Legal status in Bulgaria

Per-substance legal status for Bulgaria, from sourced statutes where available. Legal information, not legal advice; drug laws change, so confirm with the destination’s embassy or drug authority before you travel.

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Confirmed legal status

1P-LSD

Legal status: Controlled. 1P-LSD is a named entry of Списък I of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «1P-LSD», «Диетиламид на 1-пропионил-лизергинова киселина». The row was created directly after the lysergide row, together with the cyclopropyl analogue, so the two are separate entries and neither is reached through the other. Списък I is the Act's «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 І са и изомерите, естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и изомерите) на веществата по Списък І», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Постановление № 9 of 28 January 2022, 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 I is not one of the two lists that allowance names, and the Act describes that list as «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», so there is no Bulgarian prescribing route for the entry at «1P-LSD» and the 30 day traveller allowance does not reach it. This substance has no Bulgarian medicinal form for a traveller to carry. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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 Постановление № 9 of 28 January 2022. 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 № 1, Списък I, the entry for 1P-LSD · the instrument carrying that entry is Постановление № 9 of 28 January 2022 at https://pris.government.bg/document/31cad2f15a4f79be3b799cdb70083692 · 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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2-FDCK

Legal status: Controlled. 2-FDCK is a named entry of Списък I of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «2-флуородезхлорокетамин», «2-FDCK». The row was created after the 4-FMC row together with a fluoroethamphetamine row. Its systematic column is printed with an unmatched bracket in the official text, which is how the list prints it and not a slip here. Списък I is the Act's «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 І са и изомерите, естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и изомерите) на веществата по Списък І», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Постановление № 9 of 28 January 2022, 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 I is not one of the two lists that allowance names, and the Act describes that list as «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», so there is no Bulgarian prescribing route for the entry at «2-флуородезхлорокетамин» and the 30 day traveller allowance does not reach it. This substance has no Bulgarian medicinal form for a traveller to carry. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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 Постановление № 9 of 28 January 2022. 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 № 1, Списък I, the entry for 2-FDCK · the instrument carrying that entry is Постановление № 9 of 28 January 2022 at https://pris.government.bg/document/31cad2f15a4f79be3b799cdb70083692 · 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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25I-NBOMe

Legal status: Controlled. 25I-NBOMe is a named entry of Списък I of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «4-йодо-2,5-диметокси-N-(2-метоксибензил)фенилетиламин», «(25I-NBOMe)», «(2-C-I-NBOMe)». The row was created after the Етриптамин row, and it carries two bracketed codes, so the substance is reachable from either of them. Списък I is the Act's «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 І са и изомерите, естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и изомерите) на веществата по Списък І», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Постановление № 246 of 7 September 2015, 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 I is not one of the two lists that allowance names, and the Act describes that list as «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», so there is no Bulgarian prescribing route for the entry at «4-йодо-2,5-диметокси-N-(2-метоксибензил)фенилетиламин» and the 30 day traveller allowance does not reach it. This substance has no Bulgarian medicinal form for a traveller to carry. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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 Постановление № 246 of 7 September 2015. 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 № 1, Списък I, the entry for 25I-NBOMe · the instrument carrying that entry is Постановление № 246 of 7 September 2015 at https://pris.government.bg/document/a9813ed8711bfcd6abaa9a9822ee32d2 · 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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2C-B

Legal status: Controlled. 2C-B is a named entry of Списък I of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «(2C-B)», «2-(4-бромо-2,5-диметоксилфенил) етанамин». The acronym stands in its own line of the row under the bromo phenethylamine name. Постановление № 338 of 2022 later quotes that same row as the anchor for an addition, which is a second official printing of it. Списък I is the Act's «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 І са и изомерите, естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и изомерите) на веществата по Списък І», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013, 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 I is not one of the two lists that allowance names, and the Act describes that list as «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», so there is no Bulgarian prescribing route for the entry at «(2C-B)» and the 30 day traveller allowance does not reach it. This substance has no Bulgarian medicinal form for a traveller to carry. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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 № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013. 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 № 1, Списък I, the entry for 2C-B · the instrument carrying that entry is Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013 at https://pris.government.bg/document/ef64e1bf17b14bb84edcf47881f53a19 · 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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2C-E

Legal status: Not listed. 2C-E is not a named entry of Списък I, Списък II or Списък III of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични. The forms searched in the Bulgarian text were «2C-E», «2,5-диметокси-4-етил», «етилфенетиламин», in the running text and again with all whitespace removed so that a name broken across lines could not read as an absence. The search returns two near neighbours in Списък I, DOET and the ethylthio compound 2C-T-2, and neither of them is this substance. The 4-ethyl phenethylamine itself has no row. This is an absence from the lists and not a statement that the substance is free of Bulgarian law: чл. 4, ал. 2 of the Закон за контрол върху наркотичните вещества и прекурсорите applies the same control measures to preparations and to analogues, and § 1, т. 17 defines the analogue as «"Аналог" означава всяко вещество, което не е включено в списъците по чл. 3, ал. 2, но има сходен химически строеж с някое наркотично вещество и предизвиква аналогично действие върху човешкия организъм.» so an unlisted molecule that is chemically close to a listed one can still be reached. Whether this substance is such an analogue was not established here. The absence is stated 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 this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Bulgaria's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
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. A substance outside all three списъци is not one of the products that allowance is written for, so neither the 30 day rule nor the чл. 59 permit for taking narcotic medicines abroad is the route for 2C-E. If it is a prescription medicine where you are travelling from, carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, and treat the absence from the lists as an absence rather than as permission. Confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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. No row is relied on for this cell, because none was found. Every one of the three appendices was searched for this substance, in Bulgarian and, where the lists print Latin codes, in Latin. 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, all three списъци searched and no entry found for 2C-E · 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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2C-I

Legal status: Controlled. 2C-I is a named entry of Списък I of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «2,5-диметокси-4-йодофенетиламин», «(2C-I)». The systematic column of this row prints a bromo name against an iodo entry, which is an error in the printed list and not a transcription of it here. The name column and the acronym are what identify the row. Списък I is the Act's «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 І са и изомерите, естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и изомерите) на веществата по Списък І», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013, 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 I is not one of the two lists that allowance names, and the Act describes that list as «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», so there is no Bulgarian prescribing route for the entry at «2,5-диметокси-4-йодофенетиламин» and the 30 day traveller allowance does not reach it. This substance has no Bulgarian medicinal form for a traveller to carry. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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 № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013. 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 № 1, Списък I, the entry for 2C-I · the instrument carrying that entry is Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013 at https://pris.government.bg/document/ef64e1bf17b14bb84edcf47881f53a19 · 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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2C-T-7

Legal status: Controlled. 2C-T-7 is a named entry of Списък I of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «2,5-диметокси-4-(n)- пропилтиофенетиламин», «(2C-T-7)». The row sits between the DOM row and the propyl rather than propylthio analogue, and the acronym in its own line settles which of the two neighbours is this substance. Списък I is the Act's «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 І са и изомерите, естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и изомерите) на веществата по Списък І», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013, 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 I is not one of the two lists that allowance names, and the Act describes that list as «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», so there is no Bulgarian prescribing route for the entry at «2,5-диметокси-4-(n)- пропилтиофенетиламин» and the 30 day traveller allowance does not reach it. This substance has no Bulgarian medicinal form for a traveller to carry. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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 № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013. 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 № 1, Списък I, the entry for 2C-T-7 · the instrument carrying that entry is Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013 at https://pris.government.bg/document/ef64e1bf17b14bb84edcf47881f53a19 · 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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3-MMC

Legal status: Controlled. 3-MMC is a named entry of Списък I of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «3-метилметкатинон», «3-MMC», «1-(3-метилфенил)-2-(метиламино)-пропан-1-oн». The row was created after the 4-MEC row, and the position number is the whole of the difference between this entry and the mephedrone entry that was already in the list, so the number was read rather than assumed. Списък I is the Act's «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 І са и изомерите, естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и изомерите) на веществата по Списък І», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Постановление № 9 of 28 January 2022, 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 I is not one of the two lists that allowance names, and the Act describes that list as «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», so there is no Bulgarian prescribing route for the entry at «3-метилметкатинон» and the 30 day traveller allowance does not reach it. This substance has no Bulgarian medicinal form for a traveller to carry. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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 Постановление № 9 of 28 January 2022. 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 № 1, Списък I, the entry for 3-MMC · the instrument carrying that entry is Постановление № 9 of 28 January 2022 at https://pris.government.bg/document/31cad2f15a4f79be3b799cdb70083692 · 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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4-AcO-DMT

Legal status: Not listed. 4-AcO-DMT is not a named entry of Списък I, Списък II or Списък III of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични. The forms searched in the Bulgarian text were «ацетокси», «4-AcO», «псилацетин», in the running text and again with all whitespace removed so that a name broken across lines could not read as an absence. The only acetoxy name in any of the three lists belongs to a fentanyl relative, the phenethyl phenyl acetoxy piperidine, and psilacetin has no row of its own. This is an absence from the lists and not a statement that the substance is free of Bulgarian law: чл. 4, ал. 2 of the Закон за контрол върху наркотичните вещества и прекурсорите applies the same control measures to preparations and to analogues, and § 1, т. 17 defines the analogue as «"Аналог" означава всяко вещество, което не е включено в списъците по чл. 3, ал. 2, но има сходен химически строеж с някое наркотично вещество и предизвиква аналогично действие върху човешкия организъм.» so an unlisted molecule that is chemically close to a listed one can still be reached. Whether this substance is such an analogue was not established here. The absence is stated 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 this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Bulgaria's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
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. A substance outside all three списъци is not one of the products that allowance is written for, so neither the 30 day rule nor the чл. 59 permit for taking narcotic medicines abroad is the route for 4-AcO-DMT. If it is a prescription medicine where you are travelling from, carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, and treat the absence from the lists as an absence rather than as permission. Confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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. No row is relied on for this cell, because none was found. Every one of the three appendices was searched for this substance, in Bulgarian and, where the lists print Latin codes, in Latin. 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, all three списъци searched and no entry found for 4-AcO-DMT · 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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4-HO-MET

Legal status: Controlled. 4-HO-MET is a named entry of Списък I of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «4-хидрокси-N-метил-N-етилтриптамин», «(4-HO-MET)», «(Метоцин)». The row sits directly under the heroin row in the Bulgarian alphabetical order and carries the trivial name metocin as well as the code. Списък I is the Act's «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 І са и изомерите, естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и изомерите) на веществата по Списък І», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013, 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 I is not one of the two lists that allowance names, and the Act describes that list as «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», so there is no Bulgarian prescribing route for the entry at «4-хидрокси-N-метил-N-етилтриптамин» and the 30 day traveller allowance does not reach it. This substance has no Bulgarian medicinal form for a traveller to carry. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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 № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013. 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 № 1, Списък I, the entry for 4-HO-MET · the instrument carrying that entry is Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013 at https://pris.government.bg/document/ef64e1bf17b14bb84edcf47881f53a19 · 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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5-MeO-DMT (Bufo / Toad)

