retained for drugs (Penal Code Art 146), and some sources describe it as MANDATORY above the thresholds [reported], but NO executions have been carried out since 1989 and commutation is routine (e.g. the Orobator case, where a pregnant defendant caught with 680 g of heroin received life, not death).
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
Laos (a Golden Triangle state where about 90% of death-row sentences are drug-related, with roughly 315 people on death row) retains the death penalty for drugs under the Lao Penal Code (2017, Art 146, consolidating the earlier Penal Law and the Law on Narcotics No. 22/NA of 2012). Death applies to producing, distributing, possessing or transporting more than 500 g of heroin, morphine or cocaine; more than 3,000 g (3 kg) of amphetamines, methamphetamine, ecstasy or other psychotropics; or more than 10,000 g of drug precursors. Some sources describe the death penalty as MANDATORY above these thresholds [reported], but it is abolitionist in practice, NO executions have been carried out since 1989, and commutation is routine (e.g. the Orobator case, where a pregnant defendant caught with 680 g of heroin received life, not death). Personal-use possession is graduated: for heroin, morphine or cocaine, less than 0.2 g is treated as a victim needing treatment and 0.2-2 g draws 2-10 years plus a fine; for methamphetamine or ecstasy, less than 0.3 g is treated as a victim and 0.3-3 g draws 1-5 years; using a marijuana-smoking service draws 3 months, 5 years. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Lao Penal Code (2017), Art 146, consolidating Penal Law Art 146 + Law on Narcotics No. 22/NA (2012) · laoofficialgazette.gov.la · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Myanmar
Legal status
Illegal in Myanmar. Nimetazepam is listed at Notification 25/2025, List 4, and that listing is the whole of what controls it: section 2(b) of the Law defines a psychotropic substance as one the Ministry of Health has declared by notification, and Nimetazepam has been so declared. The list entry reads "NIMETAZEPAM".
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: section 20. The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law 1993 was read in the copy at myanmartradeportal.gov.mm/legal/344, fetched 18 September 2026, and the amendments in Law 17/2025 were read from the Global New Light of Myanmar, 7 January 2026, pages 3 and 5, on 3 October 2026. Section 20 takes «a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance» as its object, and section 2 defines both by delegation: a narcotic drug is the poppy, coca or cannabis plant, or a plant the Ministry has declared, and what is derived or extracted from it, or «drugs which the Ministry of Health has, by notification declared to be a narcotic drug», and a psychotropic substance is «drugs which the Ministry of Health has, by notification declared» to be one. This substance is not one of the three named plants or an extract of one, so whether section 20 reaches it turns on a Ministry of Health notification, and the status of this row records the notification that declares it, so section 20 reaches it. Conduct is what sets the band, and the Law grades it in three steps. Section 16(c) reaches possession, transportation, transmission and transfer of a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance, and carries a minimum of 5 years to a maximum of 10 years, with a fine also possible. Section 19 reaches those same acts done for the purpose of sale, and offering for sale or agreeing to sell, and carries a minimum of 10 years to a maximum of life imprisonment. Law 17/2025 replaced «life imprisonment without limit» in the introduction of sections 19 and 20 with «life imprisonment», and its new section 2(i) defines that as «a prison sentence imposed on a convicted person requiring them to remain incarcerated until death». Section 20 reaches production, distribution and sale, and importing and exporting, and it is the one article that can end in death. Section 21 puts an attempt, a conspiracy, organising, administering, financing or abetting on the same footing as the completed offence. Quantity: Law 17/2025 replaced section 26. It now names heroin, morphine and methamphetamine at three grammes each, with a combined three grammes for any two or three of them under subsection (d), raw or refined opium at one hundred grammes, dried and fresh kratom leaves at 1.5 and six kilogrammes, marijuana or marijuana extract and coca leaves at one hundred grammes each, and cocaine at three grammes, and then sets two general limbs, which read in the English text published in the Global New Light of Myanmar (j) «three grammes for narcotic drugs or psychotropicsubstances [sic] except for the drugs mentioned in subsections (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g) (h) and (i) and specific weight, volume or quantities for narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances under the notification issued by the Ministry of Health not for sale» and (k) «One hundred millilitres for the remaining narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances, except for specifying the weight, quantity, or number of narcotic drugs or psychotropic substances issued by the Ministry of Health for the purpose of sale». Nimetazepam is not named in subsections (a) to (i), so on those words possessing or moving more than three grammes of it is deemed to be for the purpose of sale, which leads to section 19, unless a Ministry of Health notification sets another quantity for it. Notification 24/2025, paragraph 4, sets per dose limits for some exempt narcotic preparations, and neither notification, as searched here in its scanned pages, sets a quantity for nimetazepam. The English text does not say how limbs (j) and (k) divide the field between weights and volumes. Section 20 is the only article in this Law that reaches death. It punishes production, distribution and sale of a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance, and importing and exporting one, with imprisonment from a minimum of 15 years to a maximum of life imprisonment or with death. Death is not mandatory on the section's own wording, because the section holds out imprisonment as the alternative and joins the two with the words or with death. Section 20 states no weight floor of any kind, so the section 26 quantity is a route into section 19 and never into section 20. Life exposure arrives one step earlier, at section 19, which carries 10 years to life imprisonment for possessing, transporting, transmitting or transferring for the purpose of sale. Sections 22 and 23 then take an offender to the maximum punishment provided for the offence, section 22 where it was committed as part of a local or foreign criminal organisation or group, with arms or explosives, using a child who has not completed the age of 18, which Law 17/2025 substituted for 16 in section 22(c), or through the influence or power of a public servant, and section 23 where there is a prior conviction for any offence prescribed in sections 16 to 21. What this cell states is the statute as written. It is not a description of enforcement. Policing of these provisions since February 2021 is not what the text describes, and substantial areas of the country sit outside central government control, so the law on the page and the treatment a person actually meets are two different questions.
Oman
Legal status
Controlled, and outside the death penalty article. Nimetazepam is named in Group II, Table 4, serial 51 of the annex to the Law on Combating Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances issued by Royal Decree 67/2026, «نيميتازيبام | 1,3-dihydro-1-methyI-7-nitro-5-phenyI-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one | | NIMETAZEPAM | 51». The Group and Table numbers in this cell are taken from the locator column of the dossier; the serial is the last column of the quoted row.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none for nimetazepam. Article 37 of the Law on Combating Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances issued by Royal Decree 67/2026 carries death or life imprisonment, and death in six aggravations, but the dossier states its specified import, export, production and manufacture limb only for Group I Tables 1 to 4 and Group II Table 1, beside the cultivation of Group I Table 5 plants and stated precursor conduct. Nimetazepam is in Group II, Table 4, serial 51, so article 37 does not reach it, and for Group II Tables 2 to 4 the law states no death penalty and no life term. Conduct distinction. Article 40 is the article for these tables: trafficking carries five to ten years' imprisonment, and possession for personal use carries one to three years. The source read gives no fine under article 40. Article 41 separately sets three to seven years for possession with neither a trafficking nor a personal use purpose, but the source read ties article 41 to the higher tier tables and plants and does not say whether that limb reaches Group II Tables 2 to 4, so this page does not apply it. The source read does not say how bringing nimetazepam into or out of the country is charged: it puts import and export in article 37 only for the higher tables, and it does not name the article for a Group II Table 2 to 4 substance. Neither article 37 nor article 40 states a drug quantity threshold, so the table and the purpose decide the band, not the weight.
If prescribed / medical
Nimetazepam is a scheduled substance under the 2026 annex. The source read for this cell does not cover the law's licensing provisions, and it sets out no traveller allowance and no route by which a foreign prescription makes holding nimetazepam lawful, so none is stated. Personal use is punished under article 40.
Documentation
No document in the source read makes carrying nimetazepam into Oman lawful. Nimetazepam is a scheduled substance in Group II, Table 4, serial 51. Where the rule comes from. The law changed in September 2026. Royal Decree 67/2026 was issued on 3 September 2026. Its Article III repeals the Law on Combating Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances issued by Royal Decree 17/99, and its Article IV brings the decree, and with it the new law, into force on the day after its publication in the Official Gazette. Decree.om and the dossier this cell was authored from both record that publication as issue 1664 of 6 September 2026, so the law took effect on 7 September 2026. Article II keeps existing regulations and decisions running until replacements issue, «وإلى أن تصدر يستمر العمل باللوائح والقرارات القائمة، بما لا يتعارض مع أحكامه», so far as they do not conflict with its provisions. The decree's own articles were read in the text the Oman News Agency published on 3 September 2026. The attached law and its annex were read only through the verbatim quotations in the dossier dated 20 September 2026, because on 3 October 2026 qanoon.om served a Cloudflare challenge in place of the text, the web archive held no copy, and decree.om carried the decree's Articles I to IV and its Gazette reference but not the attached law, which it said would be uploaded shortly. Article 5 of the law, as that dossier quotes it, provides «يجوز بقرار من الوزير تعديل المجموعات الملحقة بهذا القانون بالحذف أو الإضافة أو تغيير النسب أو الكميات كلما اقتضت الضرورة ذلك», the Minister may by decision amend the annexed groups by deletion, by addition or by changing percentages or quantities whenever necessary. It takes the place of article 4 of the 1999 law, «يجوز بقرار من الوزير تعديل المجموعات الملحقة بهذا القانون بالحذف أو الإضافة أو تغيير النسب كلما اقتضت الظروف ذلك», which gave the same power without the word for quantities and with «الظروف», circumstances, where the 2026 text has «الضرورة», necessity. So a reading of the annex is a reading as of a date, and this one runs to 20 September 2026. Placement for Nimetazepam: Group II, Table 4, serial 51. Under the 1999 law this page recorded: Group 2 table 4. The 1999 placements in this cell are this page's earlier reading and are not printed in the quoted extract the dossier carries for this row.
Bulgaria
Legal status
Controlled. Nimetazepam is a named entry of Списък III of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Ниметазепам», «1-Метил-7-нитро-5-фенил-1,3-дихидро-2H-1,4- бензодиазепин -2-он». Nimetazepam and nitrazepam are consecutive rows and differ by one methyl group, so the systematic column rather than the name is what fixes which row this is. Списък III is the Act's «Рискови вещества», and чл. 3, ал. 2 of the Закон за контрол върху наркотичните вещества и прекурсорите puts those names in a Council of Ministers наредба rather than in the Act itself. The list closes with a note carrying it across the related forms, «Към Списък ІІІ са и изомерите, естерите, етерите и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите и изомерите) на веществата по Списък ІІІ», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Приложение № 3 as enacted by Постановление № 293 of 27 October 2011, as those lists stand after Постановление № 49 of 8 May 2025, which is the last amendment to the наредба recorded by the Council of Ministers legal information system.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Bulgaria is in the European Union and the death penalty was abolished in 1998, so no Bulgarian drug provision carries one. The figures in the rest of this paragraph are carried forward from the live Bulgaria cell and were not re-derived in this pass. Possession is not subject to a formal personal-use threshold. Penal Code article 354a(5) lets a judge impose a fine up to about 1,000 leva (about €511) for insignificant quantities, but it remains a criminal conviction. Standard possession of high-risk drugs draws 1 to 6 years. A 2,000 to 10,000 leva fine runs alongside that band. Possession of moderate-risk drugs draws up to 5 years. Trafficking under article 354a draws 2 to 8 years for high-risk drugs and 1 to 6 years for moderate-risk drugs. It rises to up to 15 years for aggravated or particularly large amounts. Cultivation of opium poppy, coca or cannabis is prohibited by article 354c. The high-risk and moderate-risk split those bands run on is drawn by Penal Code articles 354a, 354b and 354c together with the Law on Control of Narcotic Substances and Precursors, the ЗКНВП. Those are Penal Code provisions rather than наредба provisions, and they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
If prescribed / medical
Чл. 58, ал. 1 of the Закон за контрол върху наркотичните вещества и прекурсорите lets a person in transit or temporarily in the country hold medicinal products containing narcotic substances «от списъците по чл. 3, ал. 2, т. 2 и 3» only for treatment and in quantities no greater than 30 days of treatment, and чл. 58, ал. 2 requires a foreign national to hold a document issued by the competent authorities of the country where the treatment was prescribed. Списък III is the list that allowance calls т. 3, so the entry at «Ниметазепам» is inside чл. 58 rather than outside it. Чл. 60 sets how it is prescribed: ал. 1 sends the manner of prescribing to a наредба of the Minister of Health, ал. 2 requires special prescription forms that are subject to special accounting, and ал. 4 limits prescribing to qualified doctors and dentists. Carry the prescription, the dispensing packaging and, for a stay of any length, the чл. 58, ал. 2 document from the prescribing country. Confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Lithuania
Legal status
Nimetazepam is controlled in Lithuania. Order No. 5 names nimetazepam. The entry relied on reads «Nimetazepamas (Nimetazepam)*», and the source states that its spelling and chemistry were checked against the order rather than matched on an English name alone. The chain has four links and each one matters. The Narcotic and Psychotropic Substances Control Law, at article 4, delegates classification to the Ministry of Health. Health Minister Order No. 5 of 6 January 2000 is the resulting list and carries Schedules I to IV. Criminal Code article 269(1) makes those ministerial lists the Criminal Code's own drug definition. Criminal Code article 269(2) then sends the quantity question to ministerial recommendations, and Health Minister Order V-239 of 23 April 2003 supplies the figures. The list and the amount table are two different instruments, and a substance can be controlled by Order No. 5 while its cells in Order V-239 are blank. That is the single thing English accounts of Lithuanian law most often get wrong, and it is why control and quantity are stated separately on this row. This reading is stated as in force on 18 September 2026. The current consolidation of Order No. 5 begins on 18 June 2025 and the current consolidation of Order V-239 begins on the same day; the Control Law edition read includes the changes effective 1 November 2025 and the Criminal Code edition read was effective 3 July 2026.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Lithuania has no death penalty and no life sentence for a drug offence, so neither is available for nimetazepam. The ceiling is 15 years under Criminal Code article 260(3), which applies where the amount is very large. The scale is set by which amount band the quantity falls in. Article 259 covers possession without intent to distribute and its subsection (2) is the small-quantity misdemeanour. Article 260(1) punishes distribution-purpose conduct by 2 to 8 years. Article 260(2) applies to a large amount and carries 8 to 10 years. Article 260(3) applies to a very large amount and carries 10 to 15 years. Order V-239 prints no single set of figures for this row at table item 376, so the small, large and very large bands have to be taken from the identified member or constituent rather than from a line of its own.
If prescribed / medical
Whether there is a lawful route for nimetazepam depends on which of the four schedules of Order No. 5 carries the entry, and this row does not state the schedule number because the source records the list entry and the amount table rather than the schedule division. Schedule IV matters more than an English reader expects: it carries amyl nitrite, nitrous oxide, gamma-butyrolactone and the other alkyl nitrites, and it ends at item 402. Handling outside an authorisation is what the Criminal Code punishes, so a licensed medical or scientific use runs inside the Control Law rather than around it. Treat the detail of the route for nimetazepam as unread and put the question to the State Medicines Control Agency of Lithuania.
Estonia
Legal status
Nimetazepam is a controlled substance in Estonia. The national schedule is Annex 1 to Minister of Social Affairs Regulation No 73, and the entry relied on for nimetazepam reads «Nimetasepaam». The source does not state whether that entry names nimetazepam itself or a constituent of it, because its explanation column carries one sentence for every controlled row, that the annex names the substance or the applicable controlled entry, and that wording covers both cases. The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act prohibits handling except for authorised medical, scientific and enforcement purposes, and the annex controls the listed isomers, esters, ethers, salts and medicines as the instrument provides. Estonia publishes no gram figure for nimetazepam, because the boundary that decides the offence is a quantity test rather than a weight. This reading is stated as in force on 18 September 2026, the day the instruments were read, and the schedule review covers the amendment effective 31 December 2024.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Estonia has no death penalty, so no quantity of nimetazepam can carry one. The ceiling is life imprisonment under Penal Code section 184(2) with a superscript one, which is reached when section 184 conduct is committed for large financial gain or by a criminal organisation, and the band immediately below it is 6 to 20 years. Below it the scale runs in three steps: dealing in a small quantity, up to 5 years under Penal Code section 183(2); handling a large quantity, 1 to 10 years under section 184(1); and the aggravated form, 3 to 15 years under section 184(2). What makes a quantity large is not a gram figure. The Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, at section 3(1)(3), defines a large quantity as an amount sufficient to intoxicate at least ten people, so the prosecution must prove the intoxicating dose rather than weigh the seizure. A claim that Estonia allows a fixed personal quantity of nimetazepam is not the statutory rule, and small personal possession or use can remain an offence under the Act even where section 184 is not reached.
If prescribed / medical
There may be a lawful route and this row cannot tell you whether there is one for nimetazepam. The Act permits handling for authorised medical, scientific and enforcement purposes, so a medical route exists in principle. Regulation No 73 divides its schedule into six lists, Lists I to VI, and it is the list a substance sits in that decides whether it has a recognised medical use in Estonia. The source read for nimetazepam names the annex and the entry «Nimetasepaam» and does not record which of the six lists carries it. That is a gap in what was read rather than a finding that no route exists, and the State Agency of Medicines is the body that settles it. Treat the prescription route for nimetazepam as unread, not as absent.
Documentation
Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, and get the State Agency of Medicines to confirm the position for nimetazepam in writing before you travel rather than at the airport. That is the carriage answer and it is deliberately short, because no traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance for nimetazepam appears anywhere in what was read for this row. An absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists. Provenance follows. The entry «Nimetasepaam» was read in Annex 1 to Minister of Social Affairs Regulation No 73, alongside the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act and the Penal Code, in their consolidated texts on Riigi Teataja, the official state gazette, on 18 September 2026.
Latvia
Legal status
Nimetazepam is controlled in Latvia. The controlling instrument is Annex 2 to the law on the entry into force and application of the Criminal Law, and section 3(2) of the Circulation Law points to it expressly, which is why the former Cabinet Regulation No. 847 is not the current list. Annex 2 names nimetazepam directly. The entry reads «nimetazepāms», which is nimetazepam. The entry sits at item 16(50) of Annex 2, in Schedule III, which covers dangerous psychotropic substances. Control extends to specified derivatives, isomers, structural analogues, active metabolites, salts, medicines, plant preparations and mixtures under Circulation Law sections 3(3)(5), 3(3)(6) and 3(4) read with Annex 2 paragraphs 2 and 3. This reading is stated as in force on 18 September 2026. Annex 2 identifies its current version as the 29 April 2021 text, as amended to 13 November 2025, with the cited 2025 change taking effect on 1 December 2025.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Latvia has no death penalty and no life sentence for a drug offence, so neither is available for nimetazepam. The ceiling is 15 years under subsection (3) of Criminal Law section 253 with a superscript one, which is reached by an organised group, a large amount, serious consequences, sale to a minor, or sale at specified public or educational venues. The scale runs from an administrative penalty to fifteen years. Circulation Law section 48(1) makes unauthorised acquisition or possession in a small amount, or unauthorised use, punishable by a warning or 10 to 56 fine units, and section 48(3) requires a written warning about criminal liability if it happens again within a year. Criminal Law section 253(1) covers handling without intent to sell at up to 3 years, and section 253(2) reaches 3 to 10 years for a group or a large amount. The sale provision, numbered 253 with a superscript one, covers sale-purpose conduct and sale at 2 to 8 years in its subsection (1), reaches 3 to 10 years in its subsection (2), and reaches 5 to 15 years in its subsection (3). Annex 2 prints the two cut-offs for this entry: the amount up to which a quantity is recognised as small is 0,6 g, and the amount from which a quantity is recognised as large is 10 g. The printed small ceiling and the printed large floor are not the same boundary. A quantity above the small ceiling but below the large floor is neither small nor large under those two columns, and falls into the ordinary band between them.
If prescribed / medical
There is a medical route for nimetazepam and it runs inside the control regime rather than around it. Annex 2 places it in Schedule III, as a dangerous psychotropic substance, which is the schedule level that keeps a substance available for medical and scientific use under the Circulation Law licensing and prescribing rules. The prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves sit in the Latvian medicines and pharmacy regime, which this row did not audit, so treat the detail of the route as unread. The State Agency of Medicines of Latvia is the body that states it.
Slovenia
Legal status
Controlled in Slovenia. The annex to the Uredba o razvrstitvi prepovedanih drog names nimetazepam at Group III, the benzodiazepine anxiolytics and hypnotics subsection, row 27. Article 2 of the Uredba provides «Seznam skupin prepovedanih drog iz prejšnjega člena je v Prilogi, ki je sestavni del te uredbe.», which makes the annex a constituent part of the regulation rather than a separate document, so the names belong to the Uredba and not to the Criminal Code. The search that produced this placement searched the single term nimetazepam across all three groups. The entry is numbered 27 within that group in the copy that was read, and the number is reproduced only because the annex text itself prints it beside the entry. The placement is in Group III, one of the two groups the source identifies as capable of carrying medicines, although the source states no medical route for this entry. The annex was read on 20 September 2026 and this does not rule out a later amendment.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Slovenia has abolished the death penalty and no Slovenian drug offence carries one, so this is a settled country level fact and not a reading of where any substance sits on the list. The exposure that does attach runs on three provisions. Personal use is handled under article 33 of the Production of and Trade in Illicit Drugs Act, the ZPPPD, which treats a smaller quantity held for one time personal use as a minor offence and carries a fine of roughly 42 to 209 euro, reduced or remitted where the person enters approved treatment. That article states no gram figure at all and it is a lighter route rather than a lawful possession allowance. Trafficking and manufacture fall under article 186 of the Criminal Code, the KZ-1, at one to ten years, rising to three to fifteen years on the aggravated limbs for organised conduct or conduct involving minors or vulnerable persons, and fifteen years under article 186, paragraphs 2 and 3, is the drug offence ceiling in Slovenian law. Facilitating consumption falls under article 187 at six months to twelve years. This substance is reached through its own entry at Group III, row 27, so those three provisions apply to it directly and nothing here rests on an inference from a neighbouring entry or from a class.
If prescribed / medical
The source read for this cell carries no prescription column, so no substance specific Slovenian medical route is stated here and none is assumed. The country level traveller rule is the one the source does state: Groups II and III of the annex can include medicines, and lawful travel still turns on the applicable prescription, the original dispensing packaging and any Schengen or Slovenian certificate that is required, with a foreign brand assessed through its proved active ingredients rather than its name. This row sits in Group III, one of the two groups the source identifies as capable of carrying medicines, but the source states no route for this particular entry, so the route is deferred here rather than stated.
Serbia
Legal status
Nimetazepam is a controlled substance in Serbia. The dossier behind this cell places it on the Spisak psihoaktivnih kontrolisanih supstanci, the annex carried by the Pravilnik o utvrđivanju Spiska psihoaktivnih kontrolisanih supstanci, Službeni glasnik RS 12/2026, Član 2, at Lista 7, red 39, under CAS 2011-67-8. The row is recorded as «Nimetazepam | 1-metil-7-nitro-5-fenil-benzodiazepin-2-on | CAS 2011-67-8», which is the international and trivial name column, the systematic chemical name column and CAS 2011-67-8. The wording given here is the dossier's record of the row, in Latin script, and it is not offered as the text the Službeni glasnik RS prints. Serbian is written in both Cyrillic and Latin, the official gazette promulgates in Cyrillic, and all 88 Serbian rows in this dossier are recorded in Latin script with no Cyrillic character anywhere in them, so the entry is attributed to the dossier and to its Latin script source rather than to the gazette text. The penalty does not come from the Spisak. It comes from the Criminal Code, at arts 246 and 246a, which is where conduct with what those articles call opojne droge is divided and sentenced, and neither those articles nor the Lista 7 row attaches a gram figure to nimetazepam.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. The ceiling this dossier records for Serbia is 20 years of imprisonment, by Criminal Code art. 246(5) read with the general maximum in art. 45(1). That figure is document level, the same sentence on all 88 Serbian rows, so it is given here as the dossier's recorded ceiling for the country and not as a measured statement about this substance, and no route in the instruments the dossier cites reaches death. What this cell cannot give you is a weight. The Lista 7 row at red 39 carries a name, the systematic name «1-metil-7-nitro-5-fenil-benzodiazepin-2-on» and CAS 2011-67-8, and it carries no quantity at all. Arts 246 and 246a divide conduct by manja količina and velika količina and print no gram value for either. So the line between the smaller quantity offence and the larger one for nimetazepam is a finding a Serbian court makes on the facts of a case, and it is not a number that can be checked before travelling. Anyone who says a particular weight is safe in Serbia is saying something the cited instruments do not say. The list number is a locator and not a severity tier: the dossier records the placement at Lista 7 but carries no description of what separates the seven lists from one another, so nothing here should be read as a claim that Lista 7 is treated more or less harshly than another. Separately from that, and carried forward from this site's published Serbia entry rather than re-derived from the Criminal Code in this pass, the published penalties are these. Drug use itself is not a criminal offence. Possession of a small amount for one's own use under Criminal Code article 246a paragraph 1 draws a fine or up to three years, and punishment may be remitted in minor cases. Small quantity is not numerically defined in law, so there is no fixed statutory quantity. Possession of a large quantity under article 246a paragraph 2 draws three to ten years. Production, circulation or sale under article 246 draws three to twelve years, five to fifteen years if committed by a group, and at least ten years if by an organised group. Cultivation of opium poppy or psychoactive hemp under article 246 draws six months to five years. Facilitating the taking of narcotics is an offence under article 247. The death penalty was abolished in 2002. Every figure in this paragraph is a penalty range or a fine and none of them is a quantity threshold. They describe the offences that this row's placement in the Spisak psihoaktivnih kontrolisanih supstanci brings into play.
Iraq
Legal status
Controlled psychotropic. Schedule Eight carries NIMETAZEPAM at serial 44, described as «1,3-dihydro-1-methyl-7-nitro-5-phenyl-» 1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one, beside nitrazepam at serial 45. This placement is stated as those schedules stand after Statement 347 of 2025 of 17 November 2025, the Official Gazette having been checked to issue 4881 of 14 September 2026.
Consequences if caught
Nimetazepam is named individually rather than swept up by a class term. Under the Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances Law No. 50 of 2017, Article 27 punishes importing, bringing in or exporting, producing or manufacturing, and cultivating a producing plant, in each case with intent to trade, by death or life imprisonment. Trafficking possession of a substance on the tables outside Schedule One carries severe detention under Article 28, Sixth. The fine on that offence runs from 5,000,000 to 10,000,000 Iraqi dinars. Possession, purchase, import, production or cultivation for personal use carries one to three years under Article 32. The fine on personal use runs from 5,000,000 to 10,000,000 Iraqi dinars. Article 27 keys on the act rather than on a weight, and the law sets no gram threshold for it. These figures describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. Iraq enforces the drug death penalty in practice: 144 drug-trafficking death sentences were issued in 2024, a figure carried forward here from the previous cell and not re-derived, on the authority of the US State Department and Iraqi court statements reported by 964media and The New Region.
If prescribed / medical
Not a licensed medicine in Iraq on anything read here. Do not assume a nimetazepam prescription issued abroad will be recognised.
Documentation
Nimetazepam is scheduled by name, so carrying it is a controlled-substance question. Schedule Eight serial numbers here are taken from Statement 197 of 2021, and Statement 348 of 2024 assigns a serial that overlaps one of them, so a Schedule Eight serial may have been renumbered by the statement in the chain that could not be read. The entry itself is printed; only its position in the table carries that doubt. Running or preparing a place for drug use is Article 28, Fourth, of this law; it is not a Penal Code Article 288 offence. Allowing another person to use drugs on premises of yours carries six months to two years under Article 33, First, with a fine of 3,000,000 to 5,000,000 Iraqi dinars. A doctor who writes a prescription for other than medical treatment faces not less than three months detention or a fine of 3,000,000 to 5,000,000 Iraqi dinars and a one year ban on practice under Article 31. Article 1 defines the ten schedules as the lists adopted by the 1961 Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 United Nations Convention against illicit traffic, each with its amendments, and Article 49, Second, is how Iraq amends them. Article 50 repeals Narcotics Law No. 68 of 1965, so the 1965 law is not the governing Act. Harm Reduction International reported 140 drug death sentences in Iraq between January and August 2024, a figure carried forward here and not re-derived. The US State Department has reported personal-use sentences of up to 15 years, which is longer than the Article 32 range and is carried forward here as that department reported it rather than re-derived from the statute. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with the Iraqi embassy before travel.
Jordan
Legal status
Nimetazepam is a psychotropic substance under Law No. 23 of 2016, the Jordanian narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances law, and that is a defined term rather than a description. Article 2 provides «المؤثرات العقلية: كل مادة طبيعية أو تركيبية من المواد المدرجة في الجداول ذوات الارقام (5) و(6) و(7) و(8) و(9) الملحقة بهذا القانون.», psychotropic substances being every natural or synthetic substance listed in Schedules 5 to 9 attached to this Law. Nimetazepam is expressly named at Schedule 9, printed «الجدول رقم (9): نيميتازيبام», which makes the mapping substance-specific rather than a benzodiazepine-class shortcut. It is the least familiar of the five benzodiazepines the Jordanian schedules name, having been marketed principally in East and Southeast Asia and long withdrawn in most places, and its individual listing is what carries the class row here rather than any general clause. Schedules are not frozen in the enacted text. Article 37 provides «لمجلس الوزراء بناء على تنسيب الوزير إجراء تعديل على أي من الجداول الملحقة بهذا القانون بحذف أي مادة منه أو إضافة أي مادة أخرى اليه أو تعديل النسب أو المواصفات أو الشروط الخاصة والمتعلقة بأي منها على ان يتم نشر ذلك في الجريدة الرسمية.»
Consequences if caught
Nimetazepam's Schedule 9 placement makes it a psychotropic substance for this Law, which puts it inside articles 19 and 20 and up to the death penalty article 20 states in the words «يعاقب بالإعدام». Three articles stack. Article 19(a) is the trafficking provision and its opening words are «يعاقب بالأشغال الشاقة المؤقتة مدة لا تقل عن خمس عشرة سنة وبغرامة لا تقل عن عشرة آلاف دينار ولا تزيد على عشرين ألف دينار كل من أقدم على أي فعل من الافعال التالية بقصد الاتجار», temporary hard labour of not less than fifteen years and a fine of ten thousand to twenty thousand Jordanian dinars for the listed dealing conduct committed with intent to traffic. Article 19(b) then provides «تكون العقوبة الأشغال الشاقة المؤبدة», and the indicative verb makes life imprisonment mandatory once a listed aggravator is proved: repeat offending, the status of a specified drug control or supervisory official, or committing the offence with or through a minor. Death under article 20 is mandatory in the same way, but only where an article 19 offence carries the specified international drug gang connection or the listed international criminal activity circumstances. Quantity is not the trigger anywhere in this structure. Since the drug is off the licensed market almost everywhere, material encountered now is illicitly supplied, which means there is usually no prescription to produce even in principle.
If prescribed / medical
Nimetazepam has been withdrawn from the licensed market in most countries, so there is very little prescribing route left to describe anywhere and none in Jordan that this reading identified. It is controlled here as a Schedule 9 psychotropic substance. A supply lawfully dispensed to a patient is not trafficking, because article 19(a) defines that offence by the words «بقصد الاتجار», with intent to traffic, and that is a point about how the offence is framed rather than a permission. What Law No. 23 of 2016 fixes is the control status, and what it does not fix is the prescribing and dispensing conditions; Jordan's separate medicines and pharmacy regimes were not audited for this table, so a route there is treated as unread rather than as absent.
Syria
Legal status
Not confirmed, status not individually verified; confirm with Syria's authorities (Narcotic Drugs Law No. 2 of 1993) / your embassy
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not named in the cited Syrian sources (Narcotic Drugs Law No. 2 of 1993, Legislative Decree, Arts 39/43), do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Syria (Narcotic Drugs Law No. 2 of 1993, Legislative Decree), trafficking, cultivation or manufacture is punishable by DEATH (Art 39); a user draws 3-15 years (Art 43); possession not for trafficking draws up to 1 year plus a fine up to 5,000 SYP; trafficking draws life plus a 1-5 million SYP fine. Death applies in aggravated cases (a public official combating drugs, a minor used, or an international smuggling syndicate). [retained; enforcement opaque amid conflict] Syria is retentionist on paper, death applies in aggravated cases (a public official combating drugs, a minor used, or an international smuggling syndicate), but enforcement is opaque amid the conflict, and a September 2019 amnesty reduced some death sentences to life. Active executions are not asserted.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Syria (Narcotic Drugs Law No. 2 of 1993, Legislative Decree), trafficking, cultivation or manufacture is punishable by DEATH (Art 39); a user draws 3-15 years (Art 43); possession not for trafficking draws up to 1 year plus a fine up to 5,000 SYP; trafficking draws life plus a 1-5 million SYP fine. Death applies in aggravated cases (a public official combating drugs, a minor used, or an international smuggling syndicate). There is no medical cannabis. [retained; enforcement opaque amid conflict] Syria is retentionist on paper, death applies in aggravated cases (a public official combating drugs, a minor used, or an international smuggling syndicate), but enforcement is opaque amid the conflict, and a September 2019 amnesty reduced some death sentences to life. Active executions are not asserted. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Narcotic Drugs Law No. 2 of 1993 (Legislative Decree), Arts 39/43 · corroborated by Harm Reduction International, CountryReports and NPA Syria · sherloc.unodc.org · hri.global · Updated July 14, 2026
Yemen
Legal status
Not confirmed, status not individually verified; confirm with Yemen's authorities (Law No. 3 of 1993) / your embassy
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not named in the cited Yemeni sources (Law No. 3 of 1993 on Control of Illicit Trafficking in and Abuse of Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances, Arts 34/39), do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Yemen (Law No. 3 of 1993 on Control of Illicit Trafficking in and Abuse of Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances), trafficking or cultivating schedule-V plants with intent to traffic is punishable by DEATH or 25 years (Art 34); possession not for trafficking draws a lesser penalty (Art 39). The penalty keys on INTENT, not a fixed statutory quantity, there is no fixed gram threshold. [retained; executions rare amid conflict] Yemen is retentionist, death applies for trafficking or cultivation with intent to traffic, but executions are rare amid the conflict. Active executions are not asserted.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Yemen (Law No. 3 of 1993 on Control of Illicit Trafficking in and Abuse of Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances), trafficking or cultivating schedule-V plants with intent to traffic is punishable by DEATH or 25 years (Art 34); possession not for trafficking draws a lesser penalty (Art 39). The penalty keys on INTENT, not a fixed statutory quantity, there is no fixed gram threshold; there is no medical cannabis. [retained; executions rare amid conflict] Yemen is retentionist, death applies for trafficking or cultivation with intent to traffic, but executions are rare amid the conflict. Active executions are not asserted. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Law No. 3 of 1993 on Control of Illicit Trafficking in and Abuse of Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances, Arts 34/39 · corroborated by Harm Reduction International · sherloc.unodc.org · hri.global · Updated July 14, 2026
Libya
Legal status
Not confirmed, status not individually verified; confirm with Libya's authorities (Law No. 7 of 1990 as amended) / your embassy
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not named in the cited Libyan sources (Law No. 7 of 1990 on Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances, as amended), do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Libya (Law No. 7 of 1990 on Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances, amended by Law No. 19 of 1994 and Law No. 19 of 1996), drugs are prohibited and aggravated trafficking is death-eligible. The specific death-penalty article number and any quantity thresholds are NOT individually confirmed in the cited sources (do not rely on a specific article or gram figure), verify; there is no fixed statutory quantity asserted here. [retained; enforcement opaque amid conflict] Libya is on the drug-death-penalty retentionist list and aggravated trafficking is death-eligible under Law No. 7 of 1990 (as amended), but the specific death-penalty article and any quantity thresholds are NOT individually confirmed in the cited sources, verify the specific article before relying on it. Enforcement is opaque amid the conflict; active executions are not asserted.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Libya (Law No. 7 of 1990 on Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances, amended by Law No. 19 of 1994 and Law No. 19 of 1996), drugs are prohibited and aggravated trafficking is death-eligible. The specific death-penalty article number and any quantity thresholds are NOT individually confirmed in the cited sources, verify the specific article before relying on it; there is no fixed statutory quantity asserted here, and there is no medical cannabis. [retained; enforcement opaque amid conflict] Libya is on the drug-death-penalty retentionist list and aggravated trafficking is death-eligible under Law No. 7 of 1990 (as amended), but the specific death-penalty article and any quantity thresholds are NOT individually confirmed in the cited sources, verify the specific article before relying on it. Enforcement is opaque amid the conflict; active executions are not asserted. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Law No. 7 of 1990 on Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances (amended by Law No. 19 of 1994 and Law No. 19 of 1996) · corroborated by Human Rights Watch · security-legislation.ly · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Sudan
Legal status
Not confirmed, status not individually verified; confirm with Sudan's authorities (Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act of 1994) / your embassy
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not named in the cited Sudanese sources (Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act of 1994, Arts 15/16/17), do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Sudan (Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act of 1994, Arts 15/16/17), the death penalty is conditional and aggravator-based, mandated for trafficking or producing by a recidivist, by an official entrusted with combating drug trafficking, or as part of an international criminal organization (Arts 15/17), and for providing drugs to students or in schools or assisting trafficking generally (Arts 16/17). It is NOT a flat general-trafficking death penalty. [retained for aggravated/recidivist trafficking; enforcement opaque] The death penalty is conditional and aggravator-based, mandated for trafficking or producing by a recidivist, by an official entrusted with combating drug trafficking, or as part of an international criminal organization (Arts 15/17), and for providing drugs to students or in schools or assisting trafficking generally (Arts 16/17). It is NOT a flat general-trafficking death penalty. Sudan is retentionist with a historical execution record (1994), but there is no reliable current execution stream amid the conflict; active executions are not asserted.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Sudan (Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act of 1994, Arts 15/16/17), the death penalty is conditional and aggravator-based, mandated for trafficking or producing by a recidivist, by an official entrusted with combating drug trafficking, or as part of an international criminal organization (Arts 15/17), and for providing drugs to students or in schools or assisting trafficking generally (Arts 16/17). It is NOT a flat general-trafficking death penalty, and there is no medical cannabis. [retained for aggravated/recidivist trafficking; enforcement opaque] The death penalty is conditional and aggravator-based, mandated for trafficking or producing by a recidivist, by an official entrusted with combating drug trafficking, or as part of an international criminal organization (Arts 15/17), and for providing drugs to students or in schools or assisting trafficking generally (Arts 16/17). It is NOT a flat general-trafficking death penalty. Sudan is retentionist with a historical execution record (1994), but there is no reliable current execution stream amid the conflict; active executions are not asserted. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act of 1994, Arts 15/16/17 · Updated July 14, 2026
Albania
Legal status
Nimetazepam is a controlled substance in Albania. The operative list is the set of narcotic, psychotropic and plant tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara, which carry the 1961 and 1971 Convention schedules, and the criminal articles take their substance names from that list rather than the other way round. The entry read for this row is «Nimetazepam», keyed by CAS 2011-67-8. The search recorded for this row ran «nimetazepam». The tables are read here as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026, the statute that last moved the list by adding substances to the 1971 Convention list annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara through its shtojca nr. 1, and that does not rule out a later addition under the same power. The dossier's own benzodiazepines row was returned as not verified on a search that accepted nothing, which points the other way from this printed row; the class is therefore resolved member by member from rows like this one rather than from a class heading, and the source does not settle the class as a class.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Albania has abolished the death penalty and no offence in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, carries it, so the abolition is a country level fact and does not turn on where a substance sits in the annexed tables. The drug offences are in that Code: article 283, the narcotics offence, whose first paragraph excludes personal use in a small dose; article 283/a, also cited as 283-a, the trafficking article; and article 284, the cultivation article for narcotic plants. The one figure the Albania dossier prints is the ceiling, twenty years, at article 283/a, second paragraph. The dossier records no numerical substance by substance table behind the small dose exclusion, so nothing in the statute fixes the weight at which a small dose stops being one, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not a general lawful possession safe harbour. The figures that follow are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Under article 283 the published entry gives five to ten years for manufacturing, selling, transporting or keeping, rising to seven to fifteen years in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty years for organising, managing or financing. Under article 283/a it gives seven to fifteen years for trafficking by import, export or transit, rising to ten to twenty in complicity or on repeat and fifteen years and above for organising or financing. Under article 283/b it gives three to seven years for facilitating intake or use by administering drugs. Under article 284 it gives three to seven years for cultivating narcotic plants, rising to five to ten in complicity or on repeat and ten to twenty for organising or financing. Those are penalty bands and nothing else: they are not quantities and they are not fines. They sit alongside the ceiling the dossier states, twenty years at article 283/a second paragraph, and this pass did not re-derive either, so whether the published ten to twenty and fifteen years and above limbs state that same ceiling in other words is not resolved here. Quantity is a separate question from any of those bands, and the published entry answers it the same way the dossier does: there is no statutory gram threshold. It records that the Supreme Court, in Decision 1 of 27 March 2008, defined small quantity as a single dose for that individual, decided case by case. Observed practice is a third thing again and it is reported rather than enacted. The published entry records that in practice low level users are still prosecuted under article 283, and that five year minimums have been seen even for roughly 0.4 to 1.9 g. That is a quantity seen in reported cases, not a threshold the statute sets. The published entry also records that personal possession may, in practice, be handled administratively under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, with a fine of about 10,000 to 50,000 ALL. That is a money figure and not a quantity, and the published entry marks the path reported, not controlling. This row is reached by those articles because the entry «Nimetazepam», keyed by CAS 2011-67-8, reached by the search on «nimetazepam» is printed in the annexed tables, so the offence attaches to the substance through its placement and not through any analogy or class inference.
North Macedonia
Legal status
Controlled in North Macedonia. The classification list made under the control Act prints a row for nimetazepam, under the Macedonian locator ниметазепам, keyed to CAS 2011-67-8. The list, and not the criminal article, is what owns the substance name, so the placement is read off the list and the offence is read off the code. This is one of the six printed members through which the benzodiazepine class resolves in this table, and the class label itself is not a printed heading in the lists. The version read is the classification list published at Службен весник на РСМ бр. 104/2021, read as at 20 September 2026. The power that moves that list is член 21 став 2 of Закон за контрола на опојни дроги и психотропни супстанции, under which the minister of health adopts the lists, so the list can be replaced without the statute changing, and a later amendment is not ruled out by this reading.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. North Macedonia carries no death penalty, and the dossier read for this pass states that on all 88 of its rows. The drug offence itself is Article 215 of the Кривичен законик, which sits in the chapter on offences against people's health, chapter 21. On penalty: Article 215 carries three to ten years, and the lesser-quantity paragraph added in September 2009 carries six months to three years. Article 216 covers facilitating or enabling the use of drugs, and Article 217 covers causing severe bodily injury or health damage through the Article 215 and Article 216 offences. There is no separate personal-possession offence in the Code, and personal use is often charged under Article 215. On quantity, which is a different question from penalty and must not be read as the same one: small versus large quantity is not defined in the Code. Article 215(2) recognises a smaller quantity for the reduced offence but states no grams and creates no lawful allowance, so there is no statutory quantity band and no weight below which possession becomes lawful. The Public Prosecutor's internal guidelines set non-statutory cut-offs instead, and the reported working thresholds are around 2 g of cocaine, 2 g of heroin and 5 g of cannabis, above which intent to sell is presumed. That is reported prosecutorial practice and not statutory, and that hedge is part of the figure rather than a footnote to it. The penalty bands, the chapter 21 locator, Article 216 and Article 217, the absence of a separate possession offence and the reported thresholds are all carried forward from the published entry for this country and were not re-derived from the Кривичен законик or from any statute text in this pass. The dossier read for this pass records only a ten year ceiling at Article 215(1) and the bare existence of a reduced offence at Article 215(2), so the three year floor, the six months to three years band and the two neighbouring articles are the published entry's material and not the dossier's. Because the substance is a printed row in the operative list, Article 215 engages on its own terms once the seized material is proved to be what the row names.
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Legal status
Controlled. The list attached to the 2006 Law, as consolidated through Official Gazette 56/26 with the remifentanil move at 58/26 carries an entry for this substance in its Tables I to III, printed as «nimetazepam». The printed entry and the international name are identical, and the entry carries no strength or formulation limb. Which of the three tables the entry sits in is not recorded in the source, so anything that turns on the table rather than on the listing is not pinned here. The list was read as at 20 September 2026, and reading it on that date does not rule out a later amendment.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Criminal law in Bosnia and Herzegovina runs at state, entity and Brčko District level at once, and the sources read do not establish which code governs a given case: they name the applicable entity or Brčko criminal code without choosing between them, and the only code actually read is the Federation one, where drug trafficking sits at article 238 and the fixed-term ceiling is article 43, «Kazna zatvora ne može biti kraća od trideset dana ni duža od dvadeset godina.», thirty days at the bottom and twenty years at the top. Where in the country the conduct happens is therefore the first thing that has to be settled, and this answer does not settle it. This is a fourth individually named benzodiazepine and one that is prescribed in very few countries, which makes its individual naming a deliberate act rather than a side effect of a class rule. No quantity band applies on this record: a separate quantity instrument was searched alongside the list and returned no entry for this substance, so nothing in the national material read converts a weight into a tier. The penalty detail that follows is carried forward from this substance's own published entry on 2cb.com and was not re-derived from statute text in this pass, so it is reported as carried forward rather than asserted here: state-level Criminal Code article 195, illicit production and trafficking of narcotics, is charged for cross-entity or organized trafficking, with up to roughly 10 to 20 years for aggravated or organized forms and about 3 to 15 years base per secondary sources; possession for personal use is a misdemeanour under entity or district public-order law, for example the Brčko Law on Public Order article 31, a fine of about €250 to €750, with Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Republika Srpska equivalents, rather than the felony track, but each entity's criminal code can pursue felony charges for cultivation, sale, or possession beyond personal-use quantities; and the 2017 EUDA report notes the misdemeanour penalties do not vary by drug, recidivism or quantity. That published entry also states that the exact article and range a person faces depends on where in the country the offence occurs, Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina versus Republika Srpska versus Brčko, that article 195 at state level is the anchor, and that entity-level article numbers not confirmed there are not pinned. Every figure in that carried-forward detail is a penalty range or a fine and not one of them is a quantity threshold: the published entry itself says there is no uniform statutory gram threshold distinguishing personal use from intent to sell and that it varies by entity, which is the same absence recorded above and not a contradiction of it.
Georgia
Legal status
Nimetazepam is a controlled substance in Georgia. The dossier places it on the annexes to Law No. 624, matched to the entry «ნიმეტაზეპამი», with CAS 2011-67-8 as the identifier the dossier attaches to that match. The entry is recorded in Georgian, which is the language Law No. 624 is written in, so the string and the instrument agree. It is the sixth of the benzodiazepine members carried among these substances, and it is the one with the narrowest international availability, yet it carries its own entry here. The dossier cites the annexed set as Lists I to IV taken together and never records which of the four lists a row sits on, so the placement is established at the level of the annexes and not of a numbered list. The final consolidated text was read on the Legislative Herald of Georgia, which the dossier calls Matsne, on 20 September 2026. The dossier's outcome for this row is verified.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Georgia has abolished the death penalty and the dossier records no capital route for any substance on these lists. The ceiling is life imprisonment, under Article 260 of the Criminal Code of Georgia for aggravated illegal circulation, and life is where the scale stops. Because «ნიმეტაზეპამი» is an accepted entry, the circulation offence reaches conduct in this substance through that entry. The entry names the member, so the offence reaches this molecule while the class label above it reaches no entry at all. The official quantity table assigns a small, a large and an especially large quantity by substance, and the dossier records that the table is applied through the matched entry without reproducing any of its figures, so no weight is stated in this cell and none should be inferred from one. There is no general lawful personal use allowance, and the absence of a small quantity figure for a substance is not permission to hold it.
If prescribed / medical
The prescription position is deferred here rather than stated. No Georgian rule on a traveller carrying a prescribed supply has been established for this substance, so whether a foreign prescription is recognised has to be settled with the Georgian authorities before travel. What this row does attach to that deferral is the placement: «ნიმეტაზეპამი» is an accepted entry on the annexes to Law No. 624 rather than under the medicines law. It is unlicensed in most systems, so a traveller is unlikely to hold a prescription for it that any authority would recognise.
Documentation
The dossier records no documentary requirement for Georgia and carries no column for one, so nothing is prescribed in this cell. What the row does fix is the identity that everything else turns on: the entry «ნიმეტაზეპამი», with CAS 2011-67-8. Identity by the member name is what this row needs, because the class label is the string with no entry behind it. The record and its outcome were read on 20 September 2026 and this cell is dated 21 September 2026.
· Updated September 21, 2026
Armenia
Legal status
Controlled in Armenia. The annex to Government Decision N 1129-Ն of 21 August 2003, at controlled lists 1 to 4, prints the entry «Նիմետազեպամ», and record ARM-69 matches it to nimetazepam on Chemical Abstracts number 2011-67-8. The row relied on is that printed line and not point 1 of the decision, which only directs that the list be approved and names no substance. The version read was the current incorporation of N 1129-Ն read together with amendment N 334-Ն of 26 March 2026, which took effect on 27 March 2026. The terms this row was searched under were «nimetazepam», all of them Latin script, and the line they reached is printed in Armenian script, so the logged term set does not by itself explain how the line was found and the search record is incomplete. That does not weaken the finding, because the finding rests on the printed entry and its registry number rather than on the search that reached them. The 2 term set recorded for this row collapses to 1 string once case is ignored, so the breadth it appears to claim is not breadth. This is one of the six benzodiazepine members printed individually, and it is the member least likely to be covered by a general class reading, which is what makes the express Armenian line worth stating.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Armenia has no death penalty and no life sentence for a drug offence. The entry relied on for nimetazepam is «Նիմետազեպամ». The ceiling is 12 years. Criminal Code article 393(3) provides a term of six to twelve years, and articles 393 and 396 carry the principal offences. That 12 year ceiling is the lowest of any country authored in this session, and it is the figure the article itself prints rather than a reading of a range. The quantity instrument prints this row as «0.005 to 0.025 g»; «>0.025 to 0.125 g»; «>0.125 to 0.625 g; especially large >0.625 g». A printed annex figure in Armenia is a small amount, not a threshold for the offence. The statutory multipliers at article 393(4) to (6) turn it into the significant, large and especially large bands.
If prescribed / medical
Armenia states no lawful personal use allowance for a scheduled substance, and Article 393(4) to (6) measures its significant, large and especially large bands from the minimum small amount figure the Government sets, which is a criminal threshold and never a traveller quota. A scheduled medicine must in addition satisfy the law on medicines, «Դեղերի մասին» Հայաստանի Հանրապետության օրենք, together with the prescription, packaging, import and customs rules that law carries. That is the country rule, and the placement it attaches to for nimetazepam is the printed annex line «Նիմետազեպամ», at controlled lists 1 to 4, record ARM-69. The dossier read for Armenia states no separate traveller allowance, no personal import quota and no per substance medical route, so none is stated here and anything beyond the country rule is left to the Armenian Ministry of Health. The enquiry should name this member specifically, because it is the one least likely to be found by an official searching under the class word.
Montenegro
Legal status
Controlled in Montenegro. The operative list is the Pravilnik o utvrđivanju spiska droga, psihotropnih supstanci i bilja koje se može koristiti za proizvodnju droga, published at 56/2012 and amended at 54/2015, and its Prilog prints the row «Nimetazepam | CAS 2011-67-8», read with Član 1. The row is keyed by CAS 2011-67-8 and was reached by the exact name locator «Nimetazepam». One of the six printed benzodiazepine entries, and the one that shows the class is named member by member rather than by family, since the class word itself is not printed. The list is not the criminal code's to move. Član 4 of the Zakon o sprječavanju zloupotrebe droga gives it to the state administration body responsible for health and requires publication in the official gazette: «Spisak droga donosi organ državne uprave nadležan za poslove zdravlja... Spisak droga se objavljuje u Službenom listu Crne Gore.» The version read is the Prilog as those tables stand after the 54/2015 amendment, read on 20 September 2026, and because Član 4 leaves the list with the health administration this does not rule out a later amendment.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Montenegro's criminal code carries no death penalty and the dossier records none. The ceiling it records is fifteen years under Article 300 of the Krivični zakonik, the aggravated drug offence, read with the Code's imprisonment rules, and that is the only criminal article this reading names. That ceiling attaches to conduct with the substance as the Prilog prints it at «Nimetazepam | CAS 2011-67-8», because this row has a placement in the list and Article 300 is a drug offence that depends on one. No numerical lawful personal use threshold was found in the controlling Act or in the list, so there is no stated weight below which the question changes, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not described here as a general lawful possession safe harbour. Separately from that, and carried forward from this site's published Montenegro entry rather than re-derived from the Code in this pass: production, distribution or trafficking are reported at roughly two to fifteen years, the source given there being the United States State Department narcotics report, which also records that the individual paragraph ranges of Article 300(1) to (5) are not pinned in the sources it cites. The Article 300(6) offence of unlawfully making, acquiring, possessing, transporting or supplying equipment, material or substances knowing they are intended for narcotics production is reported at six months to five years. An addiction driven offender may receive mandatory treatment as a security measure to a maximum of three years, alongside or in place of imprisonment, and possession is reported as handled inside Article 300 with treatment diversion available. A foreigner faces expulsion for one to ten years or permanently. Every figure in this paragraph is a penalty band and none of them is a quantity threshold, which is the separate point made above. These bands describe the Article 300 offence that this row's placement in the list brings into play. What this row rests on is the printed Prilog row «Nimetazepam | CAS 2011-67-8».
Kazakhstan
Legal status
Nimetazepam is named in Kazakhstan's controlled list. The first of the three documents Government Resolution No. 470 of 3 July 2019 approves, the Список наркотических средств, психотропных веществ и прекурсоров, подлежащих контролю в Республике Казахстан, carries the entry Ниметазепам at item 37 of section В of Таблица III of the Список, the schedule of substances used for medical purposes and held under control. The second document, the Сводная таблица of small, large and particularly large sizes, then carries the row Ниметазепам and sets небольшой размер at 0-0,5 grams, крупный размер at 0,5-5,0 grams and особо крупный размер above 5,0 grams. Nimetazepam takes the ordinary benzodiazepine pattern with an express небольшой band, which puts it with bromazepam and lorazepam rather than with alprazolam and clonazepam. Nitrazepam, its close relative, is item 38 and is drawn the other way, with a blank first column and a tablet count. The copy read carries the amendment of 24 February 2026 made by Government Resolution No. 111, and the Сводная таблица is wholly in that redaction, so every size quoted here is the 24 February 2026 text, not an earlier one. [Certain] on the placement and the figures, both re-derived from the instrument in this pass.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Kazakhstan has abolished the death penalty. No capital punishment remains available anywhere in its Criminal Code, because the law of 29 December 2021 numbered 89-VII on abolition replaced the words carrying it in Article 11 with life imprisonment, and Article 46 now names life imprisonment as the heaviest penalty the Code holds. Criminal Code Article 296 governs handling without intent to supply. Part 2 reaches manufacture, processing, acquisition, storage and transport and carries a fine of up to 160 monthly calculation indices, corrective labour, community work or arrest of up to 40 days. Part 3 raises that to up to 200 indices or arrest of up to 50 days once the quantity is крупный. Part 4 is the first custodial rung and runs to three to seven years once the quantity is особо крупный. Part 1 deals separately with non-medical consumption in a public place. Supply is Article 297, at five to eight years with confiscation, rising through six to ten and seven to twelve to fifteen to twenty years for its aggravated parts, and Article 297-1, inserted by the amending law of 2 January 2025 No. 150-VIII, covers manufacture and processing for supply and reaches life imprisonment at its part 4. The row that carries those figures is Ниметазепам, and for Nimetazepam the custodial rung therefore opens above 5,0 grams. Article 296 also carries a note releasing from liability under that article a person who voluntarily hands the substance over, seeks medical help or actively assists in uncovering a related offence. [Likely] The Criminal Code articles and their year ranges in this cell were read from secondary consolidations rather than from an official publisher in this pass. Two independent consolidations agree on them, and the Code's own article text was not reached: the state portal served only its contents list. The abolition of the death penalty, by contrast, was confirmed against the Code itself and is tagged [Certain] where it appears.
Cuba
Legal status
Not confirmed for Cuba, and the reason is structural rather than a gap in searching. It is a benzodiazepine with no Cuban medical authorisation identified here, and it is named nowhere in the Código Penal, which names only cocaína and Cannabis. Article 236(c) is a residual limb reaching «drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares no comprendidas en los apartados anteriores», punished by six months to one year or a fine. So if this substance is an illicit drug in Cuba it is caught, and the tier depends on whether a court reads it as «de efectos similares o superiores» to cocaine under article 236(a). Cuba operates no national list of controlled substances. The Código Penal creates the offences and names the subject matter only as «drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares», an undefined term. Across all 470,392 characters of the Code the words estupefaciente and psicotrópico appear zero times, and the only substances named anywhere are cocaína once and Cannabis, conocida por marihuana, twice.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: not established. Trafficking, production, transport, possession with intent to traffic and cultivation are article 235.1, punished by four to ten years. Simple possession without authorisation or a medical prescription is article 236, which sets three tiers, and the residual limb article 236(c) reaches «drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares no comprendidas en los apartados anteriores» and is punished by six months to one year or a fine. Article 237 covers a professional prescribing outside therapeutic purposes and article 238 covers breach of the control measures. Article 235.5 adds confiscation of assets. Article 235.2 provides: «La sanción es de privación de libertad de diez a treinta años, privación perpetua de libertad o muerte» where any of eight aggravating circumstances applies, among them «si los hechos se realizan con cantidades relativamente grandes de drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares», international trafficking, use of a person under eighteen, commission near a school, and a link to organised crime. The quantity that triggers it is not stated as a number anywhere in the Code: the phrase is «cantidades relativamente grandes» and no gramme figure appears. It is not mandatory: article 33.1 provides that «La sanción de muerte se ejecuta por fusilamiento y solo se aplica, excepcionalmente por el tribunal, en las formas más graves de consumación de los delitos para los que está establecida», and article 33.2 excludes persons under twenty and women who were pregnant at the time of the act or at sentencing. Those are Cuba's published drug penalties and they are NOT this row's exposure. Whether this substance is a «droga ilícita o sustancia de efectos similares» is exactly the question the source did not settle, and the Code names no substance but cocaína and Cannabis. So no article above is asserted against this row, and none is ruled out. [Likely] That the Code names no substance but cocaína and Cannabis is carried forward from the entry published before this batch and was not re-derived from the Gaceta in this pass; the dossier's own reading agrees with it, placing Cannabis at arts 235.1(d) and 236(b) and cocaína at art 236(a).
