Are Barbiturates legal in Serbia?

Legal status

The member by member check was run against Serbia's own schedule as this dossier records it, and it returned no member to check, so this cell defers. The dossier's barbiturates row is an absence record: it searched «barbiturati; Secobarbital» across Lista 1 to 7 of the Spisak psihoaktivnih kontrolisanih supstanci, Službeni glasnik RS 12/2026, with the final Lista 7 row and the salts clauses checked, and accepted no exact printed row. The one member named anywhere on the row is named inside that search string. It carries no list number, no row number and no CAS anywhere across the 88 Serbian rows, so it is a term that was searched for and not an entry the schedule is shown to hold, and a search term list is not a schedule entry. The dossier's near comparison field cannot be read as a list of real entries either, and that is measured rather than assumed: on the cannabinol row the same field offers a comparator whose own row in this dossier is itself an absence record. Because no member carries a quoted placement, there is nothing here to name, quote or differentiate, and naming a barbiturate would mean asserting a placement the dossier does not hold. No barbiturate has a row of its own among the 88 substances in this table, and that is a fact about the table and not about Serbia: a Serbian schedule that names individual members is not silent merely because this table is. The Serbian strings here are the dossier's record in Latin script and are not offered as the Cyrillic wording of the Službeni glasnik RS.

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. Beyond that the answer depends on which barbiturate is in question, and the dossier does not let this cell say. If a specific member is found on the Spisak, Criminal Code arts 246 and 246a apply to it in full and divide conduct by manja količina and velika količina with no gram value printed for either. If it is not, those articles do not reach it. The placement, and therefore the penalty, can differ between one barbiturate and another, so the specific compound has to be identified before any answer is given. A class level answer here would be a guess dressed as a finding. 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. Whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established, so they are recorded as Serbia's published drug penalties and not as this row's exposure.

If prescribed or 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. On this row the deferral is doubled. The class has no schedule placement recorded in this dossier and no individual member carries one either, so there is no position to attach a prescription route to. Anyone travelling with a barbiturate medicine needs the answer for the named active ingredient on the box, not for the class.

Documentation

Identify the barbiturate before doing anything else. The search recorded here ran the class term and one member name across Lista 1 to 7 on 20 September 2026 against the Spisak at Službeni glasnik RS 12/2026 and returned no exact printed row. 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 read this deferral as a clearance for the class, and do not read the absence of a barbiturate row among the 88 substances as evidence that Serbia schedules none. The citation behind this cell is document level and is the same link for all 88 Serbian substances.

Drug laws and enforcement change and vary within a country. This is not legal advice. Always confirm with Serbia’s embassy or official drug authority before traveling; penalties can be severe, including imprisonment.