Legal status: Not listed. 5-MeO-DMT is not a named entry of Списък I, Списък II or Списък III of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични. The forms searched in the Bulgarian text were «5-MeO-DMT», «5-метокси диметилтриптамин», «метокси-N,N», in the running text and again with all whitespace removed so that a name broken across lines could not read as an absence. Списък I names DMT and it names 5-MeO-MIPT, which Постановление № 246 of 2015 added, but the 5-methoxy N,N-dimethyl compound between them has no row. This is an absence from the lists and not a statement that the substance is free of Bulgarian law: чл. 4, ал. 2 of the Закон за контрол върху наркотичните вещества и прекурсорите applies the same control measures to preparations and to analogues, and § 1, т. 17 defines the analogue as «"Аналог" означава всяко вещество, което не е включено в списъците по чл. 3, ал. 2, но има сходен химически строеж с някое наркотично вещество и предизвиква аналогично действие върху човешкия организъм.» so an unlisted molecule that is chemically close to a listed one can still be reached. Whether this substance is such an analogue was not established here. The absence is stated 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 this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Bulgaria's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
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. A substance outside all three списъци is not one of the products that allowance is written for, so neither the 30 day rule nor the чл. 59 permit for taking narcotic medicines abroad is the route for 5-MeO-DMT. If it is a prescription medicine where you are travelling from, carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, and treat the absence from the lists as an absence rather than as permission. Confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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. No row is relied on for this cell, because none was found. Every one of the three appendices was searched for this substance, in Bulgarian and, where the lists print Latin codes, in Latin. 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, all three списъци searched and no entry found for 5-MeO-DMT · 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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6-APB

Legal status: Controlled. 6-APB is a named entry of Списък I of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «6-APB», «6-(2-аминопропил)бензофуран». The row was created in the same block as a pyrazole carboxamide, and the systematic column names the 6 position on the benzofuran, so the 5 position compound is not this row. Списък I is the Act's «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 І са и изомерите, естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и изомерите) на веществата по Списък І», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Постановление № 9 of 28 January 2022, 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 I is not one of the two lists that allowance names, and the Act describes that list as «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», so there is no Bulgarian prescribing route for the entry at «6-APB» and the 30 day traveller allowance does not reach it. This substance has no Bulgarian medicinal form for a traveller to carry. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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 Постановление № 9 of 28 January 2022. 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 № 1, Списък I, the entry for 6-APB · the instrument carrying that entry is Постановление № 9 of 28 January 2022 at https://pris.government.bg/document/31cad2f15a4f79be3b799cdb70083692 · 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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7-Hydroxymitragynine (7-OH)

Legal status: Controlled in part. 7-hydroxymitragynine has no row of its own in any of the three списъци, and the entries that bear on it are «Кратом (Mitragyna speciosa)». The oxidised alkaloid is not a named entry either. The plant row reaches leaf and preparations of leaf, and an isolated or semisynthetic 7-hydroxy product is not named in any of the three lists. Чл. 4, ал. 2 of the Закон за контрол върху наркотичните вещества и прекурсорите extends the same control measures to preparations and to analogues, «За препаратите и за аналозите се прилагат същите мерки за контрол, както за наркотичните вещества.» which is the provision that would have to be argued for anything the lists do not name. That argument was not settled here. The entries relied on were read in Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013, 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 whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established here.
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. The list allowance is written for named substances, and 7-hydroxymitragynine is not itself a named entry, so the route runs through whatever the material contains rather than through a row for this row's own name. The nearest named entry is «Кратом (Mitragyna speciosa)». Nothing here is a prescribed traveller medicine in this form. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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 № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013, and it is a row for a different name than this one. 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, the entry relied on for 7-hydroxymitragynine is a row for another name · the instrument carrying that entry is Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013 at https://pris.government.bg/document/ef64e1bf17b14bb84edcf47881f53a19 · 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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Adderall

Legal status: Controlled. Adderall is a named entry of Списък I of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Дексамфетамин», «Декстроамфетамин», «(S)-1-фенилпропан-2-амин», «Амфетамин». Adderall is a mixture of amphetamine salts rather than a substance, and both of the substances it is made of have their own rows in the same list, so the product is reached through the two entries and not through a product name. Списък I is the Act's «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 І са и изомерите, естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и изомерите) на веществата по Списък І», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013, 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 I is not one of the two lists that allowance names, and the Act describes that list as «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», so there is no Bulgarian prescribing route for the entry at «Дексамфетамин» and the 30 day traveller allowance does not reach it. A dispensing form exists in other countries, which does not move the Bulgarian entry. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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 № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013. 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 № 1, Списък I, the entry for Adderall · the instrument carrying that entry is Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013 at https://pris.government.bg/document/ef64e1bf17b14bb84edcf47881f53a19 · 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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Alcohol

Legal status: Not listed. Alcohol is not a named entry of Списък I, Списък II or Списък III of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични. The forms searched in the Bulgarian text were «Етанол», «алкохол», «етилов», in the running text and again with all whitespace removed so that a name broken across lines could not read as an absence. A search of all three lists returned nothing that is ethanol. Bulgaria regulates alcohol through excise and public order law and not through the narcotics lists. This is an absence from the lists and not a statement that the substance is free of Bulgarian law: чл. 4, ал. 2 of the Закон за контрол върху наркотичните вещества и прекурсорите applies the same control measures to preparations and to analogues, and § 1, т. 17 defines the analogue as «"Аналог" означава всяко вещество, което не е включено в списъците по чл. 3, ал. 2, но има сходен химически строеж с някое наркотично вещество и предизвиква аналогично действие върху човешкия организъм.» so an unlisted molecule that is chemically close to a listed one can still be reached. Whether this substance is such an analogue was not established here. The absence is stated 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 this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Bulgaria's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
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. A substance outside all three списъци is not one of the products that allowance is written for, so neither the 30 day rule nor the чл. 59 permit for taking narcotic medicines abroad is the route for Alcohol. If it is a prescription medicine where you are travelling from, carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, and treat the absence from the lists as an absence rather than as permission. Confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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. No row is relied on for this cell, because none was found. Every one of the three appendices was searched for this substance, in Bulgarian and, where the lists print Latin codes, in Latin. 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, all three списъци searched and no entry found for Alcohol · 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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Amanita muscaria

Legal status: Not listed. Amanita muscaria is not a named entry of Списък I, Списък II or Списък III of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични. The forms searched in the Bulgarian text were «мухоморка», «Amanita», «мусцимол», «иботенова», in the running text and again with all whitespace removed so that a name broken across lines could not read as an absence. The mushroom is not a named entry and neither of its two active compounds, muscimol and ibotenic acid, is named either. Psilocybin and psilocin are named, so the lists do reach one mushroom and not this one. This is an absence from the lists and not a statement that the substance is free of Bulgarian law: чл. 4, ал. 2 of the Закон за контрол върху наркотичните вещества и прекурсорите applies the same control measures to preparations and to analogues, and § 1, т. 17 defines the analogue as «"Аналог" означава всяко вещество, което не е включено в списъците по чл. 3, ал. 2, но има сходен химически строеж с някое наркотично вещество и предизвиква аналогично действие върху човешкия организъм.» so an unlisted molecule that is chemically close to a listed one can still be reached. Whether this substance is such an analogue was not established here. The absence is stated 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 this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Bulgaria's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
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. A substance outside all three списъци is not one of the products that allowance is written for, so neither the 30 day rule nor the чл. 59 permit for taking narcotic medicines abroad is the route for Amanita muscaria. If it is a prescription medicine where you are travelling from, carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, and treat the absence from the lists as an absence rather than as permission. Confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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. No row is relied on for this cell, because none was found. Every one of the three appendices was searched for this substance, in Bulgarian and, where the lists print Latin codes, in Latin. 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, all three списъци searched and no entry found for Amanita muscaria · 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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Amphetamine

Legal status: Controlled. Amphetamine is a named entry of Списък I of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Амфетамин», «(±)-1-фенилпропан-2-амин». The entry is the racemate, printed with the plus or minus sign in the systematic column, and the single enantiomers are separate rows elsewhere in the same list. Списък I is the Act's «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 І са и изомерите, естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и изомерите) на веществата по Списък І», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013, 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 I is not one of the two lists that allowance names, and the Act describes that list as «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», so there is no Bulgarian prescribing route for the entry at «Амфетамин» and the 30 day traveller allowance does not reach it. A dispensing form exists in other countries, which does not move the Bulgarian entry. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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 № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013. 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 № 1, Списък I, the entry for Amphetamine · the instrument carrying that entry is Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013 at https://pris.government.bg/document/ef64e1bf17b14bb84edcf47881f53a19 · 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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Amyl Nitrite

Legal status: Controlled. Amyl nitrite is a named entry of Списък III of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Амилнитрит», «(3-метилбутил)-нитрит». Amyl nitrite is the only nitrite in any of the three lists. A search of all three for the word nitrite returns this row and nothing else, so the other alkyl nitrites are not named. 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 «Амилнитрит» 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.
Documentation: 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 Amyl nitrite · 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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Ayahuasca

Legal status: Controlled through a named constituent. Ayahuasca is not itself a named entry of any of the three списъци, and what the lists do name is quoted here: «N,N Диметилтриптамин», «(DMT)». Neither the brew nor either of the plants it is made from is a named entry. Searches for the Bulgarian and the botanical names returned nothing in any of the three lists, while the tryptamine the brew is active through is a named entry of Списък I. Чл. 4, ал. 2 of the Закон за контрол върху наркотичните вещества и прекурсорите provides that «За препаратите и за аналозите се прилагат същите мерки за контрол, както за наркотичните вещества.» so material containing the named substance is under the same control measures as the named substance. The entry relied on was read in Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013, 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. The list allowance is written for named substances, and Ayahuasca is not itself a named entry, so the route runs through whatever the material contains rather than through a row for this row's own name. The nearest named entry is «N,N Диметилтриптамин». Nothing here is a prescribed traveller medicine in this form. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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 № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013, and it is a row for a different name than this one. 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, the entry relied on for Ayahuasca is a row for another name · the instrument carrying that entry is Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013 at https://pris.government.bg/document/ef64e1bf17b14bb84edcf47881f53a19 · 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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Barbiturates

Legal status: Controlled. Barbiturates is a named entry of Списък III of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Барбитал», «Амобарбитал», «Фенобарбитал», «5,5-Диетилбарбитурова киселина». There is no class entry for barbiturates. The list names them one at a time, barbital, amobarbital, phenobarbital, butalbital, cyclobarbital and others, so a barbiturate is controlled in Bulgaria only if its own name is in the list. 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 «Барбитал» 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.
Documentation: 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 Barbiturates · 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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Benzodiazepines

Legal status: Controlled. Benzodiazepines is a named entry of Списък III of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Алпразолам», «Диазепам», «Клоназепам», «Лоразепам». There is no class entry for benzodiazepines either. The word appears in the list only inside systematic chemical names, and each benzodiazepine that is controlled has its own row, which is why etizolam had to be added by a separate act in 2020. 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 «Алпразолам» 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.
Documentation: 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 Benzodiazepines · 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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Buprenorphine