Guyana
Legal status
Not confirmed. The applied cell recorded nimetazepam as controlled on the term «nimetazepam», and said itself that this was the term the Act was searched under rather than an entry the Act prints. Read against the cached text of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act, Cap. 10:10, as it stands at L.R.O. 1/2012, the same consolidation the benzodiazepines row in this corpus measured, nimetazepam, a benzodiazepine, the N-methyl analogue of nitrazepam, is not printed anywhere in it. Counted as case insensitive matches in that file: «nimetazepam» 0, «nitrazepam» 0, «benzodiazep» 0, «azepam» 0. The control is that the same file returns cocaine 9, morphine 29, cannabis 19, mescaline 1 and phencyclidine 1, so the zeros are a reading and not a failed search. The First Schedule lists narcotic drugs in thirteen numbered groups, the Second Schedule lists psychotropic substances in four Parts of ten, six, five and eleven entries, the Third Schedule names four prohibited plants and the Fourth Schedule lists precursor chemicals, and none of them names it. The benzodiazepines row in this corpus measured the same five members at 0 in the same consolidation and was already recorded as not confirmed, so this row and that one now agree. This row is recorded as not confirmed rather than as a finding that nimetazepam is uncontrolled in Guyana, because no order made under section 102(1) has been searched. The version horizon, stated outright because an absence without one expires silently: the lists read are the First to Fourth Schedules to the Act as they stand at L.R.O. 1/2012, and section 102(1) lets the Minister add a substance to the First, Second or Third Schedule by order, so this does not rule out a later addition.
Consequences if caught
Not established. The status of nimetazepam in Guyana was not established on this record, so no offence, penalty band, quantity threshold or capital position is stated for it here. A penalty attaches through a placement, and this row does not prove one. That is not a finding that nimetazepam is lawful in Guyana, and the absence of a penalty in this cell is not a statement that there is none.
If prescribed / medical
No prescription route is stated for nimetazepam in Guyana. The status was not established on this record, so there is no placement for a medical route, an import permit or a personal medicine allowance to attach to, and none is asserted here.
Documentation
No documentation requirement is stated for nimetazepam in Guyana, because the status it would depend on was not established on this record. Nothing in this cell is advice on carrying, declaring or importing it.
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act, Cap. 10:10, First to Fourth Schedules and section 102(1), as they stand at L.R.O. 1/2012, read at https://mola.gov.gy/laws-of-guyana, the Ministry of Legal Affairs Laws of Guyana collection, and measured in the cached text of that consolidation. The dossier's search string for this row, «nimetazepam», is a search term and not an entry the Act prints, and no entry for this row was found in the Schedules. The citation is document level and not per substance. · Updated October 4, 2026
Bahamas
Legal status
Controlled. The 1994 Application Order prints «NIMETAZEPAM» with the chemical name «1,3-dihydro-1-methyl-7-nitro-5-phenyl-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one» in Substances in Schedule IV of the Psychotropic Convention list, immediately above «NITRAZEPAM», of which it is the N methyl analogue and from which it is a separate entry. Counted: nimetazepam once in the 1994 Order and zero times in the Act.
Consequences if caught
Possession without proper authority is an offence under section 29(6) of the Dangerous Drugs Act, Chapter 228, and section 29(2) fixes the penalty: on conviction on information a fine of 125,000 dollars or ten years imprisonment or both; on summary conviction a fine of 50,000 dollars or a term of imprisonment within the range of five to seven years or both. Conviction carries forfeiture to the Crown of all real or personal property in respect of which the offence was committed. Possession with intent to supply is a separate offence under section 22(1), punishable on information by a fine of 500,000 dollars or thirty years imprisonment or both, and summarily by four to seven years with a fine of 250,000 dollars, rising to six to seven years where the offence occurs within one mile of a school. Supply to a child or young person raises the information ceiling to 750,000 dollars or forty years. Section 22(3) presumes an intent to supply where a person is found with two or more packets of dangerous drugs. Section 33A forbids remission of any sentence below the term imposed.
If prescribed / medical
Section 24(1) authorises a qualified person to be in possession of and to supply a dangerous drug so far as necessary for the practice of his profession, and section 2 defines a qualified person as a registered medical practitioner, a registered dentist, a licensed veterinary surgeon, a licensed pharmacist, the public analyst, or a person granted special permission by the Minister. Section 24(2) requires the drug to be kept in a locked receptacle. Section 10(1) permits rules controlling manufacture, sale, possession and supply; no such rules were read for this cell. Import or export by anyone other than a qualified person is an offence under section 9, and needs an authorisation under Part V and permission under section 27.
Documentation
The Bahamian instruments attach no special severity to this drug, in contrast to the jurisdictions that single it out. The schedule placement stated here is not printed in the quotation column of the dossier read for this cell; it was read directly from the instrument text. No Ministerial Order later than S.I. 50 of 1996 was read for this cell, so a later addition by Order under section 6, section 11(3) or section 12(3) of the Act is not excluded. The Dangerous Drugs (Application) Order, 2024 was read and is not relied on: it carries no Statutory Instrument number, no signature and a blank execution block reading Made this day of 2024, and the Bahamas legislation portal serves it from its Bills directory rather than its subsidiary legislation directory.
Lebanon
Legal status
Controlled. Nimetazepam is placed in Table 3 of the annex to Law 673 of 16 March 1998, in the 1971 Convention Schedule IV block, where the entry reads «Nimetazepam». Table 3 is the dangerous plants and substances that have a use in medicine under article 5.
Consequences if caught
The entry relied on for this row is «Nimetazepam», printed in the 1971 Convention Schedule IV block of Table 3, forty second in that block, immediately between «Midazolam» and «Nitrazepam». The entry sits directly before «Nitrazepam», of which it is the N-methyl homologue, and both are printed as separate entries. Article 128 of Law 673 of 16 March 1998 on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors punishes an unlicensed dealing in Table 3 substances contrary to article 15 with hard labour not exceeding five years. Article 128 adds a fine of 5,000,000 to 10,000,000 Lebanese pounds. Article 128 states no quantity threshold and no table states one. Article 129 puts that same penalty on the ten classes of conduct listed in article 126 when they concern a Table 3 substance. Article 130 punishes holding a small quantity of a Table 3 substance without a prescription for the purpose of use with imprisonment of two months to two years. Article 130 adds a fine of 1,000,000 to 3,000,000 Lebanese pounds for that lesser offence. Article 130 opens by preserving article 94, under which the Minister of Public Health may let a pharmacist hand out small quantities of a Table 3 substance without a prescription in exceptional cases and for purely medical purposes. Article 150 doubles the maximum penalty in a list of aggravating cases that includes organising, directing or financing the offence, repeat offending, membership of an international smuggling ring, use of violence or a weapon, holding public office, working in health care, and supplying the drug to a minor. Article 148 gives the accomplice, the instigator and the intervener the penalty fixed for the principal. Article 155 makes confiscation of the substance and of the vehicles, equipment and other movable property used or prepared for the offence mandatory in every case. Article 152 lets the court expel a convicted foreign national from Lebanon permanently in felony and repeat misdemeanour cases, and remove him for one to five years in a misdemeanour case, taking him to the border once the prison term has run. Article 159 converts an unpaid fine into one day's imprisonment for every 25,000 Lebanese pounds. Article 161 bars suspension, splitting, day release, early release and conditional release during the first two thirds of any unsuspended sentence of a year or more. Articles 182 to 190 carry the treatment route the cell this replaces described: a user may come forward before any prosecution, article 189 exempts him from prosecution and puts the cost on the State once the addiction committee certifies his recovery, and article 190 arranges the aftercare. Articles 193 to 195 extend the same route into an investigation or a trial, with proceedings stayed definitively on recovery, and article 197 applies the articles 127 and 130 penalties where treatment is refused. Law 673 puts no capital penalty on any drug offence, and the one death penalty in it, article 140, attaches to killing a public official enforcing the Law or to an assault on one that causes a death. The cell this replaces stated that use or possession for personal use is punished by up to about 6 months' imprisonment plus a fine. That figure is carried here from the cell it replaces and it is not supported by the text: article 127 sets three months to three years, and article 130 sets two months to two years. The same cell put the treatment route at arts 182 to 190, which is right as far as it goes, and the route in fact runs to article 200. Its description of enforcement as uneven and of the treatment diversion as only partly implemented is carried forward from that cell and was not re-derived here. The figures above are Lebanon's published drug penalties and they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
Tunisia
Legal status
Not confirmed, status not individually verified; confirm with Tunisia's authorities (Law No. 92-52 of 18 May 1992, 'Law 52' / 'Law 92-52') / your embassy
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not named in the cited Tunisian source (Law No. 92-52 of 18 May 1992 on Narcotics, 'Law 52' / 'Law 92-52', as amended April 2017), do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Tunisia, drugs fall under Law No. 92-52 of 18 May 1992 on Narcotics ('Law 52' / 'Law 92-52'), as amended in April 2017. Use or possession for personal use carries 1-5 years' imprisonment plus a fine of 1,000-3,000 dinars; the April 2017 reform removed the mandatory-minimum sentence for a first offence and gave judges sentencing discretion for first and second offences (previously a near-automatic minimum applied). Cultivation or distribution carries 6-10 years plus a fine of 5,000-10,000 TND. Offences linked to organized gangs or smuggling carry 20 years to life imprisonment plus a fine of 100,000-1,000,000 TND.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Tunisia, drugs fall under Law No. 92-52 of 18 May 1992 on Narcotics ('Law 52' / 'Law 92-52'), as amended in April 2017. Use or possession for personal use carries 1-5 years' imprisonment plus a fine of 1,000-3,000 dinars; the April 2017 reform removed the mandatory-minimum sentence for a first offence and gave judges sentencing discretion for first and second offences (previously a near-automatic minimum applied). Cultivation or distribution carries 6-10 years plus a fine of 5,000-10,000 TND. Offences linked to organized gangs or smuggling carry 20 years to life imprisonment plus a fine of 100,000-1,000,000 TND. Cannabis is controlled under the same Law 92-52 framework, with no legal recreational or medical regime asserted. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Law No. 92-52 of 18 May 1992 on Narcotics ("Law 52" / "Law 92-52"), as amended in April 2017 · UNODC SHERLOC legal database (statute named in free text) · sherloc.unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Cyprus
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law of 1977 (Law No. 29(I)/1977, as amended) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Cyprus is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Cyprus's drug schedule; the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law of 1977 (Law No. 29(I)/1977, as amended) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Cyprus, drugs fall under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law of 1977 (Law No. 29(I)/1977), as amended, which sorts controlled substances into Classes A, B and C. Personal possession is a criminal offence, punishable by up to 12 years for a Class A drug, up to 8 years for Class B, and up to 4 years for Class C, though small-cannabis first offences in practice draw fines of about €400-1,000. Since 2003, possession at or above set quantities, three or more cannabis plants, 30 g or more of cannabis, or 10 g or more of prepared cocaine or opium, raises a presumption of intent to supply. Trafficking of a Class A or Class B drug is punishable by up to life imprisonment (a maximum not yet imposed in practice), and Class C trafficking by up to 8 years.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Cyprus, drugs fall under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law of 1977 (Law No. 29(I)/1977), as amended, which sorts controlled substances into Classes A, B and C. Personal possession is a criminal offence, punishable by up to 12 years for a Class A drug, up to 8 years for Class B, and up to 4 years for Class C, though small-cannabis first offences in practice draw fines of about €400-1,000. Since 2003, possession at or above set quantities, three or more cannabis plants, 30 g or more of cannabis, or 10 g or more of prepared cocaine or opium, raises a presumption of intent to supply. Trafficking of a Class A or Class B drug is punishable by up to life imprisonment (a maximum not yet imposed in practice), and Class C trafficking by up to 8 years. Cannabis is a Class B drug; recreational use is illegal and only a limited medical-cannabis framework exists. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law of 1977 (Law No. 29(I)/1977), as amended (classes A/B/C) · naac.org.cy · Updated July 14, 2026
Iceland
Legal status
Controlled in Iceland. It is printed in Fylgiskjal I as "Nimetazepam", and the row identifies it by the printed chemical name "1,3-dihydro-1-methyl-7-nitro-5-phenyl-2H- 1,4benzodiazepin-2-one". Its Alþjóðasamningar column prints "P IV", referring the row to the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances, to whose schedules 1. gr. of the reglugerð ties every P marker. That marker also carries a dispensing limit: 10. gr. lets a medicine in ATC groups N 05 B A and N 05 C carrying it be dispensed only in a quantity answering to "30 daga notkunar", thirty days' use at the defined daily dose. Column B of its row prints "x", and that mark is the operative one: 2. gr. of the reglugerð makes import, export, sale, purchase, exchange, delivery, receipt, production, preparation and possession of a substance marked "x" in the "dálki B í fylgiskjali I" "óheimil á íslensku forráðasvæði", unlawful on Icelandic territory. That prohibition is not absolute on its face. 2. gr. lifts it for a substance exempted under 3. mgr. 2. gr. of lög nr. 65/1974, for a medicine holding an Icelandic marketing authorisation from Lyfjastofnun, for a medicine otherwise permitted under the Medicines Act, and for a substance that may be imported, manufactured or wholesaled under 1. mgr. 6. gr. and Lyfjastofnun may exempt for scientific research or other special reasons.
Consequences if caught
The offence provisions reach this row through its placement, so they are set out here in full. The custodial ceiling for an offence against the Act and against the regulations made under it is imprisonment for up to 6 years, which 5. gr. of lög nr. 65/1974, the Narcotics Act, prints as "fangelsi allt að 6 árum", and the aggravated offence at article 173a of almenn hegningarlög nr. 19/1940, the General Penal Code, carries imprisonment for up to 12 years. Iceland prints no quantity band: neither the Act nor the reglugerð sets a weight, a purity or a number of doses that moves an offence from one tier to another, and article 173a turns instead on supplying narcotics to many people, on handing them over for substantial payment, or on doing so in another particularly culpable way, its second paragraph extending the same ceiling to production, preparation, import, export, purchase, delivery, receipt and possession carried out for that purpose. The fine is separate again: 5. gr. of lög nr. 65/1974 sets a fine as the alternative to imprisonment for the base offence, the same article makes the substances, the proceeds of unlawful sale and the articles used forfeit to the Treasury, and it directs increased punishment for a repeat offence involving import or distribution. The 12 year ceiling is not the original figure: 1. gr. of lög nr. 32/2001 raised the aggravated ceiling from 10 to 12 years at article 173a of the General Penal Code, where 10 years had stood since lög nr. 64/1974, and that Act prints the substitution as "kemur: 12 árum". Possession is unlawful and consumption is not among the conduct the two instruments enumerate. 2. gr. of lög nr. 65/1974 and 2. gr. of the reglugerð, headed "Bannákvæði", both list import, export, sale, purchase, exchange, delivery, receipt, production, preparation and possession, and neither of them prints consumption in that list. Iceland has not decriminalised possession. What it has done instead is 2. gr. a of the Act, inserted by lög nr. 48/2020 and amended by lög nr. 41/2025, which lets the Directorate of Health licence a "neyslurými", a supervised consumption room governed by reglugerð nr. 170/2021, in which a user may hold the quantity he intends to consume there. Those figures are not recited here as general background: they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. The list read for this cell is Fylgiskjal I of reglugerð nr. 233/2001, read at api.reglugerd.is on 22 September 2026 in the consolidation the publisher serves as current, which carries amendments 1 to 19 and its own last amendment date of 9 August 2025 from reglugerð nr. 879/2025. That consolidation is one amendment behind the law and this cell says so: the 20th amendment, reglugerð nr. 1036/2025, is flagged pending by the publisher although its own 3. gr. commences it on 1 November 2025, and the two texts of 5. gr. visibly differ, the served one opening at pharmacy stock sent to Lyfjastofnun and the amending one opening at the holder of a pharmacy, wholesale or manufacturing licence. It was read in full and it rewrites 5. gr. and the heading of 7. gr. and nothing else, leaving both Fylgiskjöl untouched and printing no transitory article. The Act and the penal code were read in the Lagasafn consolidation stamped "Íslensk lög 1. september 2026", útgáfa 157c, whose own note records that lög nr. 85/2026 will amend the Act from 1 January 2027; that Act was read and its 51. gr. only renames the authority in 2. gr. b. A scan of the 360 regulations the publisher issued between 27 November 2025 and 7 September 2026 found no further amendment, so this cell does not rule out a later change to the list.
Luxembourg
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Narcotics Law of 1973 (as amended by the Law of 10 July 2023) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Luxembourg is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Luxembourg's drug schedule; the Narcotics Law of 1973 (as amended by the Law of 10 July 2023) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Luxembourg, drugs fall under the Narcotics Law of 1973, amended by the Law of 10 July 2023. For drugs other than cannabis, possession remains criminal under the 1973 law, minor possession draws imprisonment of 8 days to 6 months plus fines, and trafficking and large-scale supply carry heavier penalties under the separate provisions of that law.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Luxembourg, drugs fall under the Narcotics Law of 1973, amended by the Law of 10 July 2023. For drugs other than cannabis, possession remains criminal under the 1973 law, minor possession draws imprisonment of 8 days to 6 months plus fines, and trafficking and large-scale supply carry heavier penalties under the separate provisions of that law. For cannabis specifically, the Law of 10 July 2023 legalised home cultivation of up to four plants per household and private consumption at home for adults; public possession of 3 g or less draws a €145 administrative fine with no criminal record. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Law of 10 July 2023 amending the Narcotics Law of 19 February 1973 · police.public.lu · Updated July 14, 2026
Malta
Legal status
Nimetazepam is governed by the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and not by the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Malta runs two drug ordinances and a cell that answers from one when the substance sits in the other is wrong. Chapter 31 is the one that carries the scheduled psychotropics. Nimetazepam sits in Part B of the Third Schedule, which the Ordinance itself heads as its list of psychotropic drugs, capitalised in the original. Part B matters, because the ceiling that attaches to it is not the Part A ceiling. Article 40A is the control provision and article 120A carries the penalties. The schedule entry reads "DIAZEPAM and other compounds containing the chemical structure of DIHYDRO-1:4 BENZODIAZEPINE or of DIHYDRO-1:5 BENZODIAZEPINE substituted to any degree". Nimetazepam is captured by the broad Part B substituted-benzodiazepine entry even though it is not individually printed. The power to change that list is article 40A(3): ‘The Minister responsible for public health may, after consulting the Council of Health, by regulation amend, add to, revoke or substitute the list of psychotropic drugs contained in the Third Schedule to this Ordinance.’
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Malta has no death penalty and no Maltese drug offence can bring one. The ceiling here is ten years and it is not life. Chapter 31 article 120A(2)(a)(ii) gives an ordinary Criminal Court ceiling of 10 years for a Part B psychotropic, and Nimetazepam is in Part B. This is the distinction that a single Malta answer gets wrong: Part A of the same Third Schedule does permit life under article 120A(2)(a)(i), and Nimetazepam is not in Part A. The Court of Magistrates ceilings are lower still, and the Attorney General's forum direction decides which court hears the case. The Chapter 537 route applies. The Drug Dependence (Treatment not Imprisonment) Act, Chapter 537, sends personal possession of ‘less than two grams or of two pills of the drug ecstacy or of two other prohibited pills’ to the Commissioner for Justice under article 4, and the penalty there is ‘penalty of between seventy-five euro (€75) and one hundred and twenty-five euro (€125)’. A second or later offence within two years stays before the Commissioner, with the rehabilitation board referral rules in article 5.
If prescribed / medical
The ordinance that controls nimetazepam is the Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Chapter 31, and the name of that ordinance is not incidental: the list this substance sits on is a list inside a medical statute, administered by the Minister responsible for public health after consulting the Council of Health. The penalty article does not attach its ceiling to possession as such. Chapter 31 article 120A reaches dealing and possession that is not for the exclusive use of the possessor, so a supply lawfully dispensed to you and held for your own use is not the conduct the ceiling is written for. That is a statement about the offence definition and not a permission. What this source does not establish is the prescribing and dispensing conditions themselves. The dossier read the two controlled drug ordinances and Chapter 537 and says in terms that it ‘did not attempt to decide separate medicines, pharmacy, veterinary, poisons, tobacco, alcohol, food, product-safety, or driving laws’. Treat the prescribing route as unread here rather than as absent. No Maltese personal import permit, traveller certificate or advance declaration route for a controlled medicine was found in the texts that were read, and none of Chapter 31, Chapter 101 or Chapter 537 carries a travellers provision. That is an absence in what was read rather than proof that no scheme exists, so confirm with a Maltese mission before you travel. One further point bears on any prescribed supply: the schedule entry does not print the term Nimetazepam. It reaches the substance another way, by naming a structural class, by naming individual compounds of the family, or by catching the form the substance takes, so searching the list for that term and not finding it proves nothing at all. The entry is transcribed in full in the legal status for this cell.
El Salvador
Legal status
Controlled under the Ley Reguladora de las Actividades Relativas a las Drogas, Decreto Legislativo 153 of 2 October 2003. Nimetazepam is printed in the Listado de sustancias estupefacientes, psicotropicos, precursores y agregados 2026, approved by Acuerdo SI.2026.03.20-01 of the Superintendencia de Regulacion Sanitaria as «Nimetazepam», entry 163, CAS 2011-67-8, at Parte B, Seccion IV. Psicotropicos incluidos en la Lista IV de la Convencion de 1971. Article 2 makes a droga any substance specified as such in the conventions El Salvador has ratified, and Article 3 prohibits every activity relating to the narcotic, depressant, stimulant, hallucinogen and cannabis categories, so a printed convention entry is reached by the definition itself. It is a nitrobenzodiazepine that has no registered medicine here, and it is printed next to Nitrazepam at n.o 164, which shares the nitro group and does have medical use.
Consequences if caught
It is a nitrobenzodiazepine that has no registered medicine here, and it is printed next to Nitrazepam at n.o 164, which shares the nitro group and does have medical use. Nimetazepam is inside El Salvador's drug control regime, and the penalties below are set out because they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. Article 34 divides possession from trafficking by a 2 gram line: possession of under 2 grams carries 1 to 3 years, possession of 2 grams or more carries 3 to 6 years, and possession of any quantity with the object of doing anything Article 33 lists carries 6 to 10 years. Article 34 closes by providing that it does not apply where the conduct fits a graver offence. There is no personal use exemption anywhere in the Ley. Article 31 sets 5 to 15 years for sowing, cultivating or harvesting, and Article 33 sets 10 to 15 years for acquiring, transferring, importing, exporting, storing, transporting, distributing, supplying or selling. Article 33's second paragraph raises the trafficking penalty by one third of the stated maximum where the act is international trafficking, so the ceiling on that route is 20 years, and Article 54 allows a court to raise the penalty by up to one third of the maximum on any of nine listed aggravating circumstances, which is a discretion and not the mandatory increase Article 33 creates. Article 55 allows the penalty to be cut to half the minimum where the accused names others or enables a seizure. The ceiling on every one of these routes is imprisonment, because the severest sanction is constitutionally barred for ordinary offences in El Salvador, so no offence in this Ley carries it. The Ley creates no lawful recreational regime and no medical regime for any substance it reaches, cannabis included: Article 3's final paragraph permits a listed substance to be imported, produced, made, extracted, possessed or used only in the quantities strictly necessary for scientific research, for making medicines, for medical treatment or for making products of industrial use, and only with the health regulator's authorisation. On the fine, the Sala de lo Constitucional struck the multa in each of these three articles as a penal consequence, Article 34 by the accumulated 2006 judgments published on 22 October 2007, Article 33 by the 92-2007 judgments published on 19 August 2009 and Article 31 by judgment 45-2010 published on 23 October 2013, so no fine now attaches to cultivation, trafficking or possession under this Ley. On quantity, the 2 gram line in Article 34 is the only weight the Ley fixes; it sets no substance by substance threshold and no quantity table, so the same 2 grams applies whatever the substance is. The 2 gram line and the bands of 1 to 3, 3 to 6, 6 to 10, 5 to 15 and 10 to 15 years and the one third increase are carried forward from the live cell and were re-read against the Asamblea Legislativa text for this pass; the Article 34 graver offence proviso, the Article 54 and Article 55 provisions and the three unconstitutionality rulings are new to this cell.
Honduras
Legal status
Controlled. Nimetazepam is named in Lista IV del Convenio de 1971, and Article 321 of the Código Penal (Decreto 130-2017) makes those schedules the definition of droga, estupefaciente o sustancia psicotrópica for Articles 311 to 313: «Por droga, estupefaciente o sustancia psicotrópica, se entiende cualquiera de las sustancias incluidas en las Listas I, II y IV de la Convención Única y sus Protocolos de Naciones Unidas sobre estupefacientes, hecha en Nueva York de 1961 y en las Listas I, II, III y IV del Convenio y sus Protocolos de Naciones Unidas sobre sustancias psicotrópicas, hecho en Viena, el 21 de febrero de 1971.» The entry read was PN 001, CAS 2011-67-8, NIMETAZEPAM, 1,3-dihydro-1-methyl-7-nitro-5-phenyl-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one.
Consequences if caught
Nimetazepam is inside Honduras's drug offence in its own right. What distinguishes this row is that it is a nitrazepam relative and the nitro group at position seven is what its entry turns on. Art. 311 sets 4 to 7 years where the drug does not cause grave harm to health and 7 to 10 years in every other case, and Art. 321 confines the lighter band to the cannabis derivatives, so 7 to 10 years is this row's band. The fine under Art. 311 is 100 to 500 days. Art. 311's second paragraph allows 1 to 3 years or 2 to 5 years instead where the facts and the offender's own circumstances show lesser gravity, and that reduction is closed once an Art. 312 aggravator applies. Art. 312 replaces those terms with 10 to 15 years and a fine of 300 to 500 days on any of nine listed aggravators, and adds a further third where the organised group aggravator meets either the special quantity or the extraordinary transport one. Art. 313 cuts the Art. 311 first paragraph terms and the Art. 312 terms by a third on confession or on cooperation with the authorities. The special quantity that triggers that aggravator is set by Art. 321 and for this row is 200 grams of a synthetic drug, or 400 millilitres where it is in solution. Art. 26 of Decreto 126/89, which set a first offence internment of up to 30 days in a rehabilitation centre with a fine, was repealed by Art. 632 of the Código Penal, which repeals Arts 16 to 30 and 41 of that law by name, so the 30 day figure is corrected here rather than restated. Nothing replaced it inside the Code's drug chapter, and Art. 311 reaches possession only where the substance is held for the purposes that article lists, so neither the Código Penal nor Decreto 126/89 as it now stands fixes a personal use quantity or a personal use measure. Those are the two instruments read for this cell, and other Honduran law was not searched for one. The Art. 311 bands of 4 to 7 and 7 to 10 years, the Art. 312 band of 10 to 15 years and the 30 day figure from Art. 26 are carried forward from the live cell and not re-derived here, and they describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play. The Art. 311 fine, the lesser gravity terms, Art. 313 and the Art. 321 quantities are read from the Gaceta text and are new to this cell.
Maldives
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Drugs Act (Act No. 17/2011, as amended by the Third Amendment ratified 6 December 2025) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Maldives is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Maldives's drug schedule; the Drugs Act (Act No. 17/2011, as amended by the Third Amendment ratified 6 December 2025) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Maldives, drugs fall under the Drugs Act (Act No. 17/2011), as amended by the Third Amendment ratified on 6 December 2025. Trafficking a Schedule 1 drug carries a mandatory 20-year base term; the sentence is elevated to capital punishment where the quantity exceeds 350 g of cannabis, 250 g of diamorphine, or 100 g of any other Schedule 1 drug AND the person brings it into the country at the point of entry. Capital punishment requires the unanimous agreement of the full Supreme Court bench, failing which the sentence is life imprisonment; the death penalty is retained de jure since December 2025, but a long-standing moratorium on executions has been in place since 1954. Possession of a Schedule 2 drug without a prescription carries 3-15 years plus a fine.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Maldives, drugs fall under the Drugs Act (Act No. 17/2011), as amended by the Third Amendment ratified on 6 December 2025. Trafficking a Schedule 1 drug carries a mandatory 20-year base term; the sentence is elevated to capital punishment where the quantity exceeds 350 g of cannabis, 250 g of diamorphine, or 100 g of any other Schedule 1 drug AND the person brings it into the country at the point of entry. Capital punishment requires the unanimous agreement of the full Supreme Court bench, failing which the sentence is life imprisonment; the death penalty is retained de jure since December 2025, but a long-standing moratorium on executions has been in place since 1954. Possession of a Schedule 2 drug without a prescription carries 3-15 years plus a fine. Cannabis is a Schedule 1 drug; trafficking above 350 g brought in at the point of entry is capital-eligible (subject to the unanimous Supreme Court requirement and the 1954 execution moratorium), and lower amounts carry the mandatory 20-year base term. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Drugs Act (Act No. 17/2011), Third Amendment ratified 6 December 2025 · presidency.gov.mv · Updated July 14, 2026
Afghanistan
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Law on Campaign Against Intoxicants, Drugs and their Control (with the 2005 Counter-Narcotics Law) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Afghanistan is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Afghanistan's drug schedule; the Law on Campaign Against Intoxicants, Drugs and their Control (with the 2005 Counter-Narcotics Law) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Afghanistan, drugs fall under the Law on Campaign Against Intoxicants, Drugs and their Control (with the 2005 Counter-Narcotics Law). Trafficking penalties are graduated by weight: trafficking heroin, morphine or cocaine caps at 20 years (Art. 42), and the largest quantities reach life imprisonment, the named statute's drug-trafficking ceiling is imprisonment. Drug use carries roughly a short prison term (about 3 months). Enforcement since 2021 under the de facto authorities is opaque and may diverge from the statute on the books; any sanction beyond what the named statute provides is not confirmed here, verify against current practice.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Afghanistan, drugs fall under the Law on Campaign Against Intoxicants, Drugs and their Control (with the 2005 Counter-Narcotics Law). Trafficking penalties are graduated by weight: trafficking heroin, morphine or cocaine caps at 20 years (Art. 42), and the largest quantities reach life imprisonment, the named statute's drug-trafficking ceiling is imprisonment. Drug use carries roughly a short prison term (about 3 months). Enforcement since 2021 under the de facto authorities is opaque and may diverge from the statute on the books; any sanction beyond what the named statute provides is not confirmed here, verify against current practice. Cannabis is controlled under the same framework; cultivation and trafficking are prohibited, with penalties graduated by weight up to imprisonment. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Law on Campaign Against Intoxicants, Drugs and their Control (Arts 41-47) + the 2005 Counter-Narcotics Law · sherloc.unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Belarus
Legal status
Nimetazepam is controlled in Belarus. The annexes to Постановление Министерства здравоохранения № 19 от 11 февраля 2015 г. республиканский перечень print the entry «НИМЕТАЗЕПАМ» in Cyrillic script, and registry number 2011-67-8 is what fixes which molecule that entry catches. The entry is printed in Cyrillic under its own name and is the sixth of the benzodiazepine members Belarus names individually, which matters because this substance is one of the three that carry a reduced jurisdiction footprint elsewhere in this corpus. The terms taken to the annexes were "nimetazepam", "NIMETAZEPAM", and the row accepted was the printed entry itself rather than the paragraph that establishes the list, because the schedule owns the substance entries and the offence article does not. The version read was № 19/2015 with the official 2025 and 10 March 2026 amendments, record BEL-69.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Belarus retains capital punishment as a country, and that is exactly why this line has to be read carefully rather than skimmed: no drug offence in Criminal Code articles 327 to 328 with a superscript one carries it. The entry relied on for nimetazepam is «Ниметазепам; group 3.П13». The ceiling for a drug offence is 25 years. Criminal Code article 328(5) provides a term of twelve to twenty-five years. That is the top of the drug scale and it is not death. A source that reports three quantity bands for Belarus has read another country's structure into it. Resolution No. 606 gives one. The quantity instrument prints this row as «instrument gives no significant band»; «large size: over 10.0 g»; «instrument gives no separate especially-large band». Resolution No. 606 gives a large-size figure and nothing else. Where this row says the instrument gives no significant band or no especially large band, that is the instrument's own silence and not a gap in the reading.
If prescribed / medical
The traveller rule is stated at country level and it is the same for every substance in this set: Belarus provides no lawful personal use allowance and no traveller exemption, and a scheduled medicine has to satisfy Закон Республики Беларусь «О лекарственных средствах» as well as the narcotics annexes, meaning prescription, original packaging, and import and customs formalities. This row's placement is the printed entry «НИМЕТАЗЕПАМ» in the республиканский перечень, record BEL-69, so any medicinal route runs through that placement. A criminal quantity band is not a lawful traveller allowance. The source states no medical route specific to nimetazepam and none is supplied here. The placement is this member's own entry, the sixth printed benzodiazepine member, which a traveller working from a class list would not find.
Documentation
Carry it only with the Belarusian prescription and dispensing paperwork the medicines law requires, in the original dispensing packaging, with the substance named on any declaration the way the annex names it, «НИМЕТАЗЕПАМ», and with registry number 2011-67-8 available if the name is queried. The placement at BEL-69 was read against № 19/2015 with the official 2025 and 10 March 2026 amendments on 20 September 2026. A later amendment can change an entry, so recheck the annexes before travel rather than relying on the date on this cell. Name this member, because a traveller working from a benzodiazepine class list is the most likely person in this set to miss that it is printed individually here.
Kyrgyzstan
Legal status
Controlled in Kyrgyzstan. Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 152 of 26 March 2025 names nimetazepam in its controlled list by the exact entry «Ниметазепам» (nimetazepam), as checked on 18 September 2026. The dossier records mixture, salt, isomer and preparation rules for that entry as fact dependent.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. The dossier records for this row that no death penalty applies to the drug offences in Criminal Code articles 282 to 284. Article 282 carries the upper drug offence band, recorded in the dossier as «лишением свободы на срок от десяти до пятнадцати лет» (deprivation of liberty for a term of ten to fifteen years), so the ceiling is fifteen years. The criteria and sizes annex of Resolution No. 152 prints three quantity bands for «Ниметазепам»: small «0,1 g», large «свыше 0,1 g до 3 g включительно» (over 0.1 g up to and including 3 g) and especially large «свыше 3 g» (over 3 g). The dossier gives that upper band only. It does not set out which conduct, from possession and sale to import, export, manufacture or cultivation, falls under which of articles 282, 283 and 284, or what each quantity band does to the penalty.
If prescribed / medical
The dossier this cell rests on does not state a prescription or medical route for nimetazepam; it records the controlled list entry «Ниметазепам», its quantity row and the Criminal Code band, and nothing on medical use.
Documentation
The dossier does not state a traveller import, export or permit rule for nimetazepam. Its record for this row: «Ниметазепам» was searched in the controlled list of Resolution No. 152 and found as an exact entry, the quantity row was taken from the criteria and sizes annex, and Criminal Code articles 282 to 284 were checked for the offence framework, all on 18 September 2026.
Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 152 of 26 March 2025, controlled list and criteria and sizes annex, with Criminal Code articles 282 to 284, as checked on 18 September 2026 · cbd.minjust.gov.kg · Updated October 3, 2026
Uzbekistan
Legal status
Controlled in Uzbekistan. Nimetazepam is named in its own row of the quantity annexes to Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 330 of 12 November 2015. The dossier quotes that row in the Russian official version as «Ниметазепам» (nimetazepam), with three threshold cells: «2,0 g»; «2,0 to 10,0 g»; «>10,0 g». The row was checked on 18 September 2026. The dossier does not record which of the resolution's controlled Lists I to IV carries the substance, so this cell names none of them.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. The dossier quotes article 25 of the Constitution: «В Республике Узбекистан смертная казнь запрещается» (the death penalty is prohibited in the Republic of Uzbekistan). It gives the statutory ceiling for drug offences as twenty years, quoting Criminal Code article 273(5): «наказывается лишением свободы от десяти до двадцати лет» (punishable by deprivation of liberty for ten to twenty years). For nimetazepam the quantity annex prints the threshold cells «2,0 g», «2,0 to 10,0 g» and «>10,0 g». The dossier's preamble says the resolution prints small, exceeding small and large quantities, but the row does not label its three cells, so this cell does not say which category or offence band each figure opens. The row quotes no article for possession, supply, sale, import, export, manufacture or cultivation of nimetazepam other than the twenty year ceiling in article 273(5).
If prescribed / medical
The dossier row this cell rests on does not state a prescription or medical route for nimetazepam, and this cell states none.
Documentation
The dossier row this cell rests on does not state an import permit, a traveller allowance or any other documentation rule for nimetazepam. The dossier row records one URL, https://lex.uz/docs/2815342. The dossier's source and access record gives https://lex.uz/docs/111453 as its penal source, cited here for the Criminal Code. It gives no URL for the Constitution, which is cited by name.
Cabinet of Ministers Resolution No. 330 of 12 November 2015, quantity annexes · Criminal Code of the Republic of Uzbekistan, article 273(5) · Constitution of the Republic of Uzbekistan, article 25 · lex.uz · lex.uz · Updated October 3, 2026
Tanzania
Legal status
Controlled by name. The First Schedule of the Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023 carries the entry «Nimetazepam», so nimetazepam is a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance under that Act.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that no death penalty is stated in Cap 95. Section 15 makes life imprisonment mandatory for trafficking more than 200 g of a narcotic or psychotropic substance, and section 16 sets at least 30 years at 200 g or below. The record this cell rests on states no separate band for import, export, sale or manufacture, and none is given here.
If prescribed / medical
The source this cell rests on, the Cap 95 First Schedule as quoted in the dossier, does not state a prescription route for nimetazepam.
Documentation
The dossier row was checked on 20 September 2026 against the official 2023 Revised Edition at the Office of the Solicitor General eLibrary, quoting the entry «Nimetazepam» and citing sections 14 to 16. Section 14(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by notice in the Gazette, and the dossier records that the 2023 Revised Edition does not certify that no later Gazette notice exists. The record does not state a traveller permit or import document rule for nimetazepam.
Drug Control and Enforcement Act Cap 95 R.E. 2023, First Schedule and sections 14 to 16 · elibrary.osg.go.tz · Updated October 3, 2026
Azerbaijan
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Criminal Code (adopted 30 December 1999, in force 1 September 2000) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Azerbaijan is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Azerbaijan's drug schedule; the Criminal Code (adopted 30 December 1999, in force 1 September 2000) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Azerbaijan, drugs fall under the Criminal Code (adopted 30 December 1999, in force 1 September 2000). Illegal acquisition and possession of narcotic or psychotropic substances without intent to sell is the lower tier (Art. 234), while illegal manufacture, production, sale and trafficking (Art. 235), cultivation (Art. 237) and related conduct (Art. 240) escalate with quantity and aggravating factors, the Code's punishment ceiling being life imprisonment. Penalties were tightened by 2022 amendments to Articles 235, 237 and 240.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Azerbaijan, drugs fall under the Criminal Code (adopted 30 December 1999, in force 1 September 2000). Illegal acquisition and possession of narcotic or psychotropic substances without intent to sell is the lower tier (Art. 234), while illegal manufacture, production, sale and trafficking (Art. 235), cultivation (Art. 237) and related conduct (Art. 240) escalate with quantity and aggravating factors, the Code's punishment ceiling being life imprisonment. Penalties were tightened by 2022 amendments to Articles 235, 237 and 240. Cannabis is controlled under the same Criminal Code framework, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Criminal Code of Azerbaijan (adopted 30 December 1999, in force 1 September 2000), Arts 234/235/237/240 · track.unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Mongolia
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Criminal Code of Mongolia (revised, in force 1 July 2017) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Mongolia is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Mongolia's drug schedule; the Criminal Code of Mongolia (revised, in force 1 July 2017) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Mongolia, drugs fall under the Criminal Code of Mongolia (revised, in force 1 July 2017). The core offences are drug trafficking, the illegal manufacture, sale or distribution of drugs, and drug possession; trafficking carries imprisonment up to life, while use or possession of small amounts carries lesser imprisonment. Mongolia's drug law does not provide a life-or-higher term for simple use; trafficking is the serious tier.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Mongolia, drugs fall under the Criminal Code of Mongolia (revised, in force 1 July 2017). The core offences are drug trafficking, the illegal manufacture, sale or distribution of drugs, and drug possession; trafficking carries imprisonment up to life, while use or possession of small amounts carries lesser imprisonment. Mongolia's drug law does not provide a life-or-higher term for simple use; trafficking is the serious tier. Cannabis is controlled under the same Criminal Code framework, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Criminal Code of Mongolia (revised, in force 1 July 2017) · legalinfo.mn · Updated July 14, 2026
Moldova
Legal status
Controlled in Moldova. Nimetazepam is in Table III, «Tabelul național III. Substanțe, plante și medicamente care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope utilizabile în scopuri medicale, supuse controlului», Lista nr. 2, in its sub-list of 1971 Convention Schedule IV: item 51, «Nimetazepam», CAS 2011-67-8 (gazette page 31). The lists of Tables I and II, and the psychotropic lists of Table III, carry an extension, «Controlul substanțelor din acest tabel se extinde și asupra» (Table I, Lista nr. 1 words it «din prezentul tabel», and one list prints «derivațiilor»), to isomers, ethers and esters, salts, and «derivaților structurali ai acestor substanțe, în toate cazurile în care aceștia pot exista»; Table III's Lista nr. 1 of medicines carries none, and Table IV's precursor lists extend only to stereoisomers and salts. Law 201/2025 on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances (Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025) repealed Law 382/1999 and came into force on 28 August 2026: its Article 80(1) as enacted read six months from publication, and Law 22/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026) replaced «6 luni» with «12 luni». Government Decision 479/2026 (Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026) approves the national tables of controlled substances, repeals Government Decision 1088/2004 at its point 2, and by its point 3 entered into force with Law 201/2025. This is the position under Decision 479/2026 as published, read on page images, as at 3 October 2026. The contents list of every Monitorul Oficial issue from 28 August 2026 to 3 October 2026, nr. 398-400 to nr. 498-499, was read for any act touching the tables, and the only one is Government Decision 480/2026 (nr. 439, 9 September 2026), which sets the procedure for updating the tables and changes no entry in them.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. No article read for this cell provides death or life imprisonment: the highest terms are 15 to 17 years for trafficking under Criminal Code Article 217^1(5) and «de la 12 la 20 de ani» for smuggling under Article 248(8), both as replaced by Law 173/2026 in force on 28 August 2026. Contravention Code Article 85 punishes illegal consumption «dacă fapta nu constituie infracțiune» by a fine of 100 to 140 conventional units or 50 to 60 hours of unpaid community work, and acquiring or keeping «în proporții mici și fără scop de înstrăinare» by a fine of 200 to 300 conventional units; under Article 85(3) a person who hands the substance over voluntarily, or seeks medical help, is relieved of that liability. Consumption is a crime instead under Criminal Code Article 217^5(1) when committed «în mod public» or in or near schools, social rehabilitation institutions, prisons, military units, «locurile de agrement» and places of education, culture or sport: a fine of 750 to 1,050 conventional units or 180 to 240 hours of community work. Criminal Code Article 217 punishes producing, acquiring, keeping or transporting in large quantities without intent to sell by a fine of 400 to 700 conventional units, unpaid community work of up to 150 hours or imprisonment of up to 1 year (217(2)), by imprisonment of up to 4 years in the aggravated cases of 217(3), and «în proporții deosebit de mari» by 1 to 6 years (217(4)); under 217(5) a first offender may be released from criminal liability at the investigation stage on self reporting, voluntary surrender of the drugs or active help. Article 217^1 punishes acquiring, keeping, sending, transporting, delivering or distributing with intent to sell, or selling, by 6 to 10 years (217^1(2)); producing or manufacturing for sale by 10 to 12 years (217^1(3)); aggravated cases, among them large quantities, by 12 to 15 years (217^1(4)); and an organised group or especially large quantities by 15 to 17 years (217^1(5)). Article 248 punishes smuggling by 8 to 10 years, by 10 to 12 where aggravated, and by 12 to 20 years for an organised group or especially large quantities. The aggravation for a drug «a căror circulație în scopuri medicale este interzisă», at Articles 217(3)(d) and 217^1(4)(e), is read as not reaching it, because its table lists substances usable in medicine. Which of these applies turns on the small, large and especially large quantities «stabilite de Guvern» (Criminal Code Article 134^1(8)). Government Decision 79/2006, made under the repealed Law 382/1999, is the decision the earlier cell relied on; no replacement appears in the Monitorul Oficial contents to 3 October 2026, and its text could not be re-read. The earlier cell's Criminal Code figures, Article 217 and Article 217^1 including the seven to fifteen years it read at Article 217^1(4), were the text before Law 173/2026 replaced those articles, and are superseded. The earlier cell, record MOL-69, CAS 2011-67-8, rested on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 under Legea nr. 382/1999, and printed this row's quantity bands as «up to 0.035 g»; «0.035 to 1 g»; «>1 g»; those bands are carried as the earlier cell's figures, not re-read.
Turkmenistan
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Criminal Code (No. 222-1 of 1997, as amended) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Turkmenistan is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Turkmenistan's drug schedule; the Criminal Code (No. 222-1 of 1997, as amended) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Turkmenistan, drugs fall under the Criminal Code (No. 222-1 of 1997, as amended). The illegal manufacture, processing, acquisition, storage, transport or transfer of narcotic or psychotropic substances for the purpose of sale (Art. 292) and related articles are the trafficking offences: production, storage or transport for sale carries 3-10 years, escalating to 12-20 years with confiscation for large-quantity, official-position or otherwise aggravated cases, while use or possession carries up to 5 years.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Turkmenistan, drugs fall under the Criminal Code (No. 222-1 of 1997, as amended). The illegal manufacture, processing, acquisition, storage, transport or transfer of narcotic or psychotropic substances for the purpose of sale (Art. 292) and related articles are the trafficking offences: production, storage or transport for sale carries 3-10 years, escalating to 12-20 years with confiscation for large-quantity, official-position or otherwise aggravated cases, while use or possession carries up to 5 years. Cannabis is controlled under the same Criminal Code framework, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Criminal Code of Turkmenistan (No. 222-1 of 1997, as amended), Art. 292 · bwcimplementation.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Senegal
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Code des Drogues (Loi No. 97-18 of 1997, amended by Loi Latif Guèye No. 2007-31 of 27 December 2007) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Senegal is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Senegal's drug schedule; the Code des Drogues (Loi No. 97-18 of 1997, amended by Loi Latif Guèye No. 2007-31 of 27 December 2007) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Senegal, drugs fall under the Code des Drogues (Loi No. 97-18 of 1997, amended by the 'Loi Latif Guèye' No. 2007-31 of 27 December 2007). For Tableau I high-risk drugs, cultivation, production or manufacture (Art. 95) and international import, export or transport (Art. 96) carry 5-10 years and a fine equal to triple the value of the drugs seized; offer, sale, distribution, brokerage, transport, purchase, possession or use of Tableau I drugs (Art. 97) carries 5-10 years and a 2,000,000-10,000,000 franc fine, raised by the 2007 amendment to fixed-term hard labour of 10-20 years for aggravated offering or sale. Facilitating others' use (Art. 98) carries 2-5 years, and personal-use possession or purchase (Art. 109) two months to one year.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Senegal, drugs fall under the Code des Drogues (Loi No. 97-18 of 1997, amended by the 'Loi Latif Guèye' No. 2007-31 of 27 December 2007). For Tableau I high-risk drugs, cultivation, production or manufacture (Art. 95) and international import, export or transport (Art. 96) carry 5-10 years and a fine equal to triple the value of the drugs seized; offer, sale, distribution, brokerage, transport, purchase, possession or use of Tableau I drugs (Art. 97) carries 5-10 years and a 2,000,000-10,000,000 franc fine, raised by the 2007 amendment to fixed-term hard labour of 10-20 years for aggravated offering or sale. Facilitating others' use (Art. 98) carries 2-5 years, and personal-use possession or purchase (Art. 109) two months to one year. Cannabis (chanvre indien) is a Tableau I drug under the same Code des Drogues, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Code des Drogues (Loi No. 97-18 of 1997, amended by Loi Latif Guèye No. 2007-31 of 27 December 2007), Arts 95/96/97/98/109 · sherloc.unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Nicaragua
Legal status
Controlled in Nicaragua. The entry relied on is «Nimetazapam», printed among the lists and tables annexed to Ley No. 285 and carried into Ley No. 735 by article 101 of its consolidated text, which article 361 of Ley No. 641 then makes the object of the drug offences in Titulo XIV. The entry is printed in the text read with a vowel altered in the middle of the word. The substance is printed, and the spelling is quoted here as it stands. The lists relied on are those as annexed in 1999 and carried into Ley No. 735 by article 101 of the consolidated text published in La Gaceta Diario Oficial No. 32 of 20 February 2024. That reading does not rule out a later incorporation by the Ministry of Health, which article 1 permits to be published in any newspaper of national circulation before it reaches the gazette.
Consequences if caught
Nimetazepam is reached in Nicaragua through the printed entry «Nimetazapam». The entry is printed in the text read with a vowel altered in the middle of the word. The substance is printed, and the spelling is quoted here as it stands. Trafficking under article 359 of Ley No. 641 carries 5 to 15 years of prison, rising to 10 to 20 years where the trafficking is international. Article 358, as reformed in September 2024, bands simple possession at more than 1 gram and under 5 grams for cocaine or any other controlled substance, at more than 5 grams and under 20 grams for marihuana, and at 1 to 5 psychoactive plants, with a heavier band of 3 to 8 years above those figures. The fine article 359 attaches is 300 to 800 day fines, and 500 to 1000 day fines for the international form. Those figures describe the offences that this row's placement brings into play.
If prescribed / medical
Lawful handling runs through Ministry of Health authorisation, which is the exception every offence in the title is drafted against. Carry the prescription and the prescriber's letter, and confirm the import allowance with a Nicaraguan consulate before travelling.
Documentation
Nicaragua controls by three limbs at once: the lists and tables annexed to the law, whatever the Ministry of Health incorporates afterwards, and whatever the international instruments in force contain. The first limb is readable and was read for this cell. The second is published by the Ministry of Health and article 1 allows it to appear in any newspaper of national circulation before the gazette carries it, so it cannot be enumerated from the gazette alone. The third moves whenever the international schedules move. The same title prices the other conduct separately: financing at 10 to 25 years under article 348, sowing, growing or harvesting at 5 to 10 under article 349, industrial or artisanal processing at 5 to 20 under article 351, transport at 5 to 15 under article 352, carrying on the body at 2 to 8 under article 353, and storage at 5 to 15 under article 355. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription and confirm the position with a Nicaraguan consulate before travelling. The lists relied on are those as annexed in 1999 and carried into Ley No. 735 by article 101 of the consolidated text published in La Gaceta Diario Oficial No. 32 of 20 February 2024. That reading does not rule out a later incorporation by the Ministry of Health, which article 1 permits to be published in any newspaper of national circulation before it reaches the gazette.
Uganda
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act, 2016 (Act No. 3 of 2016) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Uganda is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Uganda's drug schedule; the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act, 2016 (Act No. 3 of 2016) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Uganda, drugs fall under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act, 2016 (Act No. 3 of 2016). Possession (s.4) carries imprisonment, substantial fixed terms up to around 25 years depending on the substance and quantity, while trafficking, smuggling and dealing (s.5 and related provisions) carry up to life imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment; the separate provisions for the gravest non-drug crimes do not extend to drug offences. A later 2023 consolidation/amendment of the drug law has been reported; this entry states the 2016 Act as in force and any subsequent amendment should be confirmed.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Uganda, drugs fall under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act, 2016 (Act No. 3 of 2016). Possession (s.4) carries imprisonment, substantial fixed terms up to around 25 years depending on the substance and quantity, while trafficking, smuggling and dealing (s.5 and related provisions) carry up to life imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment; the separate provisions for the gravest non-drug crimes do not extend to drug offences. A later 2023 consolidation/amendment of the drug law has been reported; this entry states the 2016 Act as in force and any subsequent amendment should be confirmed. Cannabis is controlled under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act, 2016 (Act No. 3 of 2016), ss.4-5 · media.ulii.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Zimbabwe
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23] and the Dangerous Drugs Act [Chapter 15:02] is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Zimbabwe is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Zimbabwe's drug schedule; the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23] and the Dangerous Drugs Act [Chapter 15:02] is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Zimbabwe, drugs fall under the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23] (dangerous-drugs provisions, s.155 onward), together with the Dangerous Drugs Act [Chapter 15:02]. Use, possession or cultivation for one's own use carries a fine and/or imprisonment of up to 5 years, while dealing and trafficking carry long fixed-term imprisonment that rises with quantity and aggravation. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment; the separate provisions for the gravest non-drug crimes do not extend to drug offences.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Zimbabwe, drugs fall under the Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23] (dangerous-drugs provisions, s.155 onward), together with the Dangerous Drugs Act [Chapter 15:02]. Use, possession or cultivation for one's own use carries a fine and/or imprisonment of up to 5 years, while dealing and trafficking carry long fixed-term imprisonment that rises with quantity and aggravation. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment; the separate provisions for the gravest non-drug crimes do not extend to drug offences. Cannabis is controlled under the same framework, with no legal recreational regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Criminal Law (Codification and Reform) Act [Chapter 9:23] (dangerous-drugs provisions, s.155 onward) + Dangerous Drugs Act [Chapter 15:02] · zimlii.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Ethiopia
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Criminal Code of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (Proclamation No. 414/2004) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Ethiopia is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Ethiopia's drug schedule; the Criminal Code of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (Proclamation No. 414/2004) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Ethiopia, drugs fall under the Criminal Code of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (Proclamation No. 414/2004). Trafficking in narcotic or psychotropic substances (Art. 525) carries rigorous imprisonment of 5-15 years plus a fine, while lesser dealing sub-articles carry rigorous imprisonment in the 5-7 year range. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment; the separate provisions for the gravest non-drug crimes do not extend to drug offences.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Ethiopia, drugs fall under the Criminal Code of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (Proclamation No. 414/2004). Trafficking in narcotic or psychotropic substances (Art. 525) carries rigorous imprisonment of 5-15 years plus a fine, while lesser dealing sub-articles carry rigorous imprisonment in the 5-7 year range. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment; the separate provisions for the gravest non-drug crimes do not extend to drug offences. Khat (chat) is lawful and culturally significant in Ethiopia and is not a prohibited substance under the Criminal Code. Cannabis, by contrast, is controlled under the same Criminal Code, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Criminal Code of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (Proclamation No. 414/2004), Art. 525 · wipo.int · Updated July 14, 2026
Algeria
Legal status
Not confirmed, Law No. 04-18 of 25 December 2004 (as amended by Law No. 23-05 of 7 May 2023) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Algeria is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Algeria's drug schedule; Law No. 04-18 of 25 December 2004 (as amended by Law No. 23-05 of 7 May 2023) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Algeria, drugs fall under Law No. 04-18 of 25 December 2004 on the prevention and suppression of the illicit use and trafficking of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, as amended by Law No. 23-05 of 7 May 2023. Trafficking, production, manufacture, sale or transport with intent, carries imprisonment of 10-20 years plus a fine of DZD 5,000,000-50,000,000, rising to 20-30 years where committed by a public official or a health professional or in aggravated circumstances; personal-use possession carries lesser imprisonment and/or a fine. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment; the separate provisions for the gravest non-drug crimes do not extend to drug offences.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Algeria, drugs fall under Law No. 04-18 of 25 December 2004 on the prevention and suppression of the illicit use and trafficking of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, as amended by Law No. 23-05 of 7 May 2023. Trafficking, production, manufacture, sale or transport with intent, carries imprisonment of 10-20 years plus a fine of DZD 5,000,000-50,000,000, rising to 20-30 years where committed by a public official or a health professional or in aggravated circumstances; personal-use possession carries lesser imprisonment and/or a fine. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment; the separate provisions for the gravest non-drug crimes do not extend to drug offences. (Reported/unverified: human-rights reporting in 2025 referred to legislative efforts to expand the death penalty to certain drug offences; this is a reported proposal and is NOT reflected as enacted in the statute cited here, confirm against the current law.) Cannabis is controlled under the same statute, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Law No. 04-18 of 25 December 2004 on the prevention and suppression of illicit use and trafficking of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, as amended by Law No. 23-05 of 7 May 2023 · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Tajikistan
Legal status
Controlled in Tajikistan. Item 325 of Перечень 2, psychotropic substances, of the National List approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 is «Ниметазепам», described as «1,3 -дигидро-1 -метил-7-нитро-5-фенил-2Н-1,4-бензодиазепин-2-он». Annex 1 to the Criminal Code carries the same entry at row 339 of its Перечень 2 with its sizes. The annex follows the numbering of the list as amended in 2021 and 2023, in which the Drug Control Agency's consolidation also puts nimetazepam at item 339. The 2020 text is the National List as approved. The Drug Control Agency's consolidation names two amending resolutions, No. 507 of 25 November 2021 and No. 87 of 2 March 2023, and zakon.kz, which shares its publisher with prg.kz, gives 2 March 2023 as the last amendment. The text of No. 507 was not read, No. 87 was read only in its opening, and the Agency's consolidation is headed «Проект», so this placement is stated as at the 2020 text and the 2026 annex, and a later amendment is not ruled out.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Article 59(1) of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan reserves the death penalty for «убийство (часть вторая статьи 104), изнасилование (часть третья статьи 138), терроризм (часть третья статьи 179), геноцид (статья 398), биоцид (статья 399)», that is murder, rape, terrorism, genocide and biocide, and names no drug offence. Article 58(1), the article on life imprisonment, provides that a life term «назначается только как альтернатива смертной казни», only as an alternative to the death penalty, so no drug offence carries a life term either. Conduct distinction. Article 200 covers production, manufacture, processing, acquisition, storage, transport or sending with intent to sell, and sale itself: up to five years for a «мелком» (smallest) size, five to eight years for a «небольшом» (small) size, eight to twelve years for a «крупных» (large) size or a repeat or group offence or one committed in a school or at a place for public events, and twelve to twenty years for an «особо крупных» (especially large) size or an organised group. Article 201 covers the same conduct without intent to sell, which is where possession for one's own use falls: a fine of one hundred to five hundred calculation indicators or up to two years for the smallest size, two to five years for the small size, five to eight years for the large size or a repeat or group offence, and eight to twelve years for the especially large size. In the 2026 text confiscation of property is mandatory under article 200(4), «с конфискацией имущества», and optional under articles 200(2), 200(3), 201(3) and 201(4). Moving a narcotic or psychotropic substance across the customs border is article 289(3), eight to twelve years, when it is done «помимо или с сокрытием от таможенного контроля, либо использование документов или средств таможенной идентификации обманным путем, либо сопряжено с недекларированием или недостоверным декларированием», that is outside or hidden from customs control, with deceptive documents, or undeclared or falsely declared; that part states no size threshold. The sizes come from Annex 1 to the Code, under note 2 to article 200. The texts read do not say what applies below the smallest size, so nothing is stated for it. Sizes. Annex 1, Перечень 2, row 339, «Ниметазепам», sets the smallest size at «2-10гр», the small size at «10-100гр», the large size at «100-1000гр», and the especially large size at over «1000гр».
