Are Benzodiazepines legal in Serbia?

Legal status

There is no class wide entry for benzodiazepines on the Serbian list and the class resolves member by member. The dossier searched «benzodiazepini; Alprazolam; Diazepam» across Lista 1 to 7 of the Spisak psihoaktivnih kontrolisanih supstanci, Službeni glasnik RS 12/2026, and accepted no exact printed row for the class name, rejecting the two member names it found on the ground that member entries do not create one class wide schedule row. That is the correct result and it is a finding rather than a gap, because the members do carry placements. Six benzodiazepine members appear in this table, and this dossier places every one of them on Lista 7: at Lista 7 red 2 under CAS 28981-97-7, at Lista 7 red 24 under CAS 1622-61-3, at Lista 7 red 13 under CAS 439-14-5, at Lista 7 red 66 under CAS 40054-69-1, at Lista 7 red 29 under CAS 846-49-1 and at Lista 7 red 39 under CAS 2011-67-8. So the class name is not on the Spisak while each of those six is, and a question about a benzodiazepine in Serbia has to be answered on the row for the specific compound rather than on the class. 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. The exposure that does exist runs through Criminal Code arts 246 and 246a on whichever member is actually in question, and those articles divide conduct by manja količina and velika količina without printing a gram value for either. Because all six members this table carries sit on Lista 7 rather than on different lists, the placement does not itself split the class, but the dossier carries no description of what separates the seven lists, so no severity can be read off the list number. The thing that does change from member to member is the row and the CAS, which is what a Serbian court would be shown, so the specific compound has to be identified before the question is answerable. 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. What can be attached to the deferral is the placement, and here it is the same for every member this table carries: all six sit on Lista 7 of the Spisak, which is a controlled substance listing and not an entry under the Serbian medicines law. A prescription written abroad for any of the six is not a Serbian authorisation. The route that would make one lawful to carry in was not established by the source behind this batch.

Documentation

Work from the active ingredient on the box and not from the word benzodiazepine. The class name search and the six member placements on Lista 7 were 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. The absence of a class row is not a clearance for the class, it is the ordinary consequence of a schedule built around named compounds. 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.