Legal status: Controlled. Buprenorphine is a named entry of Списък III of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Бупренорфин», «(5R,6R,7R,14S)-17-Циклопропилметил-4,5-епокси-7-[(S)-2-хидрокси-3,3-диметилбутан-2-ил]-6-метокси-6,14-етаноморфинан-3-ол». Buprenorphine is in the risk substances list rather than with the other opioids in Списък II, which is what makes the prescribing and traveller position for it different from the morphine position. 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 «Бупренорфин» 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.
Documentation: 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 Buprenorphine · 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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Caffeine

Legal status: Not listed. Caffeine is not a named entry of Списък I, Списък II or Списък III of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични. The forms searched in the Bulgarian text were «Кофеин», «офеин», in the running text and again with all whitespace removed so that a name broken across lines could not read as an absence. A search of all three lists returned nothing. The only purine name in the lists is inside the systematic name for fenethylline, which is a caffeine and amphetamine conjugate and a row of its own. This is an absence from the lists and not a statement that the substance is free of Bulgarian law: чл. 4, ал. 2 of the Закон за контрол върху наркотичните вещества и прекурсорите applies the same control measures to preparations and to analogues, and § 1, т. 17 defines the analogue as «"Аналог" означава всяко вещество, което не е включено в списъците по чл. 3, ал. 2, но има сходен химически строеж с някое наркотично вещество и предизвиква аналогично действие върху човешкия организъм.» so an unlisted molecule that is chemically close to a listed one can still be reached. Whether this substance is such an analogue was not established here. The absence is stated 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 this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Bulgaria's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
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. A substance outside all three списъци is not one of the products that allowance is written for, so neither the 30 day rule nor the чл. 59 permit for taking narcotic medicines abroad is the route for Caffeine. If it is a prescription medicine where you are travelling from, carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, and treat the absence from the lists as an absence rather than as permission. Confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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. No row is relied on for this cell, because none was found. Every one of the three appendices was searched for this substance, in Bulgarian and, where the lists print Latin codes, in Latin. 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, all three списъци searched and no entry found for Caffeine · 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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Cannabinol

Legal status: Not listed. Cannabinol is not a named entry of Списък I, Списък II or Списък III of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични. The forms searched in the Bulgarian text were «Канабинол», «CBN», in the running text and again with all whitespace removed so that a name broken across lines could not read as an absence. The string appears in the lists only inside longer names, tetrahydrocannabinol, dimethylheptyl tetrahydrocannabinol and delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol among them. There is no row whose name is cannabinol. This is an absence from the lists and not a statement that the substance is free of Bulgarian law: чл. 4, ал. 2 of the Закон за контрол върху наркотичните вещества и прекурсорите applies the same control measures to preparations and to analogues, and § 1, т. 17 defines the analogue as «"Аналог" означава всяко вещество, което не е включено в списъците по чл. 3, ал. 2, но има сходен химически строеж с някое наркотично вещество и предизвиква аналогично действие върху човешкия организъм.» so an unlisted molecule that is chemically close to a listed one can still be reached. Whether this substance is such an analogue was not established here. The absence is stated 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 this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Bulgaria's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
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. A substance outside all three списъци is not one of the products that allowance is written for, so neither the 30 day rule nor the чл. 59 permit for taking narcotic medicines abroad is the route for Cannabinol. If it is a prescription medicine where you are travelling from, carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, and treat the absence from the lists as an absence rather than as permission. Confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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. No row is relied on for this cell, because none was found. Every one of the three appendices was searched for this substance, in Bulgarian and, where the lists print Latin codes, in Latin. 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, all three списъци searched and no entry found for Cannabinol · 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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Cannabis / THC

Legal status: Controlled. Cannabis is a named entry of Списък I of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Коноп», «(канабис)», «(марихуана)». The entry is the plant under its Bulgarian name with two bracketed alternatives beneath it, and the hashish and hashish oil entries stand separately further down the same list. Списък I is the Act's «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 І са и изомерите, естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и изомерите) на веществата по Списък І», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013, 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. The live Bulgaria cell recorded cannabis as Schedule I, illegal for both recreational and medical use, with no personal-use carve-out, and those words are carried forward here. What has been re-derived is the list itself: the entry sits in the list the Act describes as prohibited for use in human and veterinary medicine.
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 I is not one of the two lists that allowance names, and the Act describes that list as «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», so there is no Bulgarian prescribing route for the entry at «Коноп» and the 30 day traveller allowance does not reach it. This substance has no Bulgarian medicinal form for a traveller to carry. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel. The live Bulgaria cell recorded that cannabis is illegal for medical use in Bulgaria, and that is carried forward here rather than re-derived.
Documentation: 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 № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013. 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 № 1, Списък I, the entry for Cannabis · the instrument carrying that entry is Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013 at https://pris.government.bg/document/ef64e1bf17b14bb84edcf47881f53a19 · 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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Cathinone

Legal status: Controlled. Cathinone is a named entry of Списък I of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Катинон», «(S)-2-амино-1-фенилпропан-1-он». The entry is the single enantiomer named as such. Cathine, the other khat alkaloid, is a separate entry in Списък III under the norpseudoephedrine name, so the two alkaloids sit in different lists. Списък I is the Act's «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 І са и изомерите, естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и изомерите) на веществата по Списък І», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013, 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 I is not one of the two lists that allowance names, and the Act describes that list as «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», so there is no Bulgarian prescribing route for the entry at «Катинон» and the 30 day traveller allowance does not reach it. This substance has no Bulgarian medicinal form for a traveller to carry. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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 № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013. 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 № 1, Списък I, the entry for Cathinone · the instrument carrying that entry is Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013 at https://pris.government.bg/document/ef64e1bf17b14bb84edcf47881f53a19 · 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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CBD

Legal status: Not listed. CBD is not a named entry of Списък I, Списък II or Списък III of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични. The forms searched in the Bulgarian text were «Канабидиол», «CBD», «канабидиол», in the running text and again with all whitespace removed so that a name broken across lines could not read as an absence. Постановление № 345 of 2024 created a row for tetrahydrocannabidiol, coded H4-CBD, which is a hydrogenated compound and not cannabidiol. Cannabidiol itself has no row in any of the three lists. This is an absence from the lists and not a statement that the substance is free of Bulgarian law: чл. 4, ал. 2 of the Закон за контрол върху наркотичните вещества и прекурсорите applies the same control measures to preparations and to analogues, and § 1, т. 17 defines the analogue as «"Аналог" означава всяко вещество, което не е включено в списъците по чл. 3, ал. 2, но има сходен химически строеж с някое наркотично вещество и предизвиква аналогично действие върху човешкия организъм.» so an unlisted molecule that is chemically close to a listed one can still be reached. Whether this substance is such an analogue was not established here. The absence is stated 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 this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Bulgaria's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
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. A substance outside all three списъци is not one of the products that allowance is written for, so neither the 30 day rule nor the чл. 59 permit for taking narcotic medicines abroad is the route for CBD. If it is a prescription medicine where you are travelling from, carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, and treat the absence from the lists as an absence rather than as permission. Confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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. No row is relied on for this cell, because none was found. Every one of the three appendices was searched for this substance, in Bulgarian and, where the lists print Latin codes, in Latin. 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, all three списъци searched and no entry found for CBD · 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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Clonazepam

Legal status: Controlled. Clonazepam is a named entry of Списък III of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Клоназепам», «5-(2-Хлорфенил)-7-нитро-1,3-дихидро-2H-1,4-бензодиазепин-2-он». The row sits between cloxazolam and clorazepate, which are different substances with similar names, so the row was read rather than matched on the first few letters. 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 «Клоназепам» 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.
Documentation: 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 Clonazepam · 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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Cocaine

Legal status: Controlled. Cocaine is a named entry of Списък I of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Кокаин», «Метил (1R,2R,3S,5S)-3-(бензоилокси ) 8-метил-8-азабицикло[3.2.1]октан-2-карбоксилат». Cocaine moved list. It was enacted in Приложение № 2 in 2011, and Постановление № 246 of 2015 created the row in Приложение № 1 in its first paragraph and deleted the Приложение № 2 row in its second, so the Списък II entry is no longer in force. Списък I is the Act's «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 І са и изомерите, естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и изомерите) на веществата по Списък І», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Постановление № 246 of 7 September 2015, 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 I is not one of the two lists that allowance names, and the Act describes that list as «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», so there is no Bulgarian prescribing route for the entry at «Кокаин» and the 30 day traveller allowance does not reach it. This substance has no Bulgarian medicinal form for a traveller to carry. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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 Постановление № 246 of 7 September 2015. 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 № 1, Списък I, the entry for Cocaine · the instrument carrying that entry is Постановление № 246 of 7 September 2015 at https://pris.government.bg/document/a9813ed8711bfcd6abaa9a9822ee32d2 · 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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Codeine

Legal status: Controlled. Codeine is a named entry of Списък II of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Кодеин», «4,5 α -Епокси-3-метокси-17-метилморфин-7-ен-6 α -ол». Codeine is in this list and the N oxide is the next row. Dihydrocodeine sits in Списък III instead, so a codeine containing product and a dihydrocodeine containing product are not under the same list. Списък II is the Act's «Вещества с висока степен на риск, намиращи приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 ІІ са и изомерите, естерите, етерите и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите и изомерите) на веществата по Списък ІІ», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Приложение № 2 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 II is the list that allowance calls т. 2, so the entry at «Кодеин» 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.
Documentation: 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 № 2 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 № 2, Списък II, the entry for Codeine · the instrument carrying that entry is Приложение № 2 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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Crack Cocaine

Legal status: Controlled. Crack cocaine is a named entry of Списък I of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Кокаин», «Метил (1R,2R,3S,5S)-3-(бензоилокси ) 8-метил-8-азабицикло[3.2.1]октан-2-карбоксилат». Crack is cocaine base rather than a separate substance, and the list has no row under any crack or base name. The cocaine row is what reaches it, and that row moved to Списък I in 2015 from Списък II. Списък I is the Act's «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 І са и изомерите, естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и изомерите) на веществата по Списък І», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Постановление № 246 of 7 September 2015, 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 I is not one of the two lists that allowance names, and the Act describes that list as «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», so there is no Bulgarian prescribing route for the entry at «Кокаин» and the 30 day traveller allowance does not reach it. This substance has no Bulgarian medicinal form for a traveller to carry. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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 Постановление № 246 of 7 September 2015. 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 № 1, Списък I, the entry for Crack cocaine · the instrument carrying that entry is Постановление № 246 of 7 September 2015 at https://pris.government.bg/document/a9813ed8711bfcd6abaa9a9822ee32d2 · 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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Delta-8-THC

Legal status: Controlled. Delta-8-THC is a named entry of Списък I of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Тетрахидроканабинол и неговите изомери:», «делта 6a(10a), делта 6a(7), делта 7, делта 8, делта 10, делта 9(11) и техните стерохимични варианти». The delta 8 isomer is named inside the tetrahydrocannabinol entry rather than having a row of its own, and the isomer line quoted here is the one Постановление № 225 of 2018 prints when it quotes the row as an anchor. Списък I is the Act's «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 І са и изомерите, естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и изомерите) на веществата по Списък І», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Постановление № 225 of 17 October 2018, 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 I is not one of the two lists that allowance names, and the Act describes that list as «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», so there is no Bulgarian prescribing route for the entry at «Тетрахидроканабинол и неговите изомери:» and the 30 day traveller allowance does not reach it. This substance has no Bulgarian medicinal form for a traveller to carry. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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 Постановление № 225 of 17 October 2018. 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 № 1, Списък I, the entry for Delta-8-THC · the instrument carrying that entry is Постановление № 225 of 17 October 2018 at https://pris.government.bg/document/be2e6f81c24763ca24830cabeb1c2a28 · 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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Diazepam