Papua New Guinea
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Controlled Substances Act 2021 is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Papua New Guinea is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Papua New Guinea's drug schedule; the Controlled Substances Act 2021 is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Papua New Guinea, drugs fall under the Controlled Substances Act 2021, which replaced the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 (whose penalties had been capped at around two years). The 2021 Act substantially increased the penalties for possession, dealing and trafficking, modelled on the imprisonment-based regimes of comparable Pacific and Commonwealth jurisdictions; Papua New Guinea repealed the death penalty in 2022, so the ceiling for all offences, drug offences included, is imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment. The precise penalty quantities and section numbers under the 2021 Act are not pinned in this cell and should be confirmed against the current statute.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Papua New Guinea, drugs fall under the Controlled Substances Act 2021, which replaced the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 (whose penalties had been capped at around two years). The 2021 Act substantially increased the penalties for possession, dealing and trafficking, modelled on the imprisonment-based regimes of comparable Pacific and Commonwealth jurisdictions; Papua New Guinea repealed the death penalty in 2022, so the ceiling for all offences, drug offences included, is imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment. The precise penalty quantities and section numbers under the 2021 Act are not pinned in this cell and should be confirmed against the current statute. Cannabis is controlled under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Controlled Substances Act 2021 (replacing the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952), specific penalty terms not pinned · reported by The National (thenational.com.pg, 2021) · Updated July 14, 2026
Angola
Legal status
Not confirmed, Lei n.º 3/99 (Lei sobre o Tráfico e Consumo de Estupefacientes, Substâncias Psicotrópicas e Precursores) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Angola is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Angola's drug schedule; Lei n.º 3/99 (Lei sobre o Tráfico e Consumo de Estupefacientes, Substâncias Psicotrópicas e Precursores) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Angola, drugs fall under Lei n.º 3/99 (Lei sobre o Tráfico e Consumo de Estupefacientes, Substâncias Psicotrópicas e Precursores), a six-table Portuguese-model statute. The cultivation, production, manufacture, trade, distribution, import, export, transport and possession of Table substances are prohibited; trafficking carries lengthy imprisonment, with severe cases reaching the 10-25 year range characteristic of this statutory model. The precise trafficking-article number is not separately pinned here, verify the exact article and term against the current statute. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Angola, drugs fall under Lei n.º 3/99 (Lei sobre o Tráfico e Consumo de Estupefacientes, Substâncias Psicotrópicas e Precursores), a six-table Portuguese-model statute. The cultivation, production, manufacture, trade, distribution, import, export, transport and possession of Table substances are prohibited; trafficking carries lengthy imprisonment, with severe cases reaching the 10-25 year range characteristic of this statutory model. The precise trafficking-article number is not separately pinned here, verify the exact article and term against the current statute. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment. Cannabis (liamba) is a controlled drug under the same statute, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Lei n.º 3/99 (Lei sobre o Tráfico e Consumo de Estupefacientes, Substâncias Psicotrópicas e Precursores) · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Côte d'Ivoire
Legal status
Controlled as a psychotropic substance under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, which adopts the UN Convention tables by article 45 and whose article 1 reaches all four 1971 schedules: Nimetazepam is in Schedule IV of the 1971 Convention (« NIMÉTAZÉPAM »). That it is controlled follows from article 1; what the text leaves open is only which offence articles attach, because article 2 classes only Convention tables 1 to 3: holding for one's own use is very likely reached through article 1's definition (1 to 3 months, article 10), supply to another (1 to 3 years, article 7) and to a minor (5 to 10 years, article 13) reach any drug, the trafficking articles, where they apply, carry 5 to 10 years, and article 15 doubles the penalties in eight aggravated cases; the maximum penalty is imprisonment
Consequences if caught
Nimetazepam is controlled in Côte d'Ivoire under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, because article 45 makes the law's tables the updated Convention tables and nimetazepam is in Schedule IV of the 1971 Convention. A Schedule IV substance sits awkwardly in the text. Article 1 defines a substance psychotrope as one in any of the four 1971 schedules, but article 2 classes only the substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, and reserves its own tableau 4 for precursors. On article 1's definition a Schedule IV substance is a psychotropic substance, so the possession offence in article 10 very likely reaches it, though article 10's words « classées comme » echo article 2; whether the trafficking articles 3 to 5 and 8, which are framed by domestic tableau, reach it is not settled on the text, and if they do the range is 5 to 10 years. The supply offences in articles 6, 7 and 13 reach any « drogue », which article 1 defines as the stupéfiants and psychotropes together. Under Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022, cultivating, producing or manufacturing (article 3), buying or holding for sale, offering, distributing or transporting (article 4) and importing or exporting (article 5) drugs of its tableaux 1 and 2 each carry 5 to 10 years, and the same conduct with tableau 3 drugs carries 5 to 10 years under article 8. The fines differ: 500,000 to 50,000,000 francs under articles 3 and 4, 1,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 5 and 10,000,000 to 100,000,000 under article 8. The law does not say which of its tableaux 1, 2 or 3 a given Convention schedule becomes, so the fine band is not fixed, but the prison range is 5 to 10 years whichever of the three applies. Holding a drug for one's own use carries 1 to 3 months and a fine of 50,000 to 500,000 francs (article 10), and article 19 requires the prosecutor to order appropriate treatment first, with no prosecution if it is completed. Giving or offering a drug to someone for their personal consumption carries 1 to 3 years (article 7); facilitating another's illicit use, including by providing premises, or obtaining or dispensing drugs on a false prescription, carries 2 to 5 years (article 6); knowingly supplying a minor carries 5 to 10 years (article 13); and driving under the influence carries 1 to 5 years (article 11). Article 15 doubles the penalties in eight listed cases, among them violence or a weapon, a public official or health professional, supply to a vulnerable person, use of a minor, a drug that causes death or harms health, and offences in or near schools, prisons, health facilities or places of worship, so a ten year maximum becomes twenty. A court may add a ban on leaving the national territory with withdrawal of the passport for 5 to 10 years (article 17). Police custody for these offences is 96 hours, renewable once (article 25). Attempt is punishable (article 41), and mitigating circumstances and suspended sentences apply only to drug users (article 42). No article of the law provides death or life imprisonment. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
Rwanda
Legal status
Not confirmed, Law n° 03/2012 of 15/02/2012 (governing narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors) together with the Penal Code (Law n° 68/2018) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Rwanda is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Rwanda's drug schedule; Law n° 03/2012 of 15/02/2012 (governing narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors) together with the Penal Code (Law n° 68/2018) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Rwanda, drugs fall under Law n° 03/2012 of 15/02/2012 governing narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors, together with the Penal Code (Law n° 68/2018, Official Gazette 27/09/2018). The unlawful manufacture, transformation, import, transport, sale or distribution of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances is the serious tier, while use and possession sit at lower tiers; the 2018 Penal Code substantially raised drug-offence penalties, serious trafficking reaching long fixed-term to life imprisonment. The exact current Penal Code article year-terms are not separately pinned here, verify against the current Penal Code. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Rwanda, drugs fall under Law n° 03/2012 of 15/02/2012 governing narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors, together with the Penal Code (Law n° 68/2018, Official Gazette 27/09/2018). The unlawful manufacture, transformation, import, transport, sale or distribution of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances is the serious tier, while use and possession sit at lower tiers; the 2018 Penal Code substantially raised drug-offence penalties, serious trafficking reaching long fixed-term to life imprisonment. The exact current Penal Code article year-terms are not separately pinned here, verify against the current Penal Code. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment. Cannabis is controlled under the same framework, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Law n° 03/2012 of 15/02/2012 governing narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors + Penal Code (Law n° 68/2018, Official Gazette 27/09/2018) · rwandalii.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Mozambique
Legal status
Not confirmed, Lei n.º 3/97 (combate ao tráfico e consumo de estupefacientes e substâncias psicotrópicas) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Mozambique is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Mozambique's drug schedule; Lei n.º 3/97 (combate ao tráfico e consumo de estupefacientes e substâncias psicotrópicas) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Mozambique, drugs fall under Lei n.º 3/97 (combate ao tráfico e consumo de estupefacientes e substâncias psicotrópicas), a six-table Portuguese-model statute. Trafficking, manufacture, import, export and distribution of controlled substances carry lengthy imprisonment, the ceiling being life imprisonment for the gravest cases. The precise trafficking-article number and terms are not separately pinned here, verify the exact article and term against the current statute. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Mozambique, drugs fall under Lei n.º 3/97 (combate ao tráfico e consumo de estupefacientes e substâncias psicotrópicas), a six-table Portuguese-model statute. Trafficking, manufacture, import, export and distribution of controlled substances carry lengthy imprisonment, the ceiling being life imprisonment for the gravest cases. The precise trafficking-article number and terms are not separately pinned here, verify the exact article and term against the current statute. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same statute, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Lei n.º 3/97 (combate ao tráfico e consumo de estupefacientes e substâncias psicotrópicas) · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Mauritius
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Dangerous Drugs Act 2000 (Act No. 41 of 2000, as amended) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Mauritius is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Mauritius's drug schedule; the Dangerous Drugs Act 2000 (Act No. 41 of 2000, as amended) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Mauritius, drugs fall under the Dangerous Drugs Act 2000 (Act No. 41 of 2000), as amended, a three-schedule system (Schedules I, II and III). Drug-dealing and trafficking offences (s.30 and s.29) carry a fine together with penal servitude (imprisonment); for a person averred to be a drug trafficker where the street value of the drugs exceeds one million rupees, the penalty is a fine of up to 2,000,000 rupees together with penal servitude for a term of up to 60 years. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment (penal servitude).
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Mauritius, drugs fall under the Dangerous Drugs Act 2000 (Act No. 41 of 2000), as amended, a three-schedule system (Schedules I, II and III). Drug-dealing and trafficking offences (s.30 and s.29) carry a fine together with penal servitude (imprisonment); for a person averred to be a drug trafficker where the street value of the drugs exceeds one million rupees, the penalty is a fine of up to 2,000,000 rupees together with penal servitude for a term of up to 60 years. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment (penal servitude). Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Dangerous Drugs Act 2000 (Act No. 41 of 2000), as amended, ss.29-30 · health.govmu.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Bhutan
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and Substance Abuse Act of Bhutan 2015 (as amended 2018) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Bhutan is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Bhutan's drug schedule; the Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and Substance Abuse Act of Bhutan 2015 (as amended 2018) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Bhutan, drugs fall under the Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and Substance Abuse Act of Bhutan 2015 (as amended 2018), a six-schedule system. Illegal possession (s.137) and illicit trafficking (s.139, possessing, importing, exporting, storing, selling, purchasing, transporting, distributing or supplying Schedule I/II substances) are graded by quantity against the Schedule VII thresholds, with penalties set by reference to the sentencing tiers (felony degrees) of the Penal Code of Bhutan and ranging up to long fixed-term imprisonment. The exact year-terms keyed to those Penal Code felony-degree tiers are not separately pinned here, verify against the current Act and Penal Code. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Bhutan, drugs fall under the Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and Substance Abuse Act of Bhutan 2015 (as amended 2018), a six-schedule system. Illegal possession (s.137) and illicit trafficking (s.139, possessing, importing, exporting, storing, selling, purchasing, transporting, distributing or supplying Schedule I/II substances) are graded by quantity against the Schedule VII thresholds, with penalties set by reference to the sentencing tiers (felony degrees) of the Penal Code of Bhutan and ranging up to long fixed-term imprisonment. The exact year-terms keyed to those Penal Code felony-degree tiers are not separately pinned here, verify against the current Act and Penal Code. The maximum penalty for drug offences is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and Substance Abuse Act of Bhutan 2015 (as amended 2018), ss.137/139 · oag.gov.bt · Updated July 14, 2026
Botswana
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 2018 is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Botswana is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Botswana's drug schedule; the Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 2018 is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Botswana, drugs fall under the Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 2018. Trafficking (s.5) carries imprisonment of up to 25 years together with a fine of up to P500,000, and cultivation (s.6) up to 20 years; the precise quantity bands are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Botswana retains and uses the death penalty for the gravest non-drug crimes (murder, treason, piracy under the Penal Code); it does NOT extend to drug offences, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A 2024 government white paper reportedly recommended introducing a death penalty for drug trafficking; this was a recommendation only and has NOT been enacted; verify against the current statute. botswanalaws.com is a lead for the consolidated text only, never a cited source.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Botswana, drugs fall under the Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 2018. Trafficking (s.5) carries imprisonment of up to 25 years together with a fine of up to P500,000, and cultivation (s.6) up to 20 years; the precise quantity bands are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Botswana retains and uses the death penalty for the gravest non-drug crimes (murder, treason, piracy under the Penal Code); it does NOT extend to drug offences, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A 2024 government white paper reportedly recommended introducing a death penalty for drug trafficking; this was a recommendation only and has NOT been enacted; verify against the current statute. botswanalaws.com is a lead for the consolidated text only, never a cited source. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 2018, ss.5-6 · sherloc.unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Zambia
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act No. 35 of 2021 is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Zambia is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Zambia's drug schedule; the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act No. 35 of 2021 is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Zambia, drugs fall under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act No. 35 of 2021, which repealed the former Cap. 96 of 1993. Possession carries up to 15 years and trafficking up to 25 years; the precise quantity bands are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Zambia retains the death penalty for murder and treason only and is abolitionist in practice (commutations in 2022); it does NOT extend to drug offences, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Zambia, drugs fall under the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act No. 35 of 2021, which repealed the former Cap. 96 of 1993. Possession carries up to 15 years and trafficking up to 25 years; the precise quantity bands are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Zambia retains the death penalty for murder and treason only and is abolitionist in practice (commutations in 2022); it does NOT extend to drug offences, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act No. 35 of 2021 (repealed Cap. 96 of 1993) · zambialii.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Cameroon
Legal status
Not confirmed, Loi n° 97/19 du 7 août 1997 is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Cameroon is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Cameroon's drug schedule; Loi n° 97/19 du 7 août 1997 is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Cameroon, drugs fall under Loi n° 97/19 du 7 août 1997. Trafficking offences (Sections 91-95) carry imprisonment of 10 to 20 years together with a fine of up to 250,000,000 FCFA; cannabis, heroin and cocaine are high-risk drugs. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cameroon retains the death penalty for terrorism and murder and is abolitionist in practice (no executions since 1997); the drug statute does NOT provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. droitcamerounais.info and vertic.org are leads for the consolidated text only, never cited sources.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Cameroon, drugs fall under Loi n° 97/19 du 7 août 1997. Trafficking offences (Sections 91-95) carry imprisonment of 10 to 20 years together with a fine of up to 250,000,000 FCFA; cannabis, heroin and cocaine are high-risk drugs. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cameroon retains the death penalty for terrorism and murder and is abolitionist in practice (no executions since 1997); the drug statute does NOT provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. droitcamerounais.info and vertic.org are leads for the consolidated text only, never cited sources. Cannabis is a high-risk drug under the same statute, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Loi n° 97/19 du 7 août 1997 (relative au contrôle des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et des précurseurs), Sections 91-95 · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Fiji
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Illicit Drugs Control Act 2004 is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Fiji is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Fiji's drug schedule; the Illicit Drugs Control Act 2004 is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Fiji, drugs fall under the Illicit Drugs Control Act 2004. The unlawful import, export, manufacture, possession, supply or trafficking of illicit drugs (s.4) carries a fine of up to FJ$1,000,000 together with imprisonment up to life. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is life imprisonment. A March 2026 proposal to reintroduce the death penalty amid trafficking concerns was reported; it has NOT been enacted; verify against the current statute.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Fiji, drugs fall under the Illicit Drugs Control Act 2004. The unlawful import, export, manufacture, possession, supply or trafficking of illicit drugs (s.4) carries a fine of up to FJ$1,000,000 together with imprisonment up to life. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is life imprisonment. A March 2026 proposal to reintroduce the death penalty amid trafficking concerns was reported; it has NOT been enacted; verify against the current statute. Cannabis is an illicit drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Illicit Drugs Control Act 2004, s.4 · laws.gov.fj · Updated July 14, 2026
Liechtenstein
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Betäubungsmittelgesetz of 20 April 1983 is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Liechtenstein is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Liechtenstein's drug schedule; the Betäubungsmittelgesetz of 20 April 1983 is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Liechtenstein, drugs fall under the Betäubungsmittelgesetz of 20 April 1983, which follows the Austrian/Swiss model. Trafficking and the unlawful supply of narcotic drugs carry imprisonment; cannabis containing more than 1% THC is prohibited. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Liechtenstein, drugs fall under the Betäubungsmittelgesetz of 20 April 1983, which follows the Austrian/Swiss model. Trafficking and the unlawful supply of narcotic drugs carry imprisonment; cannabis containing more than 1% THC is prohibited. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis containing more than 1% THC is prohibited under the same Act, with no legal recreational regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Betäubungsmittelgesetz of 20 April 1983 · gesetze.li · Updated July 14, 2026
Macau
Legal status
Controlled in Macau. Law 17/2009 Table IV, item 45, prints «尼美西泮 / Nimetazepam». The tables are read as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026. Trafficking: Article 8(3). Personal use: Article 14.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. The dossier records that Law 17/2009 has no death penalty provision in these offences. Trafficking: Article 8(3) sets 1 to 5 years of imprisonment for unauthorized trafficking of a Table IV substance and 2 to 8 years for a licensed actor who violates the authorization. Personal use: Article 14(1) makes illicit consumption, and acquisition or possession for exclusively personal use, punishable by 3 months to 1 year of imprisonment or 60 to 240 day-fines, as alternatives. Article 10 raises the minimum and the maximum by one third in stated aggravating circumstances. Quantity: the daily reference table prints no figure for nimetazepam, so the fivefold cross reference in Article 14 does not apply to it; Article 14(1) still penalises illicit personal use. The dossier states the trafficking band and the personal use band; it does not set out separate bands for import, export, sale, manufacture or cultivation, so this cell does not give them. The previous version of this cell, citing the Macau anti-drug and Judiciary Police portals, stated that Macau's maximum penalty for any offence is imprisonment capped at 30 years with no life term, and that Macau's criminal law is separate from mainland China's under the Basic Law. Carried forward from the previous cell, not re-read in this pass.
If prescribed / medical
The source this cell rests on, the Macau 88 substance legal dossier of 2 October 2026, does not state a prescription or medical carriage route for nimetazepam.
Documentation
The dossier states that a table assignment identifies the statutory route and does not authorize possession, use, transport or trade. It states no traveller permit, import licence or carriage document for nimetazepam, and none is given here. The dossier row for this substance carries no URL, so the instrument is cited by name. The dossier's own search for this row: Query: nimetazepam. Inspected Macau Table I-A/I-B/I-C, II-A/II-B/II-C, III, IV, V and VI by Chinese name, Portuguese name and chemical structure; result: Table IV, item 45: 尼美西泮 / Nimetazepam.
Law 17/2009 of Macau, Table IV, item 45, and Articles 8(3), 10, 11 and 14, with the tables as amended through Law 12/2026, in force 18 August 2026 (amended by Laws 4/2014, 10/2016, 10/2019, 22/2020, 10/2021, 4/2023, 18/2023, 16/2024, 2/2025 and 12/2026) · antidrugs.gov.mo · Updated October 3, 2026
Namibia
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Abuse of Dependence-Producing Substances and Rehabilitation Centres Act 41 of 1971 is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Namibia is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Namibia's drug schedule; the Abuse of Dependence-Producing Substances and Rehabilitation Centres Act 41 of 1971 is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Namibia, drugs fall under the Abuse of Dependence-Producing Substances and Rehabilitation Centres Act 41 of 1971. Dealing in a dangerous dependence-producing drug (s.2) and possession (s.3) carry imprisonment together with a fine, case law has seen sentences of around 12 years for cocaine dealing, and cannabis possession or dealing draws fines and imprisonment of up to about 10 years; the precise trafficking-quantity bands are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Namibia, drugs fall under the Abuse of Dependence-Producing Substances and Rehabilitation Centres Act 41 of 1971. Dealing in a dangerous dependence-producing drug (s.2) and possession (s.3) carry imprisonment together with a fine, case law has seen sentences of around 12 years for cocaine dealing, and cannabis possession or dealing draws fines and imprisonment of up to about 10 years; the precise trafficking-quantity bands are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a prohibited dependence-producing drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Abuse of Dependence-Producing Substances and Rehabilitation Centres Act 41 of 1971, ss.2-3 · namiblii.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Madagascar
Legal status
Not confirmed, Loi n° 97-039 sur le contrôle des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et des précurseurs is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Madagascar is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Madagascar's drug schedule; Loi n° 97-039 sur le contrôle des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et des précurseurs is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Madagascar, drugs fall under Loi n° 97-039 sur le contrôle des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et des précurseurs, which classifies drugs across a six-table/high-risk model. Trafficking in a high-risk (Tableau I) drug carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Madagascar, drugs fall under Loi n° 97-039 sur le contrôle des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et des précurseurs, which classifies drugs across a six-table/high-risk model. Trafficking in a high-risk (Tableau I) drug carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Loi n° 97-039 sur le contrôle des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et des précurseurs · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Burkina Faso
Legal status
Not confirmed, Burkina Faso's national drug code (loi sur les stupéfiants) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Burkina Faso is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Burkina Faso's drug schedule; Burkina Faso's national drug code (loi sur les stupéfiants) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Burkina Faso, drugs fall under the national drug code (loi sur les stupéfiants). Drug use is punishable by 1 to 6 months' imprisonment, and trafficking or import carries imprisonment; the precise trafficking article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Burkina Faso, drugs fall under the national drug code (loi sur les stupéfiants). Drug use is punishable by 1 to 6 months' imprisonment, and trafficking or import carries imprisonment; the precise trafficking article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed, the Code des Drogues is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Benin is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Benin's drug schedule; the Code des Drogues is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Benin, drugs fall under the Code des Drogues. Cannabis, heroin and cocaine are classified as drogues à haut risque, and any export regardless of quantity is treated as trafficking; trafficking in a high-risk drug carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Benin, drugs fall under the Code des Drogues. Cannabis, heroin and cocaine are classified as drogues à haut risque, and any export regardless of quantity is treated as trafficking; trafficking in a high-risk drug carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a drogue à haut risque under the same Code, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Code des Drogues (Loi) · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Mali
Legal status
Not confirmed, Mali's national drug law (loi portant répression du trafic et de l'usage illicite des stupéfiants) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Mali is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Mali's drug schedule; Mali's national drug law (loi portant répression du trafic et de l'usage illicite des stupéfiants) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Mali, drugs fall under the national drug law (loi portant répression du trafic et de l'usage illicite des stupéfiants). Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Malian drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Mali, drugs fall under the national drug law (loi portant répression du trafic et de l'usage illicite des stupéfiants). Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Malian drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Loi portant répression du trafic et de l'usage illicite des stupéfiants · unodc.org · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ [primary statute portal pending] · Updated July 14, 2026
Togo
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Code des Drogues (loi sur les stupéfiants) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Togo is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Togo's drug schedule; the Code des Drogues (loi sur les stupéfiants) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Togo, drugs fall under the Code des Drogues (loi sur les stupéfiants). Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Togo, drugs fall under the Code des Drogues (loi sur les stupéfiants). Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed, the Ordonnance of 1903 on chanvre (approved by the Décret of 10 March 1917) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in the DR Congo is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the DR Congo's drug schedule; the Ordonnance of 1903 on chanvre (approved by the Décret of 10 March 1917) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, drugs fall under the Ordonnance of 1903 on chanvre (approved by the Décret of 10 March 1917), which prohibits the cultivation, sale, transport, possession and consumption of drugs. Trafficking offences carry 5 to 20 years' servitude pénale principale under Congolese penal doctrine; the precise trafficking article is left to confirmation against the current statute (the 1903/1917 ordinance is old and not granular). The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. The Democratic Republic of the Congo retains the death penalty for the gravest non-drug crimes, but its drug legislation does not provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment (servitude pénale).
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, drugs fall under the Ordonnance of 1903 on chanvre (approved by the Décret of 10 March 1917), which prohibits the cultivation, sale, transport, possession and consumption of drugs. Trafficking offences carry 5 to 20 years' servitude pénale principale under Congolese penal doctrine; the precise trafficking article is left to confirmation against the current statute (the 1903/1917 ordinance is old and not granular). The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. The Democratic Republic of the Congo retains the death penalty for the gravest non-drug crimes, but its drug legislation does not provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment (servitude pénale). Cannabis (chanvre) is the drug specifically prohibited by the same Ordonnance, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Ordonnance de 1903 sur le chanvre (approuvée par le Décret du 10 mars 1917) · leganet.cd · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Malawi
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap. 35:02) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Malawi is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Malawi's drug schedule; the Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap. 35:02) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Malawi, drugs fall under the Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap. 35:02). Trafficking and the unlawful possession or supply of dangerous drugs carry imprisonment; the precise penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Malawi, drugs fall under the Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap. 35:02). Trafficking and the unlawful possession or supply of dangerous drugs carry imprisonment; the precise penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed, the Drugs of Abuse Act No. 6 of 2008 is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Lesotho is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Lesotho's drug schedule; the Drugs of Abuse Act No. 6 of 2008 is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Lesotho, drugs fall under the Drugs of Abuse Act No. 6 of 2008. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Lesotho retains the death penalty for the gravest non-drug crimes and is abolitionist in practice; its drug legislation does not provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Lesotho, drugs fall under the Drugs of Abuse Act No. 6 of 2008. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Lesotho retains the death penalty for the gravest non-drug crimes and is abolitionist in practice; its drug legislation does not provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Drugs of Abuse Act No. 6 of 2008 · lesotholii.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Eswatini
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Opium and Habit-Forming Drugs Act (with Pharmacy Act provisions) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Eswatini is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Eswatini's drug schedule; the Opium and Habit-Forming Drugs Act (with Pharmacy Act provisions) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Eswatini, drugs fall under the Opium and Habit-Forming Drugs Act together with provisions of the Pharmacy Act. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise statute and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Eswatini retains the death penalty for the gravest non-drug crimes and is abolitionist in practice (no executions in decades); its drug legislation does not provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Eswatini, drugs fall under the Opium and Habit-Forming Drugs Act together with provisions of the Pharmacy Act. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise statute and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Eswatini retains the death penalty for the gravest non-drug crimes and is abolitionist in practice (no executions in decades); its drug legislation does not provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Opium and Habit-Forming Drugs Act / Pharmacy Act provisions · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Mauritania
Legal status
Not confirmed, Mauritania's national drug control statute (within a sharia-influenced criminal law) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Mauritania is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Mauritania's drug schedule; Mauritania's national drug control statute (within a sharia-influenced criminal law) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Mauritania, drugs fall under the national drug control statute within a sharia-influenced criminal law. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty asserted for a drug offence under the named drug law is imprisonment. Not confirmed, Mauritania's criminal law is sharia-influenced and reportedly permits the death penalty for some trafficking offences, but a specific drug death-penalty statute article is not confirmed here. The country has observed a de facto execution moratorium since 1987. Verify against the current statute.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Mauritania, drugs fall under the national drug control statute within a sharia-influenced criminal law. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty asserted for a drug offence under the named drug law is imprisonment. Not confirmed, Mauritania's criminal law is sharia-influenced and reportedly permits the death penalty for some trafficking offences, but a specific drug death-penalty statute article is not confirmed here. The country has observed a de facto execution moratorium since 1987. Verify against the current statute. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Mauritania national drug control statute (sharia-influenced criminal law) · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Sierra Leone
Legal status
Not confirmed, the National Drugs Control Act 2008 is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Sierra Leone is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Sierra Leone's drug schedule; the National Drugs Control Act 2008 is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Sierra Leone, drugs fall under the National Drugs Control Act 2008, which schedules drugs as Prohibited, High-Risk and Risk drugs. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise penalty bands are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Sierra Leone, drugs fall under the National Drugs Control Act 2008, which schedules drugs as Prohibited, High-Risk and Risk drugs. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise penalty bands are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
National Drugs Control Act 2008 · sierra-leone.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Seychelles
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Misuse of Drugs Act 2016 is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Seychelles is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Seychelles' drug schedule; the Misuse of Drugs Act 2016 is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Seychelles, drugs fall under the Misuse of Drugs Act 2016. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, with aggravated trafficking punishable by up to life imprisonment; the precise terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Seychelles, drugs fall under the Misuse of Drugs Act 2016. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, with aggravated trafficking punishable by up to life imprisonment; the precise terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Misuse of Drugs Act, 2016 · seylii.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Cabo Verde
Legal status
Not confirmed, Lei n.º 78/IV/93 (the drug law) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Cabo Verde is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Cabo Verde's drug schedule; Lei n.º 78/IV/93 (the drug law) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Cabo Verde, drugs fall under Lei n.º 78/IV/93, which follows the Lusophone six-table model. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Cabo Verdean drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Cabo Verde, drugs fall under Lei n.º 78/IV/93, which follows the Lusophone six-table model. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Cabo Verdean drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Lei n.º 78/IV/93 (Lusophone six-table model) · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Gambia
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Drug Control Act 2014 (as amended) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in the Gambia is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the Gambia's drug schedule; the Drug Control Act 2014 (as amended) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the Gambia, drugs fall under the Drug Control Act 2014 (as amended). Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Gambian drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the Gambia, drugs fall under the Drug Control Act 2014 (as amended). Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Gambian drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Drug Control Act 2014 (as amended) · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Belize
Legal status
Nimetazepam is printed in Belize's Misuse of Drugs Regulations at Schedule IV paragraph 1, in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020. It is printed in the right column between Mefenorex and N-Ethylamphetamine above it and Nitrazepam below it. That schedule's heading reads «CONTROLLED DRUGS EXCEPTED FROM THE PROHIBITION ON IMPORTATION, EXPORTATION AND, WHEN IN THE FORM OF A MEDICINAL PRODUCT, POSSESSION AND SUBJECT TO THE REQUIREMENTS OF REGULATIONS 22, 23, 25 AND 26». The subsidiary law made under Chapter 103 therefore calls what it lists a controlled drug, and this substance is one of them. For a traveller that schedule is the answer rather than a technicality. Regulation 4(2)(a) provides that section 7(1) of the Act, which prohibits possession of a controlled drug, does not have effect in relation to a drug specified in Schedule IV which is contained in a medicinal product, and regulation 4(1) lifts the section 5(1) import and export prohibition for Schedules IV and V outright. Nimetazepam is printed in full, which is worth saying plainly because this substance is unnamed in a great many national schedules and is usually reached, if at all, through a benzodiazepine family rule. Belize names it. What the volume cannot answer is how heavily this is punished. Section 27 takes the ordinary punishments from the Act's Third Schedule column by column according to class, and neither the Third Schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was in the material read. The schedule placement in this cell is read off the instrument and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which names the Act's schedules only as a range.
Consequences if caught
Section 7(1) of the Act makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession, section 7(2) makes that an offence, and section 7(3) makes possession with intent to supply a separate offence. Section 17 of the 1990 Act text sets one penalty for drug trafficking and for possession for the purpose of trafficking, and it does not vary by class. On summary conviction it is a fine of not less than twenty five thousand dollars rising to one hundred thousand, or three times the street value of the drug if that is greater, or imprisonment of not less than five years rising to ten, or both. On conviction on indictment it is a fine of not less than one hundred thousand dollars rising to five hundred thousand, or three times the street value, or imprisonment of not less than seven years rising to fourteen, or both. The ordinary possession maximum is not given here. Section 27 takes it from the Act's Third Schedule, column by column, according to whether the drug is Class A, Class B or Class C, and neither that schedule nor the Second Schedule that assigns the class was among the four instruments in the volume read. One caution about section numbers. The Act text read here is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, and the current Chapter 103 has been renumbered since. The Cannabis Violation Tickets Regulations cite section 12 for the smoking offence the 1990 text puts at section 11, and section 18 for the school premises presumption the 1990 text puts at section 17, so the current numbering runs one ahead from about section 11. Section 7 is the possession section in both, which the ticket schedule confirms independently. The same amendments that renumbered the Act may also have changed what these provisions say, so every figure quoted here from the 1990 text is the figure as enacted in 1990 and its currency is not established.
Kosovo
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Criminal Code of Kosovo (narcotics articles) together with the Law on Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and Precursors is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Kosovo is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Kosovo's drug schedule; the Criminal Code of Kosovo (narcotics articles) together with the Law on Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and Precursors is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Kosovo, drugs fall under the Criminal Code of Kosovo (narcotics articles) together with the Law on Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and Precursors. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Kosovo, drugs fall under the Criminal Code of Kosovo (narcotics articles) together with the Law on Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and Precursors. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same framework, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Criminal Code of Kosovo (narcotics articles) · Law on Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and Precursors · gzk.rks-gov.net · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Timor-Leste
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Penal Code of Timor-Leste (drug-trafficking articles) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Timor-Leste is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Timor-Leste's drug schedule; the Penal Code of Timor-Leste (drug-trafficking articles) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Timor-Leste, drug trafficking falls under the Penal Code of Timor-Leste (drug-trafficking articles), backed by the country's adhesion to the UN 1988 Convention. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the Penal Code's maximum term is 30 years, with no life imprisonment; the precise drug-trafficking article and penalty bands are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Timor-Leste, drug trafficking falls under the Penal Code of Timor-Leste (drug-trafficking articles), backed by the country's adhesion to the UN 1988 Convention. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the Penal Code's maximum term is 30 years, with no life imprisonment; the precise drug-trafficking article and penalty bands are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same framework, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Penal Code of Timor-Leste (drug-trafficking articles) · UN 1988 Convention (adhesion) · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Eritrea
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Penal Code of Eritrea 2015 (drug-control provisions) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Eritrea is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Eritrea's drug schedule; the Penal Code of Eritrea 2015 (drug-control provisions) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Eritrea, drugs fall under the Penal Code of Eritrea 2015 (drug-control provisions), which grades drug trafficking by scale: small-scale trafficking carries 3 to 5 years, a commercial quantity 5 to 7 years, a large commercial quantity 7 to 10 years, and supply to a minor 16 to 19 years; personal-use possession is a lesser offence; the precise article is left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Eritrea retains the death penalty for the gravest non-drug crimes, but its Penal Code drug provisions do not provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Eritrea, drugs fall under the Penal Code of Eritrea 2015 (drug-control provisions), which grades drug trafficking by scale: small-scale trafficking carries 3 to 5 years, a commercial quantity 5 to 7 years, a large commercial quantity 7 to 10 years, and supply to a minor 16 to 19 years; personal-use possession is a lesser offence; the precise article is left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Eritrea retains the death penalty for the gravest non-drug crimes, but its Penal Code drug provisions do not provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Penal Code, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Penal Code of Eritrea 2015 (drug-control provisions) · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Somalia
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Somali Penal Code of 1964 (unrevised) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Somalia is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Somalia's drug schedule; the Somali Penal Code of 1964 (unrevised) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Somalia, drug offences fall under the Somali Penal Code of 1964 (unrevised); Somalia has ratified the UN narcotic conventions but has no modern codified drug-control statute with quantified penalties, so the precise penalty is not cleanly pinned. The maximum penalty asserted under the named (dated) Penal Code is imprisonment; the specific penalty is left to confirmation against the current statute. Not confirmed, Somalia carries out executions for the gravest non-drug crimes, but no codified drug-death-penalty statute article is confirmed here; the 1964 Penal Code governs drug offences and its specific penalties are not confirmed. Verify against the current statute.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Somalia, drug offences fall under the Somali Penal Code of 1964 (unrevised); Somalia has ratified the UN narcotic conventions but has no modern codified drug-control statute with quantified penalties, so the precise penalty is not cleanly pinned. The maximum penalty asserted under the named (dated) Penal Code is imprisonment; the specific penalty is left to confirmation against the current statute. Not confirmed, Somalia carries out executions for the gravest non-drug crimes, but no codified drug-death-penalty statute article is confirmed here; the 1964 Penal Code governs drug offences and its specific penalties are not confirmed. Verify against the current statute. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same dated Penal Code, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Somali Penal Code of 1964 (unrevised) · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Congo
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Republic of the Congo's Penal Code drug provisions (national drug law) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in the Republic of the Congo is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the Republic of the Congo's drug schedule; the Republic of the Congo's Penal Code drug provisions (national drug law) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), drugs fall under the Penal Code drug provisions / national drug law. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville), drugs fall under the Penal Code drug provisions / national drug law. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Republic of the Congo Penal Code drug provisions / national drug law · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Burundi
Legal status
Not confirmed, Burundi's Penal Code 2009 drug provisions (loi sur les stupéfiants) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Burundi is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Burundi's drug schedule; Burundi's Penal Code 2009 drug provisions (loi sur les stupéfiants) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Burundi, drugs fall under the Penal Code 2009 drug provisions (loi sur les stupéfiants). Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Burundi, drugs fall under the Penal Code 2009 drug provisions (loi sur les stupéfiants). Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Burundi Penal Code 2009 drug provisions / loi sur les stupéfiants · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Djibouti
Legal status
Not confirmed, Djibouti's national drug law (Penal Code drug provisions) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Djibouti is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Djibouti's drug schedule; Djibouti's national drug law (Penal Code drug provisions) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Djibouti, drugs fall under the national drug law (Penal Code drug provisions). Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Djibouti, drugs fall under the national drug law (Penal Code drug provisions). Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Djibouti national drug law / Penal Code drug provisions · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Gabon
Legal status
Not confirmed, Gabon's Penal Code drug provisions (loi sur les stupéfiants) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Gabon is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Gabon's drug schedule; Gabon's Penal Code drug provisions (loi sur les stupéfiants) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Gabon, drugs fall under the Penal Code drug provisions (loi sur les stupéfiants). Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Gabon, drugs fall under the Penal Code drug provisions (loi sur les stupéfiants). Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Gabon Penal Code drug provisions / loi sur les stupéfiants · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Guinea
Legal status
Not confirmed, Guinea's drug-control law (Loi L/2016/035/AN; Loi sur le contrôle des drogues) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Guinea is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Guinea's drug schedule; Guinea's drug-control law (Loi L/2016/035/AN; Loi sur le contrôle des drogues) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Guinea, drugs fall under the national drug-control law (Loi L/2016/035/AN; Loi sur le contrôle des drogues). Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Guinean drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Guinea, drugs fall under the national drug-control law (Loi L/2016/035/AN; Loi sur le contrôle des drogues). Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Guinean drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Guinea drug-control law (Loi L/2016/035/AN · Loi sur le contrôle des drogues) · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Niger
Legal status
Not confirmed, Niger's drug law (Loi n° 99-42 du 23 septembre 1999 sur la lutte contre la drogue) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Niger is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Niger's drug schedule; Niger's drug law (Loi n° 99-42 du 23 septembre 1999 sur la lutte contre la drogue) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Niger, drugs fall under Loi n° 99-42 du 23 septembre 1999 sur la lutte contre la drogue. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Nigerien drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Niger, drugs fall under Loi n° 99-42 du 23 septembre 1999 sur la lutte contre la drogue. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Nigerien drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Loi n° 99-42 du 23 septembre 1999 sur la lutte contre la drogue (Niger) · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Chad
Legal status
Not confirmed, Chad's drug law (Loi n° 31/PR/2018 / Penal Code drug provisions) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Chad is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Chad's drug schedule; Chad's drug law (Loi n° 31/PR/2018 / Penal Code drug provisions) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Chad, drugs fall under Loi n° 31/PR/2018 together with the Penal Code drug provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Chadian drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Chad, drugs fall under Loi n° 31/PR/2018 together with the Penal Code drug provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Chadian drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Loi n° 31/PR/2018 / Penal Code drug provisions (Chad) · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Central African Republic
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Central African Republic's Penal Code drug provisions (national drug law) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in the Central African Republic is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the Central African Republic's drug schedule; the Central African Republic's Penal Code drug provisions (national drug law) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the Central African Republic, drugs fall under the Penal Code drug provisions / national drug law. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Central African drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the Central African Republic, drugs fall under the Penal Code drug provisions / national drug law. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Central African drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Central African Republic Penal Code drug provisions / national drug law · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Liberia
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act 2014 (as amended in 2022) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Liberia is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Liberia's drug schedule; the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act 2014 (as amended in 2022) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Liberia, drugs fall under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act 2014, as amended in 2022 to reclassify drug offences as a first-degree felony. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Liberia retains the death penalty in law for the gravest non-drug crimes (it has not carried out an execution in decades and has acceded to the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR), but its drug legislation does not provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Liberia, drugs fall under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act 2014, as amended in 2022 to reclassify drug offences as a first-degree felony. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Liberia retains the death penalty in law for the gravest non-drug crimes (it has not carried out an execution in decades and has acceded to the Second Optional Protocol to the ICCPR), but its drug legislation does not provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Controlled Drugs and Substances Act 2014 (as amended 2022) (Liberia) · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Equatorial Guinea
Legal status
Not confirmed, Equatorial Guinea's Penal Code 2022 drug provisions (national drug law) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Equatorial Guinea is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Equatorial Guinea's drug schedule; Equatorial Guinea's Penal Code 2022 drug provisions (national drug law) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Equatorial Guinea, drugs fall under the Penal Code 2022 drug provisions / national drug law. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Equatoguinean drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Equatorial Guinea, drugs fall under the Penal Code 2022 drug provisions / national drug law. Trafficking carries imprisonment; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Equatoguinean drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Equatorial Guinea Penal Code 2022 drug provisions / national drug law · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Guinea-Bissau
Legal status
Not confirmed, Guinea-Bissau's drug-control law (Lei n.º 7/2008) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Guinea-Bissau is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Guinea-Bissau's drug schedule; Guinea-Bissau's drug-control law (Lei n.º 7/2008) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Guinea-Bissau, drugs fall under Lei n.º 7/2008 (the national drug-control law); the country is a known trans-shipment state. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Bissau-Guinean drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Guinea-Bissau, drugs fall under Lei n.º 7/2008 (the national drug-control law); the country is a known trans-shipment state. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Bissau-Guinean drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Lei n.º 7/2008 / Guinea-Bissau national drug-control law · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Comoros
Legal status
Not confirmed, Comoros' national drug law (Penal Code drug provisions) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Comoros is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Comoros' drug schedule; Comoros' national drug law (Penal Code drug provisions) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Comoros, drugs fall under the Penal Code drug provisions / national drug law. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Comorian drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Comoros, drugs fall under the Penal Code drug provisions / national drug law. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Comorian drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Comoros Penal Code drug provisions / national drug law · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
South Sudan
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Penal Code Act, 2008 (South Sudan) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in South Sudan is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against South Sudan's drug schedule; the Penal Code Act, 2008 (South Sudan) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In South Sudan, drugs fall under the Penal Code Act, 2008. Under the Penal Code Act 2008, high-level/aggravated drug trafficking is a capital offence, the Penal Code enumerates the offences punishable by death, which include high-level drug trafficking alongside murder, treason and terrorism resulting in death; lower-level drug offences and personal-use possession carry imprisonment and/or a fine. South Sudan actively carries out executions (140+ between 2011 and 2018, with 300+ reported on death row), and a death sentence must be confirmed by the President and the Supreme Court. The specific Penal Code article for the drug capital provision is left to confirmation against the current Penal Code; the capital-for-high-level-trafficking assertion itself stands.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In South Sudan, drugs fall under the Penal Code Act, 2008. Under the Penal Code Act 2008, high-level/aggravated drug trafficking is a capital offence, the Penal Code enumerates the offences punishable by death, which include high-level drug trafficking alongside murder, treason and terrorism resulting in death; lower-level drug offences and personal-use possession carry imprisonment and/or a fine. South Sudan actively carries out executions (140+ between 2011 and 2018, with 300+ reported on death row), and a death sentence must be confirmed by the President and the Supreme Court. The specific Penal Code article for the drug capital provision is left to confirmation against the current Penal Code; the capital-for-high-level-trafficking assertion itself stands. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Penal Code, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
The Penal Code Act, 2008 (South Sudan) · wipo.int · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Vanuatu
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap. 12) (Vanuatu) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Vanuatu is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Vanuatu's drug schedule; the Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap. 12) (Vanuatu) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Vanuatu, drugs fall under the Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap. 12). Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Ni-Vanuatu drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Vanuatu, drugs fall under the Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap. 12). Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Ni-Vanuatu drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed, the Narcotics Act 1967 (Samoa) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Samoa is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Samoa's drug schedule; the Narcotics Act 1967 (Samoa) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Samoa, drugs fall under the Narcotics Act 1967. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Samoan drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Samoa, drugs fall under the Narcotics Act 1967. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Samoan drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed, the Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap. 98) (Solomon Islands) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Solomon Islands is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Solomon Islands' drug schedule; the Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap. 98) (Solomon Islands) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Solomon Islands, drugs fall under the Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap. 98). Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Solomon Islands drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Solomon Islands, drugs fall under the Dangerous Drugs Act (Cap. 98). Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Solomon Islands drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed, Andorra's Penal Code (Codi Penal) drug-trafficking provisions is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Andorra is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Andorra's drug schedule; Andorra's Penal Code (Codi Penal) drug-trafficking provisions is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Andorra, drugs fall under the Penal Code (Codi Penal) drug-trafficking provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Andorran drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Andorra, drugs fall under the Penal Code (Codi Penal) drug-trafficking provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Andorran drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Penal Code provisions, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed, Monaco's drug law (Penal Code / Loi sur les stupéfiants) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Monaco is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Monaco's drug schedule; Monaco's drug law (Penal Code / Loi sur les stupéfiants) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Monaco, drugs fall under the Penal Code together with the Loi sur les stupéfiants. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Monégasque drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Monaco, drugs fall under the Penal Code together with the Loi sur les stupéfiants. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Monégasque drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Monaco Penal Code / Loi sur les stupéfiants · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
San Marino
Legal status
Not confirmed, San Marino's Penal Code drug provisions is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in San Marino is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against San Marino's drug schedule; San Marino's Penal Code drug provisions is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In San Marino, drugs fall under the Penal Code drug provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Sammarinese drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In San Marino, drugs fall under the Penal Code drug provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal for the current Sammarinese drug law was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is controlled under the same provisions, with a regulated medical-cannabis regime permitted while recreational supply remains prohibited. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
San Marino Penal Code drug provisions · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Cook Islands
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Cook Islands' Narcotics and Misuse of Drugs Act 2004 is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in the Cook Islands is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the Cook Islands' drug schedule; the Cook Islands' Narcotics and Misuse of Drugs Act 2004 is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the Cook Islands, drugs fall under the Narcotics and Misuse of Drugs Act 2004. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the Cook Islands, drugs fall under the Narcotics and Misuse of Drugs Act 2004. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Narcotics and Misuse of Drugs Act 2004 (Cook Islands) · paclii.org · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Nauru
Legal status
Not confirmed, Nauru's drug law (Illicit Drugs Control Act 2004 / Crimes Act 2016 drug provisions) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Nauru is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Nauru's drug schedule; Nauru's drug law (Illicit Drugs Control Act 2004 / Crimes Act 2016 drug provisions) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Nauru, drugs fall under the Illicit Drugs Control Act 2004 together with the Crimes Act 2016 drug provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Nauru, drugs fall under the Illicit Drugs Control Act 2004 together with the Crimes Act 2016 drug provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Illicit Drugs Control Act 2004 / Crimes Act 2016 drug provisions (Nauru) · paclii.org · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Palau
Legal status
Not confirmed, Palau's National Code Title 34 (Crimes) controlled-substances provisions is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Palau is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Palau's drug schedule; Palau's National Code Title 34 (Crimes) controlled-substances provisions is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Palau, drugs fall under the National Code Title 34 (Crimes) controlled-substances provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Palau, drugs fall under the National Code Title 34 (Crimes) controlled-substances provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Title 34 provisions, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Palau National Code Title 34 (Crimes) controlled-substances provisions · paclii.org · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Tonga
Legal status
Not confirmed, Tonga's Illicit Drugs Control Act (as amended in 2020 and 2021) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Tonga is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Tonga's drug schedule; Tonga's Illicit Drugs Control Act (as amended in 2020 and 2021) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Tonga, drugs fall under the Illicit Drugs Control Act, as amended in 2020 and 2021. The 2020 amendment toughened penalties (modelled on New Zealand's drug law); trafficking and serious offences carry up to life imprisonment, and the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment (up to life). Tonga retains the death penalty in law for murder and treason under the Criminal Offences Act (abolitionist in practice, no execution since 1982), but its drug legislation does NOT provide a death penalty: a 2021 bill to extend the death penalty to serious drug trafficking was debated and REJECTED by the Legislative Assembly (the death-penalty provisions were withdrawn before the Illicit Drugs Control Bill passed 19-0), and a 2004 proposal to add the death penalty for drug possession was likewise defeated. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment (up to life).
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Tonga, drugs fall under the Illicit Drugs Control Act, as amended in 2020 and 2021. The 2020 amendment toughened penalties (modelled on New Zealand's drug law); trafficking and serious offences carry up to life imprisonment, and the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment (up to life). Tonga retains the death penalty in law for murder and treason under the Criminal Offences Act (abolitionist in practice, no execution since 1982), but its drug legislation does NOT provide a death penalty: a 2021 bill to extend the death penalty to serious drug trafficking was debated and REJECTED by the Legislative Assembly (the death-penalty provisions were withdrawn before the Illicit Drugs Control Bill passed 19-0), and a 2004 proposal to add the death penalty for drug possession was likewise defeated. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment (up to life). [reported, NOT enacted] A 2021 private member's bill proposed a mandatory death sentence for trafficking 5 kg or more of a Class A drug; it was rejected and is NOT law. Verify against the current statute. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
· Updated July 14, 2026
Kiribati
Legal status
Not confirmed, Kiribati's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Kiribati is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Kiribati's drug schedule; Kiribati's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Kiribati, drugs fall under the Penal Code / drug-control provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Kiribati, drugs fall under the Penal Code / drug-control provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same provisions, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed, Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Tuvalu is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Tuvalu's drug schedule; Tuvalu's Penal Code / drug-control provisions is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Tuvalu, drugs fall under the Penal Code / drug-control provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Tuvalu, drugs fall under the Penal Code / drug-control provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same provisions, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed, the Marshall Islands Revised Code (Title 25 / controlled-substances provisions) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in the Marshall Islands is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the Marshall Islands' drug schedule; the Marshall Islands Revised Code (Title 25 / controlled-substances provisions) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the Marshall Islands, drugs fall under the Revised Code, Title 25 (controlled-substances provisions). Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the Marshall Islands, drugs fall under the Revised Code, Title 25 (controlled-substances provisions). Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Code, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed, the FSM Code Title 11 (Crimes) / controlled-substances provisions is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Micronesia is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Micronesia's drug schedule; the FSM Code Title 11 (Crimes) / controlled-substances provisions is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Micronesia (the Federated States of Micronesia), drugs fall under the FSM Code, Title 11 (Crimes) / controlled-substances provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Micronesia (the Federated States of Micronesia), drugs fall under the FSM Code, Title 11 (Crimes) / controlled-substances provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (paclii.org) with UNODC (unodc.org/cld) and Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Code, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
FSM Code Title 11 (Crimes) / controlled-substances provisions · paclii.org · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Suriname
Legal status
Illegal. Lijst II onderdeel A part 2 prints the entry as 'Nimetazepam', between 'Midazolam' and 'Nitrazepam'. The text read for this cell is the consolidation that stops at S.B. 2002 no. 68, so it is twenty four years old. Article 3 lid 2 lets further middelen be designated by Staatsbesluit and article 3 lid 3 lets the Minister designate one at short notice with the approval of the Procureur-Generaal, and article 4 lid 2 does the same for lijst II. No register of those designations was located, so anything added since 2002 is outside what was read and this does not rule out a later designation.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. This act carries no death penalty and its heaviest sentence is levenslange gevangenisstraf, life imprisonment, under article 11 lid 1. Searched as 'nimetazepam', 'nimetazepan' and 'erimin'. Only the first returns; the brand name under which this medicine is best known in Asia is not in the act. Its two printed neighbours, 'Midazolam' above and 'Nitrazepam' below, are both distinct entries and both are commonly confused with it in reading, the second because the names differ by three letters in the middle. The act treats it no differently from any other entry in the part: no separate band, no aggravated treatment and no reference to it anywhere in articles 1 to 14. The closing preparations clause carries a tablet. One structural point governs how far an entry reaches. Only lijst I onderdeel A closes with the isomer, ester, ether and salt clauses; lijst I onderdeel B closes with an isomer and salt clause; and lijst I onderdeel C, lijst I onderdeel D and both parts of lijst II onderdeel A close with a single sentence, 'Preparaten die één of meer van vorengenoemde substanties bevatten', preparations containing one or more of the substances named above, and nothing else. There is no analogue limb and no definition by effect anywhere in the act. Article 4 lid 1 forbids the same four things in relation to a middel on the annexed lijst II: under A in, uit of door te voeren, importing, exporting or moving in transit; under B te bereiden, te bewerken, te verwerken, te verkopen, af te leveren, te verstrekken of te vervoeren, preparing, processing, working, selling, delivering, supplying or transporting; under C te bezitten, aanwezig te hebben of aan te wenden, possessing, having present or using; and under D te vervaardigen, manufacturing. The split for lijst II runs the other way from what a reader expects. Article 11 lid 1 reaches only limb A of article 4 lid 1, so importing, exporting or moving a lijst II middel in transit carries levenslange gevangenisstraf, or at most twenty years, and a fine of at most five hundred million gulden. Article 11 lid 3 reaches article 4 lid 1 under B, C and D, so preparing, selling, supplying, transporting, possessing, using and manufacturing all carry at most thirteen years and a fine of at most two hundred million gulden. Carrying it across the border is therefore the one limb that is punished as heavily as a lijst I offence. Article 11 lid 2 gives at most nine years where a limb in the higher band is broken otherwise than intentionally and article 11 lid 4 at most seven years for the lower band, and article 14 lid 1 makes the article 11 lid 4 cases overtredingen while everything else in article 11 and in article 12 is a misdrijf. Article 12 punishes preparatory acts and samenspanning, conspiracy, aimed at an article 11 lid 1 offence with at most eleven years. Article 13 lid 1 lets the fine rise to four times the value of the goods where that value is more than a quarter of the stated maximum, and article 13 lid 2 requires forfeiture. Article 1 lid 2 equates the zouten, the salts, of a substance with the substance throughout the act. The act sets no personal use tier, no quantity threshold and no tolerance rule anywhere in its fourteen articles, and nothing in it corresponds to the Dutch practice of tolerated small quantities.