Legal status: Controlled. Diazepam is a named entry of Списък III of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Диазепам», «7-Хлор-1-метил-5-фенил-1,3-дихидро-2H-1,4-бензодиазепин-2-он». Diazepam has its own row, and delorazepam, its chlorinated relative, is the row above, so each benzodiazepine in this list stands or falls on its own name. 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 «Диазепам» 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.
Documentation: 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 Diazepam · 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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DMT

Legal status: Controlled. DMT is a named entry of Списък I of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «N,N Диметилтриптамин», «(Диметилтриптамин)», «(DMT)». The printed name has no hyphen between the two N letters and the word, and the acronym stands in its own line of the same row, so a search on the acronym alone lands on the entry. Списък I is the Act's «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 І са и изомерите, естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и изомерите) на веществата по Списък І», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013, 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 I is not one of the two lists that allowance names, and the Act describes that list as «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», so there is no Bulgarian prescribing route for the entry at «N,N Диметилтриптамин» and the 30 day traveller allowance does not reach it. This substance has no Bulgarian medicinal form for a traveller to carry. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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 № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013. 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 № 1, Списък I, the entry for DMT · the instrument carrying that entry is Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013 at https://pris.government.bg/document/ef64e1bf17b14bb84edcf47881f53a19 · 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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DOM

Legal status: Controlled. DOM is a named entry of Списък I of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Диметоксиметиламфетамин», «(STP)», «(DOM)», «1-(2,5-диметокси-4метилфенил)пропан-2-амин». The row carries both of the codes this substance goes by, and it sits immediately below the 2C-I row, which is the row it would otherwise be confused with on a bare search for a dimethoxy name. Списък I is the Act's «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 І са и изомерите, естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и изомерите) на веществата по Списък І», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013, 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 I is not one of the two lists that allowance names, and the Act describes that list as «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», so there is no Bulgarian prescribing route for the entry at «Диметоксиметиламфетамин» and the 30 day traveller allowance does not reach it. This substance has no Bulgarian medicinal form for a traveller to carry. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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 № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013. 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 № 1, Списък I, the entry for DOM · the instrument carrying that entry is Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013 at https://pris.government.bg/document/ef64e1bf17b14bb84edcf47881f53a19 · 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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DXM

Legal status: Not listed. DXM is not a named entry of Списък I, Списък II or Списък III of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични. The forms searched in the Bulgarian text were «Декстрометорфан», «екстрометорфан», in the running text and again with all whitespace removed so that a name broken across lines could not read as an absence. Списък II names levomethorphan and racemethorphan, which are the other members of the methorphan set, and dextromethorphan is not among them. This is an absence from the lists and not a statement that the substance is free of Bulgarian law: чл. 4, ал. 2 of the Закон за контрол върху наркотичните вещества и прекурсорите applies the same control measures to preparations and to analogues, and § 1, т. 17 defines the analogue as «"Аналог" означава всяко вещество, което не е включено в списъците по чл. 3, ал. 2, но има сходен химически строеж с някое наркотично вещество и предизвиква аналогично действие върху човешкия организъм.» so an unlisted molecule that is chemically close to a listed one can still be reached. Whether this substance is such an analogue was not established here. The absence is stated 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 this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Bulgaria's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
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. A substance outside all three списъци is not one of the products that allowance is written for, so neither the 30 day rule nor the чл. 59 permit for taking narcotic medicines abroad is the route for DXM. If it is a prescription medicine where you are travelling from, carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, and treat the absence from the lists as an absence rather than as permission. Confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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. No row is relied on for this cell, because none was found. Every one of the three appendices was searched for this substance, in Bulgarian and, where the lists print Latin codes, in Latin. 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, all three списъци searched and no entry found for DXM · 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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Ephedrine

Legal status: Not listed. Ephedrine is not a named entry of Списък I, Списък II or Списък III of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични. The forms searched in the Bulgarian text were «Ефедрин», «федрин», «ефедра», in the running text and again with all whitespace removed so that a name broken across lines could not read as an absence. The string returns only the norpseudoephedrine entry in Списък III, which is cathine and a different substance. Precursors are handled by a separate route that the Act sends elsewhere, чл. 3, ал. 4 pointing to Приложение I of Регламент 273/2004 and чл. 3, ал. 5 to the annex of Регламент 111/2005, and neither of those annexes was read for this cell, so nothing is said here about that route. This is an absence from the lists and not a statement that the substance is free of Bulgarian law: чл. 4, ал. 2 of the Закон за контрол върху наркотичните вещества и прекурсорите applies the same control measures to preparations and to analogues, and § 1, т. 17 defines the analogue as «"Аналог" означава всяко вещество, което не е включено в списъците по чл. 3, ал. 2, но има сходен химически строеж с някое наркотично вещество и предизвиква аналогично действие върху човешкия организъм.» so an unlisted molecule that is chemically close to a listed one can still be reached. Whether this substance is such an analogue was not established here. The absence is stated 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 this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Bulgaria's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
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. A substance outside all three списъци is not one of the products that allowance is written for, so neither the 30 day rule nor the чл. 59 permit for taking narcotic medicines abroad is the route for Ephedrine. If it is a prescription medicine where you are travelling from, carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, and treat the absence from the lists as an absence rather than as permission. Confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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. No row is relied on for this cell, because none was found. Every one of the three appendices was searched for this substance, in Bulgarian and, where the lists print Latin codes, in Latin. 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, all three списъци searched and no entry found for Ephedrine · 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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Etizolam

Legal status: Controlled. Etizolam is a named entry of Списък III of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Етизолам», «4-(2-хлорофенил)-2-етил-9-метил-6H-тиено[3,2-f] [1,2,4]триазоло[4,3-a][1,4]диазепин». The row was created in 2020 by the second paragraph of that act, which amends Приложение № 3, so etizolam is in the risk substances list and not in either of the high risk lists. 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 Постановление № 255 of 11 September 2020, 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 «Етизолам» 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.
Documentation: 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 Постановление № 255 of 11 September 2020. 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 Etizolam · the instrument carrying that entry is Постановление № 255 of 11 September 2020 at https://pris.government.bg/document/aaea75e9badf4d70e1b39e54d43bbe4c · 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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Fentanyl

Legal status: Controlled. Fentanyl is a named entry of Списък II of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Фентанил», «N-(1-Фенетилин-4-пиперидил)-N-фенилпропанамид». Fentanyl itself is in this list, while the analogues that later amendments added, the acetyl, acryloyl, methoxyacetyl and ortho fluoro compounds among them, were created in Списък I instead, so the family is split across two lists. Списък II is the Act's «Вещества с висока степен на риск, намиращи приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 ІІ са и изомерите, естерите, етерите и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите и изомерите) на веществата по Списък ІІ», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Приложение № 2 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 II is the list that allowance calls т. 2, so the entry at «Фентанил» 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.
Documentation: 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 № 2 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 № 2, Списък II, the entry for Fentanyl · the instrument carrying that entry is Приложение № 2 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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Gabapentin

Legal status: Not listed. Gabapentin is not a named entry of Списък I, Списък II or Списък III of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични. The forms searched in the Bulgarian text were «Габапентин», «абапентин», in the running text and again with all whitespace removed so that a name broken across lines could not read as an absence. This substance is absent and so is pregabalin. The additions that the 2015 and 2020 acts made to Списък III were zopiclone, cinolazepam and etizolam, which is where a sedative of this family would have been put had Bulgaria wanted it there. This is an absence from the lists and not a statement that the substance is free of Bulgarian law: чл. 4, ал. 2 of the Закон за контрол върху наркотичните вещества и прекурсорите applies the same control measures to preparations and to analogues, and § 1, т. 17 defines the analogue as «"Аналог" означава всяко вещество, което не е включено в списъците по чл. 3, ал. 2, но има сходен химически строеж с някое наркотично вещество и предизвиква аналогично действие върху човешкия организъм.» so an unlisted molecule that is chemically close to a listed one can still be reached. Whether this substance is such an analogue was not established here. The absence is stated 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 this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Bulgaria's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
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. A substance outside all three списъци is not one of the products that allowance is written for, so neither the 30 day rule nor the чл. 59 permit for taking narcotic medicines abroad is the route for Gabapentin. If it is a prescription medicine where you are travelling from, carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, and treat the absence from the lists as an absence rather than as permission. Confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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. No row is relied on for this cell, because none was found. Every one of the three appendices was searched for this substance, in Bulgarian and, where the lists print Latin codes, in Latin. 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, all three списъци searched and no entry found for Gabapentin · 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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GBL

Legal status: Controlled. GBL is a named entry of Списък III of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Гама-бутиролактон», «(GBL)», «Дихидрофуран-2(3H)-он». The lactone has its own row immediately above the GHB row, so Bulgaria controls the precursor by name rather than leaving it to a conversion argument. 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 «Гама-бутиролактон» 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. That machinery is what a traveller carrying a product of this substance is inside, so carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging. Confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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 GBL · 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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GHB

Legal status: Controlled. GHB is a named entry of Списък III of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Гама-хидроксибутирова киселина», «(GHB)», «4-Хидроксибутанова киселина». The acid is in this list and the lactone GBL is the row directly above it, so the two are separate entries and neither is reached through the other. 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 «Гама-хидроксибутирова киселина» 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.
Documentation: 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 GHB · 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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Heroin

Legal status: Controlled. Heroin is a named entry of Списък I of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Хероин», «(диацетилморфин)», «[(5R,6S)-4,5-Епокси-17-метилморфин-7-ен-3,6-диил]диацетат». The chemical name for the substance is carried in the same row as a bracketed alternative, so the entry reaches the substance under either designation. Списък I is the Act's «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 І са и изомерите, естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и изомерите) на веществата по Списък І», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013, 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 I is not one of the two lists that allowance names, and the Act describes that list as «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», so there is no Bulgarian prescribing route for the entry at «Хероин» and the 30 day traveller allowance does not reach it. This substance has no Bulgarian medicinal form for a traveller to carry. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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 № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013. 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 № 1, Списък I, the entry for Heroin · the instrument carrying that entry is Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013 at https://pris.government.bg/document/ef64e1bf17b14bb84edcf47881f53a19 · 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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HHC

Legal status: Controlled. HHC is a named entry of Списък I of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Хексахидроканабинол», «(HHC)», «6,6,9-триметил-3-пентил-6а,7,8,9,10,10а-хексахидробенз[c]хромен-1-ол». The row was created in 2023, and Постановление № 49 of 2025 then used it as the anchor for three further hexahydro rows, which prints the entry a second time. Списък I is the Act's «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 І са и изомерите, естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и изомерите) на веществата по Списък І», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Постановление № 184 of 4 October 2023, 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 I is not one of the two lists that allowance names, and the Act describes that list as «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», so there is no Bulgarian prescribing route for the entry at «Хексахидроканабинол» and the 30 day traveller allowance does not reach it. This substance has no Bulgarian medicinal form for a traveller to carry. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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 Постановление № 184 of 4 October 2023. 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 № 1, Списък I, the entry for HHC · the instrument carrying that entry is Постановление № 184 of 4 October 2023 at https://pris.government.bg/document/a121baa9bba979ff34ca1e8a477997f2 · 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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Hydrocodone

Legal status: Controlled. Hydrocodone is a named entry of Списък II of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Хидрокодон», «Дихидрокодеинон», «4,5α-Епокси-3-метокси-17-метилморфинан-6-он». The row carries the dihydrocodeinone name beside the INN. Dihydrocodeine, which is a different substance, is a separate entry in Списък III, so the two are not in the same list. Списък II is the Act's «Вещества с висока степен на риск, намиращи приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 ІІ са и изомерите, естерите, етерите и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите и изомерите) на веществата по Списък ІІ», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Приложение № 2 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 II is the list that allowance calls т. 2, so the entry at «Хидрокодон» 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.
Documentation: 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 № 2 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 № 2, Списък II, the entry for Hydrocodone · the instrument carrying that entry is Приложение № 2 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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Ketamine

Legal status: Controlled. Ketamine is a named entry of Списък III of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Кетамин», «(RS)-2-(2-Хлорфенил)-2-(метиламино)циклохексан-1-он». Ketamine is in the risk substances list rather than in either high risk list, and its analogues methoxetamine and 2-FDCK were added to Списък I instead, so the parent and its analogues are controlled at different levels. 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 «Кетамин» 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.
Documentation: 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 Ketamine · 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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Khat

Legal status: Controlled through a named constituent. Khat is not itself a named entry of any of the three списъци, and what the lists do name is quoted here: «Катинон», «(S)-2-амино-1-фенилпропан-1-он», «Катин», «(+)-Норпсевдоефедрин». The plant is not a named entry, while both of the alkaloids that fresh leaf is chewed for are. Cathinone is in Списък I and cathine is in Списък III under the norpseudoephedrine name, so the leaf is reached through its contents and at two different levels. Чл. 4, ал. 2 of the Закон за контрол върху наркотичните вещества и прекурсорите provides that «За препаратите и за аналозите се прилагат същите мерки за контрол, както за наркотичните вещества.» so material containing the named substance is under the same control measures as the named substance. The entry relied on was read in Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013, 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. The list allowance is written for named substances, and Khat is not itself a named entry, so the route runs through whatever the material contains rather than through a row for this row's own name. The nearest named entry is «Катинон». Nothing here is a prescribed traveller medicine in this form. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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 № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013, and it is a row for a different name than this one. 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, the entry relied on for Khat is a row for another name · the instrument carrying that entry is Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013 at https://pris.government.bg/document/ef64e1bf17b14bb84edcf47881f53a19 · 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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Kratom

Legal status: Controlled. Kratom is a named entry of Списък I of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Кратом (Mitragyna speciosa)». The entry is the plant itself, named in Bulgarian with the botanical binomial inside the same cell, and it sits in the run of plant entries beside the poppy straw concentrate. Списък I is the Act's «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 І са и изомерите, естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и изомерите) на веществата по Списък І», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013, 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 I is not one of the two lists that allowance names, and the Act describes that list as «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», so there is no Bulgarian prescribing route for the entry at «Кратом (Mitragyna speciosa)» and the 30 day traveller allowance does not reach it. This substance has no Bulgarian medicinal form for a traveller to carry. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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 № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013. 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 № 1, Списък I, the entry for Kratom · the instrument carrying that entry is Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013 at https://pris.government.bg/document/ef64e1bf17b14bb84edcf47881f53a19 · 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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Lorazepam

Legal status: Controlled. Lorazepam is a named entry of Списък III of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Лоразепам», «(RS)-7-Хлор-5-(2-хлорфенил)-3-хидрокси-1,3-дихидро-2H-1,4-бензодиазепин-2-он». Lorazepam and lormetazepam are consecutive rows differing by a methyl group and by two letters of the name, and the systematic column is what separates them. 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 «Лоразепам» 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.
Documentation: 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 Lorazepam · 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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LSA (Morning Glory)

Legal status: Not listed. LSA is not a named entry of Списък I, Списък II or Списък III of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични. The forms searched in the Bulgarian text were «ергин», «Argyreia», «Ipomoea», «лизергамид», in the running text and again with all whitespace removed so that a name broken across lines could not read as an absence. The lysergamide names in Списък I all belong to lysergide and to the two propionyl and cyclopropanoyl analogues added in 2022. Ergine itself, and the two seed plants it is taken from, have no rows. This is an absence from the lists and not a statement that the substance is free of Bulgarian law: чл. 4, ал. 2 of the Закон за контрол върху наркотичните вещества и прекурсорите applies the same control measures to preparations and to analogues, and § 1, т. 17 defines the analogue as «"Аналог" означава всяко вещество, което не е включено в списъците по чл. 3, ал. 2, но има сходен химически строеж с някое наркотично вещество и предизвиква аналогично действие върху човешкия организъм.» so an unlisted molecule that is chemically close to a listed one can still be reached. Whether this substance is such an analogue was not established here. The absence is stated 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 this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Bulgaria's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
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. A substance outside all three списъци is not one of the products that allowance is written for, so neither the 30 day rule nor the чл. 59 permit for taking narcotic medicines abroad is the route for LSA. If it is a prescription medicine where you are travelling from, carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, and treat the absence from the lists as an absence rather than as permission. Confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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. No row is relied on for this cell, because none was found. Every one of the three appendices was searched for this substance, in Bulgarian and, where the lists print Latin codes, in Latin. 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, all three списъци searched and no entry found for LSA · 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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LSD

Legal status: Controlled. LSD is a named entry of Списък I of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «(+)-Лизергид», «N,N-диетил-D-лизергамид», «(LSD)». The row opens with the INN spelling and carries the trivial name and the acronym in the same row, so the acronym is enough to reach it without any inference. Списък I is the Act's «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 І са и изомерите, естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и изомерите) на веществата по Списък І», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013, 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 I is not one of the two lists that allowance names, and the Act describes that list as «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», so there is no Bulgarian prescribing route for the entry at «(+)-Лизергид» and the 30 day traveller allowance does not reach it. This substance has no Bulgarian medicinal form for a traveller to carry. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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 № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013. 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 № 1, Списък I, the entry for LSD · the instrument carrying that entry is Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013 at https://pris.government.bg/document/ef64e1bf17b14bb84edcf47881f53a19 · 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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MDA

Legal status: Controlled. MDA is a named entry of Списък I of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Тенамфетамин», «Метилендиоксиамфетамин», «(MDA)». The row is filed under the INN Тенамфетамин, with the familiar name and the acronym beneath it, so a search for the acronym alone finds a row whose first column looks unrelated until the row is read. Списък I is the Act's «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 І са и изомерите, естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и изомерите) на веществата по Списък І», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013, 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 I is not one of the two lists that allowance names, and the Act describes that list as «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», so there is no Bulgarian prescribing route for the entry at «Тенамфетамин» and the 30 day traveller allowance does not reach it. This substance has no Bulgarian medicinal form for a traveller to carry. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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 № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013. 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 № 1, Списък I, the entry for MDA · the instrument carrying that entry is Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013 at https://pris.government.bg/document/ef64e1bf17b14bb84edcf47881f53a19 · 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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MDMA

Legal status: Controlled. MDMA is a named entry of Списък I of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «3,4-метилендиоксиметамфе тамин», «(MDMA)», «(Екстази)». The name column of the row is printed with a space inside the last word, which is how the official file carries it, so a search on the unbroken spelling misses the line and only a flattened search finds it. The neighbouring rows are the ethylone and methylone cathinones, which is how the row was confirmed rather than by the acronym alone. Списък I is the Act's «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 І са и изомерите, естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и изомерите) на веществата по Списък І», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013, 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 I is not one of the two lists that allowance names, and the Act describes that list as «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», so there is no Bulgarian prescribing route for the entry at «3,4-метилендиоксиметамфе тамин» and the 30 day traveller allowance does not reach it. This substance has no Bulgarian medicinal form for a traveller to carry. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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 № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013. 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 № 1, Списък I, the entry for MDMA · the instrument carrying that entry is Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013 at https://pris.government.bg/document/ef64e1bf17b14bb84edcf47881f53a19 · 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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MDPV

Legal status: Controlled. MDPV is a named entry of Списък I of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Метилендиоксипировалерон», «(MDPV)». The row is filed under the full pyrovalerone name with the acronym in a line of its own, directly beneath the methylone row. Списък I is the Act's «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 І са и изомерите, естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и изомерите) на веществата по Списък І», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013, 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 I is not one of the two lists that allowance names, and the Act describes that list as «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», so there is no Bulgarian prescribing route for the entry at «Метилендиоксипировалерон» and the 30 day traveller allowance does not reach it. This substance has no Bulgarian medicinal form for a traveller to carry. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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 № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013. 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 № 1, Списък I, the entry for MDPV · the instrument carrying that entry is Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013 at https://pris.government.bg/document/ef64e1bf17b14bb84edcf47881f53a19 · 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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Memantine

Legal status: Not listed. Memantine is not a named entry of Списък I, Списък II or Списък III of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични. The forms searched in the Bulgarian text were «Мемантин», «емантин», in the running text and again with all whitespace removed so that a name broken across lines could not read as an absence. A search of all three lists returned nothing, and the adamantane names that are there belong to synthetic cannabinoid carboxamides rather than to this substance. This is an absence from the lists and not a statement that the substance is free of Bulgarian law: чл. 4, ал. 2 of the Закон за контрол върху наркотичните вещества и прекурсорите applies the same control measures to preparations and to analogues, and § 1, т. 17 defines the analogue as «"Аналог" означава всяко вещество, което не е включено в списъците по чл. 3, ал. 2, но има сходен химически строеж с някое наркотично вещество и предизвиква аналогично действие върху човешкия организъм.» so an unlisted molecule that is chemically close to a listed one can still be reached. Whether this substance is such an analogue was not established here. The absence is stated 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 this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Bulgaria's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
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. A substance outside all three списъци is not one of the products that allowance is written for, so neither the 30 day rule nor the чл. 59 permit for taking narcotic medicines abroad is the route for Memantine. If it is a prescription medicine where you are travelling from, carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, and treat the absence from the lists as an absence rather than as permission. Confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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. No row is relied on for this cell, because none was found. Every one of the three appendices was searched for this substance, in Bulgarian and, where the lists print Latin codes, in Latin. 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, all three списъци searched and no entry found for Memantine · 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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Mephedrone (4-MMC)

Legal status: Controlled. Mephedrone is a named entry of Списък I of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «4-метилметкатинон», «(мефедрон)», «(4-ММС)». The row prints the position number in front of the cathinone name, and the 3 position isomer is a separate and later row, so the position is what distinguishes this entry from its neighbour. Списък I is the Act's «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 І са и изомерите, естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и изомерите) на веществата по Списък І», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013, 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 I is not one of the two lists that allowance names, and the Act describes that list as «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», so there is no Bulgarian prescribing route for the entry at «4-метилметкатинон» and the 30 day traveller allowance does not reach it. This substance has no Bulgarian medicinal form for a traveller to carry. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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 № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013. 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 № 1, Списък I, the entry for Mephedrone · the instrument carrying that entry is Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013 at https://pris.government.bg/document/ef64e1bf17b14bb84edcf47881f53a19 · 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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Mescaline