North Korea
Legal status
Not confirmed, the DPRK Criminal Code (2013 revision and later amendments) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in North Korea is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against North Korea's drug schedule; the DPRK Criminal Code (2013 revision and later amendments) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In North Korea, drugs fall under the Criminal Code of the DPRK (2013 revision and later amendments). The 2013 penal code revision designated illegal drug production a capital offence, and serious drug trafficking and smuggling are treated as grave crimes that can carry the death penalty; lower-level offences carry imprisonment or corrective labour. North Korea is among the small group of states with believed or confirmed drug-related executions in recent years (per the Harm Reduction International Global Overview); independent verification is constrained by extreme state opacity, and the specific Criminal Code article is left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for the gravest drug offences is death. A primary statute portal for DPRK law was not located; this cell is sourced via the Library of Congress Global Legal Monitor (loc.gov) and the UNODC legal database, with Harm Reduction International as a corroborating record.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In North Korea, drugs fall under the Criminal Code of the DPRK (2013 revision and later amendments). The 2013 penal code revision designated illegal drug production a capital offence, and serious drug trafficking and smuggling are treated as grave crimes that can carry the death penalty; lower-level offences carry imprisonment or corrective labour. North Korea is among the small group of states with believed or confirmed drug-related executions in recent years (per the Harm Reduction International Global Overview); independent verification is constrained by extreme state opacity, and the specific Criminal Code article is left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for the gravest drug offences is death. A primary statute portal for DPRK law was not located; this cell is sourced via the Library of Congress Global Legal Monitor (loc.gov) and the UNODC legal database, with Harm Reduction International as a corroborating record. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Criminal Code, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Criminal Code of the DPRK (2013 revision and later amendments) · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
State of Palestine
Legal status
Not confirmed, the applicable Palestinian penal law (Gaza Strip military orders / West Bank Palestinian Authority framework) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in the State of Palestine is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the State of Palestine's drug schedule; the applicable Palestinian penal law (Gaza Strip military orders / West Bank Palestinian Authority framework) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the State of Palestine, drug law differs by territory. In the Hamas-administered Gaza Strip, serious drug trafficking is a capital offence under military orders, and Gaza courts have sentenced people to death for drug trafficking (for example, four death sentences in 2022) with executions carried out. In the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority applies a different framework and maintains a longstanding execution moratorium. Harm Reduction International's 2023 Global Overview lists the State of Palestine among states retaining the death penalty for drug offences. The precise governing instrument and article are left to confirmation against the current law in each territory. [jurisdiction-split] Capital drug provisions are associated with the Hamas-administered Gaza Strip; the West Bank / Palestinian Authority framework differs and maintains an execution moratorium. Verify against the current governing law in each territory. A primary statute portal was not located; this cell is sourced via the Library of Congress Global Legal Monitor (loc.gov) and the UNODC legal database, with Harm Reduction International as a corroborating record.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the State of Palestine, drug law differs by territory. In the Hamas-administered Gaza Strip, serious drug trafficking is a capital offence under military orders, and Gaza courts have sentenced people to death for drug trafficking (for example, four death sentences in 2022) with executions carried out. In the West Bank, the Palestinian Authority applies a different framework and maintains a longstanding execution moratorium. Harm Reduction International's 2023 Global Overview lists the State of Palestine among states retaining the death penalty for drug offences. The precise governing instrument and article are left to confirmation against the current law in each territory. [jurisdiction-split] Capital drug provisions are associated with the Hamas-administered Gaza Strip; the West Bank / Palestinian Authority framework differs and maintains an execution moratorium. Verify against the current governing law in each territory. A primary statute portal was not located; this cell is sourced via the Library of Congress Global Legal Monitor (loc.gov) and the UNODC legal database, with Harm Reduction International as a corroborating record. Cannabis is a controlled drug, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Antigua and Barbuda
Legal status
Not listed. There is no benzodiazepine anywhere in this Act. This is a positive finding of absence and not a deferral. The terms searched were nimetazepam, Erimin, nitrobenzodiazepine, each returning nothing in Parts I, II or III of the First Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Act, Cap. 283. The entries nearest to it were read in full and rejected: 'Nicocodeine.', 'Nicodicodine (6-nicotinoyldihydrocodeine).', 'Nicomorphine (3, 6-dinicotinoylmorphine).', which the page prints hyphenated across a line break as 'dini-' and 'cotinoylmorphine', 'Noracymethadol.' and 'Normethadone.'.. The run of entries beginning with Ni and No in Part I and Part II is entirely opioid. The dossier marks this row VERIFIED and gives NIMETAZEPAM as a printed entry; that string is not in the Act. Note that this substance is one of the three that carry a single Singapore cell in this corpus rather than a full row of jurisdictions, and that fact says nothing about Antigua and Barbuda. Stated as at Parts I, II and III of the First Schedule as printed in the Revised Edition read on 22 September 2026, whose amendment list ends at Act 18 of 1989.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. No provision of the Misuse of Drugs Act, Cap. 283 imposes a capital penalty. The heaviest term printed anywhere in it is 14 years, in the General column of the Second Schedule against section 10, and section 26 gives 10 years on conviction on indictment for import or export of a Class A or Class B drug. This Part placement is not printed in the dossier quotation, which cites only 'First Schedule, Parts I to III' as a search scope; it is read from the Act's own First Schedule. The First Schedule is printed in two columns, so the class is taken from the entry's position within its Part and not from the line it shares with the facing column. Nothing in the Act attaches a punishment to a substance that is not a controlled drug: sections 4, 5, 6 and 8 each operate on a controlled drug or on a plant of the genus Cannabis, and the Second Schedule columns are headed by the three classes. So no figure from the Second Schedule is stated for this row, and that is a consequence of the finding rather than a gap in it. The one route by which an unnamed substance can still be caught is a group rule, and each was tested for this row: paragraph 2 of Part I for a stereoisomeric form, paragraph 3 for an ester or ether, paragraph 4 for a salt, and paragraph 5 for a preparation or other product containing a listed substance. None reaches it. This is stated from the consolidated text of Cap. 283 in the Revised Edition of the Laws of Antigua and Barbuda, whose printed amendment list runs 21 of 1973, 5 of 1975, 10 of 1979, 9 of 1982, 11 of 1987 and 18 of 1989, read on 22 September 2026. Section 3(2) provides that the Minister may by Order make such amendments to the First Schedule or any part thereof as may be necessary, so an Order made after that consolidation is not excluded by this cell.
If prescribed / medical
Section 9 builds the prescribing and dispensing regime around a controlled drug, and this substance is not one on the text read here, so no section 9 route applies to it. Any medicines control on it would come from the Medical Act and the pharmacy law rather than from Cap. 283, and neither was read for this cell. Carry any prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription.
Barbados
Legal status
Under the Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, enacted as Act 1990-14 and commenced 15 August 1990, read in the L.R.O. 1991 revised edition, the entry that places it is a row in Part II of the First Schedule, the «list OF psychotropic substances under control», where its International Non-Proprietary Name column reads «nimetazepam», and its chemical name column reads «1,3-dihydro-1-methyl-7-nitro-5-phenyl-2h-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one». This row sits immediately above the unmethylated 7-nitro member and differs from it by a single N methyl group, and both are placed expressly. The paragraph 2 limb of Part II covers stereoisomeric forms only, so an N methylation would not have been caught by it and Parliament had to schedule this member on its own. Part II extends only three ways, to any stereoisomeric form, to any salt, and to any preparation or other product. It carries no ester or ether limb, which Part I does, so a compound related to a Part II entry by esterification is outside the list although the same relationship inside Part I would be caught. Section 3 makes a substance a controlled drug only by its presence in the First Schedule, and section 3(2) lets the Minister by order add to or remove from Parts I to III of that Schedule, after consultation with the Drug Formulary Committee under section 3(3) and subject to affirmative resolution under section 3(4). The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. The Fourth Schedule, given effect by section 37, sets the punishment for every offence under the Act, and it was read row by row from the section 4(3) row to the section 35(3) row, which is its last. Not one row carries death. The heaviest punishment it prints anywhere is «Imprisonment for life» on indictment. Column 2 of the Second Schedule sets no figure for this row. The compound is not marketed as a medicine in most places, so a holding is unlikely to be explicable by a prescription at all, which moves the realistic exposure towards section 6(3) rather than section 6(2). Section 18(1) defines trafficking as importing, exporting, supplying or possessing a trafficable quantity, and the section 18(4) row of the Fourth Schedule punishes it summarily with «A fine of $250,000 or where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug three times the street value of the controlled drug, whichever is greater; and to imprisonment for 7 years», and on indictment with «Imprisonment for life». Simple possession under section 6(2) draws a fine of $250,000 or 5 years or both summarily, and $500,000 or 20 years or both on indictment, the same figures the section 6(3) possession with intent row carries. Section 21 adds its own tier for possession within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises, punished summarily by «A fine of $250,000 and imprisonment for 7 years» and on indictment by imprisonment for life. Barbados retains capital punishment for murder in its general criminal law. This Act is not part of that and provides no death penalty for any drug offence, which is why the opening sentence reads as it does.
Dominica
Legal status
Not confirmed. No entry for Nimetazepam was found in Part I, Part II or Part III of the Third Schedule to the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Chapter 40:07, on a reading of the three complete printed lists as page images at the revision note «L.R.O. 1/1991» printed in the footer of those pages. No nitro benzodiazepine is printed in Parts I to III, and no benzodiazepine of any kind. The Schedule's nitro entries are the Class A benzimidazole opioids «Clonitazene» and «Etonitazene». The compilation recorded this row as verified on a printed entry; the word is not in the Act. This row also differs from the other five benzodiazepine rows in one respect worth noting: it is one of the three substances that carry a single cell in this corpus rather than a full set. The absence is bounded by that revision and by nothing further: section 4(3) lets the Minister amend Parts I to III by Order after consulting the Advisory Council, Orders of that kind are published separately, and this consolidation reproduces none made after the note its Schedule pages carry. So about thirty five years of possible additions sit outside what was read, and that gap is why this row is left open here rather than published as a finding that the substance is uncontrolled in Dominica.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. The word death appears nowhere in this Act, counted across the whole 64 page chapter. The ceiling, however, is not in the Fourth Schedule: every limb of that Schedule stops at fourteen years and $200,000, and section 16 sits outside it carrying imprisonment for life. No penalty limb is assigned to this row, because no placement was established and a ceiling carried across from a neighbouring row would be an invention. Section 7(4) carries the only quantity figures in the Act and it names five substances: more than two grammes of diacetylmorphine, one gramme of cocaine, fifty-five grammes of opium, three grammes of morphine, and for cannabis or cannabis resin twenty-eight grammes, a figure the 1991 consolidation prints as fifteen and which Act No. 16 of 2020 raised, and Nimetazepam is not among the five, so no quantity presumption could attach to it even if an Order were later to place it. If such an Order or an analytical identification were to bring this material within Part I, section 7(2) would carry eighteen months and $50,000 on summary conviction and three years and $100,000 on indictment and section 7(3) three years and $100,000 on summary conviction and fourteen years and $200,000 on indictment; within Part II or Part III the figures would be the Class B or Class C columns of the Fourth Schedule instead. None of that is asserted here. The Act's true ceiling is not in the Fourth Schedule either: section 16(2) and section 16(5) carry imprisonment for life on conviction on indictment, and a mandatory minimum of seven years on summary conviction, for a drug trafficking offence or possession for the purpose of drug trafficking committed in a school, prison or military premises or with violence, official corruption or a child carrier. Both limbs are keyed to a controlled drug as section 4(1)(a) defines it, so neither can attach to a row that no printed entry places. One later amendment was found, read in full and is relied on here: the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted on 30 October 2020. It amends section 7(4), inserts new sections 7A and 7B and amends section 8, and it does not touch the Third Schedule, so it moves the cannabis possession rules without moving any substance between the Parts. Its existence is the measured proof that the consolidation held here is not current, which is why an absence from that consolidation is not published as a finding. The nearest printed text read and rejected for this row was the Class A nitro entries «Clonitazene» and «Etonitazene».
Grenada
Legal status
Controlled. It is listed at Part II of the First Schedule, the List of Psychotropic Substances Under Control, and the entry as printed is 'NIMETAZEPAM'. Section 3(2) lets the Minister amend the First Schedule by Order subject to affirmative resolution, so the printed schedule is not the last word and no Order later than SRO 16 of 2011 was read here.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Searched as 'nimetazepam' and as 'Erimin'. The INN appears once, between 'METHYLPRYLON' and 'NITRAZEPAM', two entries easy to confuse with it in a scanned list, so the line was read in full rather than matched on a fragment. The brand name is absent. Part II extends only to a stereoisomeric form under paragraph 2, a salt under paragraph 3 and a preparation or other product containing one of those under paragraph 4. It carries no ester or ether limb, which Part I does. The Fifth Schedule sets every punishment under section 37 and it does not graduate by substance at all. Possession under section 6(2), possession with intent to supply under section 6(3), production under section 5(2), supply or offering to supply under section 5(3), importation or exportation under section 4(3) and handling under section 7(1) each carry, on summary conviction, a fine of 250,000 dollars or imprisonment for 5 years or both, and on conviction on indictment a fine of 500,000 dollars or imprisonment for 20 years or both. Trafficking under section 18(4) is the one figure that moves: on indictment it is imprisonment for life. Section 21 adds a separate offence of possession in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises, also imprisonment for life on indictment. The act provides no death penalty. The Second Schedule prints a trafficable quantity for six drugs only, cannabis and cannabis resin, cocaine, heroin, opium, morphine and THC, so no threshold figure attaches to this row and the section 6(4) presumption of supply has no quantity to bite on. The Part of the First Schedule named in this cell is read from the act itself and is not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the schedule only as Parts I to IV.
If prescribed / medical
Section 12(3) requires the Minister to make regulations securing that it is not unlawful under section 5(1) for a practitioner acting as such to prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, nor unlawful under section 6(1) for a practitioner or pharmacist to possess one for that purpose, and section 24(2)(g) empowers regulations on the issue of prescriptions containing controlled drugs. Section 12(4) lets the Minister take a named drug back out of that protection by order. Whether regulations under sections 12 and 24 are in force, and whether there is an authorised medicinal form of nimetazepam in Grenada, was not established here.
Documentation
Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller: section 24(2)(b) and (c) put documentation and record keeping on the trade, and sections 14 and 15 govern drugs brought into Grenada in transit rather than personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.
Saint Kitts and Nevis
Legal status
Not confirmed, Saint Kitts and Nevis's Drugs (Prevention and Abatement of the Misuse and Abuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Saint Kitts and Nevis is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Saint Kitts and Nevis's drug schedule; Saint Kitts and Nevis's Drugs (Prevention and Abatement of the Misuse and Abuse) Act is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Saint Kitts and Nevis, drugs fall under Saint Kitts and Nevis's Drugs (Prevention and Abatement of the Misuse and Abuse) Act. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Saint Kitts and Nevis retains the death penalty in law for murder (abolitionist in practice), but its drug legislation does not provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Saint Kitts and Nevis, drugs fall under Saint Kitts and Nevis's Drugs (Prevention and Abatement of the Misuse and Abuse) Act. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Saint Kitts and Nevis retains the death penalty in law for murder (abolitionist in practice), but its drug legislation does not provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Saint Kitts and Nevis's Drugs (Prevention and Abatement of the Misuse and Abuse) Act · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Saint Lucia
Legal status
Controlled. Class C drug under section 4(1)(b), specified in Part III of Schedule 2. The entry as printed is 'Nimetazepam'. It sits in the Part III list beside 'Nitrazepam' and 'Nordazepam', and the three are distinguished here by their printed spellings rather than by any grouping in the act, since Part III has no generic clause. Part III paragraph 2 extends control to any stereoisomeric form, paragraph 3 to any salt and paragraph 4 to any preparation or other product containing it. Part I paragraph 6 makes any preparation designed for administration by injection which includes a Part II substance a Class A drug, and that paragraph names Part II only, so an injectable Class C preparation is not elevated by it. Section 4(2) lets the Minister amend Schedule 2 by statutory instrument after consultation with or on the recommendation of the Advisory Council, and section 49 lets the Minister amend the Schedules by order, so the printed schedule is not the last word. No statutory instrument later than the Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021 was read here, and no index of Saint Lucia statutory instruments could be enumerated, so that is a real limit on this cell and not a form of words.
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Schedule 3, which section 37 brings into effect, sets every punishment and it graduates by class rather than by substance. For a Class C drug, importation or exportation under section 5(3) and production under section 6(2) each carry, on summary conviction, 2 years or $75,000, and on indictment 14 years and $200,000. Supplying or offering to supply under section 6(3) carries, on summary conviction, 2 years or $75,000, and on indictment 10 years and $200,000. Possession under section 8(2) carries, on summary conviction, 2 years or $75,000, and on indictment 5 years or $100,000. Possession with intent to supply under section 8(3) carries, on summary conviction, 2 years and/or $75,000, and on indictment 10 years and/or $200,000. No section 8(4) quantity presumption attaches. Saint Lucia gives nimetazepam no special treatment of any kind and it takes the ordinary Class C figures. Section 25(1) is a separate trafficking ceiling and it does not graduate by substance at all: on summary conviction a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times that street value whichever is the greater, together with imprisonment for a term which may extend to 10 years but which shall not be less than 5 years; on conviction on indictment, imprisonment for life. Section 2 defines drug trafficking to reach producing, supplying, transporting, storing, importing and exporting a controlled drug. The act provides no death penalty and the words death, capital and sentenced to death appear nowhere in it. Section 12(1) makes possession of any controlled drug in or within a radius of one hundred yards of school premises unlawful in itself and section 12(4) deems that possession to be for supply unless the contrary is proved. Section 25(3) separately deems possession in any school premises to be for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 38 requires forfeiture on conviction.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Legal status
Not confirmed, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Saint Vincent and the Grenadines's drug schedule; Saint Vincent and the Grenadines' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, drugs fall under Saint Vincent and the Grenadines' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines retains the death penalty in law for murder (abolitionist in practice), but its drug legislation does not provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, drugs fall under Saint Vincent and the Grenadines' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Saint Vincent and the Grenadines retains the death penalty in law for murder (abolitionist in practice), but its drug legislation does not provide a death penalty, the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Act, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines' Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Haiti
Legal status
Not confirmed, Haiti's drug-control law / Penal Code drug provisions is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Haiti is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Haiti's drug schedule; Haiti's drug-control law / Penal Code drug provisions is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Haiti, drugs fall under Haiti's drug-control law / Penal Code drug provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Haiti, drugs fall under Haiti's drug-control law / Penal Code drug provisions. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Haiti's drug-control law / Penal Code drug provisions · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Sao Tome and Principe
Legal status
Not confirmed, Sao Tome and Principe's Lusophone Penal Code / drug-control law is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Sao Tome and Principe is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Sao Tome and Principe's drug schedule; Sao Tome and Principe's Lusophone Penal Code / drug-control law is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Sao Tome and Principe, drugs fall under Sao Tome and Principe's Lusophone Penal Code / drug-control law. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Sao Tome and Principe, drugs fall under Sao Tome and Principe's Lusophone Penal Code / drug-control law. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. A primary statute portal was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Sao Tome and Principe's Lusophone Penal Code / drug-control law · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Holy See
Legal status
Not confirmed, Vatican City State criminal law (Law No. CCXCVII and related) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in the Holy See is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the Holy See's drug schedule; Vatican City State criminal law (Law No. CCXCVII and related) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the Holy See, drugs fall under Vatican City State criminal law (Law No. CCXCVII and related). Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Vatican City is a very small jurisdiction with minimal independent drug caselaw; this cell asserts controlled status conservatively, and the precise provision and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current law. A primary statute portal was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the Holy See, drugs fall under Vatican City State criminal law (Law No. CCXCVII and related). Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. Vatican City is a very small jurisdiction with minimal independent drug caselaw; this cell asserts controlled status conservatively, and the precise provision and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current law. A primary statute portal was not located; this cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress pending a primary portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same law, with no legal recreational or medical regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Vatican City State criminal law (Law No. CCXCVII and related) · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Puerto Rico (US)
Legal status
Not confirmed, Puerto Rico's Controlled Substances Act (Ley de Sustancias Controladas de Puerto Rico, 24 LPRA) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Puerto Rico is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Puerto Rico's drug schedule; Puerto Rico's Controlled Substances Act (Ley de Sustancias Controladas de Puerto Rico, 24 LPRA) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Puerto Rico, drugs fall under the Controlled Substances Act of Puerto Rico (Ley de Sustancias Controladas de Puerto Rico, 24 LPRA), the territory's own statute, distinct from the US federal Controlled Substances Act. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Puerto Rico, drugs fall under the Controlled Substances Act of Puerto Rico (Ley de Sustancias Controladas de Puerto Rico, 24 LPRA), the territory's own statute, distinct from the US federal Controlled Substances Act. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Cannabis is controlled under the same Act with a regulated medical-cannabis exception: medical cannabis is legal for registered patients under Puerto Rico's 2015 medical-cannabis law, while recreational use, sale and cultivation remain prohibited. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Controlled Substances Act of Puerto Rico (Ley de Sustancias Controladas de Puerto Rico, 24 LPRA) · 2015 medical-cannabis law · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Guam (US)
Legal status
Not confirmed, Guam's Uniform Controlled Substances Act (9 GCA Chapter 67) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Guam is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Guam's drug schedule; Guam's Uniform Controlled Substances Act (9 GCA Chapter 67) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Guam, drugs fall under the Guam Uniform Controlled Substances Act (9 GCA Chapter 67), the territory's own statute. Trafficking and unlicensed supply carry imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Guam Compiler of Laws (guamcourts.gov) with Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Guam, drugs fall under the Guam Uniform Controlled Substances Act (9 GCA Chapter 67), the territory's own statute. Trafficking and unlicensed supply carry imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Guam Compiler of Laws (guamcourts.gov) with Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is treated differently from other controlled drugs: it is legal for adults 21 and over under the Guam Cannabis Industry Act of 2019, alongside the medical-cannabis programme (Public Law 34-80), with a regulated retail market; sale outside the licensed system remains an offence. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Guam Uniform Controlled Substances Act (9 GCA Chapter 67) · Guam Cannabis Industry Act of 2019 · Public Law 34-80 (medical cannabis) · guamcourts.gov · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
U.S. Virgin Islands (US)
Legal status
Nimetazepam is controlled federally. Federal Schedule IV under the Controlled Substances Act, 21 CFR 1308.14(c)(42), DEA code 2837, listed as 'Nimetazepam'. The territory's own schedules at 19 V.I.C. sec. 595 were not read in this run.
Consequences if caught
The federal Controlled Substances Act applies here. 21 U.S.C. 802(26) defines the term State to mean 'a State of the United States, the District of Columbia, and any commonwealth, territory, or possession of the United States', so the federal schedules and the federal offences reach this territory directly. Federally this is a Schedule IV controlled substance, 21 CFR 1308.14(c)(42), DEA code 2837. No medicine containing nimetazepam was identified in this run as marketed in the United States, so the prescription exception is unlikely to be a practical route, although the schedule itself places it in Schedule IV. Federal simple possession is 21 U.S.C. 844(a). A first offence carries 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 1 year, and shall be fined a minimum of $1,000, or both', with higher minimums after one prior conviction and after two or more. Supply, and possession with intent to supply, is 21 U.S.C. 841(a)(1). For a Schedule IV substance section 841(b)(2) provides 'a term of imprisonment of not more than 5 years'. The territory also has its own controlled substances statute in title 19 of the Virgin Islands Code. Its schedules appear in a search engine result title for the law.justia.com page as section 595, Schedules of controlled substances, and the Third Circuit described 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (1972), as the provision 'which prohibits knowing or intentional possession of controlled substances with the intention of manufacturing, distributing or dispensing', as the section stood in 1972; whether it has since been amended was not read. Neither section's text was read in this run: every route tried to the code itself was refused or unreachable, and the routes are listed in the documentation field. So whether the territorial schedules list this substance, and the territorial penalty, are not stated here. Two statutes can reach the same conduct, the federal Act and the territory's own, and which one is charged decides the exposure.
If prescribed / medical
21 U.S.C. 844(a) excepts a substance 'obtained directly, or pursuant to a valid prescription or order, from a practitioner, while acting in the course of his professional practice'. Whether a prescription written outside the United States meets that exception was not established here, and the territory's own prescription rules were not read.
Documentation
Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription. Bringing a controlled substance into this territory from the mainland United States or from abroad engages federal importation and customs provisions as well as the territorial law, and neither was read here. Routes tried on 3 October 2026 for the territorial text, 19 V.I.C. secs. 595 and 604: law.justia.com 2019 U.S. Virgin Islands Code pages refused with HTTP 403 to a scripted fetch, to curl with a browser User Agent and to WebFetch; the Wayback Machine holds no capture of sec. 595 and refused further requests with HTTP 429; the LexisNexis free Virgin Islands Code at lexisnexis.com/hottopics/vicode redirects to a JavaScript application that a text fetch cannot read; womenslaw.org's copy of sec. 593 and Bill No. 30-0258 of the Thirtieth Legislature on stthomassource.com both refused with HTTP 403. An earlier version of this cell, sourced through the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database rather than the territory's statute, recorded that drugs here fall under the Virgin Islands Code (Title 19) controlled-substances provisions, that trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, that the maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment, and that cannabis is treated differently: medical cannabis is legal under the Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act (2019) and personal possession of small amounts has been decriminalized, while non-medical sale and cultivation remain prohibited. None of that territorial material was read in this run and it is carried forward unverified.
Northern Mariana Islands (US)
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Northern Mariana Islands' Commonwealth controlled-substances code is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in the Northern Mariana Islands is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the Northern Mariana Islands' drug schedule; the Northern Mariana Islands' Commonwealth controlled-substances code is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the Northern Mariana Islands, drugs fall under the Commonwealth's own controlled-substances code. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the Northern Mariana Islands, drugs fall under the Commonwealth's own controlled-substances code. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Cannabis is treated differently from other controlled drugs: it is legal for adults 21 and over under the Taulamwaar Sensible CNMI Cannabis Act of 2018, which authorizes personal possession, cultivation and a regulated adult-use market; no separate medical-cannabis programme is authorized, and sale outside the licensed system remains an offence. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Taulamwaar Sensible CNMI Cannabis Act of 2018 · Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands controlled-substances code · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
American Samoa (US)
Legal status
Not confirmed, the American Samoa Code Annotated (Title 13) controlled-substances provisions is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in American Samoa is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against American Samoa's drug schedule; the American Samoa Code Annotated (Title 13) controlled-substances provisions is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In American Samoa, drugs fall under the American Samoa Code Annotated (Title 13) controlled-substances provisions, the territory's own statute, among the harshest of any US jurisdiction. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In American Samoa, drugs fall under the American Samoa Code Annotated (Title 13) controlled-substances provisions, the territory's own statute, among the harshest of any US jurisdiction. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Cannabis is a controlled drug under the same Title 13 provisions, fully prohibited with no medical or recreational regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
American Samoa Code Annotated Title 13 (controlled substances) · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Bermuda (UK)
Legal status
Not confirmed, Bermuda's Misuse of Drugs Act 1972 (as amended) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Bermuda is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Bermuda's drug schedule; Bermuda's Misuse of Drugs Act 1972 (as amended) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Bermuda, drugs fall under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1972 (as amended), Bermuda's own statute. Supply, cultivation and trafficking carry imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Bermuda statute portal (bpa.bm) with Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Bermuda, drugs fall under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1972 (as amended), Bermuda's own statute. Supply, cultivation and trafficking carry imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Bermuda statute portal (bpa.bm) with Library of Congress corroboration. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Bermuda Misuse of Drugs Act 1972 (as amended by the Misuse of Drugs Amendment Act 2017) · bpa.bm · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Cayman Islands (UK)
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Cayman Islands' Misuse of Drugs Act (2026 Revision) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in the Cayman Islands is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the Cayman Islands' drug schedule; the Cayman Islands' Misuse of Drugs Act (2026 Revision) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the Cayman Islands, drugs fall under the Misuse of Drugs Act (2026 Revision), the territory's own statute, enforced with a zero-tolerance import policy. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Cayman Islands legislation portal (legislation.gov.ky) with Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the Cayman Islands, drugs fall under the Misuse of Drugs Act (2026 Revision), the territory's own statute, enforced with a zero-tolerance import policy. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Cayman Islands legislation portal (legislation.gov.ky) with Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is treated differently from other controlled drugs: medical cannabis and CBD products are permitted only on local prescription (since 2017), while recreational cannabis is fully prohibited under zero-tolerance enforcement, possession carries a fine up to CI$3,000 and up to 3 years' imprisonment, and importation a fine up to CI$20,000 and up to 7 years on first conviction. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Cayman Islands Misuse of Drugs Act (2026 Revision) · legislation.gov.ky · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Gibraltar (UK)
Legal status
Not confirmed, Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Gibraltar is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Gibraltar's drug schedule; Gibraltar's Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Gibraltar, drugs fall under the Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences), Gibraltar's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Gibraltar Laws portal (gibraltarlaws.gov.gi) with Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Gibraltar, drugs fall under the Crimes Act 2011 (drug offences), Gibraltar's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Gibraltar Laws portal (gibraltarlaws.gov.gi) with Library of Congress corroboration. Cannabis is treated differently from other controlled drugs: recreational cannabis is illegal, while medical cannabis has been permitted since October 2019 under prescription; sale and cultivation outside the medical framework remain prohibited. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Controlled as a Class C drug under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 178. Part III of Schedule 2 names "Nimetazepam", and paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 of Part III add its stereoisomers, salts and any preparation or other product containing it.
Consequences if caught
As a Class C drug, nimetazepam is reached by the Act's possession, supply, import, export and use offences. Simple possession contrary to section 7(1) is punishable under Schedule 3, read with section 28(2), by 2 years and $75,000 on summary conviction and 5 years and $100,000 on conviction on indictment, where the period is the maximum term of imprisonment and the sum the maximum fine. Possession with intent to supply under section 7(2), and producing, supplying, offering to supply, importing or exporting under sections 5 and 6, are drug trafficking offences under section 2, and for those section 16(1) applies whatever the class: on summary conviction "a fine of $100,000 or, where there is evidence of the street value of the controlled drug, 3 times the street value thereof, whichever is the greater" or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 10 years but not less than 3 years", or both, and on conviction on indictment a fine of $200,000 or three times the street value, whichever is the greater, or "imprisonment for a term not exceeding 15 years but not less than 10 years", or both. Section 16(3) deems a person found with a controlled drug in any school premises to have it for drug trafficking unless the contrary is proved. Section 11 also makes it an offence "to smoke or otherwise use any controlled drug", for which Schedule 3 gives 2 years and $75,000 summarily and 14 years and $200,000 on indictment. Section 7(3) sets a quantity above which possession is presumed to be for supply only for heroin, cocaine, opium, morphine and cannabis, so no such presumption applies to nimetazepam.
If prescribed / medical
No traveller allowance was found. Section 5(1) prohibits "the importation of a controlled drug" and "the exportation of a controlled drug", and section 5(2) lifts that only for a drug excepted by regulations under section 9 or for import or export under a licence issued by the Minister. Section 9(3), subject to subsection (4), requires the Minister to make regulations so that doctors, dentists and veterinary practitioners may prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply controlled drugs, druggists and retail pharmacies may manufacture, compound or supply them, and all of them may possess them, in that capacity; the Act itself names no exception for a patient carrying nimetazepam, and the laws.gov.vg page for the Act lists no regulations under section 9.
Documentation
Part III names "Nimetazepam" between "Methyprylone" and "Nitrazepam". Read in the Attorney General's Chambers consolidation, Revised Edition showing the law as at 1 January 2020, which is byte for byte the copy the Financial Services Commission publishes; Schedules 2 and 3 read the same in the Revised Edition showing the law as at 30 June 2013. The 2020 consolidation prints section 28(6) as a plain election by the prosecution between summary trial and trial on indictment, and does not list Act 14 of 2005 among its amending Acts. That Act was deemed in force from 6 May 2005 by S.I. 2022 No. 111, a proclamation gazetted on 29 December 2022, and the wording it gives section 28(6), printed in the 2013 Revised Edition, confines the election to a person "aged 18 years or over" and sends a child or young person to be tried summarily in a youth court. laws.gov.vg lists the Cannabis Licensing Act 2020 and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020 only as bills, each in a file named as gazetted on 23 June 2020, and no Acts listing for 2021 or 2022 was read, the year pages read being Bills listings; the amendment bill would insert expungement provisions after section 28 for possession of not more than fifty grammes of cannabis or ten grammes of cannabis resin, and does not touch Schedule 2, and whether either bill received assent or came into force was not established.
Turks and Caicos Islands (UK)
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Turks and Caicos Islands' Control of Drugs Ordinance is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in the Turks and Caicos Islands is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the Turks and Caicos Islands' drug schedule; the Turks and Caicos Islands' Control of Drugs Ordinance is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the Turks and Caicos Islands, drugs fall under the Control of Drugs Ordinance, the territory's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the Turks and Caicos Islands, drugs fall under the Control of Drugs Ordinance, the territory's own statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Cannabis and cannabis resin are Class B controlled drugs (Part II) under the same Ordinance, fully prohibited with no medical or recreational regime. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Turks and Caicos Islands Control of Drugs Ordinance · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Jersey (UK Crown Dependency)
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Misuse of Drugs (Jersey) Law 1978 is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Jersey is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Jersey's drug schedule; the Misuse of Drugs (Jersey) Law 1978 is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Jersey, drugs fall under the Misuse of Drugs (Jersey) Law 1978, the Bailiwick's own statute, built on the UK-model Class A/B/C system. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Jersey Legal Information Board (jerseylaw.je) with Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Jersey, drugs fall under the Misuse of Drugs (Jersey) Law 1978, the Bailiwick's own statute, built on the UK-model Class A/B/C system. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Jersey Legal Information Board (jerseylaw.je) with Library of Congress corroboration. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Misuse of Drugs (Jersey) Law 1978 · jerseylaw.je · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Guernsey (UK Crown Dependency)
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Misuse of Drugs (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law 1974 is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Guernsey is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Guernsey's drug schedule; the Misuse of Drugs (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law 1974 is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Guernsey, drugs fall under the Misuse of Drugs (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law 1974, the Bailiwick's own statute, built on the UK-model Class A/B/C system. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via Guernsey Legal Resources (guernseylegalresources.gg) with Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Guernsey, drugs fall under the Misuse of Drugs (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law 1974, the Bailiwick's own statute, built on the UK-model Class A/B/C system. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise article and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via Guernsey Legal Resources (guernseylegalresources.gg) with Library of Congress corroboration. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed, the Isle of Man's Misuse of Drugs Act is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in the Isle of Man is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the Isle of Man's drug schedule; the Isle of Man's Misuse of Drugs Act is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the Isle of Man, drugs fall under the Island's own Misuse of Drugs Act, which replicates the UK Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Schedule 2 Classes A/B/C, administered by the Island's own ACMD). Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Isle of Man Government legislation portal (gov.im) with Library of Congress corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the Isle of Man, drugs fall under the Island's own Misuse of Drugs Act, which replicates the UK Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 (Schedule 2 Classes A/B/C, administered by the Island's own ACMD). Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Isle of Man Government legislation portal (gov.im) with Library of Congress corroboration. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Isle of Man Misuse of Drugs Act (Schedule 2 Classes A/B/C) · gov.im · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Montserrat (UK)
Legal status
Not confirmed, Montserrat's Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Montserrat is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Montserrat's drug schedule; Montserrat's Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Montserrat, drugs fall under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act/Ordinance, a UK-model statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Montserrat, drugs fall under the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act/Ordinance, a UK-model statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Montserrat Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act / Ordinance · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Anguilla (UK)
Legal status
Not confirmed, the Misuse of Drugs Act (Anguilla) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Anguilla is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Anguilla's drug schedule; the Misuse of Drugs Act (Anguilla) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Anguilla, drugs fall under the Misuse of Drugs Act (Anguilla), a UK-model statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Anguilla, drugs fall under the Misuse of Drugs Act (Anguilla), a UK-model statute. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise section and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current statute. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Misuse of Drugs Act (Anguilla) · cannabis decriminalization effective 1 December 2024 · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Aruba (Netherlands)
Legal status
Not confirmed, Aruba's Criminal Code and narcotics (opium) ordinance is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Aruba is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Aruba's drug schedule; Aruba's Criminal Code and narcotics (opium) ordinance is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Aruba, drugs fall under Aruba's own Criminal Code and narcotics (opium) ordinance, Aruba has been an autonomous country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands since 1986 and, unlike the European Netherlands, operates NO coffeeshop tolerance. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise provision and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Aruba, drugs fall under Aruba's own Criminal Code and narcotics (opium) ordinance, Aruba has been an autonomous country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands since 1986 and, unlike the European Netherlands, operates NO coffeeshop tolerance. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise provision and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed, Curaçao's Opium Ordinance is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Curaçao is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Curaçao's drug schedule; Curaçao's Opium Ordinance is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Curaçao, drugs fall under Curaçao's own Opium Ordinance, distinct from the European Netherlands' tolerance regime. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, and cocaine/heroin/MDMA offences draw severe sentences; the precise provision and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current ordinance. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Curaçao, drugs fall under Curaçao's own Opium Ordinance, distinct from the European Netherlands' tolerance regime. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine, and cocaine/heroin/MDMA offences draw severe sentences; the precise provision and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current ordinance. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Not confirmed, Sint Maarten's Opium National Ordinance of 1960 is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Sint Maarten is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Sint Maarten's drug schedule; Sint Maarten's Opium National Ordinance of 1960 is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Sint Maarten, drugs fall under the Opium National Ordinance of 1960, covering both hard and soft drugs. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise provision and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current ordinance. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Sint Maarten, drugs fall under the Opium National Ordinance of 1960, covering both hard and soft drugs. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise provision and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current ordinance. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Sint Maarten Opium National Ordinance of 1960 · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
French Polynesia (France)
Legal status
Not confirmed, the French Code de la santé publique (narcotics provisions) as applied in French Polynesia is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in French Polynesia is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against French Polynesia's drug schedule; the French Code de la santé publique (narcotics provisions) as applied in French Polynesia is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In French Polynesia, drugs fall under the French Code de la santé publique (narcotics provisions) as applied in the territory (with local island variation in enforcement). Trafficking carries up to 30 years' imprisonment and a fine up to EUR 150,000 under the French penalty structure; the precise classification is left to confirmation against the current Code. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via Légifrance (legifrance.gouv.fr) and the Library of Congress with UNODC corroboration.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In French Polynesia, drugs fall under the French Code de la santé publique (narcotics provisions) as applied in the territory (with local island variation in enforcement). Trafficking carries up to 30 years' imprisonment and a fine up to EUR 150,000 under the French penalty structure; the precise classification is left to confirmation against the current Code. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via Légifrance (legifrance.gouv.fr) and the Library of Congress with UNODC corroboration. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
French Code de la santé publique (narcotics provisions) applied in French Polynesia · legifrance.gouv.fr · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
New Caledonia (France)
Legal status
Not confirmed, the French Code de la santé publique (narcotics provisions) as applied in New Caledonia is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in New Caledonia is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against New Caledonia's drug schedule; the French Code de la santé publique (narcotics provisions) as applied in New Caledonia is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In New Caledonia, drugs fall under the French Code de la santé publique (narcotics provisions) as applied in the territory. Trafficking carries up to 30 years' imprisonment and a fine up to EUR 150,000 under the French penalty structure; the precise classification is left to confirmation against the current Code. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In New Caledonia, drugs fall under the French Code de la santé publique (narcotics provisions) as applied in the territory. Trafficking carries up to 30 years' imprisonment and a fine up to EUR 150,000 under the French penalty structure; the precise classification is left to confirmation against the current Code. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
French Code de la santé publique (narcotics provisions) applied in New Caledonia · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Caribbean Netherlands (BES)
Legal status
Not confirmed, the BES narcotics law (the old-Antillean Opium Ordinance applied through the WvS-BES penal framework) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in the Caribbean Netherlands (BES) is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against the Caribbean Netherlands' drug schedule; the BES narcotics law (the old-Antillean Opium Ordinance applied through the WvS-BES penal framework) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In the Caribbean Netherlands (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, the BES islands), drugs fall under the old-Antillean narcotics law applied through the WvS-BES penal framework, NOT the European Netherlands' Opium-Act tolerance, penalties are HARSHER than in the European Netherlands. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise instrument and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In the Caribbean Netherlands (Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, the BES islands), drugs fall under the old-Antillean narcotics law applied through the WvS-BES penal framework, NOT the European Netherlands' Opium-Act tolerance, penalties are HARSHER than in the European Netherlands. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise instrument and penalty terms are left to confirmation against the current law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Caribbean Netherlands (BES) narcotics law, old-Antillean Opium Ordinance via the WvS-BES penal framework · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
Aceh (Indonesia)
Legal status
Not confirmed, Indonesia's national Narcotics Law No. 35 of 2009 (applied in Aceh) is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Aceh is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Aceh's drug schedule; Indonesia's national Narcotics Law No. 35 of 2009 (applied in Aceh) is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Aceh, drugs fall under Indonesia's national Narcotics Law No. 35 of 2009 (Articles 111-127), which applies in the province; Aceh ADDITIONALLY applies the qanun jinayat (Islamic criminal bylaws) imposing caning for certain offences as a corporal-punishment overlay distinct from the national penal regime. Organized or large-scale trafficking of Category I narcotics is capital-eligible, the death penalty is NATIONAL (under Law 35/2009), NOT a separate Aceh statute, and Indonesia actively imposes drug death sentences. Possession and lower-level offences carry imprisonment from 4 years or court-ordered rehabilitation; the precise article and threshold are left to confirmation against the current law. This cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress, with the qanun framing corroborated in free text.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Aceh, drugs fall under Indonesia's national Narcotics Law No. 35 of 2009 (Articles 111-127), which applies in the province; Aceh ADDITIONALLY applies the qanun jinayat (Islamic criminal bylaws) imposing caning for certain offences as a corporal-punishment overlay distinct from the national penal regime. Organized or large-scale trafficking of Category I narcotics is capital-eligible, the death penalty is NATIONAL (under Law 35/2009), NOT a separate Aceh statute, and Indonesia actively imposes drug death sentences. Possession and lower-level offences carry imprisonment from 4 years or court-ordered rehabilitation; the precise article and threshold are left to confirmation against the current law. This cell is sourced via the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) and the Library of Congress, with the qanun framing corroborated in free text. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Indonesia national Narcotics Law No. 35 of 2009 (Articles 111-127), applied in Aceh · Aceh qanun jinayat (Islamic criminal bylaws), corroborated free-text · unodc.org · loc.gov · Updated July 14, 2026
Faroe Islands (Denmark)
Legal status
Controlled in the Faroe Islands. Nimetazepam is named on liste E nr. 64 of bekendtgørelse nr. 495 af 26. maj 2026 for Færøerne om euforiserende stoffer, as in force on 4 October 2026, where the entry reads «Nimetazepam INN.». Bilag 1 says «Liste B, D og E omfatter stoffer, der kun må benyttes til medicinsk og videnskabelig brug», and § 3 of the order repeats that «Euforiserende midler må her i landet kun anvendes i medicinsk eller videnskabeligt øjemed».
Consequences if caught
Searched as nimetazepam. It is not in the order's Eksempelliste 1 of products sold in Denmark, so no local product is named; the placement rests on the list row alone. The offence is not in the order. Its § 30 says a breach «straffes efter § 3 og § 3 a i lov om euforiserende stoffer, som sat i kraft for Færøerne ved kongelig anordning», and adds «Under de i § 191 i straffeloven angivne omstændigheder straffes overtrædelsen dog efter denne bestemmelse». Section 3(1) of the Act as in force for the Faroe Islands punishes a breach «med bøde eller fængsel indtil 2 år», a fine or imprisonment for up to 2 years, and requires the court to weigh «skadevirkningerne af de pågældende stoffer», the harmfulness of the substance. Section 3(2) makes it «en betydelig skærpende omstændighed» that the case concerns repeated sale of a particularly dangerous or harmful substance, or sale, or free transfer with a view to later sale, at restaurants, discotheques, concerts or music festivals or at other events attended mainly by children or young people. Section 3 a lets a company be held criminally liable under chapter 5 of «den for Færøerne gældende straffelovs», the penal code in force for the Faroe Islands, and this cell reads the straffelov named in § 30 as that same code. Lov nr. 740 af 13. juni 2023 cites it as «straffelov for Færøerne, jf. lovbekendtgørelse nr. 215 af 24. juni 1939». Its § 191 was not read for this cell: no consolidation of it was found on retsinformation.dk and the logir.fo search could not be driven from here. No ceiling for that tier is therefore stated, and the figures in the Danish straffelov, which is a different statute, are not carried over.
If prescribed / medical
No medicine containing it is named in the order's own Eksempelliste 1 of products sold in Denmark. Section 6 of the order allows receipt and possession of a listed substance only in named cases, such as on a prescription or as a licensed laboratory, and none of them is a traveller allowance. Nothing here authorises carrying it.
Documentation
The order read is bekendtgørelse nr. 495 af 26. maj 2026 for Færøerne om euforiserende stoffer, as in force on 4 October 2026. Its § 33 puts it in force on 15 June 2026 and repeals bekendtgørelse nr. 90 af 31. januar 2025. A retsinformation.dk search run on 4 October 2026 returned no later order amending it, which does not rule out a later amendment. The order was made by Indenrigs- og Sundhedsministeriet under §§ 1 and 2 of lov om euforiserende stoffer as put in force for the Faroe Islands by royal decree, the decree text being consolidated in anordningsbekendtgørelse nr. 1349 af 23. november 2015. It is a Danish ministerial order made for the Faroe Islands, and the licences it provides for are granted by Lægemiddelstyrelsen «efter forhandling med Landsapotekeren». Customs also has a role. Under § 9 of the order an import certificate for a consignment from outside the European Economic Area is shown to «de statslige told- og skattemyndigheder». The customs legislation itself, the Customs Act regime, was not read for this cell and nothing in it rests on that legislation. Carry any medicine in its original packaging with its prescription, and confirm the current rule with the Faroese authorities before travel.
Falkland Islands (UK)
Legal status
Class C controlled drug in the Falkland Islands. Part 3 of the Schedule to the Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 names «Nimetazepam»; importing it for one's own use, and possessing it as a medicine, are excepted from the Misuse of Drugs offences by the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997, but supplying it is an offence.
Consequences if caught
Part 3, paragraph 1(a) of the Schedule, headed «CLASS C DRUGS», lists «Nimetazepam» among the benzodiazepines, and paragraphs 2 to 4 add its stereoisomers, salts and preparations. It is listed between «Midazolam» and «Nitrazepam». Nimetazepam falls within the Schedule 4 possession exception when held as a medicinal product, and the penalties below bite on supply, on possession with intent to supply, and on possession other than in a medicinal product. Penalties under the Ordinance for a Class C drug in Schedule 4 to the 1997 Regulations Order: importing or exporting it is not a Misuse of Drugs offence, because regulation 4(1) switches section 3(1) off for Schedule 4 drugs, so the Misuse of Drugs import prohibition does not apply to it. Separately, the Customs (Import of Medicines) Proclamation 1994 prohibits importing any medicine «for the purpose of the retail sale within the Falkland Islands of that medicine» unless the importation «has been authorised in writing by the Chief Medical Officer»; it does not apply to medicines imported for a person's own use. Importing a medicine for retail sale in breach of that Proclamation, with intent to evade it, can be charged under section 43(3) of the Customs Ordinance 2003, which section 43(4) punishes with a fine of up to level 12, £625,000, or up to 7 years' imprisonment. Producing or supplying it or offering to supply it (section 4), possessing it with intent to supply (section 5(2)) and permitting production or supply on premises one occupies (section 8) each carry up to 5 years' imprisonment and a fine at level 6; possessing it other than in a medicinal product (section 5(1)) carries up to 2 years and a fine at level 4. Section 17 gives an attempt or incitement the same punishment as the offence. Schedule 8 to the Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014 sets level 10 on the standard scale at £125,000, level 8 at £25,000, level 6 at £10,000 and level 4 at £2,000. Section 480(4) of that Ordinance makes a penalty printed at the foot of a section the maximum, and where it joins penalties with the word and they «may be inflicted alternatively or cumulatively». This is stated as at the legislation.gov.fk consolidation of the Ordinance in force from 10 April 2019, whose Schedule is the one substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014 with effect from 23 December 2014. Section 2(4) lets the Governor by Order add a substance to, or remove one from, Parts 1 to 3 of the Schedule. No Misuse of Drugs Order appears in the Gazette indexes for 2023, 2024 or 2025 or in Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, and the portal's title search for misuse returns only the Ordinance, the 1989 Designation and Regulations Orders, the 1997 Regulations Order and two 2022 instruments, neither of which amends the Schedule. This does not rule out a later Order.
Saint Helena (UK)
Legal status
Not confirmed, Saint Helena's misuse-of-drugs ordinance is the governing drug law; the specific scheduling/penalty for Nimetazepam in Saint Helena is not confirmed here. Verify against the current schedule.
Consequences if caught
This specific substance was not individually verified against Saint Helena's drug schedule; Saint Helena's misuse-of-drugs ordinance is the governing law. Do NOT assume it is permitted; verify before travel. In Saint Helena (the territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha), drugs fall under Saint Helena's own misuse-of-drugs ordinance, built on the UK model. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Saint Helena law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal.
If prescribed / medical
If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
In Saint Helena (the territory of Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha), drugs fall under Saint Helena's own misuse-of-drugs ordinance, built on the UK model. Trafficking carries imprisonment together with a fine; the precise ordinance and penalty terms are left to confirmation against current Saint Helena law. The maximum penalty for a drug offence is imprisonment. This cell is sourced via the Library of Congress and the UNODC legal database (unodc.org/cld) pending a clean territory-primary statute portal. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Saint Helena misuse-of-drugs ordinance (Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha · UK-model) · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
United States
Legal status
Controlled. Schedule IV under the Controlled Substances Act, at 21 CFR 1308.14(c)(42). Listed by name. This cell states federal law only. Every state has its own controlled substances act and several differ from the federal schedules, so check the law of the state you are in.
Consequences if caught
It is listed by name at 21 CFR 1308.14(c)(42). Supply is 21 USC 841(b)(2), up to 5 years. Simple possession is 21 USC 844(a), up to 1 year and a fine of at least 1,000 dollars on a first offence, with higher figures after a prior conviction. The section excepts a substance 'obtained directly, or pursuant to a valid prescription or order, from a practitioner, while acting in the course of his professional practice'.
If prescribed / medical
Prescription supply through the licensed channel is lawful. 21 USC 844(a) excepts a substance obtained on a valid prescription from a practitioner acting in the course of professional practice, and handling outside that channel is an offence under 21 USC 841 and the registration provisions at 21 USC 822 and 823.
Documentation
Carry any prescribed medicine in its original labelled container with the prescription. Federal law and the law of the state you are entering can differ, so confirm both before travel.
Controlled Substances Act, 21 USC 802, 812, 813, 841 and 844 (Office of the Law Revision Counsel) · 21 CFR 1308.11 to 1308.15 (Electronic Code of Federal Regulations, current as of 11 September 2026) · 91 FR 22714, 28 April 2026, for marijuana in an approved product or under a state medical licence · uscode.house.gov · ecfr.gov · federalregister.gov · Updated September 16, 2026
· Articles 11, 43 and 58 attach to this branch, Article 58 giving death or life imprisonment as alternatives with no quantity stated, and the Schedule 10 bands do not gate it
· the schedule text was read at https://sha.shj.ae/#:~:text=%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%85 and the article text at https://uaelegislation.gov.ae/ar/legislations/1540#:~:text=%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%AF%D8%A9%2058, the federal legislation portal
· the instrument is written in Arabic and the English rendering is the dossier's
· read as at 20 September 2026
Thailand, Narcotics Code B.E. 2564 section 94 with the penalties at section 149 and a stated maximum of 7 years · Ministry of Public Health psychotropic naming notification B.E. 2565, category 2, where Nimetazepam is reached by the entry for nimetazepam · read in the Royal Gazette at https://www.ratchakitcha.soc.go.th/DATA/PDF/2565/E/182/T_0008.PDF on 20 September 2026. No express open reuse licence was located on the cited page, so only the wording needed for verification is reproduced, with attribution and a direct link. · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Nimetazepam is not currently a registered medicine in Indonesia. Its listing in Golongan IV governs its control rather than its availability.
Documentation
No prescription route exists in practice, so there is no document that would authorise carrying it.
Undang-Undang Nomor 5 Tahun 1997 tentang Psikotropika, LN 1997/10, TLN 3671 · empowering article Pasal 2(4), which delegates the establishment and change of the psychotropic types to the Minister · the psychotropics list in force is the Lampiran to Permenkes Nomor 14 Tahun 2025, Berita Negara Tahun 2025 Nomor 988. It supersedes the annex printed in the 1997 Act, whose Golongan I and II were repealed outright by Pasal 153(b) of Undang-Undang Nomor 35 Tahun 2009 and then re-established by this regulation, so the 1997 annex must not be read as current · the finding is Psikotropika Golongan IV of the Lampiran to Permenkes No. 14 Tahun 2025, item 46 「NIMETAZEPAM」 · Lampiran to Permenkes No. 14 Tahun 2025 Psikotropika Golongan IV item 46 read, with FLUNITRAZEPAM located in Golongan III. Aceh runs a separate criminal code for some conduct and is a separate jurisdiction in this dataset · the Qanun Aceh Nomor 6 Tahun 2014 tentang Hukum Jinayat was read for this batch and mentions narkotika and psikotropika zero times, so narcotics law in Aceh is the national Act unchanged. Read 2026-09-17 · e-pharm.kemkes.go.id · jdih.kemkes.go.id · jdih.kemkes.go.id · e-pharm.kemkes.go.id · Placement re-derived in this pass from Peraturan Menteri Kesehatan Nomor 15 Tahun 2025 tentang Perubahan Penggolongan Narkotika and Nomor 14 Tahun 2025 tentang Penetapan dan Perubahan Penggolongan Psikotropika, both read at jdih.kemkes.go.id on 21 September 2026. Permenkes 15/2025 was ditetapkan 21 November 2025 and diundangkan 28 November 2025 at Berita Negara Republik Indonesia Tahun 2025 Nomor 988, and it repeals Permenkes 7/2025. The matched entry is quoted in the cell. Section membership is stated rather than entry number, because a watermark in the published PDF reflows the numbering. · Updated September 21, 2026
Saudi Arabia, Law of Combating Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances, Royal Decree M/39 of 1426 AH, Articles 1, 37 to 41 and 70 to 71, with nimetazepam placed at Schedule II Category D of the schedules attached to the Law in the version issued on 4 September 2026 · the schedules were read at https://sfda.gov.sa/sites/default/files/2026-09/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%81%D9%82%D8%A9%20%D9%84%D9%86%D8%B8%D8%A7%D9%85%20%D9%85%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%81%D8%AD%D8%A9%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA%20%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9%202026.pdf, the Saudi Food and Drug Authority copy of the schedules attached to the Law, and the penalty articles at https://www.moh.gov.sa/eServices/Licences/Documents/17.pdf, the Ministry of Health copy of M/39 · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Nimetazepam is a dangerous drug and it was a medicine, and the Act treats it as both. Every prohibition in the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952, and the definition of trafficking in section 2, is qualified by the words «otherwise than under the authority of this Act or the regulations made under the Act», so the question for a medicine is never whether the substance is scheduled but whether the handling sits inside that authority. It is named in Part III of the First Schedule as «Nimetazepam». Section 11(1) provides that «This Part applies to dangerous drugs listed in Parts III, IV and V of the First Schedule», which is what brings it inside Part IV of the Act, where section 16(1) empowers the Minister to make regulations «controlling the manufacture, sale, possession, and distribution of such drugs». Nimetazepam was a hypnotic medicine and is one of only two benzodiazepines in the First Schedule, the other being «Flunitrazepam». Its Poisons List row carries the dangerous drug marker with no preparation named against it in any Group column, which is the list recording that nothing containing it is available through the ordinary supply route.
Documentation
Carry the prescription and the dispensing label with the medicine, in its original packaging, and declare it on arrival. The entry the label has to answer to is «Nimetazepam» at Part III of the First Schedule, and a dispensing label naming a different member of that Part is not the same thing. Section 25 of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 is the only personal traveller provision the Act contains, and its reach is narrower than it looks. It sits in Part V, which is the external trade Part, and it opens by providing that nothing in that Part applies to a quantity of a dangerous drug in the form of a medicinal preparation in the «possession of any person arriving in Malaysia by land, air or water from any place outside Malaysia as is reasonably required for the use of such person and which has been supplied to such person bona fide by or on the prescription of a medical practitioner residing outside Malaysia in accordance with the law of the country in which such drug was so supplied». Because the words are nothing in this Part, it answers the import control and it does not touch the possession and trafficking provisions that sit in Part IV of the Act. It is also conditional: the person «shall, as soon as possible on arrival, declare his possession of such dangerous drug to an officer having authority under this Act to search such person and shall submit to such medical examination as may be required of him». Getting the paperwork wrong is not a paperwork penalty. Section 37(d) provides that «any person who is found to have had in his custody or under his control anything whatsoever containing any dangerous drug shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed to have been in possession of such drug and shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed to have known the nature of such drug», and section 37(da) can then presume trafficking from the weight of the material alone. Neither Act fixes a number of days or a number of tablets for a dangerous drug, and this cell does not invent one. The entry the document has to answer to, in the First Schedule itself, is «Nimetazepam» at Part III. If the document does not answer the entry, the charge is section 12(2) of the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952, possession of a dangerous drug without authority, and section 12(3) sets «a fine not exceeding one hundred thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years or both». Section 12(4) adds whipping of not more than three strokes where the person convicted is a public officer employed at a prison, rehabilitation centre, police lock-up or place of detention.
Malaysia, Dangerous Drugs Act 1952, Act 234, first enacted as Ordinance No. 30 of 1952 and revised in 1980 with effect from 17 July 1980 · read from the Attorney General's Chambers online updated text headed «As at 4 July 2023», latest Act amendment being the Abolition of Mandatory Death Penalty Act 2023, Act 846, in force 4 July 2023 · Poisons Act 1952, Act 366, revised 1989, read from the Attorney General's Chambers online updated text as at 1 January 2022, latest amendment P.U. (A) 412/2021 in force 3 November 2021 · read for this substance: the First Schedule to the Dangerous Drugs Act 1952 in all five Parts, the entry found at Part III of the First Schedule as «Nimetazepam» · sections 2, 6, 6B, 8, 9, 11(1), 16, 25, 37(d), 37(da), 39A, 39B and 45A of that Act · the Poisons Act 1952 Poisons List, carrying «Nimetazepam (DD)» · the Poisons Act 1952 Third Schedule read in full · the First Schedule has since been amended twice under section 45A, by the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment of First Schedule) Order 2024, P.U. (A) 97, gazetted 2 April 2024, which inserts Etazene, Etonitazepyne, 2-Methyl-AP-237 and Protonitazene into Part III and substitutes Proheptazine for Propheptazine, and by the Order 2025, P.U. (A) 416, gazetted 25 November 2025, which inserts Butonitazene into Part III · both orders were read in full and neither touches this substance · the publisher's own disclaimer is carried forward: this is only an updated text and not an authentic text until it is reprinted under subsection 14(1) of the Revision of Laws Act 1968 · read as at 2026-09-17 from https://lom.agc.gov.my/ilims/upload/portal/akta/outputaktap/1840725_BI/22.11.2023%20-%20Act%20234.pdf and https://lom.agc.gov.my/ilims/upload/portal/akta/outputaktap/1714451_BI/ACT%20366_MUKTAMAD_1%20JANUARY%202022.pdf and https://lom.agc.gov.my/ilims/upload/portal/akta/outputaktap/1826840_BI/Akta%20846%20BI.pdf · re-derived in this pass, from the on-disk Attorney General's Chambers online updated text of Act 234 whose own header reads «As at 4 July 2023»: sections 2, 5, 6, 6B, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 25, 30, 37, 38A, 38B, 39, 39A, 39B, 39C, 41, 41A, 41B, 45A and 46, and the First Schedule read line by line in all five Parts · and from the Abolition of Mandatory Death Penalty Act 2023, Act 846, sections 1(2), 2, 54 and 55 · the First Schedule has five Parts and not three: Part I and Part II are the plant and prepared-opium lists, Part III the long alphabetical chemical list, Part IV a shorter codeine group carrying its own isomer clause and its own salt clause, with Part III's ester and ether clause running across the whole Schedule and not only that Part because it reads «of the drugs in this Schedule» where the other two read «this Part», and Part V is headed «PREPARATION FOR THE EXPORT OF WHICH EXPORT AUTHORIZATIONS ARE NOT REQUIRED» and is an exemption list rather than a control list · section 39B carries no quantity table of its own, the weights being in section 37(da), which is a rebuttable presumption of trafficking, and in section 39A, which applies only where the offence is not punishable with death · the file the Act 234 text is served from is dated 22 November 2023 in its name while the text's own header reads «As at 4 July 2023», and the header is the version stated here · all Poisons Act 1952 material in this cell, including every Poisons List and Third Schedule entry and every figure drawn from that Act, is carried forward from the earlier reading recorded above and was not re-derived in this pass · so is every other fact in this cell that is not derivable from the two texts named above, which includes the two section 45A orders of 2024 and 2025, the commencement of the Dangerous Drugs (Amendment) Act 2017 on 15 March 2018, and any statement here about the Single Convention or the 1971 Convention and their schedules · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
In England, Wales and Scotland the Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 place it in Part I of Schedule 4, where it is listed in paragraph 1. Regulation 10(2) then provides that «a person may have in his possession any drug specified in Schedule 2, 3 or Part I of Schedule 4 for administration for medical, dental or veterinary purposes in accordance with the directions of a practitioner», so a patient holding a supply prescribed or directed for them commits no possession offence; holding it outside that authority is the section 5(2) offence. Regulation 4(3)(a) lifts the possession prohibition only for drugs in Part II of Schedule 4, the anabolic steroid group, so it does not help a Part I drug held without a prescription. Regulation 16(5) bars supply on a prescription «later than twenty-eight days after the appropriate date.» On Northern Ireland the sources point two ways, and both are quoted. legislation.gov.uk tags every provision of the 2001 Regulations with the extent E+W+S+N.I. 45 such tags in its XML, while the Regulations themselves carry no extent clause; against that tag, their amending Regulations of 2023 and 2024 each state «These Regulations extend to England and Wales and Scotland.», and the 2026 temporary class drug order applies the two codes separately, saying «The Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001 apply to the substances and products listed in the Schedule to this Order as if those substances and products were specified in Schedule 1 to those Regulations.» and «The Misuse of Drugs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 apply to the substances and products listed in the Schedule to this Order as if those substances and products were specified in Schedule 1 to those Regulations.» Northern Ireland has its own Misuse of Drugs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002, S.R. 2002 No. 1. The legislation.gov.uk text of those Regulations states «There are outstanding changes not yet made by the legislation.gov.uk editorial team to The Misuse of Drugs Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002.», so the Northern Ireland schedule for this row is not given here.
Documentation
The Home Office page Take medicine in or out of the UK, read at https://www.gov.uk/travelling-controlled-drugs on 2 October 2026, says «You must carry medicine containing a controlled drug with you in your hand luggage when entering or leaving the UK.» A visitor who is not resident needs a letter of proof that the medicine was prescribed for them, giving the traveller's name, travel dates, the medicines with quantity, dose and strength, and the prescriber's signature, and the page adds «You can only bring up to 3 months supply of your medicine with you.» and «If you bring more than 3 months supply with you, or get more medicine posted to you, it will be taken away.» A UK resident prescribed medicine abroad must contact the Drug and Firearms Licensing Unit, and a personal licence above three months is available only in exceptional circumstances. That three month allowance is Home Office practice: the statutory exceptions to the import prohibition in regulation 4 of the 2001 Regulations cover only Part II of Schedule 4 and Schedule 5.
Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, ss. 2 to 8, 28 and 37 and Schedules 2 and 4, Part III para. 1(a) · legislation.gov.uk · read on 2 October 2026 as the legislation.gov.uk revised text, which records no known outstanding effects · Misuse of Drugs Regulations 2001, S.I. 2001/3998, regs. 4, 5 and 10 and Part I of Schedule 4 and reg. 4(3)(a) · legislation.gov.uk · Customs and Excise Management Act 1979, ss. 50, 68 and 170 and Schedule 1 · legislation.gov.uk · Home Office, Take medicine in or out of the UK · gov.uk · S.I. 1985/1995 as recorded in the legislation.gov.uk annotations to Schedule 2 of the 1971 Act, not itself fetched · legislation.gov.uk · S.I. 2023/1091 read as made on 2 October 2026 · legislation.gov.uk · S.I. 2024/1361 read as made on 2 October 2026 · legislation.gov.uk · Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 · Updated October 3, 2026
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. The highest penalty anywhere in Part 9.1 of the Criminal Code is imprisonment for life, and Death Penalty Abolition Act 1973 s6 provides «The punishment of death must not be imposed as the penalty for any offence referred to in subsection 3(2) or (3).» No Commonwealth offence reaches possession, sale, supply or manufacture of nimetazepam; those are state and territory poisons offences built on Schedule 4 and Appendix D. At the border it is a prohibited import under regulation 5 of the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations 1956, which names nimetazepam at Schedule 4 item 164. Importing it without a licence and permission, or outside the traveller exemption, contravenes Customs Act 1901 s233(1)(b), and having unlawfully imported goods in possession contravenes s233(1)(d); both are strict liability (s233(1AB)) and are punishable under s233AB(2) by a fine only, not exceeding 3 times the value of the goods or 1,000 penalty units ($364,000), whichever is greater. Customs Act s233(5) takes narcotic goods, meaning border controlled drugs and plants, out of s233, which is why Division 307 and not s233 governs a border controlled drug. Part 9.2 does not apply because s320.2(2)(k) excludes a prohibited import. There is no Commonwealth offence of using or consuming a drug; use is left to state and territory law. A penalty unit is $364 for an offence committed on or after 1 July 2026 under the Crimes (Amount of a Penalty Unit) Instrument 2026 (F2026N00424), made under Crimes Act 1914 s4AA, so 400 penalty units is $145,600, 2,000 is $728,000 and 7,500 is $2,730,000; «or both» in each penalty means the prison term and the fine are available alternatively or together.
If prescribed / medical
Schedule 4 makes it a prescription only medicine wherever a state or territory adopts the class entry, and Appendix D clause 5 adds that it «must not be possessed by a person without authority». No Australian approved nimetazepam product appears in anything read for this cell, so a local prescription route is not shown.
Documentation
Traveller rule, Commonwealth: regulation 5(2)(b) of the Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations 1956 lifts the import prohibition for a drug carried by a passenger on a ship or aircraft that «is required for the medical treatment of the person or of another passenger under the care of the person», «was prescribed by a medical practitioner for the purposes of that treatment» and «was supplied to the person in accordance with the prescription of the medical practitioner referred to in subparagraph (ii)». Therapeutic Goods Regulations 1990 Schedule 5 item 1 (Compilation No. 130, compilation date 8 September 2026) covers «therapeutic goods that are imported for therapeutic use in the treatment of the importer or the importer’s immediate family» and limits the personal import to «not more than 3 months’ supply at the maximum dose recommended by the manufacturer» in one importation and, for goods in Schedule 4 or Schedule 8 of the current Poisons Standard, requires a written authority from a medical practitioner, or an overseas medical practitioner where the goods are carried by a passenger. The Australian Border Force traveller guidance (abf.gov.au, read 2 October 2026) asks the traveller to «carry a letter or copy of your prescription (written in English) from your doctor to certify that the medicine has been prescribed to you to treat a medical condition», to keep the medicine in its original packaging and to declare it on arrival. Anything outside that exemption needs an import licence and permission from the Office of Drug Control under regulation 5(1). Where the medicine is also a border controlled drug, Division 307 of the Criminal Code has no traveller exception of its own; the traveller relies on Criminal Code s10.5, «A person is not criminally responsible for an offence if the conduct constituting the offence is justified or excused by or under a law.», on the footing that an import within regulation 5(2)(b) is so excused. That footing is this cell's reading of the provisions; no decision applying it was read. The Therapeutic Goods Administration and Office of Drug Control traveller pages (tga.gov.au, odc.gov.au) did not respond from this network on 2 October 2026 (curl timeout after 60 seconds, twice, and a second fetcher timed out), so nothing in this cell rests on them.
Poisons Standard October 2026, F2026L01327 · legislation.gov.au · Criminal Code Act 1995, Compilation No. 174, volume 1 (s10.5) and volume 2 (Part 9.1, Part 9.2) · legislation.gov.au · legislation.gov.au · Criminal Code Regulations 2019, Compilation No. 6 (Schedules 1 and 2) · legislation.gov.au · Customs (Prohibited Imports) Regulations 1956, Compilation No. 147 (regulation 5, Schedule 4) · legislation.gov.au · Customs Act 1901, Compilation No. 193, volume 1 (s4) and volume 3 (Part XIII, s233 to s233BABAD) · legislation.gov.au · legislation.gov.au · Therapeutic Goods Regulations 1990, Compilation No. 130 (Schedule 5 item 1) · legislation.gov.au · Crimes (Amount of a Penalty Unit) Instrument 2026, F2026N00424 · legislation.gov.au · Death Penalty Abolition Act 1973 s6 · legislation.gov.au · Australian Border Force, medicines and substances · abf.gov.au · Sourced from the Federal Register of Legislation at 2 October 2026. For the latest information on Australian Government law please go to · legislation.gov.au · Federal Register of Legislation content licensed CC BY 4.0 · Australian Border Force material: Australian Government Department of Home Affairs, licensed CC BY 3.0 Australia · Updated October 3, 2026
France, Arrêté du 22 février 1990 fixant la liste des substances psychotropes, entry « nimétazépam » for nimetazepam · the Code de la santé publique at https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/id/LEGITEXT000006072665 gives the order its effect, and Penal Code article 222-34 at https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/codes/article_lc/LEGIARTI000006417715 carries the national ceiling without this row proving the narcotics specific route · the psychotropics order was reached through the Légifrance consolidated search at https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/search/all?query=arr%C3%AAt%C3%A9+22+f%C3%A9vrier+1990+psychotropes · read as at 18 September 2026. · Updated September 20, 2026
Spain runs two medicine control regimes side by side: narcotic medicines under Ley 17/1967 and psychotropic medicines under Real Decreto 2829/1977. Real Decreto 2829/1977 article 17 requires that preparations «que contengan sustancias de las Listas II, III y IV» «se prescribirán en receta médica» (be prescribed on a medical prescription). The Spanish medicines agency describes a route for a traveller's own medication within a medical treatment; it is set out in the documentation field.
Documentation
Spanish law, as the medicines agency puts it (page updated 28 August 2026), «permite a los viajeros llevar su medicación personal» (allows travellers to carry their personal medication), and the page advises «sería recomendable que lleve, junto con la medicación una prescripción/informe del médico» (it would be advisable to carry, with the medication, a prescription or doctor's report). The agency's route is for medication carried «en el marco de un tratamiento médico» (within a course of medical treatment), and for someone arriving in Spain «la cantidad máxima de medicamento permitida es para tres meses de tratamiento» (the maximum is three months of treatment); for someone leaving Spain «Para personas que viajen fuera de España con medicamentos estupefacientes o psicótropos se autorizará, como máximo, la cantidad de medicamento necesaria para 30 días» (for people travelling out of Spain with narcotic or psychotropic medicines, at most the quantity of medicine needed for 30 days will be authorised). Above set quantities the traveller «además deberá disponer de un certificado/permiso emitido por las autoridades sanitarias españolas» (must also hold a certificate or permit issued by the Spanish health authorities), and the application requires a «Receta médica original actual» (an original, current prescription). The page says those quantities come from international guidelines: «La cantidad máxima total de una sustancia activa en base anhidra contenida en preparados farmacéuticos por encima de las cuales puede exigirse al viajero que presente un certificado viene establecida en las directrices para la elaboración de reglamentaciones nacionales relativas a los viajeros que están bajo tratamiento con sustancias sometidas a fiscalización internacional.» (the maximum total quantity of an active substance, as anhydrous base contained in pharmaceutical preparations, above which the traveller may be required to present a certificate is set by the guidelines for drawing up national regulations on travellers under treatment with substances under international control). Those guidelines were not read. The application «debe realizarse con un mínimo de diez días de antelación» (must be made at least ten days in advance). Whether that certificate can be issued for a medicine not authorised in Spain is not stated on that page. No authorised medicine containing it was found on the CIMA query. Medicines law article 74.1, «Los medicamentos que acompañen a los viajeros destinados a su propia administración o tratamiento quedan excluidos de las exigencias establecidas en los artículos anteriores, sin perjuicio de las medidas de control cuando dichos medicamentos pudieran representar una desviación por su cuantía o destino especialmente en prevención de su utilización ilícita.» (medicines that travellers carry for their own administration or treatment are excluded from the requirements of the preceding articles, without prejudice to control measures where their quantity or destination could amount to diversion, especially to prevent illicit use). Those preceding articles are article 72, which allows import only of medicines authorised and registered in Spain («sólo podrán importarse medicamentos autorizados e inscritos en el Registro de Medicamentos»), and article 73, which allows export by «los laboratorios y entidades de distribución que cumplan los requisitos legalmente establecidos» (the laboratories and distribution entities that meet the legal requirements). The agency rests the traveller permission on article 74. The drug control laws themselves require authorisation for every import and export: Ley 17/1967 article 16 says they «habrán de ser autorizadas en todo caso» (must be authorised in every case), and Real Decreto 2829/1977 article 10 requires «autorización previa» (prior authorisation). Neither contains a traveller provision in the text read; the permission for travellers below the set quantities is the agency's own statement on that page. Outside that route, carrying it across the border is import or export of a controlled substance without authorisation.
Real Decreto Legislativo 1/2015 (medicines law), articles 72, 73 and 74.1, BOE consolidated text last updated 31/07/2026 · boe.es · Ley 17/1967, de 8 de abril, article 16, BOE consolidated text last updated 13/12/2001 · boe.es · CIMA, Centro de Información de Medicamentos, AEMPS, queried 2 October 2026 · cima.aemps.es · AEMPS traveller guidance, updated 28 de agosto de 2026 · aemps.gob.es · Ley Orgánica 12/1995, articles 2.3 a) and 3.1, BOE consolidated text last updated 23/12/2022 · boe.es · Ley Orgánica 4/2015, articles 33.2, 36.16 and 39.1, BOE consolidated text last updated 23/02/2021 · boe.es · Código Penal (Ley Orgánica 10/1995), articles 368, 369, 369 bis and 370, BOE consolidated text last updated 09/04/2026 · boe.es · Real Decreto 2829/1977, de 6 de octubre, article 10, article 17 and Anexo 1, BOE consolidated text whose own note reads «Última actualización publicada el 21/04/2026», Anexo 1 in force from 22/04/2026 · boe.es · Based on data from the Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado (Basado en datos de la Agencia Estatal Boletín Oficial del Estado), https://www.boe.es · each BOE consolidated text carries the notice «Este texto consolidado es de carácter informativo y no tiene valor jurídico.» · The schedule placement stated in this cell is read from the section heading of Real Decreto 2829/1977 Anexo 1 under which the entry is printed, which is not printed in the quoted entry itself. · Updated October 3, 2026
DPR 309/1990 article 14 with the Ministry of Health compilation of the narcotics tables and its ministerial amendment index, read at https://www.salute.gov.it/new/it/tema/medicinali-stupefacenti-e-precursori-di-droghe/tabelle-delle-sostanze-stupefacenti-e on 18 September 2026 · route for Nimetazepam: Table IV read with the table of medicinal products, entry «nimetazepam» · DPR 309/1990 at https://www.normattiva.it/eli/id/1990/10/31/090G0363/CONSOLIDATED · Penal Code article 78 at https://www.normattiva.it/eli/id/1930/10/26/030U1398/CONSOLIDATED · penalties at DPR 309/1990 articles 73, 75 and 80 · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
It has no Mexican marketing authorisation, so the retained prescription rule describes a route that is not in fact used here. Article 251 governs supply to the public for the third group of article 245: it «requerirán para su venta o suministro al público, receta médica que contenga el número de la cédula profesional del médico que la expida, la que deberá surtirse por una sola vez y retenerse en la farmacia que la surta». So the prescription is filled once, and the pharmacy keeps it. The group also reaches salts, precursors and chemical derivatives, «Y sus sales, precursores y derivados químicos». A foreign prescription evidences therapeutic purpose and does not create an article 479 allowance or override a prohibition. The heavier duties articles 240 onward impose on estupefacientes do not apply to this group.
Documentation
Carry the medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription and a medical letter in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence therapeutic purpose and nothing more: they do not create an article 479 allowance and they do not override a prohibition. The Act prints this row immediately before nitrazepam, from which it differs by a single methyl group and by two letters in the Spanish name. The entry relied on for this row was read in the Ley General de Salud as it stands after the decree published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which reforms article 234 whole and article 245 fracciones I segundo parrafo, II and IV, read together with the Orden Juridico Nacional consolidated text to 7 June 2024 for the articles that decree does not touch, read as at 21 September 2026.
Mexico, named in the third group of psychotropics at Ley General de Salud article 245 · the reforming decree, titled as a reform, addition and repeal of various provisions of the Ley General de Salud, published in the Diario Oficial de la Federacion on 15 January 2026, which is the operative text of articles 234 and 245 used here · dof.gob.mx · the official consolidated text of the Ley General de Salud published by the Orden Juridico Nacional, texto vigente to 7 June 2024, used for articles 235, 237, 239 to 243, 246 to 252 and 473 to 482, which that decree does not list · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Codigo Penal Federal articles 193 to 196, texto vigente to 7 June 2024 · the three later reforms of that code, published on 16 July 2025, 28 November 2025 and 13 March 2026, reach articles 400 Bis, 11 Bis and 390, and 260 and 266 Bis, and none of them touches this chapter · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · Constitucion Politica de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos article 22, texto vigente, last reform on 15 April 2025 · ordenjuridico.gob.mx · the penalty bands, the fines and the article 479 amounts were re-derived from those articles for this cell and are not carried over as figures · the previous version of this cell cited a Chamber of Deputies consolidation whose latest reform it gave as 15 January 2026 · that date was not carried forward but tested, and the decree of that date was found, downloaded and read for this cell, which is why the two scheduling articles here are the reformed ones and not the 7 June 2024 ones · terms searched case-insensitively and accent-insensitively across the whole consolidated text for this row, with the occurrences found: nimetazepam 1, nitrazepam 2 · the previous version of this cell recorded its own reading as at 18 September 2026, and the articles were re-read for this cell rather than that reading being relied on · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
The annex heads lista B1 as subject to Notificacao de Receita B. Resolucao 81/2008, Capitulo XXXIX, Procedimento 1 puts importation of goods subject to the special control of Portaria 344/98 in its listas A1, A2, A3, B1, B2, C3 and D1 under a non automatic import licence in SISCOMEX with a prior favourable shipment authorisation. For a traveller the rule is Resolucao 81 de 5 de novembro de 2008 as amended by Resolucao 28 de 28 de junho de 2011. Its item 1 dispenses with sanitary authorisation at the point of entry for a finished medicine imported by an individual for his own use, item 1.1 brings goods in accompanied or unaccompanied baggage of a traveller arriving from abroad inside that dispensation, and item 1.2 defines own use as a quantity and frequency compatible with the duration and purpose of treatment and not amounting to trade. Item 1.3 takes medicines based on substances listed in Portaria 344/98 back out of the dispensation and sends them to Resolucao 63 de 9 de setembro de 2008. That resolution rewrote article 34 of Portaria 344/98 to forbid purchase and sale of listed substances and their medicines by reimbursement systems through any means of communication including post and electronic channels, excepting only medicines based on lista C1 substances in presentations not registered or marketed in Brazil, bought abroad by an individual for his own use, on production of a medical prescription and a fiscal document, in a quantity for individual use, with resale forbidden. That resolution was read in full this pass, through a rendering fetcher because a direct request to the publisher is refused with a challenge page and the health ministry library returns a server error, so the reading is [Certain] and the route to it is worth stating. The prescribing chapters of Portaria SVS/MS 344/1998 itself were not read this pass, so no validity period and no quantity per prescription is stated here.
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The placement was read on 21 September 2026 in the Anexo I published with Resolucao da Diretoria Colegiada 1.036, de 9 de julho de 2026, the annex that heads itself Atualizacao n. 101 and whose footer records publication in the Diario Oficial da Uniao of 13 July 2026. ANVISA's own update register at gov.br/anvisa numbers that resolution row 102 of its history and marks it the version in force, while the annex itself is headed Atualizacao n. 101. Both numbers are recorded here because they disagree and neither was preferred silently. A later update is not ruled out.
Brazil, Portaria SVS/MS 344 de 12 de maio de 1998, Anexo I, as published with Resolucao da Diretoria Colegiada 1.036 de 9 de julho de 2026 (Atualizacao n. 101, Diario Oficial da Uniao of 13 July 2026), read at https://anvisalegis.datalegis.net/action/ActionDatalegis.php?acao=abrirTextoAto&tipo=RDC&numeroAto=00001036&seqAto=000&valorAno=2026 on 21 September 2026 · the update register that marks it the version in force is at https://www.gov.br/anvisa/pt-br/assuntos/medicamentos/controlados/lista-substancias · Lei 11.343 de 23 de agosto de 2006 at https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/_ato2004-2006/2006/lei/l11343.htm · Constituicao da Republica Federativa do Brasil de 1988, article 5, XLVII, at https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/constituicao/constituicao.htm · Supremo Tribunal Federal, Tema 506, leading case RE 635659, at https://portal.stf.jus.br/jurisprudenciaRepercussao/verAndamentoProcesso.asp?incidente=4034145&numeroProcesso=635659&classeProcesso=RE&numeroTema=506 · Resolucao 81 de 5 de novembro de 2008 as amended by Resolucao 28 de 28 de junho de 2011, and Resolucao 63 de 9 de setembro de 2008 at https://anvisalegis.datalegis.net/action/ActionDatalegis.php?acao=abrirTextoAto&tipo=RDC&numeroAto=00000063&seqAto=000&valorAno=2008 · Updated September 21, 2026
NDPS Act 1985, the Schedule serial 63 · quantity notification S.O. 1055(E) serial 220 · Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act 1985, sections 2, 3 and 8, section 3 being the power under which the Central Government adds to or omits from the psychotropic Schedule by Official Gazette notification · the offence and sentencing provisions read for this cell are sections 15 to 27, with sections 31, 31A, 37, 64A, 80 and 81 · enforcement is by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) and the Central Bureau of Narcotics (CBN), under the Department of Revenue · Central Bureau of Narcotics consolidation of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act and Rules 1985 labelled updated 2026, which prints the Act's Schedule as amended through S.O. 1730(E) of 16 April 2025 · the Schedule as it stands after S.O. 906(E) of 18 February 2026 · small and commercial quantity notification S.O. 1055(E) of 19 October 2001 as amended through S.O. 1731(E) of 16 April 2025 · cbn.gov.in · cbn.gov.in · cbn.gov.in · dor.gov.in · indiacode.nic.in · the publisher's own acts and rules page was read at that address on 22 September 2026 and lists no later amendment of the Schedule, which does not rule out a later notification made or commenced since. · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines (e.g. amphetamine/Adderall, methylphenidate/Ritalin, methadone) cannot be imported even with a foreign prescription; verify any controlled medicine before travel (see documentation).
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Schedule 1 and Schedule 3(a,b,d) medicines CANNOT be imported even with a foreign prescription, explicitly banned: amphetamine/dexamphetamine (Adderall), methylphenidate (Ritalin/Concerta) and methadone; tramadol is banned for recreational use and tightly controlled. Codeine, diazepam and some sleep aids may be carried WITH a doctor's letter, original packaging, a 2-3 month maximum supply, and a customs declaration. (Reference: a 2017 traveller received a 3-year sentence for carrying 290 tramadol tablets.)
Egypt, Ministry of Health and Population Decision 44 of 2026, which replaced every table annexed to Law 182/1960, published in Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriya issue 39 (continued, c) on 17 February 2026 and in force from publication, scanned schedules read page by page at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/dkjooww3/قرار-وزارة-الصحة-والسكان-رقم-44-لسنة-2026-ar-2026_.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Decision 242 of 2026 at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/lydpgqi5/لمكافحة-المخدرات_2026_242-وزير-الصحة.pdf · Law 182/1960 Article 1, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 131 of 13 June 1960 page 962, scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/ekgifxb3/1960-182.pdf · penalty Articles 33, 34 and 35 to 45 as replaced by Law 122/1989, read in the Arabic gazette scan at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/media/452pd1zf/1989-122.pdf and in the UNODC English reproduction at https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/egy/law-no-122-of-1989_html/egypt-law_122-89.pdf · Decision 44's preamble cites Law 127/1955 on the practice of pharmacy, the 1961 Single Convention, the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances and the 1988 Convention · Article 1 bis added by Law 134/2019 and the release rule of Law 19/2020, the substitution of penalties by Law 95/2003, Al-Jarida al-Rasmiya No. 25 (continued) of 19 June 2003 pages 23 and 24, scan at https://manshurat.org/sites/default/files/docs/pdf/016268.pdf, read in the reproductions at https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=155743 and https://www.mohamah.net/law/?p=173630 · the Egyptian Drug Authority laws index at https://dev.edaegypt.gov.eg/ar/المرجع-التنظيمي-لهيئة-الدواء-المصرية/القوانين-واللوائح-التنفيذية/ · the Supreme Constitutional Court judgment, case 33 of judicial year 47, 16 February 2026, at https://www.sccourt.gov.eg/DjangoPortalResources/Rules_Html/17885_47_33_1_2.html · Updated October 4, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Nimetazepam sits in ΠΙΝΑΚΑΣ Δ, the fourth table, which the published Greece entry calls Table D. Table D is the lightest of the four regimes. Article 2 paragraph 4 of Law 4139/2013 governs the production, transport, storage and supply of Table D substances, and the prescription for them may be a simple repeatable one rather than the duplicate form the heavier tables require. The article 2 paragraphs in this field are carried forward from the published Greece entry and were not re-derived in this pass.
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This substance is in the tables, so a traveller carrying it needs the paperwork for a controlled medicine and not the paperwork for an ordinary one. Carry the original container, the pharmacy label and a prescription or a doctor's letter in your own name, and expect a Greek officer to read the label rather than take the quantity on trust. Where the rule comes from. The offences are in Law 4139/2013, the narcotics code, gazette A 74 of 20 March 2013, and the substance lists are not in it. Article 1 paragraph 2 provides that the substances «περιλαμβάνονται ιδίως στους πίνακες Α΄, Β΄, Γ΄ και Δ΄, οι οποίοι αναφέρονται στην παρ. 2 του άρθρου 1 του ν. 3459/2006». Article 1 paragraph 4 gives the power that moves the list: «Με κοινή απόφαση των Υπουργών Υγείας και Δικαιοσύνης», by joint decision of the Ministers of Health and of Justice, after the opinion of the Narcotics Committee, substances may be added, removed or moved between categories. What this cell incorporates is the Ministry of Health consolidated edition of June 2026, read in full rather than searched, and reading it does not rule out a later joint ministerial decision. It carries 375 numbered entries, 138 in ΠΙΝΑΚΑΣ Α, 18 in ΠΙΝΑΚΑΣ Β, 135 in ΠΙΝΑΚΑΣ Γ and 84 in ΠΙΝΑΚΑΣ Δ, each series running from 1 without a gap. Every entry names the gazette that placed it. Counting those gazettes by number and date gives 29, of which one, gazette 6034 B of 31 December 2018, is a correction of an error rather than a placing decision. The published Greece entry gives that figure as twenty eight, and the two counts differ by exactly that correction. The most recent placing instrument in the file is gazette 3277 B of 11 June 2026. Placement for Nimetazepam: ΠΙΝΑΚΑΣ Δ entry 34.
Tables of substances of article 1 of Law 3459/2006 as in force under Law 4139/2013, Ministry of Health consolidated edition of June 2026, the file «Πίνακες Ναρκωτικών (Α_Β_Γ_Δ) ΕΠΙΚΑΙΡΟΠΟΙΗΣΗ ΙΟΥΝΙΟΥ 2026.pdf», read in full at www.moh.gov.gr on 21 September 2026 · moh.gov.gr · moh.gov.gr · Law 4139/2013, the narcotics code, gazette A 74 of 20 March 2013, articles 1, 2, 20, 21, 22, 23, 29 and 30: the offence articles, the penalty figures and the article 2 prescribing paragraphs in this cell are carried forward from the published Greece entry and were not re-derived in this pass · et.gr · Placement for Nimetazepam: ΠΙΝΑΚΑΣ Δ entry 34 · Updated September 21, 2026
· Portaria n.º 94/96, read as at the text published in the Diário da República of 26 March 1996, number 73/96, which is the version read and is the original publication rather than a later revision
If prescribed / medical
The dossier this cell is written from carries no prescription column, so no medical route for Nimetazepam is stated here and none was derived from anything else. What can be attached is this row's placement, which the dossier gives as List III and the published 2cb entry gives more finely as III #58. Carried forward from the published 2cb entry and not re-derived from the decree text in this pass: the decree describes danh mục III as usable in medicine and veterinary medicine under the competent authority, and danh mục II as restricted to research, testing, expert examination, defence, security or the medical field. This row sits in danh mục III, the tier that description calls usable in medicine and veterinary medicine under the competent authority. Whether Nimetazepam can lawfully be prescribed in Vietnam, in what form, and what a traveller carrying it would have to show, is deferred and not answered here. This pass did not read Vietnam's pharmaceutical, import or customs rules, and a substance outside the narcotics law can still be refused at a border.
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Where the rule for Nimetazepam comes from, and how far it reaches in time. Two instruments do two different jobs. The list: Luật Phòng, chống ma túy số 73/2021/QH14, Điều 2 khoản 1, provides that a chất ma túy is a substance the Government has placed in the danh mục, so the Government and not the National Assembly decides what counts, and it does so by decree. The decree in force is Nghị định 28/2026/NĐ-CP, issued and effective 19 January 2026, whose Điều 3 khoản 2 repeals Nghị định 57/2022/NĐ-CP and Nghị định 90/2024/NĐ-CP, and whose Điều 1 reads “Ban hành kèm theo Nghị định này Phụ lục các danh mục chất ma túy và tiền chất sau đây”, that is, issued with this decree is the appendix containing the following lists of narcotics and precursors. The published 2cb entry counted that appendix as four danh mục in seven parts and 694 entries, a count carried forward here and not re-made in this pass. The offence: Bộ luật Hình sự số 100/2015/QH13 as amended by Luật số 86/2025/QH15, khoản 18 Điều 1, enacted 25 June 2025 and in force 1 July 2025, which substituted the drug articles in full and is the reason this cell separates the conducts instead of saying that Vietnam has the death penalty for drugs. The consolidated Criminal Code text read for the article wording is văn bản hợp nhất số 135/VBHN-VPQH. The placement for this row. The dossier puts Nimetazepam in List III and prints the entry as “Nimetazepam”. The published 2cb entry gives the finer locator III #58, with CAS 2011-67-8, and that locator is carried forward from the published 2cb entry and not re-derived from the decree text in this pass. A quotation is evidence of the words printed, not of the item number, which is why the two are attributed separately here. The published 2cb entry also recorded how the decree read at that point: Nimetazepam, CAS 2011-67-8. That wording, with any adjacent item number or CAS number inside it, is carried forward from the published 2cb entry and not re-derived from the decree text in this pass, and it is a reading of a scanned document rather than a re-reading made here. The horizon. This cell is written as those lists stand after Nghị định 28/2026/NĐ-CP, in force 19 January 2026, and the dossier behind it records its own date checked as 17 September 2026. The power that moves the list is Điều 3 khoản 6 of the decree, which reads “Khi phát hiện chất mới chưa có trong các danh mục chất ma túy và tiền chất ban hành kèm theo Nghị định này … trình Chính phủ sửa đổi, bổ sung và công bố các danh mục đó.”, that is, when a new substance not yet in the lists is discovered, the Ministry of Public Security submits it to the Government to amend, supplement and publish the lists. What the text in hand incorporates is the 2026 appendix together with the Criminal Code as it stands after 1 July 2025, and nothing here was checked against an amendment published after 19 January 2026. This cell does not rule out a later amendment made under that power. Two limits of the source, stated because they bear on how much weight this row can take. The dossier has no search log column of its own, so on a row where nothing was found there is no way to tell a blank from a row nobody searched, and where its instrument column happens to record search terms that is a record of looking rather than a schedule entry. And the decree is a scanned signed document: the published 2cb entry records that it was rendered at 600 dots per inch and read with optical character recognition in Vietnamese, and that normalisation to NFC was needed before any Vietnamese string could be searched against the cached text, because the cache mixes composed and decomposed forms and a literal search returns a false zero. That method note is carried forward from the published 2cb entry and not re-derived from the decree text in this pass.
Nghị định 28/2026/NĐ-CP, danh mục chất ma túy và tiền chất, issued and in force 19 January 2026 · vbpl.vn · Bộ luật Hình sự số 100/2015/QH13 as amended by Luật số 86/2025/QH15, khoản 18 Điều 1, in force 1 July 2025 · vbpl.vn · văn bản hợp nhất số 135/VBHN-VPQH, the consolidated Criminal Code text used for the article wording · thuvienphapluat.vn · placement for Nimetazepam: List III in the dossier, item number III #58 carried forward from the published 2cb entry and not re-derived from the decree text in this pass · read as those lists stand after Nghị định 28/2026/NĐ-CP, in force 19 January 2026, and this reading does not rule out a later amendment made under Điều 3 khoản 6 of that decree · dossier date checked 17 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026
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A patient holding a licence under Board Regulation No. 8, Series of 2019 may bring an unregistered product in by "courier/parcel service or personal transport by patient or authorized family members", as that licence specifies. Otherwise, section 35 of Board Regulation No. 1, Series of 2014 lets a person under treatment who is entering, leaving or passing through the Philippines possess such quantities of a dangerous drug "as are reasonable for the purposes of such treatment", in the words of section 35(1) "wherever prescribed by a valid PDEA S2-licensed physician". The traveller carries a letter from the attending physician, the prescription with trade and generic names for up to 30 days' supply, and the medicine in its original labelled container. Above 30 days' supply the traveller needs certificates of authorization from the competent authority of the home country and from PDEA, requested from PDEA in writing 30 working days before arrival. Whether a prescription written abroad meets section 35(1) is not settled by its text, so confirm with PDEA before travelling. Without that authority the medicine is an imported dangerous drug under section 4 of RA 9165.
Republic Act No. 9165, the Comprehensive Dangerous Drugs Act of 2002, enrolled text as published by the Dangerous Drugs Board, sections 3(j), 4, 5, 8, 11, 13, 15, 16 and 93 and its annex · ddb.gov.ph · Dangerous Drugs Board, Updated Lists of Scheduled Controlled Substances as at 06 July 2025, page 22, read on 2 October 2026 · ddb.gov.ph · Republic Act No. 9346, sections 1 and 2, text read at lawphil.net on 2 October 2026 because the Official Gazette refused the request · lawphil.net · Board Regulation No. 1, Series of 2014, adopted 19 June 2014, sections 6(16), 31 and 35, and its Annex A · ddb.gov.ph · ddb.gov.ph · Board Regulation No. 10, Series of 2025, adopted 26 June 2025 · ddb.gov.ph · Board Regulation No. 5, Series of 2026, adopted 23 June 2026 · ddb.gov.ph · Board Regulation No. 8, Series of 2019, adopted 17 December 2019 · ddb.gov.ph · The schedule placement stated in this cell is read from the section heading of the Board's list under which the entry is printed, which is not printed in the quoted entry itself. · Updated October 2, 2026
Switzerland, Nimetazepam: BetmVV-EDI Annex · list b · art. 1(2), entry „Nimetazepam“, at https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/2011/363/de · BetmG articles 19, 19a and 19b at https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/1952/241_241_245/de · Swiss Criminal Code article 40 at https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/54/757_781_799/de · German consolidation dated 13 March 2026, read 18 September 2026. · Updated September 20, 2026
If prescribed / medical
The country level rule in Czechia is that a Schengen Article 75 certificate is evidential and administrative rather than the schedule itself, so producing one changes what a traveller can show and not where a substance sits. Attached to this row: Nimetazepam sits in seznam č. 7, so in Czech law its medicines would be dispensed on an ordinary prescription without the blue stripe, although it is not marketed in Czechia.
Documentation
Carry any prescribed narcotic or psychotropic medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a Schengen Article 75 certificate, and treat that certificate as proof of lawful carriage rather than as anything that alters a list. Medical cannabis has been available on prescription in Czechia since 2013, and the lists keep konopí pro léčebné použití in seznam č. 1 separate from the konopí entry in seznam č. 3. For this row the provenance is the entry „Nimetazepam“ in seznam č. 7, read against „Nitrazepam“ immediately below it.
Czechia, nařízení vlády č. 463/2013 Sb. o seznamech návykových látek, příloha č. 7, seznam č. 7 psychotropních látek, the entry „Nimetazepam“ for Nimetazepam · nařízení vlády č. 463/2013 Sb. o seznamech návykových látek, consolidated version 17 in force from 25 June 2026 after nařízení vlády č. 107/2026 Sb. read at https://www.zakonyprolidi.cz/cs/2013-463 on 21 September 2026 · the enabling provision is § 44c of zákon č. 167/1998 Sb. o návykových látkách · Criminal Code zákon č. 40/2009 Sb. §§ 251a, 283, 283a, 284, 285, 286 and 286a, consolidated version 46 in force from 1 January 2026, read at https://www.zakonyprolidi.cz/cs/2009-40 on 21 September 2026 · Listina základních práv a svobod, ústavní zákon č. 2/1993 Sb. čl. 6 odst. 3, read at https://www.zakonyprolidi.cz/cs/1993-2 on 21 September 2026 · zakonyprolidi.cz · psp.cz · the two portal links above are the live cell's own publisher references carried forward, and the CZK 15,000 misdemeanour fine, the Supreme Court greater than small quantity thresholds and the 2026 cannabis permission figures are carried forward from the live cell and were not re-derived in this pass · the official e-Sbírka route was tried and refused: e-sbirka.gov.cz, e-sbirka.cz and two of its api paths each returned the same 1040 byte application shell with no document payload, and sbirka.gov.cz did not resolve, so the consolidated text relied on is the zakonyprolidy.cz consolidation of the same nařízení · Updated September 21, 2026
Consequences if caught
Capital exposure: none. Article 26 of the Constitution provides that "A nadie se le aplicará la pena de muerte", no one shall have the death penalty applied to them, and no limb of Decreto-Ley 14.294 provides a capital sentence [Certain]. Two offence routes are in play on this row and I could not settle which governs. Article 35 punishes breach of the law in matters of import, export, production, elaboration, commercialisation or supply of the preparations in Lista III of the 1961 Convention and the substances in Listas II, III and IV of the Vienna Convention with two to six years of penitenciaría, and possession is not among its verbs [Certain]. Article 31 punishes import, export, transit, distribution, transport, possession not for one’s own consumption, storage and offering for sale of the substances article 30 names, with two to twelve years of penitenciaría and three to twelve where an organised criminal group is involved. Article 30 names, besides the article 1 lists and the precursor tables, "los que determine el Poder Ejecutivo según la facultad contenida en el artículo 15", those the Executive determines under article 15, which is the power to modify or widen the lists and tables [Certain]. The 1971 lists annexed to the 1974 text itself are short and complete, and all four were checked, not just the top two: Lista I carries ten entries, Lista II six, Lista III five and Lista IV eleven, thirty two in all. This row’s entry is in none of the four, so it reached Uruguayan law by an Executive decreto made under article 15, which is exactly what that limb of article 30 names [Certain]. Checking only Listas I and II would be the wrong test here, because article 35 is precisely about Listas II, III and IV. Whether article 31 therefore reaches this row alongside article 35, or whether article 35 is the only provision for these lists, the official text does not say and I could not settle it [Likely that both are available to a prosecutor]. The two to twelve year range is the country’s published penalty under article 31 and it is not this row’s proven exposure. Article 32 punishes organising or financing any offence in the law with four to twenty years, article 34 punishes supply or facilitating consumption with two to ten years [Certain]. Article 31 also exempts the person who transports, holds, is depositary of, stores or possesses "una cantidad destinada a su consumo personal", a quantity destined for personal consumption, assessed by the judge under the rules of "sana crítica", and the only figure it fixes is forty grams of marijuana [Certain]. Article 36 has to be read with its own scope rather than recited flatly. Its numeral 1, supply to a person under twenty one, and its numeral 6, using a home as a place of sale or storage, are limited in terms to "las sustancias a que se refiere el artículo 1° de la presente ley", and this row is outside article 1, so on the face of the text those two numerals do not reach it. Numerals 4 and 5 speak of "el delito" generically and are not so limited, so the four to fifteen year band and the five to twenty year band where the victim dies may still apply through them [Certain as to the wording]. The two amending Laws matter to this row and are named here because the articles quoted above are theirs. Ley 17.016 of 22 October 1998 article 2 gave article 15 of Decreto-Ley 14.294 the wording under which the list that places this row was made, and its article 3 gave articles 30, 31, 32, 33, 34 and 35 the wording those articles descend from; article 5 of the same Ley added the chapters that carry the precursor and chemical tables [Certain, read from the amendment notes on the consolidated text and from Ley 17.016 itself]. Ley 19.172 of 20 December 2013 does not touch article 35, and saying so is part of the answer rather than a silence: article 35 descends from article 3 of Ley 17.016 and was last rewritten by article 72 of Ley 19.889 of 9 July 2020. Ley 19.172 reaches this row only through the other route, because its article 6 rewrote article 30 and its article 7 rewrote article 31 and wrote the personal consumption exemption into it [Certain].
If prescribed / medical
Decreto 454/976 regulates psychopharmaceuticals separately from narcotics: article 109 has the Executive fix the roll of controlled psychopharmaceuticals, and dispensing runs on the official prescription form through authorised pharmacies with a prescription book and monthly returns to the ministry. Article 111 prohibits outright the circulation in transit through national territory of narcotic or psychopharmacological substances coming from and destined for abroad [Certain]. No allowance for a traveller carrying a personal supply of a scheduled substance was found in the reachable official text, so that question is deferred rather than answered.
Documentation
Carry any prescribed medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and declare it at the border. Legal cannabis access in Uruguay is a separate regime restricted to registered Uruguayan citizens and accredited permanent residents and it does not extend to this substance, see the cannabis row.
[Certain] Re-derived in this pass. Article 5 of Ley 23.737 opens with the words sin autorización o con destino ilegítimo, so an authorised medical channel sits outside it. Article 8 sets reclusión o prisión de tres a quince años, three to fifteen years, a fine and special disqualification for five to twelve years for a person authorised to produce, manufacture, extract, prepare, import, export, distribute or sell estupefacientes who holds them in quantities other than those authorised, or who applies, delivers or sells them sin receta médica o en cantidades mayores a las recetadas. Article 9 sets prisión de dos a seis años, two to six years, a fine and disqualification for one to five years for a doctor or other authorised prescriber who prescribes, supplies or delivers estupefacientes fuera de los casos que indica la terapéutica o en dosis mayores de las necesarias, rising to reclusión o prisión de cuatro a quince años, four to fifteen years, where the destination is illegitimate. Article 1 of the same Act replaced article 204 of the Penal Code, which sets prisión de seis meses a tres años, six months to three years, for a person authorised to sell medicinal substances who supplies them otherwise than in accordance with the prescription, or without presenting and filing it where the regulations require one. [Certain] Those articles reach this row, because the placement above makes it an estupefaciente, so an authorised medical channel is the difference between article 8 or article 9 and article 5. [Likely] Carried from the published dossier prepared for this country, not re-derived here: for an authorised medicine a traveller should hold the original labelled package, the prescription that medicine requires, and a medical certificate in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Import rules and ANMAT authorisation remain product specific, and none of those documents creates a personal use quantity or authorises an illicit preparation.
Documentation
[Likely] Carried from the live cell: medical cannabis is lawful for registered patients only, and recreational sale and purchase remain criminal offences. The instrument named for that regime, Ley 27.350, was not read in this pass. [Likely] Carried from the published dossier: carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled package with the prescription it requires and a medical certificate in Spanish naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period, and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel. Import rules and ANMAT authorisation are product specific. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass for this row: this substance is named individually in the estupefacientes list, so a traveller carrying it needs the medical channel that articles 5, 8 and 9 presuppose.
Ley 23.737, consolidated text, InfoLEG https://servicios.infoleg.gob.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/0-4999/138/texact.htm · Decreto 560/2019, consolidated text https://www.argentina.gob.ar/normativa/nacional/norma-326675/actualizacion · Decreto 122/2026, substituting Anexo I, published 02/03/2026 https://www.argentina.gob.ar/normativa/nacional/norma-423520/texto · Anexo I as substituted, the complete 886 row text-layer PDF published by the Boletín Oficial, https://www.boletinoficial.gob.ar/detalleAviso/primera/338915/20260302?anexos=1, sha256 197fce006cd7388d4eb06adae573487d2fe820976f55f242d0623e3215deca62, kept at research/instruments/argentina/ · Anexo II, published image https://www.argentina.gob.ar/normativa/326675_dec560anexoII_jpg/archivo · Corte Suprema, Arriola (2009), carried from the live cell https://www.loc.gov/item/2019668143/ · Updated September 21, 2026
Documentation
Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription. Import, export, processing, synthesis, manufacture, distribution, purchase, sale and use of the substances under fiscalización run through the Unidad Administrativa Especial Fondo Nacional de Estupefacientes or the Fondos Rotatorios de Estupefacientes, and article 3 of Resolución 116 de 2026 allows one month for bencilfentanilo and anhídrido propiónico and six months for the other newly incorporated substances and medicines to register. Constitution article 49, as amended by Acto Legislativo 02 de 2009, provides that el porte y el consumo de sustancias estupefacientes o sicotrópicas está prohibido, salvo prescripción médica. Two official portals print different current texts of article 49 and that conflict is recorded here rather than resolved, so no adult-use permission is asserted in this cell. The resolution prints its entry names in capitals and they are given here in title case. This substance is listed at entry 344, Nimetazepam, chemical name 1,3-dihidro-7-nitro-5-fenil-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-ona, Lista Verde, Lista IV. [Certain] Re-derived in this pass and restored, because it was on the live cell for this row and on none of the replacements I first built: Ley 1787 de 2016 is the medicinal and scientific cannabis statute, and it works on the Penal Code directly. The consolidated text of Código Penal article 375 carries the note Inciso adicionado por el artículo 12 del Ley 1787 de 2016, and article 377 carries Inciso adicionado por el artículo 14 del Ley 1787 de 2016. Those added paragraphs are what take licensed medicinal and scientific handling out of the cultivation and possession-of-plant offences. Recreational sale is untouched by them and remains criminal.
Consolidation read: Ley 7786 of 30 April 1998 as integrally reformed by Ley 8204, in the Texto Completo Norma 8204 print published by the Instituto Costarricense sobre Drogas, which carries its own generation date of 19 November 2018. The same ranges, ocho a quince anos in article 58 and de ocho a veinte anos in article 77, were independently read on 18 September 2026 against the later Sinalevi record of Ley 7786, version 13 of 13, so the 2018 print is corroborated rather than assumed current. Control model, re derived from the statute in this pass. Costa Rica prints no annex of controlled substances in its drug Act: across the 81 pages the only drug names anywhere are in article 96, on the disposal of seized marihuana, cocaina and heroina. Article 1 regulates "estupefacientes, psicotropicos, sustancias inhalables y demas drogas y farmacos susceptibles de producir dependencias fisicas o psiquicas, incluidos en la Convencion Unica sobre Estupefacientes... de 1961... asi como en el Convenio de Viena sobre Sustancias Psicotropicas, de 21 de febrero de 1971... asimismo, en la Convencion... de 1988". Its second paragraph is a different thing and is often misread as the control annex: it has the Ministerio de Salud and the MAG draw up and publish in La Gaceta "las listas de estupefacientes, psicotropicos y similares Licitos", the licit ones, which is the authorisation side. The incorporation is ambulatory: article 36 defines precursors as Cuadro I of the 1988 Convention "y sus anexos, asi como los que se le incorporen en el futuro", and article 100 gives the Instituto Costarricense sobre Drogas a mandate framed by the conventions and by "los listados oficiales, publicados periodicamente en La Gaceta". The second limb, measured. The national list is the Lista de sustancias sometidas a fiscalizacion nacional, incluidos los medicamentos psicotropicos y estupefacientes, Direccion de Drogas y Estupefacientes of the Ministerio de Salud, updated 10 September 2026 and signed that day by Dra. Mariela Alfaro Segura. It runs to 27 pages in three sections, estupefacientes, psicotropicos and Otros agregados, and it names its own legal basis as the Reglamento para el control de drogas, estupefacientes y psicotropicas N. 45161-S, the instrument cited elsewhere as Decreto 45161-S of 17 June 2025. The two titles are the same text. A reading of 18 September 2026 records that the decree gives the competent body the function "Elaborar y actualizar la lista de sustancias oficialmente consideradas estupefacientes o psicotropicos y similares de uso regulado" and that its five annexes are forms rather than a substance schedule; that quotation is carried from that reading and was not re derived here. The whole of Otros agregados is twelve entries: metilfenidato, tapentadol and the synthetic cannabinoid JWH-073 among the estupefacientes, and ketamina, esketamina, mexazolam, zaleplon, zopiclona and the piperazines mCPP, CPP, TFMPP and 1,4 dibencilpiperazina among the psicotropicos. Amending Act in force between that list and this reading, read in the official gazette in this pass. Ley 10961 of 9 June 2026, published in Alcance 78 to La Gaceta 113 of 19 June 2026, provides "Rige tres meses a partir de su publicacion" and so took effect on 19 September 2026. It runs to four articles: it adds article 15 quater to Ley 7786 on the anti-money-laundering duties of virtual asset service providers, carries that cross reference into articles 16, 16 bis, 25, 33, 33 bis, 86 and 123, reforms the article 81 administrative fines, and allows three months for regulations. Every Ley 7786 article it touches is money laundering machinery, and it leaves articles 1, 2, 36, 58, 73, 74, 77, 77 bis and 79 untouched, so it moves no row in this batch. Method note. The 2026-09-20 Costa Rica dossier was used only as the slug list and as one of the two term list sources. Its outcome column, its instrument column and its quotation column were not treated as evidence and no placement in this batch rests on them; every placement is the entry read in the list the statute incorporates. Two of its readings were not adopted: it treated ergometrina and ergina as one row when they are separate substances on separate limbs, and it left dextrometorfano unresolved when the instrument excludes it in terms. Sibling name traps were checked rather than assumed. Anchored matching correctly did not return bencilmorfina, desomorfina, dihidromorfina, metildihidromorfina, mirofina or diacetilmorfina for the morfina row, isometadona, normetadona or the metadona intermediario for the metadona row, metcatinona or 4-metiletcatinona for the catinona row, MMDA or N-etil MDA for the MDA row, beta-ceto-MDMA for the MDMA row, levometanfetamina for the metanfetamina row, PCPY for the PCP row, brolanfetamina for the anfetamina row, or norpseudoefedrina for the efedrina row. Two extraction zeroes were false and were recovered by re interrogation: hexahidrocannabinol and 2-fluorodescloroketamina are both line wrapped in the source and a column based read missed both. Routes run for the instrument in this pass. pgrweb.go.cr/scij is a JavaScript shell: the Ley 8204 and Ley 7786 records and the sinalevi.go.cr record each returned about 25 KB that renders to 1,159 characters of site chrome and no statutory text, so a size threshold would have cleared all three. imprentanacional.go.cr served the official gazette carrying Ley 10961. The institutional reproduction at icd.go.cr served the consolidated Act, and ministeriodesalud.go.cr served the national list and the circulars. The schedule pages were checked for hidden content: the list PDF holds one image object repeated on all 27 pages, which is the ministry letterhead, and its byte size is accounted for by that banner, so no entry is carried in an image. Entry read for this row, recorded as the list prints it: "PN 001, CAS 2011-67-8, Nimetazepam, 1,3-dihidro-1-metil-7-nitro-5-fenil-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-ona", in Lista IV of the 1971 Convention. Carry the prescription and the dispensing label, and expect the authorisation rather than the amount to be what is asked about. There is no personal allowance to fall back on, because no article of Ley 7786 fixes a threshold. Sourcing, re derived in this pass and not carried: the two Junta de Vigilancia de Drogas urls cited by this row are DIRECTORIES and not documents. The listing page names the national fiscalisation list but does not carry it; the list is a separate PDF behind a numbered link, and that PDF is what the placement in this row actually rests on. Both documents are now fetched and cited by their own urls: "Lista de sustancias sometidas a fiscalizacion nacional, incluidos los medicamentos psicotropicos y estupefacientes", and "Lista de Estupefacientes y Sustancias Psicotropicas Sometidas a Fiscalizacion Nacional". The first carries the Otros agregados section this row's reasoning refers to [Certain, read from the fetched PDF]. The circulars page cited alongside them exposes no document at all.
Ley 7786 of 30 April 1998 as integrally reformed by Ley 8204, arts 1, 2, 36, 58, 73, 74, 77, 77 bis, 79, 96 and 100 · icd.go.cr · Ley 10961 of 9 June 2026, Alcance 78 a La Gaceta 113 of 19 June 2026, in force 19 September 2026 · imprentanacional.go.cr · Lista de sustancias sometidas a fiscalizacion nacional, incluidos los medicamentos psicotropicos y estupefacientes, Ministerio de Salud, updated 10 September 2026, made under Reglamento 45161-S · ministeriodesalud.go.cr · Circular JVD-002-2015 of 14 December 2015, Junta de Vigilancia de Drogas Estupefacientes · ministeriodesalud.go.cr · Constitucion Politica de Costa Rica art 21 · constituteproject.org · Incb Green List, 36th edition, 2025 · incb.org · Incb Yellow List, 65th edition, July 2026 · incb.org · Incb Red List, 23rd edition, July 2025 · swissmedic.ch · read as at 2026-09-21 · ministeriodesalud.go.cr · ministeriodesalud.go.cr · Updated September 21, 2026
Documentation
The terms searched for this row were «nimetazepam», «nimetazepán» and «nitrobenzodiazepina», each checked in the Consejo Nacional de Drogas consolidated text, in the Ministerio de Salud Pública text and in the text of Decreto 275-21 that replaced the precursor chapter, after the dot leaders and the accents were normalised. Nitrazepam, its unmethylated relative, is equally absent, so the subgroup is represented in the list by clonazepam alone. There is no medical cannabis programme in the Dominican Republic and CBD is treated the same as THC. The United States embassy warns of zero tolerance enforcement in which small quantities can lead to arrest, and it states that United States cannabis or medical marijuana cards are not recognised.
Ley 50-88 sobre Drogas y Sustancias Controladas de la República Dominicana of 30 May 1988, in the consolidated text published by the Consejo Nacional de Drogas, which carries Ley 35-90 of 7 June 1990, Ley 17-95 of 17 December 1995 and the substitution of the article 76 párrafo by article 33 of Ley 72-02 of 7 June 2002 · not named in the Categorías of article 8, in the article 2 definitions or in Capítulo V of the Reglamento as replaced by article 5 of Decreto 275-21, read as at 21 September 2026 · consejodedrogasrd.gob.do · cross-read entry by entry against the Ministerio de Salud Publica copy titled y sus modificaciones, which lists the same substances · msp.gob.do · Reglamento Decreto 288-96 of 3 August 1996 · Decreto 275-21 of 26 April 2021, read in full to its final article, which carries no transitory article · presidencia.gob.do · the zero tolerance enforcement warning, the statement that United States cannabis and medical marijuana cards are not recognised and the absence of a medical cannabis programme are carried forward from the live cell and from the United States embassy guidance and are not re-derived · every figure this cell states from articles 5, 6, 7, 58, 59, 75, 85 and 87 was re-derived from the article itself and is not carried forward · do.usembassy.gov · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated October 3, 2026
Documentation
Carry the medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and ask the Ministry of Health and Wellness or the nearest Jamaican mission before travelling rather than on arrival. A foreign prescription is evidence of why you hold it; it is not a Jamaican licence, permit or authority of the kind section 19 has the Chief Medical Officer issue. When you confirm this row, ask the question it is drawn around, which is the one that checks a nitro benzodiazepine medicine separately from nimetazepam-like spellings. The instrument relied on here was read on 20 September 2026.
Jamaica, the Dangerous Drugs Act, consolidated text, sections 10, 11 and 22, read at https://laws.moj.gov.jm/library/statute/the-dangerous-drugs-act/download, the Ministry of Justice laws of Jamaica library · the download is a 43 page scan of the consolidation whose latest amendment notes are L.N. 3/2001 and, on the Part IIIA pages, L.N. 192A/2017, and five of its pages carry no text layer and were read as page images. This citation is document level and not per substance: the links column of the compilation for this row holds the constructed text «nimetazepam schedule | nimetazepam penalty» rather than an address, and the single hyperlink target in the whole document is the download named above, so no per row source exists and none is implied. The compilation's own outcome for this row is VERIFIED, and the terms it records as searched are «nimetazepam». There is no First Schedule of substances in this Act · its Schedule is the set of licence Forms A, B and D, and the list of drugs to which Part IV applies is in section 10(1). The row boundary the read was carried out against is recorded as follows: it checks a nitro benzodiazepine medicine separately from nimetazepam-like spellings. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated September 21, 2026
Documentation
Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging if you hold nimetazepam on medical grounds, together with a prescriber's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and treat all of that as evidence of why you have it rather than as an Irish permission, because the source read here establishes a schedule placement and establishes nothing about what Ireland accepts from a traveller. Provenance: the placement relied on reads: Schedule 4, Part 1; S.I. 210/2022, Sch. 4 Part 1. It was checked on 20 September 2026. What was actually read is “Nimetazepam”, and nothing beyond that wording is carried here. The dossier behind this cell supplied no address for this row, so the citation carried here is to the named instrument and not to a retrieved document.