Legal status: Controlled. Mescaline is a named entry of Списък I of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Мескалин», «2-(3,4,5- триметоксифенил)-етанамин». The entry is a single designation with nothing bracketed beside it, sitting between Мезокарб and Метамфетамин in the alphabetical run. Списък I is the Act's «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 І са и изомерите, естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и изомерите) на веществата по Списък І», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013, 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 I is not one of the two lists that allowance names, and the Act describes that list as «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», so there is no Bulgarian prescribing route for the entry at «Мескалин» and the 30 day traveller allowance does not reach it. This substance has no Bulgarian medicinal form for a traveller to carry. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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 № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013. 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 № 1, Списък I, the entry for Mescaline · the instrument carrying that entry is Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013 at https://pris.government.bg/document/ef64e1bf17b14bb84edcf47881f53a19 · 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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Methadone

Legal status: Controlled. Methadone is a named entry of Списък II of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Метадон», «(RS)-6-Диметиламино-4,4-дифенилхептан-3-он». Methadone has its own row and the methadone intermediate is a separate row directly after it, so the precursor nitrile is named in its own right. Списък II is the Act's «Вещества с висока степен на риск, намиращи приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 ІІ са и изомерите, естерите, етерите и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите и изомерите) на веществата по Списък ІІ», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Приложение № 2 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 II is the list that allowance calls т. 2, so the entry at «Метадон» 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.
Documentation: 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 № 2 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 № 2, Списък II, the entry for Methadone · the instrument carrying that entry is Приложение № 2 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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Methamphetamine

Legal status: Controlled. Methamphetamine is a named entry of Списък I of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Метамфетамин», «N-метил-1-фенилпропан-2-амин». The row sits directly under Мескалин and is a single designation. Постановление № 184 of 2023 later quotes it as the anchor for a different addition, which prints the same two columns again. Списък I is the Act's «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 І са и изомерите, естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и изомерите) на веществата по Списък І», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013, 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 I is not one of the two lists that allowance names, and the Act describes that list as «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», so there is no Bulgarian prescribing route for the entry at «Метамфетамин» and the 30 day traveller allowance does not reach it. This substance has no Bulgarian medicinal form for a traveller to carry. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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 № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013. 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 № 1, Списък I, the entry for Methamphetamine · the instrument carrying that entry is Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013 at https://pris.government.bg/document/ef64e1bf17b14bb84edcf47881f53a19 · 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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Methaqualone (Quaaludes)

Legal status: Controlled. Methaqualone is a named entry of Списък II of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Метаквалон», «2-Метил-3-(2-метилфенил)хиназолин-4(3H)-он». The entry is a single designation, and mecloqualone, the chlorophenyl compound, is a separate row a few lines above it in the same list. Списък II is the Act's «Вещества с висока степен на риск, намиращи приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 ІІ са и изомерите, естерите, етерите и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите и изомерите) на веществата по Списък ІІ», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Приложение № 2 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 II is the list that allowance calls т. 2, so the entry at «Метаквалон» 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.
Documentation: 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 № 2 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 № 2, Списък II, the entry for Methaqualone · the instrument carrying that entry is Приложение № 2 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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Methylone

Legal status: Controlled. Methylone is a named entry of Списък I of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «3,4-метилендиокси-N-метилкатинон», «(метилон)», «(bk-MDMA)». The row carries the beta keto code for the substance as well as the trivial name, and it sits immediately above the pyrovalerone row rather than among the amphetamines. Списък I is the Act's «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 І са и изомерите, естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и изомерите) на веществата по Списък І», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013, 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 I is not one of the two lists that allowance names, and the Act describes that list as «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», so there is no Bulgarian prescribing route for the entry at «3,4-метилендиокси-N-метилкатинон» and the 30 day traveller allowance does not reach it. This substance has no Bulgarian medicinal form for a traveller to carry. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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 № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013. 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 № 1, Списък I, the entry for Methylone · the instrument carrying that entry is Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013 at https://pris.government.bg/document/ef64e1bf17b14bb84edcf47881f53a19 · 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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Methylphenidate

Legal status: Controlled. Methylphenidate is a named entry of Списък II of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Метилфенидат», «Метил[(R,R)(фенил)(2-пиперидил)ацетат]». The entry is a single designation in the morphinan run of the list, and nothing bracketed stands beside it. Списък II is the Act's «Вещества с висока степен на риск, намиращи приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 ІІ са и изомерите, естерите, етерите и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите и изомерите) на веществата по Списък ІІ», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Приложение № 2 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 II is the list that allowance calls т. 2, so the entry at «Метилфенидат» 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.
Documentation: 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 № 2 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 № 2, Списък II, the entry for Methylphenidate · the instrument carrying that entry is Приложение № 2 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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Mitragynine

Legal status: Controlled in part. Mitragynine has no row of its own in any of the three списъци, and the entries that bear on it are «Кратом (Mitragyna speciosa)». The alkaloid is not a named entry. The plant it comes from is, as Кратом (Mitragyna speciosa) in Списък I, so plant material is caught by the plant row while isolated mitragynine has no row of its own. Чл. 4, ал. 2 of the Закон за контрол върху наркотичните вещества и прекурсорите extends the same control measures to preparations and to analogues, «За препаратите и за аналозите се прилагат същите мерки за контрол, както за наркотичните вещества.» which is the provision that would have to be argued for anything the lists do not name. That argument was not settled here. The entries relied on were read in Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013, 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 whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established here.
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. The list allowance is written for named substances, and Mitragynine is not itself a named entry, so the route runs through whatever the material contains rather than through a row for this row's own name. The nearest named entry is «Кратом (Mitragyna speciosa)». Nothing here is a prescribed traveller medicine in this form. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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 № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013, and it is a row for a different name than this one. 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, the entry relied on for Mitragynine is a row for another name · the instrument carrying that entry is Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013 at https://pris.government.bg/document/ef64e1bf17b14bb84edcf47881f53a19 · 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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Modafinil

Legal status: Not listed. Modafinil is not a named entry of Списък I, Списък II or Списък III of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични. The forms searched in the Bulgarian text were «Модафинил», «одафинил», in the running text and again with all whitespace removed so that a name broken across lines could not read as an absence. Списък I names several stimulants that sit near this one in use, mesocarb and fenethylline among them, and the wakefulness agent is not among them. The search was run on the full spelling and again on a stem that would survive a line break in the official file. This is an absence from the lists and not a statement that the substance is free of Bulgarian law: чл. 4, ал. 2 of the Закон за контрол върху наркотичните вещества и прекурсорите applies the same control measures to preparations and to analogues, and § 1, т. 17 defines the analogue as «"Аналог" означава всяко вещество, което не е включено в списъците по чл. 3, ал. 2, но има сходен химически строеж с някое наркотично вещество и предизвиква аналогично действие върху човешкия организъм.» so an unlisted molecule that is chemically close to a listed one can still be reached. Whether this substance is such an analogue was not established here. The absence is stated 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 this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Bulgaria's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
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. A substance outside all three списъци is not one of the products that allowance is written for, so neither the 30 day rule nor the чл. 59 permit for taking narcotic medicines abroad is the route for Modafinil. If it is a prescription medicine where you are travelling from, carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, and treat the absence from the lists as an absence rather than as permission. Confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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. No row is relied on for this cell, because none was found. Every one of the three appendices was searched for this substance, in Bulgarian and, where the lists print Latin codes, in Latin. 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, all three списъци searched and no entry found for Modafinil · 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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Morphine

Legal status: Controlled. Morphine is a named entry of Списък II of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Морфин», «(5R,6S)-4,5-Епокси-17-метилморфин-7-ен-3,6-диол». Morphine has its own row and the methobromide, the N oxide and the other pentavalent nitrogen derivatives have theirs immediately after it, so the derivatives are named rather than inferred. Списък II is the Act's «Вещества с висока степен на риск, намиращи приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 ІІ са и изомерите, естерите, етерите и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите и изомерите) на веществата по Списък ІІ», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Приложение № 2 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 II is the list that allowance calls т. 2, so the entry at «Морфин» 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.
Documentation: 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 № 2 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 № 2, Списък II, the entry for Morphine · the instrument carrying that entry is Приложение № 2 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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MXE

Legal status: Controlled. MXE is a named entry of Списък I of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Метоксетамин», «2-(3-метоксифенил)-2-(етиламино)циклохексанон», «(MXE)». The row is a single designation with the code beneath it. Постановление № 119 of 2019 quotes the same row as an anchor, printing the code in the second column rather than the third, and the substance is the same in both printings. Списък I is the Act's «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 І са и изомерите, естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и изомерите) на веществата по Списък І», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013, 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 I is not one of the two lists that allowance names, and the Act describes that list as «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», so there is no Bulgarian prescribing route for the entry at «Метоксетамин» and the 30 day traveller allowance does not reach it. This substance has no Bulgarian medicinal form for a traveller to carry. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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 № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013. 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 № 1, Списък I, the entry for MXE · the instrument carrying that entry is Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013 at https://pris.government.bg/document/ef64e1bf17b14bb84edcf47881f53a19 · 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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Nicotine

Legal status: Not listed. Nicotine is not a named entry of Списък I, Списък II or Списък III of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични. The forms searched in the Bulgarian text were «Никотин», «икотин», in the running text and again with all whitespace removed so that a name broken across lines could not read as an absence. The string returns six rows in Списък II and every one of them is a nicotinoyl opioid ester, nicocodine, nicodicodine and nicomorphine. Nicotine itself has no row, which is a substring hit and not an entry. This is an absence from the lists and not a statement that the substance is free of Bulgarian law: чл. 4, ал. 2 of the Закон за контрол върху наркотичните вещества и прекурсорите applies the same control measures to preparations and to analogues, and § 1, т. 17 defines the analogue as «"Аналог" означава всяко вещество, което не е включено в списъците по чл. 3, ал. 2, но има сходен химически строеж с някое наркотично вещество и предизвиква аналогично действие върху човешкия организъм.» so an unlisted molecule that is chemically close to a listed one can still be reached. Whether this substance is such an analogue was not established here. The absence is stated 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 this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Bulgaria's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
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. A substance outside all three списъци is not one of the products that allowance is written for, so neither the 30 day rule nor the чл. 59 permit for taking narcotic medicines abroad is the route for Nicotine. If it is a prescription medicine where you are travelling from, carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, and treat the absence from the lists as an absence rather than as permission. Confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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. No row is relied on for this cell, because none was found. Every one of the three appendices was searched for this substance, in Bulgarian and, where the lists print Latin codes, in Latin. 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, all three списъци searched and no entry found for Nicotine · 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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Nimetazepam

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.
Documentation: 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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Nitrous Oxide