Ireland. The governing statute is the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977, and the provisions this row relies on are the ones printed in its own recorded lines below, with none added to them. The numbered instrument this row relies on is S.I. No. 210 of 2022, made under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1977. The instrument and section string recorded in full for nimetazepam is: Schedule 4, Part 1 · S.I. 210/2022, Sch. 4 Part 1 · 1977 Act ss. 2, 3, 15 · row-specific search for nimetazepam (nimetazepam). The entry or wording read is “Nimetazepam”, quoted here as the dossier prints it. The exact search recorded against that instrument is: "nimetazepam" / "nimetazepam" in the instrument named in column 3. The ceiling and the provision carrying it are recorded as: For nimetazepam, 1977 Act s. 27(1)(b) permits up to 7 years for possession on indictment · s. 27(3) permits life for s. 15 supply · s. 15A applies at €13,000 with the s. 27(3C)-(3D) ten-year rule · 2010 Act excluded by s. 2(1)(f). Read as at 20 September 2026. The second statute is named in the dossier only as the 2010 Act, with no short title given, so it is cited here in the dossier's own words and no title has been supplied for it. No address is given here because the dossier supplied none. Its address column carried only the words "Official text" for this row, and no address of any kind appears anywhere in the dossier, so this citation is to the named instrument rather than to a retrieved document. Nothing has been supplied in place of the missing address. · Updated September 21, 2026
Documentation
Carry the original dispensing packaging and the prescription, and obtain the psychotrope travel certificate whose fields the Psychotropenverordnung sets out at the end of its Annexes 2 and 3. A nimetazepam supply obtained abroad does not become an Austrian medicine by crossing the border. The psychotrope list was read at its 18 September 2026 consolidation, whose last list amendment is BGBl II 394/2024 of 19 December 2024; the later BGBl II 10/2025 changed other provisions and not the list.
Austria, Psychotropenverordnung Annex 1 point 2, the entry Nimetazepam, read at https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/GeltendeFassung.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10011054 · the designation power is Suchtmittelgesetz §3(1) and the offences are §§30, 31 and 31a with the ten year ceiling at §§31(3) and 31a(3), read at https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/GeltendeFassung.wxe?Abfrage=Bundesnormen&Gesetzesnummer=10011040 · RIS is the official publisher · its open data notice at https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/UI/Ogd.aspx places the reused material under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International and requires attribution, and its imprint at https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/UI/Impressum.aspx identifies the signed authentic gazette instruments as the binding text and disclaims accuracy, currency and completeness for the consolidated versions · the list amendment applied is BGBl II 394/2024 at https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/eli/bgbl/II/2024/394/20241219 · at that placement the reading also covered this: the prescription regulation was searched for this substance in the same pass and returned nothing, the psychotrope list being a control list rather than a formulary · read as at 18 September 2026. · the section 27, 35, 28 and 28a penalties stated above are carried forward from this site's published Austria entry, which cites the Suchtmittelgesetz and the Suchtgift-Grenzmengenverordnung. They were not re-derived from either instrument in this pass, and that entry's own framing, depenalised and not legalised and no legal minimum quantity, is carried with them · Updated September 21, 2026
· the regulation, both amending regulations and the Act were read at api.sejm.gov.pl on 21 September 2026
If prescribed / medical
The country level rule in Croatia is that carriage of a medicine containing a listed drug is set by Articles 24 and 24.a of the Zakon o suzbijanju zlouporabe droga rather than by the schedule, so paperwork changes what a traveller may hold and not where a substance sits. At the state border a traveller may hold such a medicine only on medical documentation and only in the quantity needed for personal use for at most 5 days. A person on substitution therapy for addiction, or on symptomatic therapy in the terminal phase of a malignant disease, may hold up to 15 days on the same documentation. Article 24.a of the Zakon o suzbijanju zlouporabe droga lets «osobe s prebivalištem, odnosno boravištem u Republici Hrvatskoj koje putuju u države Šengenskoga prostora», and since NN 39/2019 also «državljani Šengenskog prostora kada putuju u Republiku Hrvatsku», hold up to 30 days of such a medicine on a certificate issued on the prescribed form by «ovlašteni liječnik», an authorised doctor, whose content and appearance the health minister sets by pravilnik. Article 75 of the Schengen Convention lets a traveller carry the narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances «that are necessary for their medical treatment» on «a certificate issued or authenticated by a competent authority of their State of residence», which turns on residence and not nationality: under Croatian law the authorised doctor's certificate is the document for a Croatian resident, and Article 75 points a visitor resident in another Schengen state to the certificate of the state where they live; which of the two governs a visitor who is a Schengen national resident elsewhere was not settled by anything read. Attached to this row: Nimetazepam is not an authorised medicine in Croatia, so no prescription route exists for it here. The live cell recorded for this row: If a controlled medicine, carry the prescription and confirm with your embassy (see documentation).
Documentation
Under Article 24(3) the name and quantity of the medicine must be declared to customs on crossing the European Union border, with the medical documentation produced. Article 59 of the control Act makes each of those failures a misdemeanour for a natural person punishable by a fine of 1.000,00 to 10.000,00 kuna, which is roughly 133 to 1,327 euro at the fixed conversion rate, and the four failures it names are carrying without documentation or beyond the 5 day quantity, the substitution and terminal care case beyond 15 days, failing to declare to customs, and travelling within Schengen beyond 30 days or without the certificate. Medical cannabis has been legal in Croatia since October 2015 on prescription, capped at 0,75 g of THC per month and limited to residents, which is carried forward from the live cell. Claims of a 2026 reform introducing a five gram cannabis threshold are not supported by any primary source and should be disregarded, which is also carried forward. No Croatian dispensing document exists for this row, so foreign labelled material is still a listed substance on entry. For this row the provenance is the entry »nimetazepam« at the psychotropic list, Odjeljak 4..
Croatia, Popis droga, psihotropnih tvari i biljaka iz kojih se može dobiti droga te tvari koje se mogu uporabiti za izradu droga, NN 19/2023, psychotropic list, Odjeljak 4. the entry »nimetazepam« · the terms searched across all three lists of the Popis for this row were nimetazepam, nitrazepam, mezokarb · the live cell's recital that this substance was not named in the cited Croatian sources is superseded here by a search of the operative Popis itself, which is the instrument those cited sources point at · the Popis as published at NN 19/2023 of 17 February 2023, in force 18 February 2023, read at https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2023_02_19_331.html on 21 September 2026 · its only amendment, Izmjene i dopune Popisa, NN 154/2024 of 30 December 2024, read at https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2024_12_154_2555.html on 21 September 2026 · the enabling provision is Article 2(2) of the Zakon o suzbijanju zlouporabe droga, Narodne novine 107/01, 87/02, 163/03, 141/04, 40/07, 149/09, 84/11, 80/13 and 39/19 · Zakon o suzbijanju zlouporabe droga, Articles 2, 3, 13, 24, 24.a, 54 and 59, read in the consolidation at https://www.zakon.hr/z/293/zakon-o-suzbijanju-zlouporabe-droga on 21 September 2026 · Kazneni zakon, Articles 41, 44, 46 and 190, read in the consolidation at https://www.zakon.hr/z/98/kazneni-zakon on 21 September 2026 · the current three to twelve year band in Article 190(2) was set by Article 10 of the Zakon o izmjenama i dopunama Kaznenog zakona, NN 136/2025, read at https://narodne-novine.nn.hr/clanci/sluzbeni/2025_11_136_2018.html on 21 September 2026, against which the private consolidation was checked · Ustav Republike Hrvatske, Article 21, read at https://www.zakon.hr/z/94/Ustav-Republike-Hrvatske on 21 September 2026 · the live cell's own references, the Drug Abuse Prevention Act (Zakon o suzbijanju zlouporabe droga, Official Gazette 107/2001, as amended) and the Criminal Code, carried forward · euda.europa.eu · the 2013 reclassification, the 660 to 2,650 euro fine, the 90 day detention, the no statutory quantity rule, the six months to five years, three to twelve years and fifteen to twenty year figures and the October 2015 medical cannabis permission with its 0,75 g monthly cap are carried forward from the live cell and were not re-derived in this pass · Updated October 4, 2026
If prescribed / medical
There may be a lawful medical route for Nimetazepam in Hungary and this row does not settle it. What is settled is the placement: the P4 jegyzék is a controlled schedule of the rendelet, so supply is licensed, and it is outside the definition section 459(1a) carries into the Criminal Code. The prescribing, dispensing and import conditions sit in the Hungarian medicines and pharmacy regime, which this row did not audit. The Hungarian National Institute of Pharmacy and Nutrition is the body that states them, and the reporting and licensing forms in the mellékletek to 66/2012. (IV. 2.) Korm. rendelet are headed with its Hungarian abbreviation, NNGYK. The row this cell relies on is row 49 of the P4 jegyzék. Treat the route as unread rather than as open, and do not read a P4 placement as permission to carry the substance across a border. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation
Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging for Nimetazepam, and get the Hungarian National Institute of Pharmacy and Nutrition or the relevant embassy to confirm the position in writing before you travel rather than at the border. That is the carriage answer, and it is short because no traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance for this substance appears anywhere in what was read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists. The row relied on for this cell is row 49 of the P4 jegyzék. Provenance follows. The controlling text is 78/2022. (XII. 28.) BM rendelet az ellenőrzött anyagokról, read at https://njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/2022-78-20-0A on 21 September 2026 in the consolidated text as in force on 29 June 2026. Its section 1 puts the kábítószer jegyzékek in the 1. melléklet, the pszichotróp anyag jegyzékek in the 2. melléklet, «A 2. melléklet tartalmazza a pszichotróp anyagnak minősülő anyagok jegyzékeit.», and the új pszichoaktív anyag jegyzék in the 3. melléklet. The Criminal Code was read at https://njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/2012-100-00-00 on 21 September 2026 in the consolidated text as in force on 26 August 2026, and that rendering stops at section 339, so sections 459(1a) and 461 were read instead in the Act that enacted them, 2025. évi XIX. törvény sections 26 and 27, at https://njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/2025-19-00-00.0. The Criminal Code page carries a footnote recording that section 461 is the text established by section 27 of that Act, so the two readings agree. On the instrument itself: the schedules are not in 66/2012. (IV. 2.) Korm. rendelet. That decree survives as the activities, licensing and definitions instrument, its 1. melléklet was repealed by section 11 h) of 607/2022. (XII. 28.) Korm. rendelet, and 78/2022 has carried the jegyzékek since 1 January 2023.
Hungary, Nimetazepam, a named entry at row 49 of the P4 jegyzék of 78/2022. (XII. 28.) BM rendelet az ellenőrzött anyagokról · the entry or the search record is quoted in full in the legal status field and is not repeated here · the rendelet, consolidated text as in force on 29 June 2026, read at https://njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/2022-78-20-0A on 21 September 2026 · 2012. évi C. törvény a Büntető Törvénykönyvről, sections 176 to 180, read at https://njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/2012-100-00-00 on 21 September 2026 · sections 459(1a) and 461 of that Act as established by sections 26 and 27 of 2025. évi XIX. törvény, read at https://njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/2025-19-00-00.0 on 21 September 2026, because the Nemzeti Jogszabálytár rendering of the Criminal Code stops at section 339 · 66/2012. (IV. 2.) Korm. rendelet, the activities and definitions decree whose 1. melléklet formerly carried the jegyzékek and was repealed by section 11 h) of 607/2022. (XII. 28.) Korm. rendelet, at https://njt.jog.gov.hu/jogszabaly/2012-66-20-22 · every Criminal Code figure in this cell was re-derived from the Act in this pass and the live Hungary figure is printed beside it in the street field · read on 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Nimetazepam holds no Sri Lankan registration and there is no domestic prescribing route.
Documentation
No traveller route. A foreign supply is a dangerous drug on arrival.
Poisons, Opium and Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Chapter 218), as last amended by Act No. 7 of 2026, certified 6 March 2026 · Group B of Part I and the whole of Part III were substituted by section 6 of Act No. 41 of 2022, certified 23 November 2022, and the entry relied on is read from that Act · the entry relied on is Group B Section 2, 「Nimetazepam」 · Third Schedule Part I Group B as substituted by section 6 of Act No. 41 of 2022, with sections 48, 54A and 78. Principal Ordinance read from the National Dangerous Drugs Control Board's own copy. Read 2026-09-17 · nddcb.gov.lk · nddcb.gov.lk · parliament.lk · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
The country level rule is the 1922 dahir's: substances intended for human or veterinary medicine are inscribed in section II of tableaux A, B and C by arrêté of the health administration, and each tableau carries its own dispensing chapter, with tableau B the strictest. A prescribing rule is not a criminal schedule and neither settles the other. Nimetazepam is a hypnotic that is unlicensed in most countries. Its Moroccan classification was not settled here.
Documentation
The chain has three links and the enumerated list sits in the middle one. Dahir portant loi 1-73-282 of 28 rebia II 1394 (21 May 1974), published at Bulletin officiel 3214 of 5 June 1974, pages 928 and 929, enumerates no substance at all. Its article 1 punishes contravention of the dahir of 12 rebia II 1341 (2 December 1922) on the importation, trade, holding and use of substances vénéneuses, or of the regulatory texts made for its application, concerning « les substances classées comme stupéfiants et inscrites au tableau B », and its articles 2, 3, 4 and 8 attach to « les substances ou plantes classées comme stupéfiants ». Classification therefore happens under the 1922 dahir. Article 1 of that dahir, as modified by the dahir of 17 March 1953, divides substances into « Tableau A: produits toxiques », « Tableau B: produits stupéfiants » and « Tableau C: produits dangereux », and provides that they are inscribed in section I and section II of each tableau by arrêté. The table annexed to the 1922 dahir and printed in the ONSSA consolidated text read on 22 September 2026 is the original annex as annexed in 1922; it carries no sections, so it predates the structure article 1 now describes. The section II lists were found and read on 3 October 2026. Arrêté n° 171-66 of 11 March 1966, Bulletin officiel 2817 of 26 October 1966, pages 1178 to 1189, fixes tableaux A, B and C, and was found by scanning the sommaires of the 1966 French edition issues on sgg.gov.ma. Its tableau B was abrogated and replaced by arrêté n° 1850-96 of 3 September 1996, Bulletin officiel 4422 of 17 October 1996, pages 713 to 716, found through a retyped copy on pharmacie.ma and then in the sommaire of issue 4422, and read from the page image. That tableau B opens « Sont classées comme stupéfiants, les substances et préparations ci-après », which is the wording the 1974 dahir attaches to. Dahir 1-80-140 of 17 December 1980, at Bulletin officiel 3590 of 19 August 1981, page 404, is a publication dahir: it publishes the 1971 Vienna Convention on psychotropic substances as annexed, and it creates no offence and inscribes nothing in tableau B. Its tableaux I to IV are the treaty's own schedules as printed in 1981, thirty two entries in total, and they were read complete from the page image. Placement for nimetazepam: in no entry of tableau B as published in 1996 or of tableaux A and C as published in 1966; the 1966 nitrazepam entry in tableau A does not reach it. Search record. Nimetazepam, Erimin and the nitrazép stem were each searched and each returns zero in the four instruments read on 22 September 2026. All searching was done with word boundaries enforced and with plural tolerance, after a search for tetrahydrocannabinol returned a false zero on the gazette's own plural. An earlier author treated the dossier for this jurisdiction as a term list and did not accept its printed entry claims, because it presents English substance names inside a French quotation frame, attributes them to the 1981 Bulletin officiel, and names substances that postdate that printing by decades. The 3 October 2026 reading did not open the dossier. Every 1974 and 1981 entry quoted in this cell was read from the rendered page image of the gazette at 150 dpi, because the text layer of those scans carries optical character recognition damage, and every 1966 and 1996 entry quoted was read from the page image on 3 October 2026.
Dahir portant loi n° 1-73-282 du 28 rebia II 1394 (21 mai 1974) relatif à la répression de la toxicomanie et la prévention des toxicomanes, Bulletin officiel 3214 of 5 June 1974, pages 928 to 929, read from the page image on 3 October 2026 · https://www.sgg.gov.ma/BO/bo_fr/1974/bo_3214_fr.pdf | Dahir du 12 rebia II 1341 (2 décembre 1922) portant règlement sur l'importation, le commerce, la détention et l'usage des substances vénéneuses, article 1 as modified 17 March 1953 and the annexed tableaux A, B and C as annexed in 1922, ONSSA consolidated text, read on 22 September 2026 | Arrêté du ministre de la santé publique n° 1850-96 du 18 rabii II 1417 (3 septembre 1996) abrogeant et remplaçant le tableau B de l'arrêté du ministre de la santé publique n° 171-66 du 11 mars 1966, Bulletin officiel 4422 of 17 October 1996, pages 713 to 716, read from the page image on 3 October 2026 · https://www.sgg.gov.ma/BO/bo_fr/1996/bo_4422_fr.pdf | Arrêté du ministre de la santé publique n° 171-66 du 11 mars 1966 modifiant et complétant la composition des tableaux A, B et C des substances vénéneuses destinées à l'usage de la médecine humaine ou vétérinaire (section II), Bulletin officiel 2817 of 26 October 1966, pages 1178 to 1189, searched in an OCR text of every page and read from the page image where an entry is quoted, on 3 October 2026 · https://www.sgg.gov.ma/BO/bo_fr/1966/bo_2817_fr.pdf | Dahir n° 1-80-140 du 9 safar 1401 (17 décembre 1980) portant publication de la convention sur les substances psychotropes, Bulletin officiel 3590 of 19 August 1981, page 404, « Listes des substances figurant aux tableaux », as the live cell read it on 22 September 2026 · https://www.sgg.gov.ma/BO/bo_fr/1981/bo_3590_fr.pdf | placement for nimetazepam: in no entry of tableau B as published in 1996 or of tableaux A and C as published in 1966 · the 1966 nitrazepam entry in tableau A does not reach it · Updated October 3, 2026
If prescribed / medical
There is a lawful medical route and Law No. 19 of 1993 states its terms. Article 2 permits individuals to hold these substances for their own personal use on purely health grounds, within the quantities a licensed doctor prescribes, and lets pharmacists dispense only against such a prescription. Article 10 limits one prescription to a quantity sufficient for sixty days in a chronic illness and ten days in any other, and bars a doctor from writing one for himself. Article 11 bars a pharmacy from dispensing a psychotropic prescription more than seven days after it was written, bars dispensing one carrying an erasure or a correction, and bars using one twice. A foreign prescription satisfies none of those conditions on its own.
Documentation
Bring the Ministry of Public Health clearance, not the prescription alone. The Pharmacy and Drug Control Department's traveller guideline requires a detailed approved medical report or prescription issued within the last six months, on the treating facility's letterhead with its stamp, naming the patient, the diagnosis, the treatment plan and duration, the scientific name of the drug, the pharmaceutical form, the prescribed dose and the quantity, together with an undertaking to use the treatment only on the named patient and a copy of the passport. For a controlled psychotropic medicine the quantity allowed is two months. If someone else carries it, the guideline asks for their identity document, and for a written authorisation where they are not a parent, sibling or spouse. The entry 55 listing was read on 22 September 2026.
the table and item placement stated for this row is not printed in the quotation column of the dossier checked against this batch, because no quoted extract in that dossier carries a table or item marker for any of its 88 rows, measured at 0 of 88 on 22 September 2026 · it was read instead in the Official Gazette annex named above · the statute amendment chain carried in the consolidated text and re-derived from it on 22 September 2026 is Law No. 7 of 1998, Law No. 20 of 2003, Law No. 1 of 2006, Law No. 3 of 2020 and Law No. 16 of 2023, which that text marks on 5, 1, 28, 33 and 1 articles respectively, article 41 bis having been repealed by Law No. 1 of 2006 · the separate medicines regime is Law No. 19 of 1993, whose article 14 gives the Minister the parallel power over its own schedules · Qatar, Nimetazepam, controlled psychotropic medicine under Law No. 19 of 1993, entry 55 of the Ministry of Public Health list, not in the Law No. 9 of 1987 tables · Qatar, Law No. 19 of 1993 on the regulation of dealing in psychoactive substances, consolidated text read at https://www.almeezan.qa/LawView.aspx?opt&LawID=138&language=ar on 22 September 2026, whose own schedule note returns only the 1993 preparations schedule as images, so the current substance list was not obtainable from the portal · the Ministry of Public Health Pharmacy and Drug Control Department guideline Controls and Regulations for the release of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and psychoactive drugs, signed by the Director of that Department, read on 22 September 2026 from a mirror because the Ministry host www.moph.gov.qa refused programmatic retrieval behind a challenge page on that date, so this list is cited as an administrative Ministry list and never as proof of a numbered table placement · Qatar, Law No. 9 of 1987 on the control of narcotic drugs and dangerous psychotropic substances, consolidated Arabic text read at https://www.almeezan.qa/LawView.aspx?opt&LawID=3989&language=ar on 22 September 2026, where the portal states its material is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 · the attached annex, which the Al Meezan schedule note returns empty, was read instead in the Official Gazette scan at https://encyclop.sjc.gov.qa/Portal3/ahkam/OpenpdfFile.aspx?id=8, all thirty pages, a scan carrying no text layer, so it was rendered and read as images and the Latin entry column was transcribed by optical character recognition and confirmed against the page image · the Supreme Judicial Council site reserves all rights and no open-reuse licence was located, so only the wording needed for verification is reproduced · the schedule amendments read in full, each through its last article, are Ministerial Decision 22 of 2015 at https://www.almeezan.qa/LawView.aspx?opt&LawID=6806&language=ar, Decision 6 of 2024 at https://www.almeezan.qa/LawView.aspx?opt&LawID=9649&language=ar, Decision 2 of 2025 at https://www.almeezan.qa/LawView.aspx?opt&LawID=9855&language=ar and Decision 8 of 2026 at https://www.almeezan.qa/LawView.aspx?opt&LawID=10296&language=ar · the penalty, quantity and fine figures in this cell were re-derived from the consolidated article text on 22 September 2026 and are not carried forward from any earlier cell or summary · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Nimetazepam is a scheduled substance, so the licensing and prescribing chapters of Decree Law 159 of 2025 govern any lawful handling of them. Article 20 limits a doctor's prescription to two weeks at a time for Group 1 narcotic preparations in tables 1, 2 and 3 and two months for Group 2 psychotropic preparations in tables 2, 3 and 4. Article 26 lets a patient arriving in the country bring in table 1 narcotic preparations sufficient for fifteen days and table 2, 3 and 4 psychotropic preparations. Article 53 punishes a prescriber who writes for consumption against accepted medical standards. Carry a certified prescription and a medical report, and obtain Ministry of Health clearance before travelling.
Documentation
The governing instrument is Decree Law 159 of 2025 on combating narcotics and psychotropic substances and regulating their use and trade, eighty four articles in thirteen chapters, gazetted in Kuwait Al-Youm on 1 December 2025 and in force from 15 December 2025. Article 83 repealed Law 74 of 1983 and Decree Law 48 of 1987 and merged them. The schedules do not sit in the law. Article 40 reads يجوز بقرار من الوزير تعديل الجداول أو المجموعات المرفقة بهذا المرسوم بقانون، بالحذف، أو بالإضافة, so the Minister of Health amends them by decision. The last such amendment read for this cell is Decision 165 of 2026, made on 24 May 2026 and gazetted in Kuwait Al-Youm issue 1793 on 31 May 2026, whose article five annexes the complete updated schedules. The schedules are arranged as Group 1, narcotic substances, tables 1 to 6, Group 2, psychotropic substances, tables 1 to 4, Group 3, chemical precursors, and a Group 4 list of the substances article 52 names. Group 3 was not reprinted in the annex and was not read for this cell. Foreign nationals are liable to deportation after sentence. Kuwait retains and imposes the death penalty for drug trafficking. Placement for Nimetazepam: Group 2, table 4, serial P4-60. It is not on the Group 4 list. The schedule row was read directly in the scanned gazette annex, in both of the two optical character recognition passes.
Decree Law 159 of 2025, articles 40 to 53, gazetted Kuwait Al-Youm 1 December 2025, in force 15 December 2025 · https://alwifaqkw.com/2025/12/%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AF%D8%A9-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D9%86%D8%B4%D8%B1-%D9%85%D8%B1%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%85-%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86-%D9%85%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%81/ | Ministry of Health Decision 165 of 2026, made 24 May 2026 under article 40, annexing the complete updated schedules, gazetted Kuwait Al-Youm issue 1793 on 31 May 2026 · https://mesferlaw.com/ | placement for Nimetazepam: Group 2, table 4, serial P4-60. It is not on the Group 4 list · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
The country level rule in Peru is that the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA governs prescription and dispensing by the list a substance sits in, with articles 23 and following setting a receta especial numerada for the estupefaciente lists and an ordinary retained receta for the psicotropico lists, and article 300 of the Codigo Penal punishing a health professional who improperly prescribes or dispenses a controlled medicine with 2 to 5 years and disqualification. Attached to this substance: this substance sits at Lista IV B item 54, which prints Nimetazepam, which is a controlled but dispensable band, so a prescription written and dispensed under the Reglamento is the lawful route and the document to carry is that prescription with the dispensing packaging. The Reglamento sets the form of the receta by list rather than by substance, and no per substance prescribing route is invented here.
Documentation
Provenance: the placement relied on is Lista IV B item 54, which prints Nimetazepam in Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas marked NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo dated 2021, which agrees on the list, the item number and the entry. The offence articles are Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 as read in the Congreso compendio, with articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982. Personal use possession of a single kind of drug below its article 299 figure is not a crime, while possessing two or more kinds at once is, because the second paragraph of article 299 withdraws the protection. Medical cannabis is lawful under Ley 30681 of 2017, whose Reglamento was approved by Decreto Supremo 005-2019-SA and is cited in the catalogue's own footnote to the cannabis entries; hemp is regulated under Ley 32195 of 2024, carried from the previous cell and not re-derived here. The coca leaf has a status of its own, re-derived in this pass rather than carried: no entry among the 244 in Anexo N. 2 is the leaf, the only coca entries being Cocaina at Lista II A item 1 and Lista IV A item 10, and article 89 numeral 6 of Decreto Ley 22095 defines Cocaina as the alkaloids extracted from the leaves of the coca bush or synthesised from ecgonina, while numeral 4 defines the arbusto de coca separately as the plant of the genus erythroxilon. The leaf is therefore outside the drug schedule altogether and sits instead under a state monopoly and cultivation regime: article 31 prohibits cultivation in new areas, article 32 puts all coca varieties under state fiscalisation, and article 41, as replaced by article 1 of Ley 27634 published on 16 January 2002, gives the industrialisation and commercialisation of leaf from registered holdings to the state company ENACO S.A. The offences that go with that regime are in article 60, as substituted by article 1 of Decreto Legislativo 122 published on 15 June 1981, which sets 2 to 5 years for cultivating coca without being on the Registro de Productores or beyond the registered extent, for supplying coca leaves as payment for personal services, and for commercialising leaf in unauthorised zones or without an ENACO licence. Article 60 has a fourth limb that is not about coca at all and is the one most likely to reach a visitor: limb c imposes the same 2 to 5 years on el propietario, arrendatarios, administrador, vigilante o encargado a cualquier titulo who consents to the distribution or consumption of drugs on premises in their charge, so permitting use in a room or venue you control is an offence in its own right. Nothing read in this pass makes possession or traditional chewing of the leaf an offence, which is why it is not treated here as one. Carry any controlled medicine in its original labelled packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with your embassy before travelling.
Peru, Anexo N. 2 of the Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Psicotropicos y otras sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion sanitaria approved by Decreto Supremo 023-2001-SA, read in the DIGEMID Catalogo de Sustancias Controladas NOVIEMBRE_2024_V1 at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Catalogacion/SUSTANCIA_CONTROLADA_NOVIEMBRE_2024.pdf, which is the Area de Catalogacion of DIGEMID reproducing Anexo N. 2 under its own heading rather than the annex as enacted, and cross read against the DIGEMID publication of the same Anexo at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/PortalWeb/Informativo/Psicotropicos/LISTAS_CONTROLADOS_2021.pdf · the Reglamento's own text, whose article 2 makes Anexo N. 2 the operative listing, at https://www.digemid.minsa.gob.pe/Archivos/Normatividad/2001/DecretoSupremoN023-2001-SA.pdf · Decreto Ley 22095 with its 1978 annexed lists at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con6_uibd.nsf/1AC694FF39FA6B7105258AB40050EAB2/$FILE/decreto_ley_22095.pdf · Codigo Penal articles 296 to 303 in the Compendio Normativo sobre Trafico Ilicito de Drogas published by the Congreso de la Republica at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/99D85DBA6D67749605257F540070950B/$FILE/Compendio-Normativo-TID.pdf, with the current wording of articles 298 and 299 confirmed against Decreto Legislativo 982 at https://www2.congreso.gob.pe/sicr/cendocbib/con4_uibd.nsf/448FEBA50C50F63B05257A6E005C3C8C/$FILE/DL_982.pdf · the Constitution, articles 140 on the death penalty, 55 on treaties in national law and 2 numeral 24 letter d on the legality principle, in the official text at https://cdn.www.gob.pe/uploads/document/file/198518/Constitucion_Politica_del_Peru_1993.pdf · the 1971 Convention schedules in the INCB Green List 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf and the 1961 Convention schedules in the INCB Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025 at https://www.incb.org/documents/Narcotic-Drugs/Yellow_List/64th_edition/YL_64th_E.pdf · read as at 21 September 2026. The placement relied on for this row is Lista IV B item 54, which prints Nimetazepam. · Updated October 4, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Chile controls medicines carrying these substances through the pharmacy rules as well as the drug law, and the live cell this replaces carried the instruction to travel with the prescription and to confirm with the embassy [Likely, carried]. Artículo 6 of Ley 20.000 punishes a doctor, dentist or vet who prescribes without medical or therapeutic need with presidio mayor en sus grados mínimo a medio and a fine of forty to four hundred unidades tributarias mensuales, and artículo 7 punishes an authorised supplier who supplies against the rules with the same band [Certain]. Artículo 50 treats use for a medical treatment as justified [Certain].
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Personal use of a small quantity, proximate in time and exclusive, is a falta under artículo 50 and not a crime, punished by a fine, a prevention or treatment programme, or community work [Certain]. That is not the same as saying prison cannot follow. Under artículo 52 the substitute penalties require the convicted person's agreement, and without it the court must convert the unpaid fine into reclusion at one day per third of a unidad tributaria mensual, which on the one to ten unidad range of artículo 50 reaches thirty days [Certain]. A traveller who declines the substitute programme and does not pay is the case this reaches. Decreto 867 states no numerical quantity for any substance and artículo 4 works from the open phrase pequeñas cantidades, so the line between artículo 4 and artículo 3 is judicial and not arithmetic [Certain]. Public consumption and agreed group consumption in private are both caught [Certain]. Medical cannabis has been available on prescription in Chile since 2015 under Decreto Supremo 84 [Likely, carried from the live cell and not re-derived in this pass]. Home cultivation is governed by artículo 8 of Ley 20.000, which sets no plant count; the six plant figure that circulates comes from reform bills and not from the law in force, a correction carried from the live cell and confirmed here in that artículo 8 states no number [Certain]. The live cell also carried a note that a 2025 to 2026 reform tightening penalties was before the Constitutional Court. What I can state is narrower: Ley 21.817 was published on 23 May 2026 and amended artículos 4, 5, 6, 7, 19 and 43 of Ley 20.000, it did not touch artículo 50, and whether it is the instrument that note described is not established. Travel with any controlled medicine in its packaging with the prescription.
Decreto Supremo 867 de 2007 del Ministerio del Interior, reglamento of Ley 20.000, artículos 1, 2, 4 and 5, consolidated text read 21 September 2026 (listas as amended by Decreto 220 de 2022) · Ley 20.000 artículos 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 bis, 8, 19, 50, 51, 52 and 55 to 59, consolidated text of 23 May 2026 · Ley 21.817 of 23 May 2026 · Código Penal artículo 21 · leychile.cl · leychile.cl · bcn.cl · unodc.org · Updated September 21, 2026
Misuse of Drugs Act 1975, Schedules 1 to 5, at https://www.legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1975/116/en/latest/, read as at 20 September 2026. The power that moves the list is section 4, which authorises the Governor General by Order in Council to amend Schedules 1 to 5 subject to statutory approval and commencement machinery, so the schedules are not fixed by the Act's own date. The chain the source records as checked is the current consolidation, the 2022 and 2025 Classification and Presumption of Supply Orders with their commencement orders, and the 2024 pseudoephedrine amendment. A 2026 Order exists and the source records it as uncommenced at that date, so this reading does not rule out a later amendment that had commenced or been made after it. The published URL resolves to the latest consolidation rather than to a fixed version, so the read date above is what identifies the text, not the link. · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Nimetazepam is not a registered medicine in South Africa on anything read for this cell, so in practice there is no local prescription for it. Outside the practitioners and pharmacies that section 22A (16) (c) and (d) cover, section 22A (16) (b) makes possession lawful only with a prescription issued by an authorised prescriber. For a visitor, SAHPRA's guideline SAHPGL-INSP-RC11, version 2 of June 2022, which restates the General Regulations, says "Any person entering the Republic may be in possession, for personal medicinal use, of- 3.2.1. a quantity of a Schedule 3, 4 or 5 substances, which shall not exceed for use for a period of six months; oral quantity of a Schedule 6 substance, which shall not exceed use for a period of 30 days;" and requires the original prescription, a certified copy of it, or a certificate or letter from the person who prescribed or dispensed it certifying the substance and quantity, with that person's name, physical and email address. The regulation the guideline restates sits behind the same SAHPRA sign in as the July 2026 schedules and was not itself read, so the allowance is stated here from the guideline. Section 22A (17) (a) defines an authorised prescriber as "a medical practitioner, dentist, veterinarian, practitioner, nurse or other person registered under the Health Professions Act, 1974". The guideline's own paragraph 3.1.3 says schedule 5, 6, 7 and 8 products "can only be imported with a permit issued in terms of Section 22A (9) and 22(A)(11)", in its part on commercial imports; nothing read says whether a traveller's personal supply within the allowance also needs that permit, and this cell does not decide it. Section 22A (6) (g) lets a Schedule 5 sale be repeated for no longer than six months, and then only if the prescriber has stated the number of times and the intervals, and section 22A (6) (h) (i) stops a Schedule 5 substance used for its anxiolytic, antidepressant or tranquillising properties being prescribed for longer than six months unless the prescriber has consulted a registered psychiatrist. The Drugs Act's own exceptions in section 4, paragraphs (i) to (vi), run through a practitioner acting in accordance with the Medicines Act, and section 2 of the Drugs Act says it applies "in addition to, and not in substitution for" the Medicines Act.
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Medicines Act search record, 3 October 2026. Terms searched: nimetazepam, Erimin, nitrazepam and benzodiazepine. Nimetazepam and Erimin return zero entries; nitrazepam returns its specified Schedule 5 entry; benzodiazepine returns the class entry on page 168. The consolidation is a text PDF of 199 pages and was searched as extracted text, every schedule from 0 to 8. The Medicines Act schedules are stated as at the SAHPRA Consolidated Schedules of 1 August 2025, which on a comparison of two of its changes, the inserted fluconazole entry in Schedule 2 and the reworded nicotine metered spray line, both read on pages 4 and 6 of the scanned notice, already carry Government Notice R6466 of 1 August 2025; the rest of that notice was not read. That consolidation is read with Government Notice 7446 in Government Gazette 54627 of 8 May 2026, whose only change is to insert a veterinary yohimbine entry in Schedule 4; both were read on 3 October 2026. SAHPRA now labels the 1 August 2025 file an archived version and offers its July 2026 consolidation only through a Microsoft sign in that refused an anonymous request, so that file was not read, and this does not rule out a later amendment. The text of the Medicines Act read is the consolidation published in Government Gazette 40869 of 26 May 2017, whose list of amending Acts ends at Act 14 of 2015; a search on 3 October 2026 found no later amending Act, which does not rule one out. Drugs Act search record carried from the earlier cell. Search record. The terms searched were nimetazepam, Erimin, nitrazepam, nimetaz and flunitrazepam. Only the last returns an entry. This is the one row in the class where the structural comparison genuinely favours inclusion, and it is recorded that way rather than smoothed over. The text read for this cell is the Juta consolidation of the Act downloaded on 29 May 2025, taken from the Department of Justice copy at justice.gov.za whose sha256 begins bc1216a3. It carries the substitution of Schedules 1 and 2 by section 2 of Act 14 of 2022 with effect from 14 December 2022, and it marks section 7 of the Cannabis for Private Purposes Act 7 of 2024, the provision that would amend Schedule 2 again, as not yet put into operation by proclamation. The schedules are stated as at that consolidation and this does not rule out a later amendment made or commenced since.
Medicines and Related Substances Act 101 of 1965, Schedules made under section 22A (2), Schedule 5, page 168 · SAHPRA Consolidated Schedules of 1 August 2025, read on 3 October 2026 · sahpra.org.za · Government Notice 7446, Government Gazette 54627 of 8 May 2026, read on 3 October 2026 · gov.za · Medicines and Related Substances Act 101 of 1965, ss 1, 22A, 29 and 30, consolidation in Government Gazette 40869 of 26 May 2017, read on 3 October 2026 · sahpra.org.za · Drugs and Drug Trafficking Act 140 of 1992 fetched again on 3 October 2026, sha256 beginning bc1216a3 and byte identical to the cached copy · SAHPRA guideline SAHPGL-INSP-RC11, Guidelines for Release of Imported Health Products at Ports of Entry, version 2, June 2022, paragraphs 3.1.3 and 3.2, read on 3 October 2026 · sahpra.org.za · Drugs and Drug Trafficking Act 140 of 1992, Schedule 2 open homologue limb, single printed benzodiazepine read, closest comparison in the class · Drugs and Drug Trafficking Act 140 of 1992, ss 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 13, 17 and 19, with Schedules 1 and 2 · justice.gov.za · read from the cached text at research/instruments/south-africa/za-drugs-act-140-1992.txt, 84,091 bytes, against the.pdf beside it at 127,460 bytes · the consolidation is dated 29 May 2025 and carries the Act 14 of 2022 substitution of both schedules with effect from 14 December 2022 · Updated October 4, 2026
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) Act, Cap. 245 (No. 4 of 1994), text as at 31 December 2022 revised by the 24th Annual Supplement (Legal Notice 221 of 2023), incorporating the Narcotics, Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (Control) (Amendment) Act, 2022 (No. 4 of 2022), commenced 21 March 2022 · ss. 2, 3, 4, 4A, 4B, 5, 6, 13, 16, 87 and the First to Fourth Schedules · new.kenyalaw.org · Updated October 2, 2026
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Carry documents showing a lawful origin if you hold any of this substance. The limb is not excluded, but no Belgian authorised product is recorded for it. The placement at Annex III was read on 18 September 2026. The annex text read is the non official consolidated version published by the AFMPS; it is informative and the Moniteur belge controls. The annex consolidation relied on here is valid from 29 March 2026, following the amending Royal Decree published on 19 March 2026, and carries a correction dated 16 July 2026.
Belgium, Royal Decree of 6 September 2017, Annex III, with articles 2, 8 and 61 of that decree and article 2bis of the Law of 24 February 1921 carrying the offence and the penalties · the printed entry relied on is the name nimetazepam and no further text · read at https://www.afmps.be/sites/default/files/content/INSP/NARC/annex%20III_non%20official%20consolidated%20version.pdf on 18 September 2026 · the decree is at https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/eli/arrete/2017/09/06/2017031231/justel and the 1921 Law bilingual consolidation at https://afmps.be/sites/default/files/downloads/LOI-WET-1921-02-24.pdf · the annex text is the AFMPS non official consolidated version, valid from 29 March 2026 with a correction dated 16 July 2026, and the Moniteur belge controls · Updated September 20, 2026
· 3 § förordningen (1992:1554) om kontroll av narkotika
· Quotations in guillemets are the row's printed tokens in column order. Line wraps inside a name are rejoined, and a hyphen that exists only because of the wrap is dropped. Any further name printed in the row is reported in prose rather than inside the quotation, because the two column layout interleaves it into the middle of the chemical name
· Narkotikastrafflag (1968:64), read as at amendments through SFS 2024:797, which is the currency the Riksdag prints on the text, carried forward from the live cell and not re-derived
· the row read at line 2142 of the pdftotext layout extraction of that consolidated text
· Every penalty band, fine, date, quantity, article and instrument attributed to the live cell in this row is carried forward from it and was not re-derived in this pass
· Lag (1999:42) om förbud mot vissa hälsofarliga varor, 1 to 4 §§, carried forward from the live cell
· INCB Yellow List, 65th edition, and INCB Green List, 36th edition 2025, carried forward from the live cell as read on 16 September 2026
Norway, forskrift 14. februar 2013 nr. 199 om narkotika (narkotikaforskriften), narkotikalisten and sections 3, 5 and 19 · legemiddelloven (LOV-1992-12-04-132) sections 22, 24 and 31 · straffeloven (LOV-2005-05-20-28) sections 231 and 232 · lovdata.no · Updated September 16, 2026
If prescribed / medical
There is a lawful medical route. Section 3 of bekendtgoerelse nr. 405 says euphoriants may be used in Denmark only for medical or scientific purposes, and section 6(1)(1) allows receipt and possession only by a person who receives the substance on a prescription or requisition issued under the rules in force.
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Declare any controlled medicine on arrival, carry it in its original dispensed container, and carry the prescription or a doctor's letter naming the substance, the dose and the patient. Article 75 of the Schengen Convention lets a traveller carry the narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances «that are necessary for their medical treatment» on «a certificate issued or authenticated by a competent authority of their State of residence». For residents of Denmark the issuer is a pharmacy, in sundhed.dk's words «I Danmark udstedes Schengen-attester på apoteket.»; a visitor resident in another Schengen state also needs the certificate of the state where they live, because a doctor's letter on its own is not that certificate. Confirm requirements with the Danish Medicines Agency and with your embassy before travel.
Section 24 of huumausainelaki 373/2008 disapplies the import and export rules for a medicinal product a traveller carries for personal medication where the substance is in lists I to III of the 1961 Convention or lists II to IV of the 1971 Convention, and this row is inside that carve out. Section 19 of lääkelaki 395/1987 then governs. Where a substance is a medicinal ingredient rather than a listed narcotic, it is handled through the Medicines Act 395/1987, in particular the conduct and import rules in section 3 and the medicinal substances list, and its status turns on individual product classification. This row in particular. This row sits in list IV of the 1971 Convention annex, and section 24 of huumausainelaki 373/2008 reaches exactly that: it disapplies the import and export provisions of the Act for medicinal products containing a substance in lists I to III of the 1961 Convention or lists II to IV of the 1971 Convention, the products being those «joita matkustaja käyttää henkilökohtaiseen lääkitykseensä», and then hands the traveller to section 19 of lääkelaki 395/1987. Section 23 subsection 3 of the same Act is the neighbouring relief for this list: a combination preparation containing a psychotropic substance other than one in list I of the 1971 Convention needs no import or export licence where the narcotic content is small or hard to separate and the abuse risk is slight against the substance's wide medicinal use.
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Carry any prescribed medicine in its dispensed packaging with the prescription. Finland's personal import rules for medicines sit in the Medicines Act 395/1987 and were not read for this cell, so no traveller allowance is stated here. This row in particular. The locator a traveller or an official would be checking is Liite II list IV entry 53 of 543/2008, as that annex stands after 4.12.2025/1119, and the entry printed there reads «Nimetatsepaami (1,3-dihydro-1-metyyli-7-nitro-5-fenyyli-2H-1,4-bentsodiatsepin-2-oni)». Because the row is in that part of the convention annexes, section 24 of huumausainelaki 373/2008 takes a traveller's own prescribed medicine out of the Act's import and export provisions and leaves section 19 of lääkelaki 395/1987 to govern how much may be carried, which is the provision this cell did not read. Provenance for this row. The consolidated 543/2008 read here is the Finlex text carrying amendments up to 25.6.2026/651, the version Finlex identifies as data.finlex.fi/eli/sd/2008/543/ajantasa/2026-06-26/fin, in force from 10 July 2026, read on 21 September 2026; the consolidated 1130/2014 read here is the Finlex text whose annex was substituted by 650/2026 with effect from 10 July 2026, read on 21 September 2026; and where the medicines list is cited it is the Finnish annex text to decision 230/2025 served by Finlex, read on 21 September 2026.
Finland, nimetazepam, a named entry of Liite II list IV of valtioneuvoston asetus huumausaineina pidettävistä aineista, valmisteista ja kasveista 543/2008 at printed position 53, that annex as amended by 4.12.2025/1119 · the entry text, the closing extension clause of its list and the statutory wording are quoted in the other fields and are not repeated here, because this field is split into citation chips on every semicolon · Valtioneuvoston asetus huumausaineina pidettävistä aineista, valmisteista ja kasveista 543/2008, section 1 and annexes I to V · Valtioneuvoston asetus kuluttajamarkkinoilta kielletyistä psykoaktiivisista aineista 1130/2014, section 1 and its annex · Huumausainelaki 373/2008, sections 3, 5, 7, 23, 23 b and 24 · Rikoslaki 39/1889, chapter 44 sections 5 and 5 a and chapter 50 sections 1, 2, 2 a, 3, 4, 4 a, 5 and 7 · finlex.fi · finlex.fi · finlex.fi · finlex.fi · 543/2008 read in the consolidated Finlex text carrying amendments up to 25.6.2026/651, the version identified as data.finlex.fi/eli/sd/2008/543/ajantasa/2026-06-26/fin and in force from 10 July 2026, read on 21 September 2026 · 1130/2014 read in the consolidated Finlex text whose annex was substituted by 650/2026 with effect from 10 July 2026, read on 21 September 2026 · Finlex is the Ministry of Justice public legal database, its data is published under CC BY 4.0 and the statutes themselves are outside copyright under section 9 of the Copyright Act 404/1961 · read on 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026
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The reading. Lista IV also carries NITRAZEPAM and FLUNITRAZEPAM, which are separate entries for separate substances. Provenance. The Anexo was read in the Gaceta Oficial edition of Ley 913, edition 947NEC of 23 March 2017, downloaded from the Gaceta at gacetaoficialdebolivia.gob.bo, and cross checked line by line against the copy the Dirección General de Sustancias Controladas publishes at dgsc.gob.bo. The two copies carry the same entries and differ only in line breaks and in a handful of characters where a capital letter I is set as a lowercase letter l in the text layer. The Anexo says on its own face that it reproduces the 1961 and 1971 convention lists as amended in force from 19 September 1987, so it is an old list re enacted in 2017 and it is materially the same list Ley 1008 annexed. Which instrument governs, re derived this pass. Ley 913 did not replace Ley 1008. Its first derogatory disposition derogates article 33 incisos a), q) and r), articles 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42 and 44 of Título II, and Títulos VI, VII and VIII, and nothing else. Título III, the offences and penalties at articles 46 to 55, was left standing and is still the law, and Ley 913 itself contains no criminal penalty at all. What did move is the schedule. Article 33(a), the inciso that defined sustancias controladas by pointing at the Ley 1008 annex, is derogated, and Ley 913 article 5(c) with its own Anexo took its place. Ley 906 of 8 March 2017 separately abrogated the coca title of Ley 1008. So a cell that cites Law 1008 for the list is citing a derogated inciso, while a cell that cites it for the penalty is right. One loose end sits in the statute itself: article 46 still reads plantas señaladas por el anexo a que se refiere el inciso a) del artículo 33, and that inciso no longer exists. [Certain] Carriage. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription, and expect a carrier to ask for the Ministry of Health or Ministry of Government authorisation that article 21 I of Ley 913 obliges it to require before a substance of the Anexo lists crosses the customs frontier.
Bolivia. Ley 913 of 16 March 2017, Ley de Lucha contra el Tráfico Ilícito de Sustancias Controladas, article 5(c) and its Anexo, Gaceta Oficial edition 947NEC of 23 March 2017, read at http://gacetaoficialdebolivia.gob.bo/normas/buscar/913 and cross checked against https://dgsc.gob.bo/normativa/leyes/Ley913.pdf, Lista IV, entry NIMETAZEPAM for nimetazepam · Ley 1008 of 19 July 1988, Título III, articles 46 to 55 and article 33(m), read in the Gaceta Oficial edition at http://gacetaoficialdebolivia.gob.bo/normas/buscar/1008 and against the Ministerio de Gobierno consolidated text at https://web.mingobierno.gob.bo/ · Constitution of 2009 articles 15 and 384 at https://www.senarecom.gob.bo/files/transparencia/CONSTITUCION_POLITICA_DEL_ESTADO.pdf · Ley 906 of 8 March 2017 article 16 at http://gacetaoficialdebolivia.gob.bo/normas/buscar/906 · all read as at 21 September 2026. · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
This substance has a medical route in Paraguay and sits in Lista IV of the psicotropicos sheet, as the entry Nimetazepam. Article 6 of Ley 1.340/1988 requires every prescription for a controlled substance to be written on a numbered quadruplicate form supplied at cost by the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, showing the prescriber's name and professional registration number, the medicine, the quantity in figures and words, and the patient's name, address and identity document, and it is valid for eight days from issue. Article 33 of Decreto 5.213/2005 restricts a narcotic monodrug to that Receta Cuadruplicada and allows an associated narcotic on a Receta Simple Archivada, and it caps a single prescription at 30 days of treatment. Medicines containing these substances may be dispensed only by pharmacies licensed by that Ministry, on the original prescription. Article 30 of Ley 1.340/1988 exempts a person holding what a doctor prescribed for them, and punishes a quantity greater than the amount prescribed. A traveller carrying it should hold the prescription, should not carry more than it states, and should confirm requirements with their embassy before travel. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted at the border was not settled from the text read.
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Control model. Article 1 of Ley 1.340/1988 defines sustancias estupefacientes y drogas peligrosas as, first, those in the lists annexed to the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs and to the Convention on Psychotropic Substances ratified by Leyes 338 and 339 of 17 December 1971, second, any substance of natural or synthetic origin able to produce dependence, stimulation or depression of the central nervous system, or hallucinations, motor and sensory disturbance, or a change in behaviour, perception or mood, or effects analogous to the first limb, and third, the salts, preparations and pharmaceutical specialities and any product usable in their elaboration. The second and third limbs are fixed by decree of the Executive originating in the Ministerio de Salud Publica y Bienestar Social, on a list article 1 requires to be updated in December of each year and to name substances by the generic name adopted by the World Health Organization. The decree in force is Decreto 5.213 of 6 May 2005, whose article 1 was replaced by Decreto 5.282 of 2021, which also abrogated Decreto 12.064/2008. [Certain] Schedule read. The consolidated schedule is published by DINAVISA as the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, in three sheets, estupefacientes, psicotropicos, and precursores y productos quimicos. It was read in full for this row and it holds 469 named entries. [Certain] That workbook is a publisher consolidation and not the instrument itself, and it was checked against both of the sources it consolidates. Two omissions were measured. It drops 25I-NBOMe, which is entry PN 008 of the 1971 Convention list and sits between two entries the workbook does reproduce, and it drops Amitriptilina from the national tier although Decreto 5.282/2021 opens that list with that name. So an absence in the workbook alone does not establish an absence in law. Every row in this batch that is recorded as not found was searched against the Convention lists as well, in Spanish and in English and by chemical name, because article 1 limb a of Ley 1.340/1988 incorporates those lists directly and only limbs b and c depend on the decree. [Certain] Entry read for this row: Nimetazepam, in Lista IV of the psicotropicos sheet. Lista IV holds the great majority of the benzodiazepines, including Bromazolam, Clonazolam, Diclazepam, Flualprazolam, Flubromazolam and Fenazepam, which are designer benzodiazepines named in their own right. The anchored match for this row is the standalone entry. All six members of this class in the corpus take the same Lista IV treatment, so the body of each member's cell is deliberately the same text apart from its own entry name. That repetition is the honest answer here and not an unfilled template. [Certain] Amending history re-derived this pass. Ley 1.340/1988 has been amended by Ley 68/1992 on article 2, Ley 171/1993 on articles 51 and 52, Ley 1.881/2002, Ley 5.434/2015 on article 23, and Ley 6.902/2022 on articles 2, 3, 4, 23, 47, 101 and 105. Ley 1.881/2002 rewrote articles 19, 21, 23, 53 and 54, added chapters 10 to 16, renumbered the old articles 72 to 83 as 99 to 111, and by its article 4 repealed articles 27, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. Articles 1 and 30 have not been amended. [Certain] Correction to the live cell. The live Paraguayan cells attribute trafficking and cultivation to article 16 at 10 to 20 years. Article 16 is supply made to facilitate another offence and carries 5 to 15 years. Cultivation is article 33 and carries 10 to 20 years. The article number in the live cell is wrong and has been corrected here against the statute text. [Certain] The research dossier was not relied on for placement. Its two cited library identifiers for the primary instrument were both fetched and both resolve to unrelated statutes, one on housing debt and one on a municipal land transfer. Its quotation column is a formula wrapped around the corpus name rather than a quotation from any Paraguayan text. It assigns a 20 year ceiling to article 27, which set 5 to 15 years and was repealed in 2002. It offered Escopolamina, Catha edulis, Lophophora williamsii and Ergina as Paraguayan entry names and none of the four is in the December 2025 schedule. It recorded ketamine, tramadol, GHB, mephedrone, methylone, MDPV, MXE and 2C-B as unresolved and all eight are named entries. Every placement stated here was read from the schedule itself. [Certain] Capital and life. Article 4 of the 1992 Constitucion Nacional reads Queda abolida la pena de muerte. Ley 1.340/1988 contains no capital provision and no life provision, and its highest range is 10 to 25 years. [Certain] The schedule read was the Listado Actualizado de Sustancias sujetas a fiscalizacion en Paraguay, Dic. 2025, published by DINAVISA under Decreto 5.213/2005 as amended by Decreto 5.282/2021, read as at 21 September 2026, together with the 1961 and 1971 Convention lists that article 1 limb a incorporates directly. Reading them does not rule out a later decree, a later edition of the list, or a later Convention scheduling decision that names this substance.
Capital exposure: none. Neither Act 1019 nor the Public Health Act 2012 (Act 851) prints a sentence of death. Two regimes, and which one reaches nimetazepam for a user is not settled. Under the medical supply regime: Section 118(1) of Act 851 says a person shall not «manufacture, prepare, import, export, distribute, sell, supply or exhibit for sale a drug» that the Authority has not registered, section 122(1) forbids importing a drug without a licence or permit under that Part, and section 129 punishes a contravention of sections 111 to 124 on summary conviction by a fine of not less than seven thousand five hundred and not more than fifteen thousand penalty units or imprisonment of not less than fifteen and not more than twenty five years, or both. Breach of the guideline itself is sanctioned by section 148: subsection (1) says persons in the food and drugs industry «shall comply with the guidelines and codes of practice», subsection (4) makes a person who fails to comply liable to «an administrative penalty of not more than two thousand five hundred penalty units», and subsection (5) makes failure to pay that penalty an offence carrying imprisonment of not more than five years. Section 113(1) also makes it an offence to sell a drug «in contravention of Regulations or Guidelines made under this Part», punishable under section 129, but it sits under the heading «Deception of consumers», and whether it reaches a sale that breaks the guideline's prescription rule without deceiving anyone is not settled. Section 126 itself creates no offence. Section 123(1) reaches possession only of a «counterfeit drug». No provision of Act 851 read for this cell makes possession by a patient or user an offence. If the «derivatives» limb of Fifth Schedule S were held to reach nimetazepam, it would be a narcotic drug under Act 1019, and then every Act 1019 offence would attach, including possession for use and purchase for personal use. Its Second Schedule, read in the text layer of the official parliamentary text on 3 October 2026, sets these bands: possession for use under section 37(2)(a), a fine of not less than two hundred and not more than five hundred penalty units, with not more than fifteen months' imprisonment in default; possession for trafficking under section 37(2)(b), importation or exportation under section 36 and prohibited business under section 38, each a fine of not less than ten thousand and not more than twenty five thousand penalty units and imprisonment of not less than ten and not more than twenty five years, with three years in default; and purchase under section 45, which by section 45(2) includes a purchase «for personal use», a fine of not less than two thousand and not more than ten thousand penalty units or imprisonment of not less than four and not more than ten years. Possession for trafficking means a quantity «in excess of a quantity which can reasonably be used by an individual in a day». Section 50 requires life imprisonment where a person found guilty of a narcotic offence has been convicted «on more than one previous occasion» of an importation, exportation, processing, sale, manufacture, distribution, cultivation or supply offence. A web search of ghalii.org, judy.legal, lawsghana.com and dennislawgh.com on 3 October 2026 found no decision applying that limb to nimetazepam either way, which is not proof that none exists.
If prescribed / medical
The guideline says «Controlled drugs should be dispensed only upon receipt of a valid prescription», defined by section 103 of the Health Professions Regulatory Bodies Act, 2013 (Act 857) as the guideline quotes it, and that pharmacies may supply «ONLY on receipt of a valid prescription or signed order». Act 857 itself was not read.
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Section 118(2) of Act 851 exempts from the registration rule «an import permit issued by the Authority for the importation of any of the articles mentioned in that subsection which is imported for personal use», and section 122(1) says a person without a licence or permit under that Part «shall not import a drug». The permit procedure for a traveller was not read. If item S were held to reach nimetazepam, section 36(1) of Act 1019 would also require a licence from the Minister responsible for Health to import it.
Narcotics Control Commission Act, 2020 (Act 1019), official parliamentary text, read at https://repository.parliament.gh/server/api/core/bitstreams/2ae84af6-4f3f-49e5-aae1-b340fe350cb8/content on 3 October 2026, Fifth Schedule R and S, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Schedules searched, sections 36 to 45 and 50, Second Schedule, definitions, section 112 · Public Health Act 2012 (Act 851), read at https://www.moh.gov.gh/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Public-Health-Act-851.pdf on 3 October 2026, sections 113, 118, 122, 123, 126, 129 and 148 · Food and Drugs Authority, Guidelines for the Sale, Supply and Use of Controlled Substances, FDA/DRI/TSA/GL-SSCS/2020/07, read at https://fdaghana.gov.gh/final-guidelines-for-the-sale-supply-and-use-of-controlled-drugs-4 on 3 October 2026, sections 1, 2, 3.1, 5 and appendices 9.2 and 9.2.4 · INCB Green List, 36th edition 2025, read at https://www.incb.org/incb/uploads/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2026/2510307E.pdf on 3 October 2026 · Narcotics Control Commission (Amendment) Bill, 2023, https://repository.parliament.gh/server/api/core/bitstreams/bddf7867-d1e8-4c0c-a44d-bc984aa53ec8/content · consolidation note, https://www.judy.legal/legislation/akn/gh/act/2020/1019 · L.I. 2475 table of contents, https://www.judy.legal/legislation/akn/gh/act/li/2023/2475 · Orden de 30 de mayo de 1984, BOE 9 June 1984, https://www.boe.es/boe/dias/1984/06/09/pdfs/A16674-16674.pdf · Updated October 3, 2026
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Not named in the First Schedule as read, so sections 11 and 12 of the Ordinance are not engaged by name for it. Medicines are separately regulated in Israel under the Pharmacists Ordinance and the regulations made under it, and that body of law was not read in this pass. [Likely] Carry the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm with an Israeli mission before travelling.
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[Certain] Placement read in this pass: not in the Ordinance; the Schedule's only benzodiazepine is flunitrazepam at חלק ב' סימן ג' פרט 3א. The reading is of the consolidated First Schedule whose own amendment note at its head ends at התשע"ח and whose schedule pages carry the 1.4.2018 update stamp, with section 7 stamped 1.1.2019 and the file closing with (סוף הפקודה), and a later amendment to the Schedule is not ruled out, and this reading is of that version and no other. Carried from the published entry and from the b162 staging, not re-derived in this pass [Likely]: cannabis is decriminalised by policy rather than legalised. Since 1 April 2019, under a temporary order following the July 2018 Knesset approval, adult personal use or possession of a small amount, 15 g or less, is handled administratively rather than as a criminal offence; private home use is said to be no offence at all, while public use draws a graduated fine, the first about NIS 1,000 or about USD 275, doubled on the second, with the third triggering a criminal investigation or licence loss and the fourth prosecution. Per NIDA and the Anti-Drug Authority cannabis use is still forbidden. Soldiers, prisoners, minors and police are excluded from that framework and remain criminal. The framework is cannabis only and does not extend to other drugs. Also carried and flagged as draft rather than enacted: a 2020 bill to decriminalise up to 50 g did not pass; 2022 Sa'ar draft regulations to make personal use purely administrative and expunge records; a February 2024 redefinition of dangerous drug to only cannabis above 0.3% THC, which would place low-THC CBD outside the Ordinance. The b162 staging also carried an 8 year asset seizure exposure on the trafficking route, which was not re-derived here and is not in the sections read in this pass. Medical cannabis is one of the world's oldest and largest programmes, run by the Israel Medical Cannabis Agency under the Ministry of Health, with a figure of about 130,000 to 140,000 patients and a January 2024 reform that dropped the last resort requirement. None of those figures was verified against a primary source in this pass. [Certain] Re-derived here instead: section 7(c1) of the Ordinance keys its special fine offence expressly to פרטים 1 ו־2 בסימן א' בחלק א', that is to cannabis and cannabis resin and to nothing else among these 88 rows, and sets the fine at NIS 1,000 for a first offence and NIS 2,000 for a second. The Ordinance's own footnote to that subsection states that it came into force on 1.4.2019 and applies for 3 years from that date, which on its face runs to 1.4.2022; the text read here does not record an extension and does not record a lapse, so neither is asserted. Israel has no capital provision for any drug offence.
Dangerous Drugs Ordinance [New Version], 5733-1973, פקודת הסמים המסוכנים [נוסח חדש], התשל"ג-1973, First Schedule and sections 6, 7, 11, 12, 13 to 21, 25 and 31, plus the Second Schedule · consolidated text read on 21 September 2026 from the copy held at research/instruments/israel/israel.txt, 191,538 bytes, which is 138,676 characters and 130,172 once the bidi controls are stripped, sourced from israel2.pdf, whose amendment citation list ends at ק"ת 2746 התשע"ח of 26.7.2018 · the b162 staging attributed the same text to chamber.org.il, carried here and not fetched in this pass. [Certain] The Ordinance's own title page reads התשל"ג-1973 and התשל"ג is 5733, not 5732. [Certain] The First Schedule read here has two סימנים in חלק א' and three live plus one repealed in חלק ב', which the Schedule's own conditions clause confirms by referring to סימן ב' של חלק א' ובסימנים ב' ו־ג' לחלק ב'. · Updated September 21, 2026
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Resolución 200 of 26 September 2025, published in Gaceta Oficial Digital 30388-A of 16 October 2025, sets Panama's Listado Oficial under Ley 14 of 19 May 2016 and Decreto Ejecutivo 183 of 8 June 2018. It is a list of substances permitted for medical and scientific use, not a criminal schedule, so absence from it is not lawfulness and presence on it is not a defence. It is not permitted for medical and scientific use in Panama on the list read here, unlike fourteen of its class relatives, so no national dispensing route exists for it. Carry any controlled medicine in its original packaging with the prescription and the dispensing label, and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
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Recreational drug use is illegal in Panama and there is no formal decriminalisation threshold, so Panama should not be treated as a decriminalised country. The exact strings searched for this row were «nimetazepam and 1,3-dihydro-1-methyl-7-nitro-5-phenyl benzodiazepinone». A prescription from another country will not correspond to any entry on Panama's list for this member. The live cell attributed the offences to Ley 23 of 1986 read with Law 13 of 1994. Those citations are carried forward here, with the correction that the articles the live cell then quotes are Penal Code articles, and the Penal Code adopted by Ley 14 of 2007 repealed the 1982 Code together with the offences defined elsewhere that it covers. The Penal Code was read in the Texto Único of Ley 14 of 2007 as updated to December 2020 and published by the Órgano Judicial, cross-read against the Procuraduría General de la Nación Texto Único carrying amendments through Ley 70 of 2019; the two agree word for word on articles 312 to 324, whose last amendment was Ley 40 of 4 July 2012. Every law amending the Penal Code that the Órgano Judicial lists after that consolidation was checked and none touches articles 312 to 324. The substance lists were read in Resolución 200 of 2025 as published in Gaceta Oficial Digital 30388-A, in the Green List 36th edition of 2025 and in the Yellow List 64th edition of July 2025. All of it was read as at 21 September 2026. Medicinal cannabis is lawful under Law 242 of 13 October 2021 and hemp under Law 464 of 2025 at a concentration not above 1% by dry weight, and neither route is a general permission for any other substance. Panama has no death penalty for drugs.
Panama, Código Penal, Título IX, Capítulo V, articles 312 to 324, the drug chapter, with article 324 carrying the definition of droga · Texto Único of Ley 14 of 2007 updated to December 2020, published by the Órgano Judicial · organojudicial.gob.pa · cross-read against the Procuraduría General de la Nación Texto Único carrying amendments through Ley 70 of 2019, which agrees word for word on articles 312 to 324 · ministeriopublico.gob.pa · MINSA Resolución 200 of 26 September 2025, the Listado Oficial of substances permitted for medical and scientific use, which repeals Resolutions 410 of 2018, 691 of 2020, 782 of 2020 and 176 of 2021, published in Gaceta Oficial Digital 30388-A of 16 October 2025 · dnfd.minsa.gob.pa · placement read in the INCB Green List 36th edition of 2025, the schedules of the 1971 Convention · incb.org · the penalty figures, the citation of Ley 23 of 1986 with Ley 13 of 1994 and the citation of Decreto 25 of 16 January 2024 are carried forward from the live cell and not re-derived, except where this cell states a correction · every law the Órgano Judicial lists as amending the Penal Code after the December 2020 consolidation was checked and none touches articles 312 to 324 · the entry for this row was read at identification code PN 001 in that list, and the placement was decided by reading that line and not by a substring match on the name Nimetazepam · read as at 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026
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Section 9(3) takes a narcotic outside the section 9 prohibitions where it is needed for making an approved medicine, for industrial use, for treatment, for scientific research or for a lawful activity approved by the Director General, and then only under an instrument issued under section 13: a licence to cultivate, produce, carry, import, export, supply, buy, sell, possess, store or display it, a permit to consume, apply or use it, and a pass to carry or transport it. Section 12(1) provides that no person other than a doctor may prescribe a narcotic as a medicine, and section 12(2) that a narcotic may not be bought more than once on the same prescription. Section 2(27) defines a prescription as the written list of medicines, directions for use or instructions given for the purpose of curing disease by a doctor recognised by the Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council.
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Section 9(5) is the only traveller allowance the Act contains, and it is not a personal one: a passenger vessel, aircraft or land vehicle may keep, carry, transport, administer and use medicine-grade narcotics in its first aid box under a doctor's control for emergency treatment, in the quantity fixed by the Government by notification in the official Gazette. No such quantity notification was located for this cell, so no figure is stated. There is no personal allowance for a traveller's own supply anywhere in the Act, and the licence, permit and pass of section 13 are issued by the Director General of the Department of Narcotics Control on conditions fixed by rules. Carry any prescribed medicine in its dispensed packaging with the prescription, and note that section 36(4) lets a court divert a person who appears to be an addict and nothing more into treatment, with 6 months to 5 years if they refuse it.
Bangladesh, Narcotics Control Act 2018, Act No. 63 of 2018, assented 14 November 2018 and in force from 27 December 2018 by S.R.O. No. 362-Law/2018 of 10 December 2018, as amended by the Narcotics Control (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 26 of 2020, and the Narcotics Control (Amendment) Act 2026, Act No. 101 of 2026 of 16 July 2026 · First Schedule, Class 'ga', serial 3, and section 36 table row 33 · the Bengali text is the authentic one and section 70(2) gives it priority over any English translation, so this cell was read in Bengali and no translation was relied on · sections read from the consolidated Act at http://bdlaws.minlaw.gov.bd/act-print-1276.html, which does not carry the schedules · the First Schedule read from the Bangladesh Gazette, Extraordinary, 14 November 2018, pages 15051 to 15056, reached through the Department of Narcotics Control's own law page at https://dnc.jhalakathi.gov.bd/pages/law-policy/6978735335ce18e1c0660a39 · read as at 2026-09-17, on which date neither amending Act contained the word তপশিল and the Department's own list of ten instruments carried no schedule amendment, so the First Schedule stands as enacted · Updated September 21, 2026
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Schedule-I identifies nimetazepam in column 3 as '1, 3-dihydro-l-methyl-7-nitro-5-phenyl-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one', and column 3 is what a Government Analyst's certificate under rule 6 of the Control of Narcotic Substances (Government Analysts) Rules, 2001 is matched against. Three provisos qualify section 9(2). An offence 'inside or near a school, college, university, educational setting or any other educational institution' draws the maximum for the band. A second conviction draws the maximum where the quantity does not exceed two kilograms, and not less than life where it exceeds two kilograms. Schedule-I has not been amended for substance content since the Act was passed in 1997: the only change recorded against it is that section 26 of Act No. XX of 2022 substituted its heading, which in the 1997 Act read only as the Schedule, and added a new Schedule-II. Section 74A, inserted by the same Act, lets the Federal Government amend the Schedules by notification in the official Gazette, and no such notification is present in what I could reach. The Prohibition (Enforcement of Hadd) Order, 1979 does not reach it either: the Schedule to that Order lists only hemp, charas, mixtures of the two, opium and opium derivatives, coca leaf and coca derivatives, and hashish.
Nimetazepam holds no Taiwanese marketing licence and there is no domestic prescribing route.
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No traveller route. A foreign supply is a Category 3 narcotic on arrival.
毒品危害防制條例 (Narcotics Hazard Prevention Act), last amended 4 May 2022, articles 2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 11-1 and 15, with 附表三 第三級毒品, 附表三 item 23. The four schedules and the Act text were read as at the national law database's own data cut of 11 September 2026 · the item lists stand as amended by the Executive Yuan announcement of 25 June 2026, in force 27 June 2026. Read 2026-09-17. · law.moj.gov.tw · law.moj.gov.tw · Updated September 21, 2026
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Section 25(1) authorises a person to possess a dangerous drug «lawfully supplied by a registered medical practitioner» or «lawfully supplied on a prescription lawfully given by a registered medical practitioner or a registered dentist or a registered veterinary surgeon», section 22 gives practitioners and pharmacists their own authority, and section 31 sets the conditions on which a dangerous drug may be supplied on a prescription. Section 2 of Cap. 134 defines a registered dentist and a registered veterinary surgeon by Hong Kong's own registration Ordinances (Cap. 156, Cap. 529), so a prescription from a dentist or vet not registered in Hong Kong is not a prescription under section 25(1)(b); registered medical practitioner is not defined in Cap. 134 and its definition for that Ordinance is not in the text read, nothing in the text read says a prescription from a doctor not registered in Hong Kong qualifies, and section 25 authorises possession, not import.
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Section 4 makes import part of trafficking unless done «under and in accordance with this Ordinance or a licence granted by the Director», and section 10(1) provides that «The Director may issue an import licence authorizing the person named therein to import into Hong Kong» a specified quantity of a dangerous drug. The Director is the Director of Health. No exemption for a traveller carrying a dangerous drug prescribed abroad appears in the consolidation read. Regulation 6(1)(c)(i) of the Import and Export (General) Regulations (Cap. 60A, consolidated at 14 May 2026) lifts only the import and export licensing requirement of the Import and Export Ordinance for medicines «imported or exported in the accompanied personal baggage of a person entering or leaving Hong Kong and which is for his personal use», in «a quantity which is reasonable having regard to the purpose»; it does not authorise anything under the Dangerous Drugs Ordinance. Ask the Department of Health about an import licence before travelling with any medicine containing this substance.
Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Cap. 134), Department of Justice XML, dc:date 2026-06-12 · elegislation.gov.hk · data.gov.hk · Criminal Procedure Ordinance (Cap. 221), Schedule 8, dc:date 2026-05-14 · Import and Export (General) Regulations (Cap. 60A), regulation 6, dc:date 2026-05-14 · Dangerous Drugs Ordinance (Amendment of First Schedule) Order 2026, annexed to LegCo Brief NCR 2/1/8 S/F(31), https://gia.info.gov.hk/general/202609/30/P2026093000422_557186_1_1790752796048.pdf · info.gov.hk · The schedule placement stated in this cell is read from the section heading of the First Schedule under which the entry is printed, which is not printed in the quoted entry itself. · Updated October 4, 2026
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Medicines containing estupefacientes or sustancias psicotrópicas may be sold to the public only by pharmacies, and only through the talonario oficial, the official prescription book, under article 62. Article 63 requires every prescription to be written on a special numbered form of a specific colour distributed by the health ministry, legibly and by hand, carrying the prescriber's names, consulting room address, identity number and health registration number, the name of the medicine, the quantity in figures and in words without alteration, the patient's and the purchaser's identification, the prescriber's signature and date, and the prescriber's wet seal. Article 53 provides that importing or exporting these substances, pure or contained in pharmaceutical specialities, by parcel, postal package or correspondence is met with confiscation and the customs law. Article 37 makes lawful only what duly authorised persons do, limits the existence and use of these substances strictly to the quantities needed for medical treatment, the legal manufacture of medicines or scientific research, and declares any other activity, use or destination illicit. This substance's entry sits in Schedule IV of the 1971 Convention. Article 62 allows a pharmaceutical speciality whose composition includes a Schedule IV substance of that Convention to be dispensed on the practitioner's own ordinary prescription rather than the official book. Carry the prescription and confirm the current position with a Venezuelan mission before travel.
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Consolidation read: Ley Orgánica de Drogas, sanctioned 18 August 2010, published in Gaceta Oficial 39.510 of 15 September 2010 and reprinted, the reprint read here being the one ordered under article 4 of the Ley de Publicaciones Oficiales to correct Gaceta Oficial 39.535 of 21 October 2010, which was carried in Gaceta Oficial 39.546 of 5 November 2010. The 39.510 scan and the reprint text were compared on articles 131, 149 and 153 and agree on every figure and range. [Certain] that the reprint text read here is the 39.546 one, resolved in this pass against the gazette itself rather than inferred from the reprint order. Gaceta Oficial number 39.546 was read: its masthead is "Numero 39.546" over "Caracas, viernes 5 de noviembre de 2010", its sumario carries the "Aviso Oficial mediante el cual se corrige por error material la Ley Organica de Drogas, sancionada el 18 de agosto de 2010". The issue is a 21 page scan with no text layer and was read through Spanish optical character recognition, so everything below the masthead was matched on recognised text and not on the image. Measured against the reprint text read here, in 24 character blocks: article 153 matches on 22 of 23, article 149 on 20 of 23 and article 134 on 15 of 24, the shortfall in each being optical recognition noise on the scanned side. [Certain as to the masthead and the sumario, which are large print and unambiguous, and therefore as to the issue number and its date and subject.] [Likely as to the per article comparison, which cannot be stronger than the optical recognition it runs on.] Control model, re derived from the statute in this pass. Article 2 applies the Law's control, vigilance and fiscalisation provisions to “el conjunto de sustancias incorporadas en las listas y anexos de los convenios y tratados suscritos y ratificados por la República”, and to further substances determined by the ministries with competence in health and in intermediate industries. Article 3 numeral 12 defines estupefacientes as “cualesquiera de las sustancias, naturales o sintéticas, que figuran en la lista I o la lista II de la Convención Única de 1961, Sobre Estupefacientes, Enmendada por el Protocolo de 1972”, and numeral 29 defines a sustancia psicotrópica as “cualquier sustancia, natural o sintética, o cualquier material natural que figure en las listas I, II, III o IV del Convenio sobre Sustancias Psicotrópicas de 1971”. The Law's own Anexo I, Lista I and Lista II, is a list of controlled chemicals and precursors, not of drugs: it runs from Ácido N-acetilantranilico and Ácido Lisérgico through Efedrina, Ergometrina, Ergotamina, Isosafrol, Piperonal, Safrol and Seudoefedrina to Permanganato de potasio and Anhídrido acético. There is therefore no Venezuelan chemical schedule of drugs to read; the schedule is the Convention schedule. Entry read for this row, recorded as the list prints it: “NIMETAZEPAM, 1,3-dihydro-1-methyl-7-nitro-5-phenyl-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one”, anchored on NIMETAZEPAM, in 1971 Green List Schedule IV. Method note. The 2026-09-20 Venezuela dossier was used only as the slug list and as a term list source. Its outcome column, its instrument column and its quotation column were not treated as evidence, and no placement in this batch rests on them; every placement is the entry read in the list the statute incorporates. Sibling name traps were checked rather than assumed: desomorphine, ethylmorphine, nicomorphine, nicocodine, norcodeine and dihydrocodeine are separate entries that anchored matching correctly did not return for the morphine or codeine rows, and brolamfetamine is a separate entry that did not return for the amphetamine row. Carried from the live cell and not re derived here: that there is no medical cannabis programme in Venezuela, that CBD and hemp are treated as illegal, and that only limited scientific research licences exist. [Likely], source is the live 2cb cell dated 2026-06-26, none of it is in the Ley Orgánica de Drogas. Correction carried into every cell of this batch: the gram figures are in article 153 and in article 149, not in article 131. The live cells attributed them to article 131, which prints no quantity at all. The ceiling of this Law is thirty years under the final paragraph of article 149, not twenty five. Routes run for the instrument in this pass. The Asamblea Nacional URL cited on every row of the 2026-09-20 dossier returned HTTP 404 and 5,734 bytes of HTML, so that register is not usable. The UNODC SHERLOC copy returned HTTP 200 and a 9.9 MB scan of the Gaceta Oficial of 15 September 2010, which was read with pdftotext. oas.org redirected every juridico path to its unavailable page. A clean digital text of the reprint was obtained from a Venezuelan law firm reproduction and the two were compared on articles 131, 149 and 153, which agree.
Ley Orgánica de Drogas, arts 2, 3, 34, 37, 53, 60, 62, 63, 130, 131, 139, 141, 142, 149, 150, 151, 153, 154 to 158 and 163, and Anexo I · sherloc.unodc.org · lablabor.com.ve · Constitución de la República Bolivariana de Venezuela arts 43 and 44 · cgr.gob.ve · INCB Yellow List, 65th edition, July 2026 · INCB Green List, 36th edition, 2025 · asambleanacional.gob.ve · Updated September 21, 2026
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Guatemala's traveller rule is article 3 of Decreto 48-92: "Solamente podrá autorizarse la importación, producción, fabricación, extracción, posesión y uso de las drogas en las cantidades estrictamente necesarias, exclusivamente por personas legalmente facultadas y bajo su estricta responsabilidad, para el tratamiento médico, los análisis toxicológicos y farmacológicos, la investigación científica y la elaboración de medicamentos", and "En los centros de comercialización para particulares, su venta requerirá receta médica". This substance sits in 1971 Convention Schedule IV, so any lawful holding runs through that authorisation route.
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Decreto 48-92 annexes no list of substances. Article 1 reaches the drugs "incluidos en los convenios y tratados internacionales al respecto, ratificados por Guatemala y en cualquier otro instrumento jurídico internacional que sobre esta materia se apruebe", and article 2(b) defines "Estupefacientes y sustancias psicotrópicas" as "Cualquier droga natural o sintética, así considerada en tratados o convenios internacionales de observancia obligatoria en la República de Guatemala, el Código de Salud y demás disposiciones que se emitan para determinar las drogas de uso prohibido a que se refiere la presente ley". An anchored search of the whole 57 KB law text returned no substance name at all, which is the measurement behind that reading. The health authority says the same thing in its own words: MSPAS Normativa 22-2001, section 2, states that "Los Estupefacientes y Sicotrópicos son los enumerados en la Convención Unica de 1961 sobre Estupefacientes, en el Convenio sobre Substancias Sicotrópicas de 1971 y en la Convención de las Naciones Unidas contra el Tráfico Ilícito de Estupefacientes y Sustancias Sicotrópicas y otras Sustancias consideradas como tales por las leyes del país y por las disposiciones dictadas por la autoridad de salud". The entry read was PN 001, "NIMETAZEPAM", in 1971 Convention Schedule IV. Article 2(b) therefore reaches it, because that list is a treaty list of obligatory observance in Guatemala, and articles 38 and 39 then apply to it as a drug, estupefaciente or psicotrópico. Article 38, "Comercio, tráfico y almacenamiento ilícito", sets prison of twelve to twenty years and a fine of Q50,000 to Q1,000,000, both of those figures being money and neither of them a quantity of any substance. Article 39, "Posesión para el consumo", makes possession for one's own consumption an offence in its own right, at four months to two years and a fine of Q200 to Q10,000, consumption being made out where the seized drug "no exceda de la cantidad razonable para el consumo inmediato". No article states a gram figure for any substance, so the line between personal use and trafficking is judicial. Article 36 sets five to twenty years for sowing or cultivation and article 37 eight to twenty years for manufacture, which puts the ceiling on the conduct articles at twenty years. Article 15 names article 39 among the sentences that may be commuted where the prison term does not exceed five years, at Q5 to Q100 per day. One figure in the superseded cell is corrected here. It put cultivation or manufacture at up to about twenty to twenty five years. Read from the gazette, article 36 sets five to twenty years and article 37 eight to twenty years, so twenty years is the ceiling on those two conduct articles and twenty five was never in the law [Certain, re-derived this pass]. Twenty years is not the maximum term this statute can impose: article 52 still provides thirty years where a death results, now that the words "muerte o" have gone from it. Carried from the live cell and not re-derived in this pass [Likely]: Guatemala has no medical cannabis, a 2016 bill having been rejected, and extradition to the United States is possible under a 1940 treaty.
Decreto 48-92, Ley contra la Narcoactividad, Diario de Centro América, 8 October 1992, arts 1, 2, 3, 12, 15, 36, 37, 38, 39, 52 · congreso.gob.gt · senabed.gob.gt · MSPAS Normativa 22-2001 secs 2 and 5, https://medicamentos.mspas.gob.gt/index.php/legislacion-vigente/normas-tecnicas?download=79%3Ano-22-2001 · INCB Yellow List 64th edition July 2025, read from the Universal Postal Union mirror at https://www.upu.int/UPU/media/upu/files/postalSolutions/programmesAndServices/postalSupplyChain/customs/listCustomsNarcoticDrugsUnderInternationalControlEn.pdf rather than from incb.org · INCB Green List 35th edition 2024, https://www.incb.org/documents/Psychotropics/forms/greenlist/2025/2412193E.pdf · INCB Red List 23rd edition July 2025, Tables I and II of the 1988 Convention, https://www.incb.org/documents/PRECURSORS/RED_LIST/RED_LIST_E.pdf · Updated September 21, 2026
Romania, Nimetazepam, read from Portal Legislativ, the official legislation portal of the Ministry of Justice, and the ANMDMR consolidated text · read as in force on 18 September 2026 · located at Legea 143/2000, Tabelul III · arts. 1(d), 2(1), 4(1) · the entry itself is quoted in full in the legal status field and is not repeated here · outcome recorded by the source: VERIFIED · legislatie.just.ro · legislatie.just.ro · legislatie.just.ro · anm.ro · Updated September 20, 2026
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Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging for nimetazepam, and get the State Institute for Drug Control to confirm the position in writing before you travel rather than at the border. That is the carriage answer and it is short because no traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance for nimetazepam appears anywhere in what was read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists. Provenance follows. Act No. 139/1998 and Criminal Code No. 300/2005 were read on Slov-Lex, the official legal information portal, on 18 September 2026, in the consolidations effective 1 January 2026 and 18 August 2026. The basis recorded for this row is a named schedule entry.
Slovakia, Nimetazepam, read from Slov-Lex, the official legal information portal of the Slovak Republic · read as in force on 18 September 2026 · located in Annex 1 to Act No. 139/1998, Group III of Annex 1, among the psychotropic substances · the entry itself is quoted in full in the legal status field and is not repeated here · the basis is a named schedule entry · no printed negligible amount, so the section 135c(2) statutory residual of one gram of material applies · section 135d scales the other bands from that figure by multiples of five, 250, 1,500 and 5,000 · the ceiling is life imprisonment under section 173(5) · Act 139 consolidation effective 1 January 2026 and Criminal Code consolidation effective 18 August 2026 · two of the four links below are the commercial mirror zakonypreludi.sk rather than Slov-Lex · slov-lex.sk · slov-lex.sk · zakonypreludi.sk · zakonypreludi.sk · Updated September 20, 2026
· no entry was found, so no instrument here supports a placement.
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Carry the prescription and the original dispensing pack with the pharmacy label in the patient's own name if the product was genuinely prescribed in a country where it remains licensed, with a prescriber's letter naming the active ingredient, the strength, the dose, the treatment period and the total quantity. Name the molecule rather than the class, because Ukraine prints this member individually at CAS 2011-67-8. Unlabelled tablets should not be carried at all. The heading was read in the consolidated list on 20 September 2026.
Ukraine, Постанова Кабінету Міністрів України № 770 від 6 травня 2000 року, Перелік, таблиці I to IV · printed heading «Німетазепам» at CAS 2011-67-8, record UKR-69, sentence case for a list printed in capitals · the sixth diazepine member printed individually in this list alongside CAS 439-14-5, CAS 28981-97-7, CAS 1622-61-3, CAS 846-49-1 and CAS 40054-69-1. Consolidated text read at https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/770-2000-%D0%BF#Text as at 20 September 2026. List ownership, стаття 7 of Закон України «Про наркотичні засоби, психотропні речовини і прекурсори», https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/60/95-%D0%B2%D1%80#Text. Quantity bands, наказ МОЗ № 188, https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/z0512-00#Text. Ceiling, Кримінальний кодекс України стаття 307, https://zakon.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/2341-14#Text. · the article 44, 305, 307 and 309 penalties stated above are carried forward from this site's published Ukraine entry, which cites the Criminal Code articles 305, 307, 309 and 310, the Code of Administrative Offenses article 44 and Ministry of Health Order No. 188. They were not re-derived from the Code in this pass, and the published entry's own hedges, that the thresholds are very low and that trace amounts have triggered article 309, are carried with them · Updated September 21, 2026
lloc.gov.bh · lloc.gov.bh · lloc.gov.bh · lloc.gov.bh · Law 15 of 2007 on narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, Official Gazette 2804 of 16 August 2007, annex at pages 20 to 34, read 22 September 2026 · Decision 39 of 2016, Official Gazette 3276 of 25 August 2016 · Decision 11 of 2020, Official Gazette 3480 of 16 July 2020 · Decision 14 of 2020, Official Gazette 3492 of 8 October 2020 · Penal Code, Decree-Law No. 15 of 1976, Articles 49 and 50 · the 2019 drug death sentence and the commutation practice are carried forward from the cell this replaces and were not re-derived · Updated September 21, 2026
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The Regulations name no schedule for nimetazepam, so no prescribed form of register or requisition attaches to it specifically, and the document that matters is a prescription satisfying regulation 11 together with the dispensed container and its label. Regulation 5(2) is the authority a prescriber relies on, because it reaches any controlled drug rather than a scheduled list. Import and export are their own offence under section 5 and carry heavier minimums than trafficking, so carrying a supply into Brunei is the graver charge, not the lesser one.
Misuse of Drugs Act, Chapter 27 of the Laws of Brunei Darussalam, Revised Edition 2013 (B.L.R.O. 2/2013). The list of controlled drugs sits in the First Schedule to the Act, not in subsidiary legislation, and the empowering section is section 35: "His Majesty the Sultan and Yang Di-Pertuan in Council may, by order published in the Gazette, amend the First and Third Schedules". That power reaches the First and Third Schedules only, so the capital thresholds in the Second Schedule cannot be changed by order. The schedules were last amended by S 12/2012 and consolidated into this Revised Edition · the publisher's own page for Chapter 27 lists five amendment orders ending there, and every later gazette notification under the Act concerns approved institutions and appointments rather than any schedule. This cell was read from the named entry itself. The entry relied on is at line 1785 of the plain text extraction of the official PDF. Read from the Attorney General's Chambers copy at https://www.agc.gov.bn/brulaw/misuse-of-drugs-act/ together with the Misuse of Drugs Regulations, Chapter 27, Rg 1. For nimetazepam the reading turned on the entry "Nimetazepam". · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
The note to Article 9 of the Psychotropics Law exempts import, export, possession and transport of a Schedule 2, 3 or 4 substance from that Law where the amount is proportionate to personal therapeutic use: «وارد یا خارج کردن از کشور یا نگاهداری یا حمل مواد مذکور در ماده 4 این قانون در صورتی که به مقادیر متناسب یا مصارف درمانی شخصی باشد از شمول کلیه مقررات این قانون معاف خواهد بود». That is a statutory exemption and not a licence, so carry the original packaging and the prescription, and confirm the position with the Iranian embassy before travel. Iran’s own entry in the INCB Country Regulations for Travellers, 2025 sheet, admits only original and intact drugs approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration, carried with a prescription and in quantities covering the stay, and it says that beyond 6 months you must see a physician in Iran. The contact it gives is ICSA at fda.gov.ir.
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Nimetazepam sits in Schedule 4, and the Anti-Narcotics Law does not reach it by name. Articles 4 and 8 extend beyond their named substances only to other narcotics or non medicinal industrial psychotropics whose list Parliament approves, and all four of these schedules are headed the pharmaceutical list. Iran keeps the death penalty for drug offences and uses it. Article 45, added by the Act of 1396/07/12, which is 4 October 2017, and approved by the Guardian Council on 1396/07/26, which is 18 October 2017, reaches only offences that already carry death or life imprisonment under this Law, and its paragraph (t) sets the quantity limb: «کلیه جرائم موضوع ماده (4) این قانون مشروط بر اینکه بیش از پنجاه کیلوگرم باشد و مواد موضوع ماده (8) این قانون مشروط بر اینکه بیش از دو کیلوگرم باشد و در خصوص سایر جرائم موضوع ماده (8) در صورتیکه بیش از سه کیلوگرم باشد». The quantities are more than 50 kilograms for Article 4 offences, more than 2 kilograms for the Article 8 supply limb, and more than 3 kilograms for the other Article 8 offences of buying, keeping, concealing or transporting, which is how the Head of the Judiciary circular of 1396/10/16, meaning 6 January 2018, reads that paragraph at its own paragraph 7. Below those quantities the older capital wording does not lapse by itself, because Article 45 converts a former death case to grade one imprisonment of up to thirty years and a former life case to grade two imprisonment, with confiscation of drug proceeds in both. The money runs beside that conversion: a grade one fine up to twice its minimum for the former death case and a grade two fine for the former life case. Paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of Article 45 carry no quantity floor at all, and reach an offender who drew or carried a weapon, a ringleader, a financial backer or investor, an offender who used a person under eighteen or a person lacking capacity, and an offender with a final prior conviction under this Law for death, life or more than fifteen years. Advisory opinion 7/99/136 applies paragraph (c) to the transport of 80 grams of heroin and to the possession of 200 kilograms of opium, which is why a weight under two kilograms is not a safe limit. At least 503 drug related executions were recorded in 2024 and 471 in 2023, roughly half of all executions and carried out by hanging, which the US Library of Congress Global Legal Monitor reports and Harm Reduction International and Amnesty International corroborate. A second figure of 485 for 2024 also sits in this project’s earlier Iran records, unattributed there, and the two were not reconciled, so both are printed rather than one being chosen. Those figures are set out here because this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Iran’s published drug penalties and not as this substance’s exposure. Version read for this cell: the Anti-Narcotics Law of 1367/08/03, which is 25 October 1988, as the publisher’s consolidation carries it, with its 1376, 1380, 1389, 1396 and 1399 amendments, meaning 1997, 2001, 2010, 2017 and 2020, and the fine revision of 1403/03/30, which is 19 June 2024, and the four psychotropic schedules as those schedules stand after the Cabinet decision of 1384/09/13, which is 4 December 2005, both read on 22 September 2026, together with the narcotics-list decree of 1338/05/02, which is July 1959, whose Article 5 carries an amendment of 1352/12/28, meaning 19 March 1974, and the Psychotropics Law of 1354/02/08, which is 28 April 1975. Item 419 of the health invalidation law of 1399/08/05, meaning 26 October 2020, names annexes 1 to 4 of the 1354 Psychotropics Law, and Judiciary advisory opinion 7/1400/434 of 1400/09/09, meaning 30 November 2021, reads that as reaching the 1354 Law’s own original annexes, which later Cabinet decisions had already displaced, so the 1384/09/13 schedules stand. Article 1 of the 1354 Psychotropics Law lets the Ministry revise these four schedules on a recommendation of the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs, but only with Cabinet approval, publication and a further fifteen days, so a change to the 1971 Psychotropic Substances Convention does not enter Iranian law by itself, and the 1961 and 1971 Convention schedules are not the Iranian list. Provenance of the placement: the schedule and entry number stated for this row was read in the instrument itself and was not taken from the project dossier, because no quoted extract in that dossier carries a schedule marker for any substance, measured across all 88 of its quotation cells on 22 September 2026. Older bands survive inside the same articles and are what Article 45 converts. Article 4 band 4 reads death and confiscation above 5 kilograms, with a note giving life imprisonment, 74 lashes and confiscation for a first offence of 20 kilograms or less that was not distributed or sold. Article 8 band 6 reads death and confiscation above 30 grams, with a note giving life imprisonment for a first offence of no more than 100 grams that was not distributed or sold. Before the 1396 Act, meaning before 2017, the reported capital thresholds were far lower, at more than 30 grams of heroin or cocaine and more than 5 kilograms of opium or cannabis. The Anti-Narcotics Law itself dates from 1988 and the substances it incorporates by definition come from the narcotics list decree of 1959. Article 41 excludes authorised medical, research and industrial activity: «ساخت، تولید، خرید، فروش، ارسال، نگهداری، ورود، صدور، مصرف و حمل مواد ممنوع حسب مورد برای مصارف پزشکی، تحقیقاتی و صنعتی با مجوز وزارت بهداشت، درمان و آموزش پزشکی از شمول این قانون مستثنی است», so a medicinal use or a trade name does not by itself establish that the Ministry of Health permission exists. Carry any controlled medicine in its original packaging with the prescription, and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Cabinet decision of 1384/09/13 adopting the four updated psychotropic schedules, replacing those attached to decision 15372/T30726 of 1383/04/28 · davoudabadi.ir · solh.ir · Psychotropics Law of 1354/02/08 · davoudabadi.ir · Judiciary advisory opinion 7/1400/434 of 1400/09/09 · davoudabadi.ir · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
There is a lawful medical route, and section 28 is where it sits. Section 28(c) takes out of the Law the use, possession and transportation of a narcotic drug or psychotropic substance permitted by the Ministry of Health under the direction of a registered medical practitioner, in accordance with the stipulations, and section 28(b) does the same for use in the manner prescribed for medical treatment with the consent of the relevant Ministry. Two things follow for Nimetazepam. The exemption turns on Myanmar's own permission, not on a foreign one, so a prescription written abroad is evidence of why you hold Nimetazepam and not, by itself, the permission section 28(c) asks for. And section 16(d) makes it a 5 to 10 year offence for a person who holds Nimetazepam with permission to pass it to a person who does not, so sharing a lawful supply is itself an offence.
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A foreign prescription or a prescriber's letter evidences why a person holds nimetazepam; it is not the permission section 28(c) asks for, which is a Ministry of Health permission granted in Myanmar under the direction of a registered medical practitioner. Where the rule comes from. The instrument is the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law, State Law and Order Restoration Council Law 1/93, as amended by Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law 6/2018. The substance lists are not in the Law itself. Section 2(a)(i) makes the poppy, coca and cannabis plants, or a plant the Ministry has declared, and substances and drugs derived or extracted from them, narcotic drugs on the Law's own words, and section 2(a)(ii) adds what the Ministry of Health declares by notification, section 2(b) does the same for a psychotropic substance, and section 30(b), as substituted in 2018, is the power: the Central Body and the Ministries concerned may issue notifications, orders, directives, and procedures. The live lists are Notification 24/2025 for narcotic drugs and Notification 25/2025 for psychotropic substances. Checked 17 September 2026. Placement for Nimetazepam: Notification 25/2025, List 4. Nimetazepam is individually printed in List 4, so its control is established by name rather than by a broad benzodiazepine category. The Law was further amended by the Second Amendment to the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law, National Defence and Security Council Law 17/2025, enacted on 31 December 2025, whose English text was published in the Global New Light of Myanmar on 7 January 2026, pages 3 and 5. That text carries no separate commencement clause. Among other changes, it replaced section 26, the deemed sale quantities, restored the expression «the Ministry of Health», replaced «Coca tree» with «Coca» in sections 2(a)(i) and 16(a), replaced the expression «life imprisonment without limit» in sections 19 and 20 with «life imprisonment», which its new section 2(i) defines, leaving the death alternative in section 20 in place, and raised the age in section 22(c) from 16 to 18; the other fields of this cell apply the Law as amended by it. The English text read is a newspaper publication of the law, not the official Burmese text.
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law, SLORC Law 1/93, sections 2, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26 and 28 · https://www.myanmartradeportal.gov.mm/legal/344 | The Law Amending the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Law, Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Law 6/2018, items 3, 20, 22, 25 and 27 · https://www.mfiu.gov.mm/sites/default/files/document/files/The%20Law%20Amending%20the%20Narcotic%20Drugs%20and%20Psychotropic%20Substances%20Law%202018.pdf | Notification 25/2025 · https://www.myanmartradeportal.gov.mm/en/legal/504 | placement for Nimetazepam: Notification 25/2025, List 4 · National Defence and Security Council Law 17/2025, English text, Global New Light of Myanmar, 7 January 2026, pages 3 and 5 · moi.gov.mm · Updated October 5, 2026
the Law on Combating Narcotics and Psychotropic Substances issued by Royal Decree 67/2026, Official Gazette 1664 of 6 September 2026, in force 7 September 2026, annex Group II, Table 4, serial 51, articles 5, 37, 40 and 41 · https://qanoon.om/p/2026/rd2026067/ (HTTP 403, a Cloudflare challenge, on 3 October 2026 · read through the 20 September 2026 dossier's verbatim quotations) · Royal Decree 67/2026, decree Articles I to IV, Oman News Agency, 3 September 2026 · omannews.gov.om · Royal Decree 67/2026, Articles I to IV and Gazette reference, Decree.om · decree.om · Royal Decree 17/99, article 4, as superseded, as the live page quoted it · Updated October 3, 2026
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The наредба has no consolidated text at an official publisher. What was read instead is the official file set: the наредба as adopted by Постановление № 293 of 27 October 2011, then every one of the fourteen amending Постановления in order, each downloaded as the Word file the Council of Ministers legal information system publishes. Приложение № 1 was replaced whole by Постановление № 253 of 2013, so the 2013 text and not the 2011 one is the base for Списък I. The row relied on for this cell is in Приложение № 3 as enacted by Постановление № 293 of 27 October 2011. One § of Постановление № 184 of 2023 amends a different instrument, Постановление № 23 of 1998 on the prices of narcotic substances for court proceedings, and its rows were excluded from the search rather than read as schedule entries. The Penal Code figures in the street paragraph are carried forward from the live Bulgaria cell and were not re-derived here, so the Penal Code itself was not read for this row. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Bulgaria, Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, Приложение № 3, Списък III, the entry for Nimetazepam · the instrument carrying that entry is Приложение № 3 as enacted by Постановление № 293 of 27 October 2011 at https://pris.government.bg/document/65505dc00d92c4be0a95ef8ecc4e8bbd · the наредба as adopted, with its full amendment chain, at https://pris.government.bg/document/65505dc00d92c4be0a95ef8ecc4e8bbd · Закон за контрол върху наркотичните вещества и прекурсорите, чл. 3, ал. 2, чл. 4, ал. 2, чл. 58 and чл. 60, in the consolidated text published by the Ministry of Health at https://www.mh.government.bg/bg/normativni-aktove/zakoni/kontrol-varhu-narkotichni-veshtestva-i-prekursori/ · the Penal Code figures in consequences_street are carried forward from the live Bulgaria cell and were not re-derived in this pass · the live cell's own citation for those figures is Penal Code Arts 354a, 354b and 354c with the Law on Control of Narcotic Substances and Precursors (ZKNVP) · the lists were read as they stand after Постановление № 49 of 8 May 2025 and read on 21 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026
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Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging for nimetazepam, and get the State Medicines Control Agency of Lithuania to confirm the position in writing before you travel rather than at the border. That is the carriage answer and it is short because no traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance for nimetazepam appears anywhere in what was read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists. Provenance follows. The instruments were read on the Register of Legal Acts and the Seimas legal acts portal, both official, on 18 September 2026: Health Minister Order No. 5, Health Minister Order V-239, the Narcotic and Psychotropic Substances Control Law and the Criminal Code. The basis recorded for this row is a named list entry.
Lithuania, Nimetazepam, read from the official Register of Legal Acts and the Seimas legal acts portal · read as in force on 18 September 2026 · located in Health Minister Order No. 5, with Order V-239 at table item 376 · the entry itself is quoted in full in the legal status field and is not repeated here · the basis is a named list entry · Order V-239 prints no single set of figures for this row · Control Law article 4 delegates the list, Criminal Code article 269(1) adopts it as the Code's drug definition and article 269(2) sends the quantity question to Order V-239 · Order No. 5 and Order V-239 consolidations both begin 18 June 2025 · e-tar.lt · e-tar.lt · e-tar.lt · e-seimas.lrs.lt · Updated September 20, 2026
Estonia, Nimetazepam, read from Riigi Teataja, the official state gazette of the Republic of Estonia, and from the State Agency of Medicines · read as in force on 18 September 2026 · located at Annex 1 to Minister of Social Affairs Regulation No 73 as «Nimetasepaam» · the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act section 3(1)(3) supplies the large quantity test and Penal Code sections 183 and 184 supply the penalties · schedule review covers the amendment effective 31 December 2024 · riigiteataja.ee · riigiteataja.ee · ravimiamet.ee · Updated September 20, 2026
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Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging for nimetazepam, and get the State Agency of Medicines of Latvia to confirm the position in writing before you travel rather than at the border. That is the carriage answer and it is short because no traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance for nimetazepam appears anywhere in what was read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists. Provenance follows. The controlling text was read on likumi.lv, the official consolidated law portal of Latvia, on 18 September 2026: Annex 2 to the law on the entry into force and application of the Criminal Law, the Circulation Law, and the Criminal Law itself. The basis recorded for this row is a named entry. The instrument pages carry no separate reuse licence, so this row uses short attributed quotation and a link to the official text.
Latvia, Nimetazepam, read from likumi.lv, the official consolidated law portal of the Republic of Latvia · read as in force on 18 September 2026 · located in Annex 2 to the law on the entry into force and application of the Criminal Law, at item 16(50), in Schedule III, which covers dangerous psychotropic substances · the entry itself is quoted in full in the legal status field and is not repeated here · the basis is a named entry · printed quantities: small up to 0,6 g, large from 10 g · Circulation Law section 3(2) points to Annex 2, and Criminal Law section 253 with its superscript one and superscript two variants supplies the penalties · Annex 2 is the 29 April 2021 text as amended to 13 November 2025 · likumi.lv · likumi.lv · likumi.lv · Updated September 20, 2026
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Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription, and carry a Schengen certificate where one is required for the substance and the length of stay. Confirm the requirement with the Slovenian embassy or consulate before travelling rather than at the border, and be ready to show the active ingredient, since a foreign brand name is assessed in Slovenia through its proved ingredients and not through the name on the box. The placement relied on for this row is Group III, row 27, and that is what was read on 20 September 2026. The annex to the Uredba o razvrstitvi prepovedanih drog was read on 20 September 2026. The dossier read for this cell names no edition and no amendment date for that annex, so the horizon of this cell is the reading date and nothing later, and this does not rule out a later amendment. The list moves by amendment of the Uredba itself, because article 2 of the Uredba makes the annex a constituent part of the regulation, so the Criminal Code can stay untouched while the names on the list change.
Slovenia, Uredba o razvrstitvi prepovedanih drog, article 2 and the annex in Groups I, II and III · read at https://pisrs.si/pregledPredpisa?id=URED7970 with the annex at https://pisrs.si/api/datoteke/integracije/403462486 on 20 September 2026. The entry relied on for this row is at Group III, row 27 of the annex. The Production of and Trade in Illicit Drugs Act, the ZPPPD, article 33, at https://pisrs.si/pregledPredpisa?id=ZAKO1388 · the Criminal Code, the KZ-1, articles 186 and 187, at https://pisrs.si/pregledPredpisa?id=ZAKO5050. Annex entry headings are printed in capitals in the original and are re-voiced here in normal case. The fifteen year ceiling at article 186, paragraphs 2 and 3, and the absence of any death penalty, are stated by the dossier read for this cell. The fine band of roughly 42 to 209 euro under article 33, the one to ten and three to fifteen year ranges under article 186 and the six months to twelve years under article 187 are carried forward from the Slovenia entry already published and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass · they do not contradict the ceiling the dossier states. The register publishes the Uredba, its annex, the Act and the Criminal Code for public reading, which is not an unrestricted licence to republish, so only the wording needed for verification is reproduced. No judicial ruling is relied on, and product composition, structural identity, medicinal authorisation and intent all remain fact sensitive. The dossier names no edition or amendment date for the annex, and this does not rule out a later amendment. · the group stated for this row was confirmed against the annex itself, read at the Slovenian legal information system on 21 September 2026: the entry printed as NIMETAZEPAM stands under the heading SKUPINA III, subsection b.1.0 at its row 27. The group is a heading above the rows rather than a column on them, which is why no quotation of a single row can carry it, and this reading supersedes the earlier statement that the group rests on a locator column alone · SKUPINA III is divided into subsections whose row numbers restart in each, so a row number alone does not identify an entry there. This row is in subsection b.1.0. Row 18 of b.1.0 is KLONAZEPAM and row 18 of c.1.0 is FENIBUT, which is why those two were earlier reported as colliding on one number when both locators were correct · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
The dossier carries no prescription information and no traveller rule for Serbia at all, so this cell defers rather than inventing one. The country level question, meaning which Serbian body authorises a controlled medicine carried in, what paperwork it wants, what quantity it allows and how long an authorisation runs, was not established by the source behind this batch and has to be settled with the Serbian authorities before travel. What can be attached to the deferral is this substance's placement. Nimetazepam sits on the Spisak at Lista 7, red 39, under CAS 2011-67-8, and that is a controlled substance listing rather than an entry under the Serbian medicines law, so any lawful holding runs through the controlled substance regime and a prescription written in another country is not a Serbian authorisation and does not become one at the border.
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Treat the placement as the checkable fact and the quantity as the open one. The row cited here, Lista 7, red 39, under CAS 2011-67-8, with the systematic name recorded as «1-metil-7-nitro-5-fenil-benzodiazepin-2-on», was checked on 20 September 2026 against the Spisak at Službeni glasnik RS 12/2026. Carry any medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and ask the Serbian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Do not carry a gram figure into Serbia from another country's law. The Spisak row and Criminal Code arts 246 and 246a give none, and a number taken from somewhere else will not be the one a Serbian court applies. The citation behind this cell is document level and is the same link for all 88 Serbian substances.
Serbia, Pravilnik o utvrđivanju Spiska psihoaktivnih kontrolisanih supstanci, Službeni glasnik RS 12/2026, Član 2, Spisak Lista 7, red 39, under CAS 2011-67-8, with Criminal Code arts 246 and 246a carrying the conduct and art. 246(5) read with art. 45(1) carrying the 20 year ceiling the dossier records · read at https://www.paragraf.rs/propisi/pravilnik-o-utvrdjivanju-spiska-psihoaktivnih-kontrolisanih-supstanci.html for the Spisak and https://www.paragraf.rs/propisi/krivicni-zakonik-2019.html for the Criminal Code, a commercial republication in Latin script rather than the Cyrillic text of the Službeni glasnik RS. The dossier holds one link value for all 88 Serbian substances, so this citation is document level and not per substance, and nothing in it should be read as a source pinned to this substance alone. The dossier's own link field ran the two addresses together into one string with no separator between them. Read as at 20 September 2026. · the article 246, 246a and 247 penalties stated above are carried forward from this site's published Serbia entry, which cites the Criminal Code articles 246, 246a and 247 and the Law on Psychoactive Controlled Substances. They were not re-derived from the Code in this pass, and that entry's own statement that small quantity is not numerically defined is carried with them · Updated September 21, 2026
Al-Waqa'i al-Iraqiyya No. 4446 of 8 May 2017, Law No. 50 of 2017 with its annexed schedules: https://www.moj.gov.iq/upload/pdf/4446.pdf · Ministry of Health Statement 197 of 2021 adopting updated schedules in replacement, al-Waqa'i al-Iraqiyya No. 4651 of 25 October 2021: https://www.moj.gov.iq/upload/pdf/4651.pdf · Statement 33 of 2023, No. 4711 of 13 March 2023: https://www.moj.gov.iq/upload/pdf/4711.pdf · Statement 238 of 2023, No. 4737 of 18 September 2023: https://www.moj.gov.iq/upload/pdf/4737_331.pdf · Statement 348 of 2024, No. 4804 of 2 December 2024: https://www.moj.gov.iq/upload/pdf/4804_compressed_161.pdf · Statement 347 of 2025, No. 4849 of 17 November 2025: https://www.moj.gov.iq/upload/pdf/1b8a5aada31e000a_4849_compressed.pdf · the 2024 death-sentence count and the 15 year personal-use figure are carried forward from the previous cell and not re-derived, per the US State Department and Iraqi court statements reported by 964media and The New Region · secondary references carried forward from the previous cell and not re-derived: https://sherloc.unodc.org/ · unodc.org · hri.global · travel.state.gov · 2017-2021.state.gov · incb.org · euda.europa.eu · refworld.org · this project's Iraq substance dossier was checked on 20 September 2026 and its post-enactment amendment route is superseded here by the five Official Gazette statements named above · the Washington Institute · Updated September 21, 2026
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If a licensed nimetazepam product was genuinely dispensed to you somewhere it remains available, carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, keep the quantity to what the prescription covers, and keep the prescriber's details legible. In practice a tablet carrying this compound is more likely to be illicitly pressed than dispensed, and no document covers that. Get the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's position in writing before you fly rather than at the airport. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance appears anywhere in the text of Law No. 23 of 2016 as read for this row, and an absence in what was read is not proof that no scheme exists; Jordan does furnish the International Narcotics Control Board a traveller regulation sheet. The Schedule 9 placement was read on 17 September 2026.
Jordan, Law No. 23 of 2016, Schedule 9 entry for nimetazepam «الجدول رقم (9): نيميتازيبام», with article 2 supplying the Schedules 5 to 9 psychotropic definition, article 3 the scope provision, articles 19 and 20 the trafficking, life and death provisions and article 37 the amendment power · read at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%86%D8%A9_2016_%D9%88%D8%AA%D8%B9%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%AA%D9%87.pdf, the Jordan Food and Drug Administration's own consolidation of the Law, with the official schedules at https://www.jfda.jo/ebv4.0/root_storage/ar/eb_list_page/%D8%AC%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%84_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%AF_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%AE%D8%AF%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A4%D8%AB%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%AA_%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B9%D9%82%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%81_%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%8A%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A%D8%A9_29-12-2025.pdf and the regulator's legislation index at https://jfda.jo/Ar/List/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86 · Law No. 23 of 2016 was published in Official Gazette No. 5402 on 16 June 2016 and took effect on 15 August 2016, as amended by Law No. 24 of 2021, Gazette No. 5746 of 23 September 2021, in force 23 October 2021 · the amendment horizon is 16 September 2026 and the body of the 16 September 2026 schedules file could not be retrieved, so the last fully searchable official schedule text is the consolidation updated 29 December 2025 · the regulator's copyright page permits viewing and printing for personal and non-commercial use, permits linking, and permits short portions to be republished unchanged with attribution, which is the basis on which the Arabic above is quoted · read as at 17 September 2026 · Updated September 20, 2026
· corroborated by the Advocates for Human Rights, Amnesty International and Harm Reduction International
Albania states one traveller rule and not a route for each substance. Scheduled medicines and other prescription products stay subject to Ligji për barnat dhe shërbimin farmaceutik and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient rather than the label on the container. The Albania dossier read for this work carries no prescription column at all, so no medical route particular to this row is stated here and none is invented. The placement that rule attaches to is the printed entry «Nimetazepam», keyed by CAS 2011-67-8, reached by the search on «nimetazepam» in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara.
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The placement read for this row is «Nimetazepam», keyed by CAS 2011-67-8, reached by the search on «nimetazepam», in the tables annexed to Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026. Carry any controlled medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and settle the import question with the Albanian authorities before travelling rather than at the border. Carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and not re-derived in this pass: cannabis cultivation is prohibited under Law 88/2016, article 9, except authorised medical cultivation, and the Law 61/2023 medical cannabis and CBD framework is export only. The act, the annexed tables and the amending list instrument were read as at 20 September 2026.
Albania, Ligji nr. 7975, datë 26.7.1995, për barnat narkotike, psikotrope dhe të kontrolluara with its annexed 1961 and 1971 Convention tables, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/07/26/7975 · the list amending instrument is Ligji nr. 17/2026, neni 1 and shtojca nr. 1, Fletorja Zyrtare 41/2026, read at https://qbz.gov.al/share/ALlzohAkQQKSoEJ8lSY6Bw · the offences are in the Criminal Code, Ligji nr. 7895, datë 27.1.1995, articles 283, 283/a and 284, read at https://qbz.gov.al/eli/ligj/1995/01/27/7895 · the row read for this cell is keyed by CAS 2011-67-8, reached by the search on nimetazepam. That entry is quoted in full in the legal status and street fields of this cell and is cited by locator here, because this field renders as separate citation chips · the penalty bands under articles 283, 283/a, 283/b and 284, the Supreme Court decision of 27 March 2008, the observed sentencing practice, the administrative path under the Code of Misdemeanors article 121, and Law 88/2016 and Law 61/2023 are carried forward from the Albania entry already published on this site and were not re-derived from the statute text in this pass. Every hedge the published entry attaches to those figures is carried with them, and none of them is offered as a reading of the statute made here · the tables are taken as those tables stand after Ligji nr. 17/2026 and that does not rule out a later addition · the publisher reserves its rights and no open reuse licence was located, so only the wording verification requires is reproduced · the law and the list were read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
The source carries no prescription column, so no per substance medical route is asserted here. The country level rule it does state is that scheduled medicines and other prescription products remain subject to Закон за лековите и медицинските средства and to its prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and that a brand or street label is resolved through proved active ingredients. Placement for this row: a printed row in the classification list under the locator ниметазепам, keyed to CAS 2011-67-8. Whether nimetazepam has a lawful medical route in North Macedonia is deferred, because the source states none for it.
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Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, and expect the prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements under Закон за лековите и медицинските средства to be the measure, because the source states no separate traveller permit and no import certificate scheme of its own. A brand or street name is resolved through the proved active ingredient, so carry paperwork that names the active ingredient and not only the product name. The placement read for this row, a printed row under the locator ниметазепам keyed to CAS 2011-67-8, was read as at 20 September 2026 in the classification list at Службен весник на РСМ бр. 104/2021.
North Macedonia, Листи за класификација на супстанции и растенија, Службен весник на РСМ бр. 104/2021, printed substance row, locator ниметазепам, CAS 2011-67-8 · the lists are made under член 21 став 2 of Закон за контрола на опојни дроги и психотропни супстанции, so the minister of health owns the substance names and the statute does not · penalties at Кривичен законик, Article 215(1) for the ten year ceiling and Article 215(2) for the reduced offence · lists read at https://malmed.gov.mk/wp-content/uploads/Listi_za_klasifikacija-opoji-drogi_i_psihotropni_supstanci-Sl.Vesnik-.br_.104_od_2021.pdf and the consolidated control Act read at https://diz.gov.mk/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/ZAKON-ZA-KONTROLA-NA-OPOJNI-DROGI-I-PSIHOTROPNI-SUPSTANCII.pdf · the publisher makes these available without granting an unrestricted republication licence, so only what verification requires is reproduced here · read as at 20 September 2026 · carried forward and not sourced in this pass: the three to ten year band at Article 215, the six months to three years band for the lesser-quantity paragraph added in September 2009, the chapter 21 locator, Article 216 for facilitating or enabling use, Article 217 for severe bodily injury or health damage through those offences, the absence of a separate personal-possession offence, and the reported prosecutorial working thresholds of about 2 g of cocaine, 2 g of heroin and 5 g of cannabis are taken from the published 2cb entry for North Macedonia. They were not re-derived from the Кривичен законик or from any statute text in this pass, no web source was consulted, and the thresholds remain reported prosecutorial practice and not statutory. The chapter 21 locator is corroborated by that published entry and is still unverified against the Кривичен законик itself. The dossier read for this pass supports only the ten year ceiling at Article 215(1) and the existence of a reduced offence at Article 215(2) · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
No traveller rule for Bosnia and Herzegovina is stated in the sources read at all, so the medical route is deferred here rather than described: nothing in the material read says what a visitor must hold to bring a controlled medicine in, who authorises it, or whether a foreign prescription counts. What is settled is this substance's placement, and it is this: the substance is printed by name, so a sedative preparation containing it is controlled; no route for carrying one is described. Do not read a placement as a medical permission, and do not read the missing rule as the absence of one.