Legal status: Not listed. Nitrous oxide is not a named entry of Списък I, Списък II or Списък III of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични. The forms searched in the Bulgarian text were «азотен оксид», «диазотен», «райски газ», in the running text and again with all whitespace removed so that a name broken across lines could not read as an absence. A search of all three lists returned nothing on any of the Bulgarian forms for the gas. The only inhalant in the lists is amyl nitrite in Списък III. This is an absence from the lists and not a statement that the substance is free of Bulgarian law: чл. 4, ал. 2 of the Закон за контрол върху наркотичните вещества и прекурсорите applies the same control measures to preparations and to analogues, and § 1, т. 17 defines the analogue as «"Аналог" означава всяко вещество, което не е включено в списъците по чл. 3, ал. 2, но има сходен химически строеж с някое наркотично вещество и предизвиква аналогично действие върху човешкия организъм.» so an unlisted molecule that is chemically close to a listed one can still be reached. Whether this substance is such an analogue was not established here. The absence is stated 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 this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Bulgaria's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
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. A substance outside all three списъци is not one of the products that allowance is written for, so neither the 30 day rule nor the чл. 59 permit for taking narcotic medicines abroad is the route for Nitrous oxide. If it is a prescription medicine where you are travelling from, carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, and treat the absence from the lists as an absence rather than as permission. Confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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. No row is relied on for this cell, because none was found. Every one of the three appendices was searched for this substance, in Bulgarian and, where the lists print Latin codes, in Latin. 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, all three списъци searched and no entry found for Nitrous oxide · 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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Opium

Legal status: Controlled. Opium is a named entry of Списък I of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Опиум», «Опиев мак», «Макова слама», «Концентрат от макова слама». Opium has its own row and the poppy, the straw and the straw concentrate each have theirs, so the list reaches the preparation and the plant material it comes from as four separate entries. Списък I is the Act's «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 І са и изомерите, естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и изомерите) на веществата по Списък І», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013, 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 I is not one of the two lists that allowance names, and the Act describes that list as «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», so there is no Bulgarian prescribing route for the entry at «Опиум» and the 30 day traveller allowance does not reach it. This substance has no Bulgarian medicinal form for a traveller to carry. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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 № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013. 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 № 1, Списък I, the entry for Opium · the instrument carrying that entry is Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013 at https://pris.government.bg/document/ef64e1bf17b14bb84edcf47881f53a19 · 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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Oxycodone

Legal status: Controlled. Oxycodone is a named entry of Списък II of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Оксикодон», «14-Хидроксидихидрокодеинон», «4,5α-Епокси-14-хидрокси-3-метокси-17-метилморфинан-6-он». The row carries the older hydroxydihydrocodeinone name beside the INN, and oxymorphone is the next row down, which is the row it is most easily confused with. Списък II is the Act's «Вещества с висока степен на риск, намиращи приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 ІІ са и изомерите, естерите, етерите и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите и изомерите) на веществата по Списък ІІ», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Приложение № 2 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 II is the list that allowance calls т. 2, so the entry at «Оксикодон» 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.
Documentation: 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 № 2 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 № 2, Списък II, the entry for Oxycodone · the instrument carrying that entry is Приложение № 2 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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PCP

Legal status: Controlled. PCP is a named entry of Списък II of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Фенциклидин», «PCP», «1-(1-Фенилциклохексил)пиперидин». The row prints the acronym in the second column without brackets, and the thienyl analogue TCP is a separate entry in Списък I rather than in this list. Списък II is the Act's «Вещества с висока степен на риск, намиращи приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 ІІ са и изомерите, естерите, етерите и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите и изомерите) на веществата по Списък ІІ», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Приложение № 2 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 II is the list that allowance calls т. 2, so the entry at «Фенциклидин» 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.
Documentation: 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 № 2 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 № 2, Списък II, the entry for PCP · the instrument carrying that entry is Приложение № 2 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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Peyote

Legal status: Controlled through a named constituent. Peyote is not itself a named entry of any of the three списъци, and what the lists do name is quoted here: «Мескалин», «2-(3,4,5- триметоксифенил)-етанамин». The cactus is not a named entry. Searches of all three lists in Bulgarian and in Latin for the plant name returned nothing, while mescaline, the alkaloid the cactus is taken for, is a named entry of Списък I. Чл. 4, ал. 2 of the Закон за контрол върху наркотичните вещества и прекурсорите provides that «За препаратите и за аналозите се прилагат същите мерки за контрол, както за наркотичните вещества.» so material containing the named substance is under the same control measures as the named substance. The entry relied on was read in Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013, 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. The list allowance is written for named substances, and Peyote is not itself a named entry, so the route runs through whatever the material contains rather than through a row for this row's own name. The nearest named entry is «Мескалин». Nothing here is a prescribed traveller medicine in this form. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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 № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013, and it is a row for a different name than this one. 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, the entry relied on for Peyote is a row for another name · the instrument carrying that entry is Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013 at https://pris.government.bg/document/ef64e1bf17b14bb84edcf47881f53a19 · 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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Phenibut

Legal status: Not listed. Phenibut is not a named entry of Списък I, Списък II or Списък III of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични. The forms searched in the Bulgarian text were «Фенибут», «аминофенил», «енибут», in the running text and again with all whitespace removed so that a name broken across lines could not read as an absence. The lists carry no gamma amino acid derivative of this kind. The nearest row to it in chemistry is the gamma hydroxybutyric acid entry in Списък III, which is a different molecule with its own row, so the neighbour does not carry this substance. This is an absence from the lists and not a statement that the substance is free of Bulgarian law: чл. 4, ал. 2 of the Закон за контрол върху наркотичните вещества и прекурсорите applies the same control measures to preparations and to analogues, and § 1, т. 17 defines the analogue as «"Аналог" означава всяко вещество, което не е включено в списъците по чл. 3, ал. 2, но има сходен химически строеж с някое наркотично вещество и предизвиква аналогично действие върху човешкия организъм.» so an unlisted molecule that is chemically close to a listed one can still be reached. Whether this substance is such an analogue was not established here. The absence is stated 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 this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Bulgaria's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
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. A substance outside all three списъци is not one of the products that allowance is written for, so neither the 30 day rule nor the чл. 59 permit for taking narcotic medicines abroad is the route for Phenibut. If it is a prescription medicine where you are travelling from, carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, and treat the absence from the lists as an absence rather than as permission. Confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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. No row is relied on for this cell, because none was found. Every one of the three appendices was searched for this substance, in Bulgarian and, where the lists print Latin codes, in Latin. 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, all three списъци searched and no entry found for Phenibut · 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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Pink Cocaine / Tusi

Legal status: Controlled in part. Pink cocaine has no row of its own in any of the three списъци, and the entries that bear on it are «(2C-B)», «3,4-метилендиоксиметамфе тамин», «Кетамин». There is no entry under any pink or tuci name. What is sold under the name is usually some mixture of 2C-B, MDMA, ketamine and caffeine, and the first three of those are named entries of Списък I, Списък I and Списък III respectively, so which list a given sample answers to depends on what is in it. Чл. 4, ал. 2 of the Закон за контрол върху наркотичните вещества и прекурсорите extends the same control measures to preparations and to analogues, «За препаратите и за аналозите се прилагат същите мерки за контрол, както за наркотичните вещества.» which is the provision that would have to be argued for anything the lists do not name. That argument was not settled here. The entries relied on were read in Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013, 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 whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established here.
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. The list allowance is written for named substances, and Pink cocaine is not itself a named entry, so the route runs through whatever the material contains rather than through a row for this row's own name. The nearest named entry is «(2C-B)». Nothing here is a prescribed traveller medicine in this form. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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 № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013, and it is a row for a different name than this one. 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, the entry relied on for Pink cocaine is a row for another name · the instrument carrying that entry is Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013 at https://pris.government.bg/document/ef64e1bf17b14bb84edcf47881f53a19 · 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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Poppers

Legal status: Controlled in part. Poppers has no row of its own in any of the three списъци, and the entries that bear on it are «Амилнитрит», «(3-метилбутил)-нитрит». Poppers is a product name rather than a substance. Amyl nitrite is a named entry of Списък III and it is the only nitrite in any of the three lists, so a bottle of isopropyl or isobutyl nitrite is not reached by a row while an amyl nitrite bottle is. Чл. 4, ал. 2 of the Закон за контрол върху наркотичните вещества и прекурсорите extends the same control measures to preparations and to analogues, «За препаратите и за аналозите се прилагат същите мерки за контрол, както за наркотичните вещества.» which is the provision that would have to be argued for anything the lists do not name. That argument was not settled here. The entries relied on were 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 whether the offence reaches this row at all is exactly what was not established here.
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. The list allowance is written for named substances, and Poppers is not itself a named entry, so the route runs through whatever the material contains rather than through a row for this row's own name. The nearest named entry is «Амилнитрит». Nothing here is a prescribed traveller medicine in this form. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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, and it is a row for a different name than this one. 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, the entry relied on for Poppers is a row for another name · 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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Pregabalin

Legal status: Not listed. Pregabalin is not a named entry of Списък I, Списък II or Списък III of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични. The forms searched in the Bulgarian text were «Прегабалин», «регабалин», in the running text and again with all whitespace removed so that a name broken across lines could not read as an absence. No gabapentinoid is a named entry. The search for this substance and the search for gabapentin both returned nothing, and none of the fourteen amendments has added a compound of that family to any of the three lists. This is an absence from the lists and not a statement that the substance is free of Bulgarian law: чл. 4, ал. 2 of the Закон за контрол върху наркотичните вещества и прекурсорите applies the same control measures to preparations and to analogues, and § 1, т. 17 defines the analogue as «"Аналог" означава всяко вещество, което не е включено в списъците по чл. 3, ал. 2, но има сходен химически строеж с някое наркотично вещество и предизвиква аналогично действие върху човешкия организъм.» so an unlisted molecule that is chemically close to a listed one can still be reached. Whether this substance is such an analogue was not established here. The absence is stated 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 this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Bulgaria's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
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. A substance outside all three списъци is not one of the products that allowance is written for, so neither the 30 day rule nor the чл. 59 permit for taking narcotic medicines abroad is the route for Pregabalin. If it is a prescription medicine where you are travelling from, carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, and treat the absence from the lists as an absence rather than as permission. Confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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. No row is relied on for this cell, because none was found. Every one of the three appendices was searched for this substance, in Bulgarian and, where the lists print Latin codes, in Latin. 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, all three списъци searched and no entry found for Pregabalin · 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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Psilocybin

Legal status: Controlled. Psilocybin is a named entry of Списък I of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Псилоцибин», «Псилоцин», «3-(2-диметиламиноетил) индол-4-ол». Psilocin sits in the next row down under its own name, so the list reaches the mushroom alkaloid and the compound it breaks down into separately rather than as one entry. Списък I is the Act's «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 І са и изомерите, естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и изомерите) на веществата по Списък І», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013, 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 I is not one of the two lists that allowance names, and the Act describes that list as «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», so there is no Bulgarian prescribing route for the entry at «Псилоцибин» and the 30 day traveller allowance does not reach it. This substance has no Bulgarian medicinal form for a traveller to carry. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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 № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013. 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 № 1, Списък I, the entry for Psilocybin · the instrument carrying that entry is Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013 at https://pris.government.bg/document/ef64e1bf17b14bb84edcf47881f53a19 · 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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Quetiapine

Legal status: Not listed. Quetiapine is not a named entry of Списък I, Списък II or Списък III of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични. The forms searched in the Bulgarian text were «Кветиапин», «ветиапин», in the running text and again with all whitespace removed so that a name broken across lines could not read as an absence. No antipsychotic is a named entry of any of the three lists. The sedative and hypnotic entries that are there are the benzodiazepines, the barbiturates, zolpidem and zopiclone, and this substance belongs to none of those groups. This is an absence from the lists and not a statement that the substance is free of Bulgarian law: чл. 4, ал. 2 of the Закон за контрол върху наркотичните вещества и прекурсорите applies the same control measures to preparations and to analogues, and § 1, т. 17 defines the analogue as «"Аналог" означава всяко вещество, което не е включено в списъците по чл. 3, ал. 2, но има сходен химически строеж с някое наркотично вещество и предизвиква аналогично действие върху човешкия организъм.» so an unlisted molecule that is chemically close to a listed one can still be reached. Whether this substance is such an analogue was not established here. The absence is stated 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 this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Bulgaria's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
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. A substance outside all three списъци is not one of the products that allowance is written for, so neither the 30 day rule nor the чл. 59 permit for taking narcotic medicines abroad is the route for Quetiapine. If it is a prescription medicine where you are travelling from, carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, and treat the absence from the lists as an absence rather than as permission. Confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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. No row is relied on for this cell, because none was found. Every one of the three appendices was searched for this substance, in Bulgarian and, where the lists print Latin codes, in Latin. 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, all three списъци searched and no entry found for Quetiapine · 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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Salvia divinorum

Legal status: Controlled through a named constituent. Salvia divinorum is not itself a named entry of any of the three списъци, and what the lists do name is quoted here: «Салвинорин А», «Метил (2S, 4aR, 6aR, 7R, 9S, 10aS, 10bR)-9-(ацетилокси)-2-(фуран-3-ил)-6а, 10b-диметил-4,». The plant is not a named entry. Salvinorin A, the diterpene the leaf is active through, is a named entry of Списък I, so dried leaf and extracts are reached through the constituent while the living plant is not named as such. Чл. 4, ал. 2 of the Закон за контрол върху наркотичните вещества и прекурсорите provides that «За препаратите и за аналозите се прилагат същите мерки за контрол, както за наркотичните вещества.» so material containing the named substance is under the same control measures as the named substance. The entry relied on was read in Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013, 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. The list allowance is written for named substances, and Salvia divinorum is not itself a named entry, so the route runs through whatever the material contains rather than through a row for this row's own name. The nearest named entry is «Салвинорин А». Nothing here is a prescribed traveller medicine in this form. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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 № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013, and it is a row for a different name than this one. 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, the entry relied on for Salvia divinorum is a row for another name · the instrument carrying that entry is Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013 at https://pris.government.bg/document/ef64e1bf17b14bb84edcf47881f53a19 · 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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Scopolamine (Devil's Breath)

Legal status: Not listed. Scopolamine is not a named entry of Списък I, Списък II or Списък III of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични. The forms searched in the Bulgarian text were «Скополамин», «кополамин», «хиосцин», in the running text and again with all whitespace removed so that a name broken across lines could not read as an absence. A search of all three lists returned nothing. The tropane entries that are there are cocaine, ecgonine and the coca material, and the solanaceous alkaloid is not among them. This is an absence from the lists and not a statement that the substance is free of Bulgarian law: чл. 4, ал. 2 of the Закон за контрол върху наркотичните вещества и прекурсорите applies the same control measures to preparations and to analogues, and § 1, т. 17 defines the analogue as «"Аналог" означава всяко вещество, което не е включено в списъците по чл. 3, ал. 2, но има сходен химически строеж с някое наркотично вещество и предизвиква аналогично действие върху човешкия организъм.» so an unlisted molecule that is chemically close to a listed one can still be reached. Whether this substance is such an analogue was not established here. The absence is stated 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 this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Bulgaria's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
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. A substance outside all three списъци is not one of the products that allowance is written for, so neither the 30 day rule nor the чл. 59 permit for taking narcotic medicines abroad is the route for Scopolamine. If it is a prescription medicine where you are travelling from, carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, and treat the absence from the lists as an absence rather than as permission. Confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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. No row is relied on for this cell, because none was found. Every one of the three appendices was searched for this substance, in Bulgarian and, where the lists print Latin codes, in Latin. 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, all three списъци searched and no entry found for Scopolamine · 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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Synthetic Cannabinoids (K2 / Spice)

Legal status: Controlled. Synthetic cannabinoids is a named entry of Списък I of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «(JWH-018)», «АB-CHMINACA», «ADB-PINACA». There is no generic class entry for synthetic cannabinoids. The list names them one molecule at a time, dozens of them, and the amendments of 2016, 2019, 2022 and 2024 each add more, so a given compound is controlled only if its own row is there. One of those rows opens with a Cyrillic А where the code is otherwise Latin, so a Latin only search does not return it. Списък I is the Act's «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 І са и изомерите, естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и изомерите) на веществата по Списък І», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013, 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 I is not one of the two lists that allowance names, and the Act describes that list as «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», so there is no Bulgarian prescribing route for the entry at «(JWH-018)» and the 30 day traveller allowance does not reach it. This substance has no Bulgarian medicinal form for a traveller to carry. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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 № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013. 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 № 1, Списък I, the entry for Synthetic cannabinoids · the instrument carrying that entry is Приложение № 1 as wholly replaced by Постановление № 253 of 1 November 2013 at https://pris.government.bg/document/ef64e1bf17b14bb84edcf47881f53a19 · 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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THC-P

Legal status: Controlled. THC-P is a named entry of Списък I of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Тетрахидроканабифорол», «THCPO», «(6aR,10aR)-3-хептил-6,6,9-триметил-6a,7,8,10a-тетрахидробензо[c]хромен-1-ол». The code column of this row reads THCPO rather than THCP. The systematic column names the heptyl side chain, which is what makes the row this substance, so the row was identified from the chemistry and not from the code. Списък I is the Act's «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», 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 І са и изомерите, естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и солите (включително солите на естерите, етерите, халогенните производни и изомерите) на веществата по Списък І», so salts and isomers of the entry travel with it. The entry was read in Постановление № 49 of 8 May 2025, 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 I is not one of the two lists that allowance names, and the Act describes that list as «Растения и вещества с висока степен на риск за общественото здраве поради вредния ефект от злоупотребата с тях, забранени за приложение в хуманната и ветеринарната медицина», so there is no Bulgarian prescribing route for the entry at «Тетрахидроканабифорол» and the 30 day traveller allowance does not reach it. This substance has no Bulgarian medicinal form for a traveller to carry. Carry any controlled medicine with its prescription and confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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 Постановление № 49 of 8 May 2025. 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 № 1, Списък I, the entry for THC-P · the instrument carrying that entry is Постановление № 49 of 8 May 2025 at https://pris.government.bg/document/c222411315ada82e6470a0f1580b9441 · 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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Tobacco

Legal status: Not listed. Tobacco is not a named entry of Списък I, Списък II or Списък III of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични. The forms searched in the Bulgarian text were «Тютюн», «Nicotiana», «ютюн», in the running text and again with all whitespace removed so that a name broken across lines could not read as an absence. A search of all three lists in Bulgarian and in Latin returned nothing. The plant entries that are there are the poppy, the coca bush, cannabis and kratom. This is an absence from the lists and not a statement that the substance is free of Bulgarian law: чл. 4, ал. 2 of the Закон за контрол върху наркотичните вещества и прекурсорите applies the same control measures to preparations and to analogues, and § 1, т. 17 defines the analogue as «"Аналог" означава всяко вещество, което не е включено в списъците по чл. 3, ал. 2, но има сходен химически строеж с някое наркотично вещество и предизвиква аналогично действие върху човешкия организъм.» so an unlisted molecule that is chemically close to a listed one can still be reached. Whether this substance is such an analogue was not established here. The absence is stated 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 this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Bulgaria's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
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. A substance outside all three списъци is not one of the products that allowance is written for, so neither the 30 day rule nor the чл. 59 permit for taking narcotic medicines abroad is the route for Tobacco. If it is a prescription medicine where you are travelling from, carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, and treat the absence from the lists as an absence rather than as permission. Confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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. No row is relied on for this cell, because none was found. Every one of the three appendices was searched for this substance, in Bulgarian and, where the lists print Latin codes, in Latin. 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, all three списъци searched and no entry found for Tobacco · 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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Tramadol

Legal status: Controlled. Tramadol is a named entry of Списък III of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Трамадол», «(1R,2R)-rel-2-[(диметиламино)метил]- 1-(3-метоксифенил)циклохексанол». Tramadol is a named entry of the risk substances list, sitting between tetrazepam and triazolam, so it is a controlled narcotic substance in Bulgaria and not an ordinary prescription analgesic. 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 «Трамадол» 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.
Documentation: 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 Tramadol · 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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Xanax (Alprazolam)

Legal status: Controlled. Alprazolam is a named entry of Списък III of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Алпразолам», «Алобарбитал». The entry is the second row of the list, directly under the allobarbital row, and is a single designation. Its systematic column is broken by line separator characters in the official file, so it is described here rather than quoted. 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 «Алпразолам» 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.
Documentation: 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 Alprazolam · 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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Xylazine

Legal status: Not listed. Xylazine is not a named entry of Списък I, Списък II or Списък III of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични. The forms searched in the Bulgarian text were «Ксилазин», «Xylazine», in the running text and again with all whitespace removed so that a name broken across lines could not read as an absence. A search of all three lists for the Bulgarian spelling and for the Latin one returned nothing, and no veterinary sedative row of any kind stands near where it would fall alphabetically. This is an absence from the lists and not a statement that the substance is free of Bulgarian law: чл. 4, ал. 2 of the Закон за контрол върху наркотичните вещества и прекурсорите applies the same control measures to preparations and to analogues, and § 1, т. 17 defines the analogue as «"Аналог" означава всяко вещество, което не е включено в списъците по чл. 3, ал. 2, но има сходен химически строеж с някое наркотично вещество и предизвиква аналогично действие върху човешкия организъм.» so an unlisted molecule that is chemically close to a listed one can still be reached. Whether this substance is such an analogue was not established here. The absence is stated 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 this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Bulgaria's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure.
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. A substance outside all three списъци is not one of the products that allowance is written for, so neither the 30 day rule nor the чл. 59 permit for taking narcotic medicines abroad is the route for Xylazine. If it is a prescription medicine where you are travelling from, carry the prescription and the original dispensing packaging, and treat the absence from the lists as an absence rather than as permission. Confirm requirements with your embassy before travel.
Documentation: 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. No row is relied on for this cell, because none was found. Every one of the three appendices was searched for this substance, in Bulgarian and, where the lists print Latin codes, in Latin. 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, all three списъци searched and no entry found for Xylazine · 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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Zolpidem

Legal status: Controlled. Zolpidem is a named entry of Списък III of the Наредба за реда за класифициране на растенията и веществата като наркотични, at «Золпидем», «N,N-Диметил-2-[6-метил-2-(p-толил)имидазо[1,2-a]пиридин-3-ил]ацетамид». The row was already in the 2011 appendix, and Постановление № 246 of 2015 quotes it as the anchor for the zopiclone row that follows it, which prints the entry a second time. 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 «Золпидем» 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.
Documentation: 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 Zolpidem · 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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