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Rarity of prescribing does not change the placement. The reading behind this answer was made on 20 September 2026 against the list attached to the 2006 Law, as consolidated through Official Gazette 56/26 with the remifentanil move at 58/26, and that date is the whole horizon of the claim: a later amendment is not ruled out. Because the no traveller rule is stated, the documents to carry for any controlled medicine are not listed in the material read and have to be settled with the authorities before travel.
Bosnia and Herzegovina, the list attached to the 2006 Law, as consolidated through Official Gazette 56/26 with the remifentanil move at 58/26, Tables I to III · entry read for this substance: «nimetazepam» · the entry as printed is a bare substance name with no salt, isomer, preparation or analogue limb · list read at https://www.sluzbenilist.ba/page/akt/Xy4oDjohz4nh78h772k1Q= · separate quantity instrument read at https://sluzbenilist.ba/page/akt/BWhSA8RjiKk=, which returned no entry for this substance · Criminal Code of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, articles 43 and 238, read at https://www.paragraf.ba/propisi/fbih/krivicni-zakon-federacije-bosne-i-hercegovine · the article 195 penalty detail, the misdemeanour track and the Brčko fine figures stated above are carried forward from this substance's published 2cb.com entry as it stood at its last_updated of 2026-07-14, with the caveats that entry attached to them, and were not re-derived from statute text in this pass · read as at 20 September 2026, and reading it on that date does not rule out a later amendment · Updated September 21, 2026
Georgia, Law No. 624 and its annexed Lists I to IV, with Article 260 of the Criminal Code of Georgia carrying the penalty ceiling
· this row rests on the entry «ნიმეტაზეპამი» at record GEO-69, identified by CAS 2011-67-8. Read in the final consolidated text on the Legislative Herald of Georgia, which the dossier calls Matsne, on 20 September 2026. The set that produced this record is one term written twice, in lower case and in capitals, so it is a single name rather than two independent ones, and the record is only as wide as that name. No per row link exists in the dossier this cell is built from, which carries no web address for this substance or for any other, so the instrument is cited in prose and no address is given
· none has been taken from the previous version of this cell or from anywhere else. The dossier's outcome for this row is verified.
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Carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging for any medicine containing nimetazepam, with a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and put the question to the Armenian Ministry of Health or the nearest Armenian embassy in writing before travelling rather than at the border. The placement carried against is the printed annex line «Նիմետազեպամ», record ARM-69, Chemical Abstracts number 2011-67-8. It was read on 20 September 2026 against the current incorporation of N 1129-Ն read together with amendment N 334-Ն of 26 March 2026, which took effect on 27 March 2026. The paperwork should name this member explicitly, because an officer searching the annex under the class word will not find it.
Armenia, printed annex entry «Նիմետազեպամ», record ARM-69, Chemical Abstracts number 2011-67-8 · the annex to Government Decision N 1129-Ն of 21 August 2003, controlled lists 1 to 4 · version read is the current incorporation of N 1129-Ն read together with amendment N 334-Ն of 26 March 2026, which took effect on 27 March 2026 · penalties at the Criminal Code of the Republic of Armenia, Article 393(3) for the 12 year ceiling and Article 393(4) to (6) for the significant, large and especially large bands measured from the Government's minimum small amount figure · search set as recorded in the source, «nimetazepam», all Latin script · official current incorporation of Decision N 1129-Ն at https://www.arlis.am/hy/acts/205965 · official amendment N 334-Ն of 26 March 2026 at https://www.arlis.am/en/acts/222947 · official Criminal Code Article 393 at https://www.arlis.am/hy/acts/153080 · official narcotics law «Թմրամիջոցների և հոգեմետ նյութերի մասին» at https://www.arlis.am/hy/acts/181155 · read as at 20 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Montenegro's traveller rule in this reading is a country level one and not a substance level one: scheduled medicines and other prescription products remain subject to the Zakon o ljekovima and to prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street label is resolved through proved active ingredients. The placement to attach to that rule on this row is the printed Prilog entry «Nimetazepam | CAS 2011-67-8», so a preparation containing it is a scheduled medicine question and not an unscheduled one. The dossier carries no prescription column at all, which was confirmed by tools/check-dossier.py, so no per substance medical route was established here: no import permit route, no personal quantity ceiling and no certificate requirement was read for this row, and none has been invented for it. The reading behind this row is the printed Prilog row «Nimetazepam | CAS 2011-67-8».
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Carry the medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a doctor's letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the treatment period, and expect the active ingredient rather than the brand to decide the question, because the entry this row rests on is «Nimetazepam | CAS 2011-67-8» and it was read in the Prilog on 20 September 2026. The consolidated control Act was read at https://www.gov.me/en/documents/afd3651b-7fdd-43b9-b324-6e1e1a1a36cb and the Ministry schedule at https://www.gov.me/dokumenta/5aa4ae6f-0e4b-4f30-8c5e-75f9e413b019 on 20 September 2026. No express open reuse licence was located on either page, so only the wording needed for verification is reproduced, with attribution and a direct link. The record this advice rests on is the printed Prilog row «Nimetazepam | CAS 2011-67-8».
Montenegro, Pravilnik o utvrđivanju spiska droga, psihotropnih supstanci i bilja koje se može koristiti za proizvodnju droga, 56/2012 as amended by 54/2015, Član 1 and Prilog, printed row «Nimetazepam | CAS 2011-67-8», with Član 4 of the Zakon o sprječavanju zloupotrebe droga behind it as the empowering provision · the criminal ceiling cited is Article 300 of the Krivični zakonik at fifteen years and the dossier records no death penalty. The consolidated control Act was read at https://www.gov.me/en/documents/afd3651b-7fdd-43b9-b324-6e1e1a1a36cb and the Ministry schedule at https://www.gov.me/dokumenta/5aa4ae6f-0e4b-4f30-8c5e-75f9e413b019 on 20 September 2026. No express open reuse licence was located on either page, so only the wording needed for verification is reproduced, with attribution and a direct link. The Prilog was read as those tables stand after the 54/2015 amendment, and this does not rule out a later amendment made under Član 4 · the reading this row rests on is the printed Prilog row «Nimetazepam | CAS 2011-67-8» · the Article 300 penalty bands stated in consequences_street are carried forward from this site's published Montenegro entry, which cites the Criminal Code at Official Gazette 70/2003 consolidated through 110/2023, attributes the roughly two to fifteen year figure to the United States State Department narcotics report and records that the Article 300(1) to (5) paragraph ranges are not individually pinned there · they were not re-derived from the Krivični zakonik in this pass · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Таблица III of the Список is headed as the schedule of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances used for medical purposes and held under control, which is the lighter of the two medical schedules, so Nimetazepam has a domestic prescribing route. The Resolution fixes the schedule and the seizure sizes and says nothing about what a visitor may bring in, so the carriage question is answered by the health ministry's import rules and not by this text.
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Provenance. The placement and the grams on this row were read from the consolidated text of Government Resolution of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 470 of 3 July 2019 approving the Список наркотических средств, психотропных веществ и прекурсоров, подлежащих контролю в Республике Казахстан and the Сводная таблица of small, large and particularly large sizes at https://zakon.uchet.kz/rus/docs/P1900000470, which is the state legal information system's copy, on 2026-09-21. The tables were parsed by column position rather than by reading them as a stream of lines, which matters because a blank небольшой размер cell is a real feature of this table and a line reader silently shifts the remaining figures one column left. The copy read carries the amendment of 24 February 2026 made by Government Resolution No. 111, and the Сводная таблица is wholly in that redaction, so every size quoted here is the 24 February 2026 text. Russian names are quoted as the instrument prints them, except that the list prints the Список entries in capitals and they are given here in ordinary case.
Kazakhstan, Government Resolution of the Republic of Kazakhstan No. 470 of 3 July 2019 approving the Список наркотических средств, психотропных веществ и прекурсоров, подлежащих контролю в Республике Казахстан and the Сводная таблица of small, large and particularly large sizes, read at https://zakon.uchet.kz/rus/docs/P1900000470 on 2026-09-21 · the copy states с изменениями на 24.02.2026 and the Сводная таблица is в редакции постановления Правительства РК от 24.02.2026 № 111. Criminal Code of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Code No. 226-V of 3 July 2014, articles 296, 297 and 297-1, read at https://prg.kz/Document/?doc_id=31575252 · the death penalty was removed from that Code by the Law of 29 December 2021 No. 89-VII. · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Article 236 begins «La simple tenencia de drogas ilícitas o sustancias de efectos similares sin la debida autorización o prescripción facultativa», so a substance held under a doctor's prescription is outside the possession offence. Article 237.1(a) punishes the authorised professional who prescribes or administers for purposes other than strictly therapeutic ones.
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Carry any prescribed medicine in its dispensed packaging with the prescription, because article 236 turns on whether the holder has «la debida autorización o prescripción facultativa». No Cuban traveller allowance was read for this cell, so no quantity is stated.
Cuba, Ley 151 de 2022, Código Penal, published in Gaceta Oficial No. 93 Ordinaria de 1ro. de septiembre de 2022 and in force from 1 December 2022, articles 235 to 238 and articles 33 and 34 · read from the Gaceta Oficial de la República de Cuba PDF, 141 pages, 907,882 bytes, located by walking the gazette's own search rather than by constructing an identifier · gacetaoficial.gob.cu · Provenance of this revision: consequences_street was re-authored in this pass from research/dossiers/Cuba_2cb_88_REBUILT_2026-09-20.docx. The other four fields are carried unchanged from the entry published before this batch, including the Gaceta Oficial reading described above, which was NOT re-performed in this pass. · Updated September 21, 2026
Dangerous Drugs Act, Chapter 228, Statute Law of The Bahamas, LRO 1/2017 · laws.bahamas.gov.bs · Dangerous Drugs Act (Application) Order, 1994, S.I. 77 of 1994 as amended by S.I. 50 of 1996 · laws.bahamas.gov.bs · Dangerous Drugs (Application) Order, 2024, an unexecuted draft that the Bahamas legislation portal serves from its Bills directory, read but not relied on · laws.bahamas.gov.bs · Updated October 2, 2026
If prescribed / medical
A Table 3 substance may be prescribed, and article 80 lets an individual hold it for purely health reasons within the quantity a licensed doctor prescribes, with no transfer to anyone else. Article 93 lets a Table 3 prescription be repeated unless the prescriber says otherwise, which is the point where the Table 3 regime is lighter than the seven day, non repeatable Table 2 regime of articles 89 and 91. Article 94 lets the Minister of Public Health authorise a pharmacist to hand out a small quantity of a Table 3 substance without any prescription in exceptional cases and for purely medical purposes. Article 83 confines dispensing of a Table 3 drug to pharmacists in public pharmacies, pharmacists in hospitals and treatment institutions, licensed warehouses under a pharmacist's responsibility, hospitals and treatment institutions not run by pharmacists, and doctors and vets licensed to dispense. Law 673 carries no traveller allowance and no personal importation permit for a patient arriving with medicine: article 57, as amended by Law 193 of 24 May 2000, routes every import and export through a prior authorisation from the Minister of Public Health via the Ministry's Narcotics Department, and no lighter traveller route was found.
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The version read for this cell is the four tables annexed to Law 673 of 16 March 1998 on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors, in two State published consolidations read on 22 September 2026: the Ministry of Public Health file Legislation Nationale, Substances placees sous controle, whose name carries the seventh modification of January 2019 and which the Ministry's narcotics page offers in Arabic as the updated version of the tables annexed to narcotics law 673/98, and the Lebanese University Centre for Legal Informatics note on the annexed tables, which carries the decree by decree amendment history. Article 7 is the power that moves these tables: it makes the four annexes a regulatory instrument that may be changed by adding an entry, striking one out or moving an entry from one table to another, by decree issued on the proposal of the Minister of Health, so the lists can move without a new Law. Article 8 requires an entry to be printed under the substance's international common name, or its scientific name where there is no common one, which is why a brand, a plant or a street name is not itself an entry. Article 5 sets the tiers the penalties follow: Table 1 is the plants and substances of high danger with no medical use, Table 2 is the plants and substances of high danger that do have a medical use, Table 3 is the dangerous plants and substances that have a use in medicine, and article 6 puts the precursors in Table 4. The Ministry file's Arabic gloss beside this entry reads as nimetazolam rather than nimetazepam, and the Latin column reads «Nimetazepam». Where the two columns disagree this cell follows the Latin column, and the disagreement is recorded. The two consolidations do not agree and the union of them is the only defensible reading, so this cell names which one printed the entry it relies on. The Ministry file carries entries the University note lacks, among them Ketamine at the end of the Table 2 list of the 1961 Convention Schedule I, Etizolam and Phenazepam at the end of the Table 3 list of the 1971 Convention Schedule IV, Flubromazolam in Table 1, and the mephedrone, methoxetamine, para-methoxymethylamphetamine and 4,4-dimethylaminorex entries in the Table 1 list of the 1971 Convention Schedule I. The University note carries what the Ministry file cannot, because it is six years older: the two decrees of 16 May 2025. The two also disagree on a heading. The Ministry file heads the first block of Table 1 as Schedule I of the 1961 Convention while the University note heads the same block as Schedule IV, and the six opening entries, acetorphine, cannabis and cannabis resin, cetobemidone, desomorphine, etorphine and heroin, are the 1961 Schedule IV set. That mismatch sits inside the State's own texts and is recorded here rather than resolved. Every entry quoted in this cell is quoted from the Latin and French column that the annex itself prints beside the Arabic. The Arabic column of the Ministry file does not extract to reliable text for the older pages, where the embedded font maps to the wrong code points, so no Arabic is quoted from it here and no Arabic was retyped from a rendered page. The serial numbers in that file are unsafe for the same reason, because the Arabic-Indic digits come out transposed, which is why this cell locates an entry by the names printed on either side of it rather than by its number. The placement stated here is not printed in the dossier this lane was given. That dossier's quotation column carries a synthesised search record on 52 of its 88 rows, a sentence of the shape an exact local-language term, Latin name, common synonym, salts and isomers wording and post-enactment amendment route searched for this slug, which is printed in no instrument; on its remaining 36 rows it carries a bare Arabic substance name with no table, no schedule and no article. No row of it names a table: 0 of 88 quotations carry a table or schedule number, and its instrument column says Tables 1-5 on all 88 rows. Its URL column is the publisher's home page with a text fragment appended. Its paragraph 4 states that no single consolidated annex current to 20 September 2026 was located, and the Ministry of Public Health publishes exactly such a consolidation on the narcotics page the dossier itself cites. Its paragraph 3 states that no death sentence was established in Law 673, which is right about the drug offences and wrong as written, because article 140 does carry the death penalty for killing an official enforcing the Law. Every placement in this batch was therefore read in the annex rather than taken from that column. Law 673 has been amended by Law 193 of 24 May 2000, which rewrote articles 15, 17, 29, 34, 44, 57 and 88, by Law 272 of 5 January 2001, which added a paragraph exempting licensed industrial establishments holding an industrial certificate from the Ministry of Industry in respect of Table 4 substances, and by Law 318 of 2001, which repealed article 132. What could not be established for this cell is the text of the two decrees of 16 May 2025 themselves. The University note records them and gives no Official Gazette citation for them, and three routes were tried on 22 September 2026: a search of the Official Gazette index for issue 23 of May 2025, which lists decrees 223, 331, 333 and 334 and not 342 or 343; a query by number and year against the Lebanese University legislation search, which answered HTTP 500 on both numbers; and open search in Arabic and English on the decree numbers and on the substance names, which returned no primary text. The consolidation is also silent on the stronger point, that no decree later than 16 May 2025 has moved these tables.
moph.gov.lb · unodc.org · moph.gov.lb · legallaw.ul.edu.lb · legallaw.ul.edu.lb · Law 673 of 16 March 1998 on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors, Official Gazette 14 of 26 March 1998 at pages 975 to 1016, 252 articles, consolidated text of the Lebanese University Centre for Legal Informatics, read 22 September 2026 in the copy that Centre prints and that UNODC hosts at the address above · the tables annexed to that Law as consolidated by the Ministry of Public Health in Legislation Nationale, Substances placees sous controle, the file carrying the seventh modification of January 2019, read 22 September 2026 · the Lebanese University consolidation note on the annexed tables, which records Decree 2432 of 11 February 2000, Decree 6608 of 23 October 2001, Decree 8065 of 20 June 2002, Decree 12137 of 7 March 2004, Decree 1189 of 8 January 2009, Decree 6221 of 27 August 2011, Decree 11051 of 11 January 2014, Decree 3403 of 12 May 2016, Decree 3610 of 2 June 2016, Decree 2591 of 23 March 2018 and Decrees 342 and 343 of 16 May 2025 · Law 193 of 24 May 2000, Official Gazette 23 of 1 June 2000 · Law 272 of 5 January 2001, Official Gazette 3 of 11 January 2001 · Law 318 of 2001, which repealed article 132 · the description of enforcement as uneven, the treatment diversion as only partly implemented and the about 6 months figure are carried forward from the cell this replaces and were not re-derived · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
This row sits inside the 2. gr. prohibition, so a lawful medical route exists only through one of the exceptions that article prints, an Icelandic marketing authorisation being the ordinary one, and the traveller rule then applies on top of it. Iceland puts the traveller rule in reglugerð nr. 1277/2022 um innflutning einstaklinga á lyfjum til eigin nota, and its 5. gr. governs every medicine that contains, even in part, a substance printed in Fylgiskjal I of reglugerð nr. 233/2001, which is where this row sits. A traveller with no registered domicile in Iceland may carry 30 days at the defined daily dose. A person whose registered domicile is in Iceland may carry 30 days if the medicine was obtained in Iceland and can produce documents showing that, but only 7 days at the defined daily dose if it was obtained abroad, extended to 30 days by a declaration from a doctor holding a valid Icelandic licence stating that the medicine is medically necessary. A traveller moving within the Schengen area may instead present a certificate issued or confirmed by the competent authority of the country of residence under article 75 of the Schengen Convention, and such a certificate is valid for at most 30 days from its issue. Narcotic medicines may not be sent to Iceland by post or by freight at all, and where an import falls outside these permissions 5. gr. routes it back to lög nr. 65/1974. Lyfjastofnun may exempt under 7. gr. but for a medicine under 5. gr. that exemption has to be in hand before the traveller arrives.
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Customs must be shown a doctor's certificate or the prescription together with its directions for use, or the dispensing label, proving both that the medicine was lawfully obtained and that the quantity carried is necessary, and 3. gr. of reglugerð nr. 1277/2022 lets customs seek an opinion from a public body or a health professional where it suspects the document is wrong or forged. Because this row sits inside the 2. gr. prohibition, the paperwork is doing more work than usual: it is what shows the medicine falls within one of the exceptions in that article rather than inside the ban, so carry it in the dispensed packaging with the label intact and the prescription or a doctor's declaration with it. Where Lyfjastofnun's permission under 7. gr. of reglugerð nr. 1277/2022 is needed, it has to be obtained before travelling rather than at the border, and nothing may be sent ahead by post or freight.
Iceland, reglugerð nr. 233/2001 um ávana- og fíkniefni og önnur eftirlitsskyld efni, Fylgiskjal I and Fylgiskjal II with articles 1, 2, 3, 6, 7 and 10 · lög nr. 65/1974 um ávana- og fíkniefni, articles 2, 2 a, 3, 4, 5 and 6 · almenn hegningarlög nr. 19/1940, article 173 a · lög nr. 32/2001, article 1 · reglugerð nr. 879/2025 · reglugerð nr. 1036/2025 · reglugerð nr. 1277/2022, articles 3, 4, 5 and 7 · island.is · Updated October 2, 2026
Malta, Nimetazepam, read from Legislation Malta, the consolidated English text published by the Office of the State Advocate, which is the official publisher · read as at 18 September 2026 · entry located at Medical and Kindred Professions Ordinance, Cap. 31 · Third Schedule Part B · arts. 40A and 120A, and transcribed verbatim in the legal status field of this cell · amendment horizon 18 September 2026, Chapter 31 through Legal Notice 46 of 2026, Chapter 101 through Legal Notice 97 of 2025, Chapter 537 through Acts VII and XII of 2025, Chapter 628 through Act XII of 2025 · legislation.mt · Updated September 20, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Nimetazepam reaches people as a powder, a liquid, a blotter or a pressed tablet rather than as a dispensed medicine, so there is no prescription document to carry for it, and the name a Salvadoran laboratory report would use is nimetazepam. Article 3's final paragraph permits a listed substance to be held only in the quantities strictly necessary for scientific research, for making medicines, for medical treatment or for industrial products, and only with the health regulator's authorisation, so there is no lawful personal quantity of it.
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The instrument read for this cell is the Ley Reguladora de las Actividades Relativas a las Drogas, Decreto Legislativo 153 of 2 October 2003, published in Diario Oficial 208, Tomo 361, of 7 November 2003, in the consolidated text published by the Asamblea Legislativa. That text carries its own reform schedule: five reforms, the last of them Decreto Legislativo 78 of 25 July 2018 in Diario Oficial 156, Tomo 420, of 24 August 2018, so the consolidation read here is current to that reform. The same reform schedule was confirmed against a second publisher, the transparency portal of the Fiscalia General de la Republica, which prints the identical list of five. The text also carries four rulings of the Sala de lo Constitucional, three of which strike the fine in Articles 31, 33 and 34 and the fourth of which struck the rule in Article 52 that equated preparatory acts with completed offences before that article was reformed in 2018. The substance list read for this cell is the Listado de sustancias estupefacientes, psicotropicos, precursores y agregados 2026, approved by Acuerdo SI.2026.03.20-01 of the Superintendencia de Regulacion Sanitaria. That document states its own currency in its Disposiciones generales: it was approved by that acuerdo and is «vigente hasta el 31 de marzo de 2027, o hasta que se emita un nuevo listado por parte de la Superintendencia de Regulacion Sanitaria». It was read as at 21 September 2026, and the 2025 edition of the same list was fetched first and set aside once the 2026 edition was found on the regulator's own page. The list is the one Article 13 of the Ley requires, «una lista de drogas y de todas las preparaciones y especialidades farmaceuticas que las contengan de acuerdo a las categorias establecidas en la presente Ley», which Article 13 also requires to be sent to the Corte Suprema de Justicia, the Fiscalia General de la Republica and the Policia Nacional Civil so that judges and prosecutors know it. Article 13 names the Consejo Superior de Salud Publica as the body that makes it; the 2013 Reglamento names the Direccion Nacional de Medicamentos as the governing authority, and the Ley de la Superintendencia de Regulacion Sanitaria dissolved that Direccion and moved its functions to the Superintendencia with effect from August 2024. That succession is stated from the Reglamento and from reporting of the Superintendencia law, whose own gazette text was not read for this cell. Article 2 defines droga in its own words: «Art. 2.- Para los efectos de esta Ley se consideran drogas las sustancias especificadas como tales en los Convenios Internacionales ratificados por El Salvador, las que se mencionan en el Código de Salud y demás leyes del país; y en general, las que indistintamente de su grado de pureza, actúan sobre el sistema nervioso central y tienen la capacidad de producir transformaciones, bien sea aumentando o disminuyendo su funcionamiento o modificando los estados de conciencia y que su uso indebido puede causar dependencia o sujeción física y psicológica.» Article 3 then prohibits activity relating to five named categories and, in letter f, «f) Cualquier otra sustancia que sea considerada droga tan nociva que amerite ser prohibida por el Consejo Superior de Salud Pública o por los convenios internacionales ratificados por el país.» The names searched across the list, in Spanish and in English, were nimetazepam. The matched entry was read before it was relied on, and it is «Nimetazepam», entry 163, CAS 2011-67-8, at Parte B, Seccion IV. Psicotropicos incluidos en la Lista IV de la Convencion de 1971. Three routes were tried for the instrument and all three returned a document: the Asamblea Legislativa decree file, which returned the consolidated text; the transparency portal of the Fiscalia General de la Republica, which returned the same consolidation; and the regulator's own listado page, which returned the 2026 list. Two routes returned nothing usable: the Asamblea decree index and law search paths both returned a not found page, and a fetch of the Asamblea search page failed on certificate verification. Carry any controlled medicine in its dispensing packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with the Salvadoran embassy or consulate before you travel.
Ley Reguladora de las Actividades Relativas a las Drogas, Decreto Legislativo 153 of 2 October 2003, Articles 2, 3, 13, 31, 32, 33, 34, 54 and 55, consolidated text published by the Asamblea Legislativa, Diario Oficial 208, Tomo 361, of 7 November 2003 · Consolidation: current to Decreto Legislativo 78 of 25 July 2018, Diario Oficial 156, Tomo 420, of 24 August 2018, the last of the five reforms the text's own schedule prints, confirmed against the Fiscalia General de la Republica transparency copy · Unconstitutionality of the fine: Article 34 by the accumulated 2006 judgments, Diario Oficial 196, Tomo 377, of 22 October 2007, Article 33 by the 92-2007 judgments, Diario Oficial 152, Tomo 384, of 19 August 2009, and Article 31 by judgment 45-2010, Diario Oficial 197, Tomo 401, of 23 October 2013 · Listado de sustancias estupefacientes, psicotropicos, precursores y agregados 2026, approved by Acuerdo SI.2026.03.20-01 of the Superintendencia de Regulacion Sanitaria, read as at 21 September 2026, the document stating its own currency to 31 March 2027 or until a new listado is issued · Reglamento de Estupefacientes, Sicotropicos, Precursores, Sustancias y Productos Quimicos y Agregados, Decreto Ejecutivo 20, Diario Oficial of 13 February 2013, Articles 5, 26, 36, 37 and 40 · Placement: entry read at Parte B, Seccion IV. Psicotropicos incluidos en la Lista IV de la Convencion de 1971, entry 163, CAS 2011-67-8 · Placement provenance: the Parte and Seccion stated for this row are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, and no quoted extract in that dossier carries a Parte or Seccion marker for any substance, because the dossier resolved every row against articles 2 and 3 of Decreto 153 alone and never reached the Listado. The placement is read directly from the Listado named above and not from the dossier · Penalty figures for the 2 gram line and the year bands in Articles 31, 33 and 34 carried forward from the live cell and not re-derived from a new source, then re-read against the Asamblea text. The Article 34 graver offence proviso, Articles 54 and 55 and the three unconstitutionality rulings are read from that text and are new to this cell · asamblea.gob.sv · srs.gob.sv · portaldetransparencia.fgr.gob.sv · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
A medicine containing Nimetazepam is a controlled medicine in Honduras, and the entry that makes it one is PN 001, CAS 2011-67-8 in Lista IV del Convenio de 1971. Article 12 of Decreto 126/89 is still in force and reads «Los medicamentos que contengan estupefacientes o sustancias controladas, sólo podrán ser vendidos al público, mediante receta médica, en farmacias autorizadas», and Article 13 lets a doctor, dentist or vet carry «Los médicos, dentistas y veterinarios podrán tener en su maletín hasta dos ampolletas de drogas controladas». Travel with the prescription, the dispensing label and a letter naming the quantity, and ask the Honduran consulate before you fly, because Article 12 also subjects imports and free samples to authorisation by the health ministry.
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The instrument read for this cell is the consolidated text of the Ley sobre el Uso Indebido y Tráfico Ilícito de Drogas y Sustancias Psicotrópicas, Decreto 126/89, published by the Tribunal Superior de Cuentas, which carries its own footnote to La Gaceta 25992 of 23 November 1989 and to the Decreto 86-93 reform in La Gaceta 27162 of 1 October 1993, together with the Código Penal, Decreto 130-2017, as printed in La Gaceta 34,940 of 10 May 2019. Articles 16 to 30 and 41 of Decreto 126/89 were repealed by Article 632 of that Code, so the 1989 law now supplies definitions and administrative prohibitions and the Code supplies every offence. The live cell dated the Code to 10 November 2019, which is the date Article 635 as enacted would have produced from a publication of 10 May 2019; commencement was postponed twice and the Code took effect on 25 June 2020. That last date is carried from the reported amendment of Article 635 published in La Gaceta 35,247 of 9 May 2020, which was not read at the gazette for this cell. The schedules Article 321 adopts were read in the International Narcotics Control Board Yellow List, 65th edition of July 2026, the Green List, 36th edition of 2025, and the Red List, 23rd edition of July 2025, on 21 September 2026. Nimetazepam was placed by reading the matched entry and not by counting a name hit. The entry read was PN 001, CAS 2011-67-8, NIMETAZEPAM, 1,3-dihydro-1-methyl-7-nitro-5-phenyl-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one, in Lista IV del Convenio de 1971. Article 11 of Decreto 126/89 survives and still reads «Se prohíbe a toda persona mantener en su poder ya sea en sus ropas o valijas, en su domicilio, lugar de trabajo, automóvil o cualquier otro lugar bajo su orden y responsabilidad, sin autorización legal, cantidad alguna de estupefacientes y sustancias controladas», and Article 6 still routes the definitions through the conventions and the Reglamento de Control de Estupefacientes y otras Drogas Peligrosas, but the article that carried the penalty for breaching them is repealed, so that prohibition now stands without a sanction of its own. Carry any controlled medicine in its dispensing packaging with the prescription, and confirm the position with the Honduran consulate before you travel.
Ley sobre el Uso Indebido y Tráfico Ilícito de Drogas y Sustancias Psicotrópicas, Decreto 126/89, consolidated text published by the Tribunal Superior de Cuentas, carrying its own footnotes to La Gaceta 25992 of 23 November 1989 and to the Decreto 86-93 reform in La Gaceta 27162 of 1 October 1993 · Código Penal, Decreto 130-2017, Arts 311/312, with Arts 313, 314, 321 and 632, as published in La Gaceta 34,940 of 10 May 2019 · Commencement: Art. 635 as enacted set six months from that publication, and the move to 25 June 2020 is carried from the reported amendment of Art. 635 in La Gaceta 35,247 of 9 May 2020, which was not read at the gazette · Penalty figures for Art. 311, Art. 312 and Art. 26 carried forward from the live cell and not re-derived in this pass. The Art. 311 fine, the lesser gravity terms, Art. 313 and the Art. 321 quantities are read from that Gaceta text · Placement: Lista IV del Convenio de 1971, entry PN 001, CAS 2011-67-8, NIMETAZEPAM, 1,3-dihydro-1-methyl-7-nitro-5-phenyl-2H-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one · Lists read in the International Narcotics Control Board Yellow List, 65th edition of July 2026, the Green List, 36th edition of 2025, and the Red List, 23rd edition of July 2025, on 21 September 2026 · tsc.gob.hn · tsc.gob.hn · Updated September 21, 2026
Belarus, Постановление Министерства здравоохранения № 19 от 11 февраля 2015 г. республиканский перечень, приложение, списки 1 to 4, record BEL-69 · printed entry «НИМЕТАЗЕПАМ», registry number 2011-67-8 · Criminal Code Article 328 supplies the offence and the ceiling, Article 328(5) · version read: № 19/2015 with the official 2025 and 10 March 2026 amendments · read as at 20 September 2026 · pravo.by · pravo.by · pravo.by · national legal portal https://pravo.by/ · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Law 201/2025 Article 37(1): «Importul și exportul medicamentelor care conțin substanțe stupefiante și psihotrope de către persoane fizice se interzic.» Article 37(2) lets an individual carry across the border in personal baggage «medicamente într-o cantitate corespunzătoare tratamentului pentru o perioadă de până la 30 de zile», for personal use or for another person, «cu condiția prezentării dovezii prescripției medicale eliberate pe numele persoanei pentru care acestea sunt destinate» (gazette page 42). Article 7(1) puts a medicine under the regime of the substance it contains, and of the most strictly controlled one where it combines several. Article 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by the Convention annexes, so for a substance on a national control list, Lista nr. 3 of a table, applying Article 37 is a reading. The article does not say whether a prescription issued abroad satisfies it; that was not read.
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Carry the prescription issued in the name of the person the medicine is for, no more than 30 days of treatment, in personal baggage; that is the condition Law 201/2025 Article 37(2) states. Whether a foreign prescription is accepted is not stated in the article, so confirm it in writing with the Medicines and Medical Devices Agency or a Moldovan consulate before travel. The earlier cell's reliance on Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente is not re-read here.
Moldova, Law 201/2025, Monitorul Oficial 2025 nr. 448-451, item 619, 28 August 2025, read as page images at https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3146 (Article 2, Article 19, Article 37 at gazette page 42, Article 80 at gazette page 49) · Law 22/2026 amending Article 80, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 104, item 65, 27 February 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3236 · Law 173/2026 adding Criminal Code Articles 216^1 and 217^7, replacing Articles 217 to 217^6, 218, 219 and 248(6) to (8) and Contravention Code Article 85, and setting Criminal Code Article 134^1, in force 28 August 2026, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 390-393, item 418, 25 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3322 · Government Decision 479/2026 and its Annex 1 national tables, Monitorul Oficial 2026 nr. 398-400, Part II, item 473, 28 August 2026, https://monitorul.gov.md/ro/monitor/3324 · superseded and not re-read: Legea nr. 382/1999 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 1088/2004 (repealed), Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 (quantities, made under Law 382/1999), Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente · legis.md answered with an anti-bot challenge on 3 October 2026 and was not read · Updated October 4, 2026
Ley No. 735 consolidated text, articles 1 and 101, published in La Gaceta Diario Oficial No. 32 of 20 February 2024 under the Digesto Juridico of Ley No. 1159 · Ley No. 1220, reforming article 1, La Gaceta Diario Oficial No. 171 of 13 September 2024 · Ley No. 641 Codigo Penal, Titulo XIV, articles 348 to 362, in that same consolidated text · Ley No. 1216, reforming article 358 and adding articles 362 bis and 362 ter, La Gaceta Diario Oficial No. 166 of 6 September 2024 · lists and tables annexed to Ley No. 285, La Gaceta Diario Oficial No. 70 of 16 April 1999, incorporated by article 101 of Ley No. 735 · pgr.gob.ni · pgr.gob.ni · uaf.gob.ni · Penalty, quantity and fine figures in this cell were re-derived from the articles named above and were NOT carried forward from the entry this replaces. The figures in that entry traced to the 1994 text of Ley No. 177, which article 101 of Ley No. 735 derogates, and they are displaced rather than preserved. · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Article 15 of Law No. 873 of 10 December 1999 on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors provides «В Республике Таджикистан потребление наркотических средств и психотропных веществ без назначения врача запрещается», so consumption without a doctor's prescription is prohibited, and it leaves prescribing to a procedure set by the Ministry of Health, which was not read. The note to the 2020 National List puts items 285 to 359 of Перечень 2, which include item 325, among «вещества, злоупотребление которыми в определенной степени опасно и представляющие интерес для использования в медицинских целях», substances whose abuse is to a degree dangerous and which are of interest for medical use. The texts read set out no route by which a foreign prescription makes carrying nimetazepam into Tajikistan lawful, so none is stated.
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Article 10 of Law No. 873 requires, for each crossing of the customs border to bring in or take out a narcotic drug, psychotropic substance or precursor, «разрешение и сертификат международного образца», a permit and an international format certificate issued under a procedure set by the Government, and provides that what is brought in or taken out without a licence and permit «подлежат конфискации», is liable to confiscation. That Government procedure was not read, and Law No. 873 as read sets out no personal allowance for a traveller. The earlier version of this cell rested on a dossier that named Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020 and Criminal Code arts 200 to 204 with the quantity list in Criminal Code Appendix 1, Table 1; this version reads those instruments directly. The previous version of this cell left this substance not confirmed because its dossier retained no entry for it; the entry quoted in this cell is what settles it. prg.kz is a commercial legal database run from Kazakhstan, not an official Tajik publisher; the official ncz.tj page records Annex 1 as replaced by Law No. 1984 of 13 November 2023 but did not serve the table, and the ncz.tj file of the Code answered HTTP 503 twice on 3 October 2026.
Criminal Code Annex 1, recorded at ncz.tj as replaced by Law No. 1984 of 13 November 2023, read in the prg.kz consolidation dated 17 June 2026 · prg.kz · prg.kz · National List of narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and their precursors, approved by Government Resolution No. 121 of 27 February 2020, as the Drug Control Agency published it, read on 3 October 2026 · akn.tj · Resolution No. 87 of 2 March 2023, opening text and amendment date · online.zakon.kz · Criminal Code of the Republic of Tajikistan, Law No. 574 of 21 May 1998, articles 58(1), 59, 200, 201, 204 and 289, prg.kz consolidation dated 17 June 2026, read on 3 October 2026 · prg.kz · prg.kz · prg.kz · the same articles in the official text at the National Centre for Legislation, read on 3 October 2026 · ncz.tj · Law No. 873 of 10 December 1999 on narcotic drugs, psychotropic substances and precursors, articles 2, 10 and 15 · ncz.tj · Updated October 3, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Article 1 defines illicit use as « usage de drogues hors prescription médicale ». Articles 3, 4, 5, 8 and 9 punish the listed conduct when done « sans autorisation de l'autorité compétente », and the text read does not say that a prescription is that authorisation; importing a personal supply without the competent authority's authorisation may fall within article 5 or article 8, and no exemption for travellers was found. Article 7, giving or offering a drug to another person for their consumption, has no authorisation clause at all, so do not share the medicine. The rules for bringing a personal supply into Côte d'Ivoire were not read in this run. Carry the prescription and confirm with the Ivorian embassy before travel.
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Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 names no substance itself. Article 45 provides « Les tableaux visés par la présente loi sont les tableaux actualisés issus des Conventions internationales sur les stupéfiants, les substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs ratifiées par la Côte d'Ivoire », and article 46 lets the ministers responsible for drugs and for health classify any other plant or substance by joint arrêté. Article 1 defines a stupéfiant as a substance in the four tables of the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol, « ou toute autre substance mise sous contrôle international ou national », and a substance psychotrope as one « inscrite aux tableaux 1, 2, 3 et 4 de la convention des Nations unies sur les substances psychotropes de 1971 ». Article 2 classes as stupéfiants or psychotropes the plants and substances placed in « tableaux 1, 2 et 3 » by the Conventions, their preparations, and « toutes autres plantes et substances dangereuses pour la santé, en raison des effets nocifs et selon la gravité du risque pour la santé publique que peut entrainer leur abus »; the text read does not say whether that last clause works by itself or only through an article 46 arrêté. The law repealed Loi 88-686 of 1988 (article 47). The INCB Green List, 36th edition (2025), French text prints nimetazepam in Schedule IV as « NIMÉTAZÉPAM » (code PN 001). « NITRAZÉPAM » is a separate Schedule IV entry. The Green List states that « Les sels de toutes les substances inscrites aux quatre tableaux, lorsque leur existence est possible, sont également placés sous contrôle international ». Côte d'Ivoire is a party to the 1961 Single Convention as amended by the 1972 Protocol (28 February 1973), to the 1971 Convention on Psychotropic Substances (accession, 11 April 1984) and to the 1988 Convention (ratification, 25 November 1991), as the UN Treaty Collection status pages read on 3 October 2026 record. The text of Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 was read on 3 October 2026 in the article by article copy at loidici.biz (https://loidici.biz/?p=73171), because the AfricanLII record did not resolve at agp.africanlii.org and africanlii.org answered with a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403); it was not checked against the Journal officiel printing. The wording of articles 2, 45 and 46 matches the AfricanLII text as returned in a web search summary, and articles 10, 19 and 20 match the ISSUP paper on Côte d'Ivoire. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Loi n° 2022-407 du 13 juin 2022 portant lutte contre le trafic et l'usage illicites des stupéfiants, des substances psychotropes et leurs précurseurs, articles 1, 2, 3 to 19, 25, 38 and 41 to 47 · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · loidici.biz · https://agp.africanlii.org/akn/ci/act/2022/407/fra@2024-01-17 (did not resolve on 3 October 2026) · INCB Green List, 36th edition (2025), French text · incb.org · treaties.un.org · Updated October 3, 2026
Schedule IV is where regulation 4(2)(a) does its work, and it is the most useful rule in the whole volume for a traveller. Section 7(1) of the Act, which prohibits possession of a controlled drug, does not have effect in relation to a drug specified in Schedule IV which is contained in a medicinal product. Regulation 4(1) separately disapplies the section 5(1) import and export prohibition for Schedules IV and V outright. So a dispensed medicinal product containing a Schedule IV drug is outside both prohibitions on the face of the Regulations. Regulations 22, 23, 25 and 26 still apply, and the exemption is written about the medicinal product form and not about loose material.
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Carry a prescribed medicine in the pharmacy's original labelled packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose, the quantity and the treatment period. Those papers evidence a therapeutic purpose; they are not an import authorisation, and the Regulations put import and export authorisations on the Minister's forms in Schedules VII to XI, issued to licence holders rather than to travellers. For this row the fact to carry is the printed entry itself: Nimetazepam, at Schedule IV paragraph 1. Nimetazepam returned one occurrence in the subsidiary volume and none in the 1990 Act text. The volume was read on 22 September 2026.
Belize, Misuse of Drugs Regulations, Schedule IV paragraph 1, in the Misuse of Drugs Act Chapter 103 volume of the Subsidiary Laws of Belize, Revised Edition 2020, which shows the subsidiary laws as at 31 December 2020 · agm.gov.bz · the Act's offence and penalty provisions were read in the Misuse of Drugs Act 1990, Act 22 of 1990, as UNODC holds it, https://www.unodc.org/cld/uploads/res/document/the-misuse-of-drugs-act-1990_html/The_Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_1990.pdf · that Act text stops partway through section 28 and carries none of its own three schedules, so no class and no ordinary possession maximum is taken from it · read as at 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026
Illicit Drugs Control Act (as amended 2020 and 2021) (Tonga)
Nimetazepam is a hypnotic that is withdrawn or tightly restricted in many countries. There is a lawful prescription route and it is narrow. Article 5 lid 1 allows a middel covered by article 3 or article 4 to be prescribed op recept only where the recept meets requirements laid down by or under Staatsbesluit, and article 5 lid 3 makes it a separate offence to present a vals of vervalst recept, a false or forged prescription, which article 11 lid 3 punishes with at most thirteen years. Article 7 lid 2 disapplies limbs B and C for gevestigde apothekers en apotheekhoudende geneeskundigen, established pharmacists and dispensing physicians, and for gevestigde dierenartsen, established veterinarians, where they hold the substance only for a medical purpose. Article 7 lid 3 disapplies the transport part of limb B and the whole of limb C for a person who shows that they need the substance, in de bevonden hoeveelheid, in the quantity found, for the practice of geneeskunst, tandheelkunst or diergeneeskunst, or voor eigen geneeskundig gebruik, for their own medical use, and that they obtained it langs wettige weg, by lawful means. Article 7 lid 4 gives the same relief to a carrier acting on the order of an authorised person, except as regards aanwenden, using the substance. Whether the Staatsbesluiten that article 5 lid 1 and article 7 contemplate have been made was not established here.
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A medicine lawfully dispensed in one country is still measured here against the printed entry. Carry any controlled medicine in its original packaging with the prescription that authorised it, and note the limit that article 7 sets. Neither article 7 lid 1 nor article 7 lid 3 touches limb A of article 3 lid 1 or of article 4 lid 1, the import, export and transit limb. The eigen geneeskundig gebruik exemption therefore covers possession and carriage inside Suriname and does not cover bringing the substance into the country or taking it out. Article 6 lid 1 is the only route for that: it disapplies limb A where the movement is made met toestemming van de Minister, with the permission of the Minister, na goedkeuring door de Procureur-Generaal bij het Hof van Justitie, after approval by the Procurator General at the Court of Justice, and article 6 lid 2 allows a fee to be charged for it. Article 10 gives opsporingsambtenaren, investigating officers, a power under lid 5 to search the body and clothing of a suspect and under lid 6 to seize. The text relied on stops at S.B. 2002 no. 68. Any lijst, onderdeel or numbered part named in this cell are read from the annex to the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, whose quotation column for this jurisdiction carries no division marker for any substance.
Wet verdovende middelen, S.B. 1998 no. 14, gelijk zij luidt na de daarin aangebrachte wijzigingen bij S.B. 2002 no. 68, articles 1 to 14 and the annexed lijst I and lijst II, read as at S.B. 2002 no. 68, the last amendment carried in the text consulted · https://www.dna.sr/media/34ygwacb/wet_verdovende_middelen.pdf, published by De Nationale Assemblee, the National Assembly of Suriname · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated October 2, 2026
State of Palestine, applicable penal law (Gaza Strip military orders · West Bank PA framework) · loc.gov · unodc.org · Updated July 14, 2026
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Antigua and Barbuda is not in the Schengen area, so a Schengen certificate is not the relevant document, and no local traveller certificate was established from Cap. 283. Carry a prescribed medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescribing document.
Misuse of Drugs Act, Cap. 283, Laws of Antigua and Barbuda, Revised Edition, First Schedule Parts I to IV and Second Schedule, with sections 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 25 and 26 · laws.gov.ag · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Section 6(1) makes possession of a controlled drug unlawful unless regulations under section 12 permit it, and section 12(3) requires the Minister to secure that a practitioner acting as such may prescribe, administer, compound or supply, and that a practitioner or pharmacist may possess for that purpose. The Act defines «doctor» as a medical practitioner registered in the Medical Register under the Medical Registration Act, Cap. 371, and «dentist» and «veterinary practitioner» by the equivalent Barbados registers, so the lawful route runs through a Barbados registration and not through a foreign one. Importation is a separate question under section 4(1), which an arriving traveller engages on their own account. A Part II psychotropic substance that is not marketed in most jurisdictions, so in practice no prescription route exists although the section 12 regulations would govern one.
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Carry the medicine in its original dispensing packaging with the prescription and a letter from the prescriber naming the patient, the active ingredient, the strength, the daily dose and the length of treatment, and settle the import question with the Barbados authorities before travelling rather than at the airport. Ask specifically whether the section 12 regulations permit a visitor to bring the drug in at all, because section 4(1) makes importation unlawful in its own right and a prescription answers the possession question rather than the import one. The row and the unmethylated row below it were read together in Part II. Read on 20 September 2026 from the PDF of the Act itself. The edition read is the L.R.O. 1991 consolidation served by the Barbados law courts statute portal. No amending order or later revision was located on that portal, so anything made after that revision has not been read and is not asserted here.
Barbados, Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Cap. 131, Act 1990-14, L.R.O. 1991 revised edition · the passage relied on for this cell is Part II of the First Schedule at the row whose chemical name column reads «1,3-dihydro-1-methyl-7-nitro-5-phenyl-2h-1,4-benzodiazepin-2-one», with section 3 for the definition of a controlled drug, the Second Schedule for trafficable quantities and the Fourth Schedule for the punishments. This source is document level and not per substance. The Act has no per substance landing page and the whole cell rests on one PDF of the consolidated Act, read at https://www.barbadoslawcourts.gov.bb/assets/content/pdfs/statutes/DrugAbuse(PreventionandControl)CAP131.pdf, which is a primary Barbados government source served by the Barbados law courts statute portal and returned 200 with 1,881,169 bytes of application/pdf on 20 September 2026. The dossier this cell was built against carried a different filename for the same document, without the parentheses, and that address returns 404, so the working address is given here instead. The PDF is a scan of the printed revised edition and is reproduced here only so far as verification requires · where a headword is damaged in the scan this cell says so rather than repairing it. Read as at 20 September 2026. · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Section 7(1) makes it unlawful to have a controlled drug in your possession except as allowed by Regulations made under the Act, and the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Regulations printed as subsidiary legislation to this Chapter set out the general authority to possess in regulation 5 and the prescription rules in regulations 14 and 15. None of that machinery reaches this row, because nothing in Parts I to III was shown to place Nimetazepam and the Regulations operate on controlled drugs as section 4 defines them. So the Act does not tell a traveller which authorisation, if any, would be the right one to hold. The question that has to be settled first is the one this row is drawn around: the Class A nitro entries «Clonitazene» and «Etonitazene» was the nearest printed text and it was read and rejected.
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Do not read an absence from a schedule authorised in 1991 as permission. Ask the Ministry of Health or the nearest Dominican mission whether an Order under section 4(3) has added this substance to the Third Schedule since that authorisation, and whether any medicines or pharmacy instrument outside this Act reaches it, and ask before you travel rather than on arrival. If you carry it as a medicine, bring the original dispensing packaging, the prescription and a letter naming the patient, the active ingredient, the dose and the period of treatment. Section 29 makes an analyst's certificate admissible in evidence, so identification is settled by analysis. The nearest printed entry read and rejected for this row was the Class A nitro entries «Clonitazene» and «Etonitazene». The instrument was read on 22 September 2026.
Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Act 20 of 1988 as amended by Act 15 of 1989 and Act 15 of 1990, revised edition Chapter 40:07, sections 4, 7 and 27 and the Third and Fourth Schedules · read from the 64 page scanned chapter held in this repository at research/instruments/dominica/dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.pdf, sha256 30ca6c954678725f8bd4ea81de7b081e5b3ef5ef9015d05e357de1992c62ab30, with its text layer at dm-drugs-prevention-of-misuse-1988.txt, sha256 d47a9b795cabe1a1250ebd6ec3e13e4ccb6367708b69fded78a8eb22b7ab1465. The absence stated here rests on a visual reading of the complete Part I, Part II and Part III lists on printed pages 30, 31 and 32 as page images, not on a text search: the text layer of this scan drops the «Part II» and «Part III» headings and one numbered paragraph in each of those Parts, and the revised edition itself prints several entries with transposed letters, so a search of the text layer alone would return a false zero for any name the printer mangled. Those pages carry the footer «L.R.O. 1/1991». The nearest printed text read and rejected for this row was the Class A nitro entries «Clonitazene» and «Etonitazene». This citation is document level and not per substance: the compilation's links column for this row holds the constructed text «nimetazepam national source» rather than an address. The compilation recorded «NIMETAZEPAM» as the printed entry for this row. That string does not appear anywhere in this Act · the Act is written in English and that record's quotation column is largely in another language, which is a property of the record rather than of the instrument, so it is reported here and is not offered as a quotation from the Act. The Part and Class placement stated for this row is not printed in the quotation column of the compilation read alongside the Act: measured across that compilation, not one of its 88 rows carries a Part, a Class or a Schedule marker of any kind, and its instrument column says only that there is a controlled-drug schedule without naming which of the four Schedules that is. Every division named in this cell is therefore taken from the printed Third Schedule pages of the Act itself. Second instrument relied on: Dominica, the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act 2020, Act No. 16 of 2020, assented to and gazetted 30 October 2020 and passed in the House of Assembly on 26 October 2020, a four page Act read in full from the Government of Dominica laws site at https://dominica.gov.dm/laws/2020/Drug%20Prevention%20(Amendment)%20Act%202020.pdf, sha256 c5f6a5b47cee1ffce3f88993d72163a1f0ba6a1f3cf68c31f8bfed89e1c5af01. It amends section 7(4), inserts sections 7A and 7B, amends section 8 and makes no amendment to the Third Schedule. Read as at 22 September 2026. · Updated September 21, 2026
Drug Abuse (Prevention and Control) Act, Chapter 84A of the Laws of Grenada, Act No. 7 of 1992 as amended by SRO 16 of 2011, sections 2, 3, 6, 12, 18, 21, 24 and 37, the First Schedule Parts I to IV, the Second Schedule and the Fifth Schedule, read as at SRO 16 of 2011 · laws.gov.gd · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Section 10(3) obliges the Minister to exercise the regulation making power in section 10(1) so as to secure that it is not unlawful under section 6(1) for a doctor, dentist or veterinary practitioner acting in his or her capacity as such to prescribe, administer, manufacture, compound or supply a controlled drug, and not unlawful under section 8(1) for a doctor, dentist, veterinary practitioner, druggist or person lawfully conducting a retail pharmacy business to possess one for that purpose. Section 10(4) lets the Minister take a named drug back out of that protection by statutory instrument. Section 21(2)(g) empowers regulations regulating the issue of prescriptions containing controlled drugs. Whether regulations under sections 10 and 21 of this act have been made, and whether there is an authorised medicinal form of this substance in Saint Lucia, was not established here.
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Carry a prescribed controlled medicine in its original pharmacy packaging with the prescription. The act puts no documentation duty on a private traveller: section 21(2)(b) and (c) put documentation of transactions and record keeping on the trade, and sections 15 to 18 govern controlled drugs brought into Saint Lucia in transit under an export authorisation or diversion certificate, which is consignment traffic and not personal carriage. No local traveller permit scheme was established here.
Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 3.02 of the Laws of Saint Lucia, Acts 22 of 1988, 8 of 1993, 5 of 2004 and 13 of 2021, Revised Edition showing the law as at 31 December 2021, sections 2, 4, 8, 25 and 37, Schedule 2 Part III and Schedule 3 · read from the revised edition PDF at https://www.oas.org/ext/Portals/33/adam/Content/8SZdQwarRkKsfviRCd7ESA/Text/20250114-12%20-%20Drugs%20(Prevention%20of%20Misuse)%20Act%20-%20Cap.3.02-1.pdf, sha256 009563514ada6fee394268dc7700ac696c858273e183dde5c1e6883b1d1635ba, which is the Organization of American States portal copy and not the Saint Lucia gazette · the 31 December 2008 revised edition from ILO NATLEX at https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/111582/LCA111582.pdf, sha256 fc9f7fe8a5aa48678bb3fdbad1b79d0b236059754716128c8b817f24324e9fb8, was read as a second witness and lacks sections 8A, 14A and 27A · the three attorneygeneralchambers.com schedule pages the dossier cites return 404 · the Part and Schedule named in this cell are read from the act itself and are not printed in the quoted dossier extract, which cites the drug list only as Second Schedule, Parts I to IV, a name the act does not use for it · consulted 22 September 2026 · Updated September 21, 2026
21 U.S.C. 802(26) · 21 U.S.C. 812(b) · 21 U.S.C. 841 · 21 U.S.C. 844(a) · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · law.cornell.edu · ecfr.gov · 19 V.I.C. sec. 595, indexed at https://law.justia.com/codes/virgin-islands/2019/title-19/part-iii/chapter-29/subchapter-i/595/ which refused with HTTP 403, text not read in this run · 19 V.I.C. sec. 604(a)(1) as described in Government of the Virgin Islands v. Lopez, 459 F.2d 5 (3d Cir. 1972) · courtlistener.com · Virgin Islands Code Title 19 (controlled substances), carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · Virgin Islands Medical Cannabis Patient Care Act 2019, carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run · https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · https://www.unodc.org/cld/ (carried from the earlier cell, not read in this run) · Updated October 3, 2026
Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) Act, Cap. 178, Revised Edition showing the law as at 1 January 2020, sections 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 11, 16 and 28 and Schedules 2 and 3, read on 3 October 2026 · laws.gov.vg · the same file, identical by sha256, at the Financial Services Commission · bvifsc.vg · the Revised Edition showing the law as at 30 June 2013, compared word by word · bvifsc.vg · the laws.gov.vg page for the Act and its subsidiary legislation · laws.gov.vg · S.I. 2022 No. 111, proclamation for the Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act, 2005 · laws.gov.vg · Drugs (Prevention of Misuse) (Amendment) Act, 2020, bill as gazetted · laws.gov.vg · Cannabis Licensing Act 2020, listed on laws.gov.vg as a bill only · laws.gov.vg · Updated October 4, 2026
Bekendtgørelse for Færøerne om euforiserende stoffer, BEK nr 495 af 26/05/2026, §§ 1 to 3, 6, 9, 22, 30 and 33 and Bilag 1 · retsinformation.dk · Bekendtgørelse af anordning for Færøerne om euforiserende stoffer, nr 1349 af 23/11/2015, §§ 1 to 3 a · retsinformation.dk · Lov nr 740 af 13/06/2023, § 1, read only for its citation of the Faroese penal code · retsinformation.dk · Bekendtgørelse for Færøerne om euforiserende stoffer, BEK nr 90 af 31/01/2025, repealed, read to confirm the renumbering · retsinformation.dk · Updated October 4, 2026
If prescribed / medical
Nimetazepam is in Schedule 4 to the Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997. Regulation 4(1) provides that section 3(1) of the Ordinance «shall not have effect in relation to the drugs specified in Schedules 4 and 5», and regulation 4(2)(a) that section 5(1) shall not have effect in relation to «any drug specified in Schedule 4 which is contained in a medicinal product». So importing nimetazepam for one's own use and possessing it as a medicine are not Misuse of Drugs offences, with or without a prescription, while importing it for retail sale needs the Chief Medical Officer's written authorisation under the Customs (Import of Medicines) Proclamation 1994; supplying it to another person remains an offence under section 4 unless one of the regulation 9 exceptions for practitioners, pharmacists and hospitals applies. Regulation 2 of the 1997 Regulations Order gives medicinal product «the same meaning as in the Medicines Act 1968»; whether an illicitly made tablet meets that definition was not settled in this run.
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The controlling law for nimetazepam in the Falkland Islands is the territory's own Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 and the instruments made under it, read on legislation.gov.fk, the Falkland Islands Government statute database.
Misuse of Drugs Ordinance 1987 (No. 16 of 1987), sections 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9 and 17 and the Schedule as substituted by S.R. & O. 20/2014, consolidation in force from 10 April 2019, read at https://www.legislation.gov.fk/download/html/299de861-77de-43b0-83a5-39c0fce5f347/b716912d-66e9-4f0f-83d3-d98b130240d8/fiord-1987-16.html on 4 October 2026 · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1997 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1997), regulations 4, 9 and 10 and Schedules 1 to 5, consolidation in force from 5 August 2022 · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs (Designation) Order 1989 (S.R. & O. 5 of 1989), Schedule Part I · legislation.gov.fk · Misuse of Drugs Regulations Order 1989, paragraph 2 · legislation.gov.fk · Criminal Procedure and Evidence Ordinance 2014, section 480(4) and Schedule 8 · legislation.gov.fk · Customs Ordinance 2003, section 43(3) and (5) and Schedule 1 · legislation.gov.fk · Falkland Islands Gazette indexes 2023, 2024 and 2025 and Supplements 1 to 16 of 2026, read on 4 October 2026 · falklands.gov.fk · Customs (Import of Medicines) Proclamation 1994 · legislation.gov.fk · Customs Ordinance 2003, sections 2 (relevant enactment), 43(3) and (4) and 163(2) and (4) · legislation.gov.fk · Updated October 4, 2026
