Is Caffeine legal in Belarus?

Legal status

Caffeine is regulated in Belarus, and it is regulated somewhere other than the narcotics annexes. The route is food safety and labelling legislation, which carries caffeine food-ingredient controls. Caffeine is reached as a food ingredient through labelling and food safety rules, which govern declaration and permitted use rather than possession. The narcotics annexes were searched and returned no accepted row. The annexes to Постановление Министерства здравоохранения № 19 от 11 февраля 2015 г. республиканский перечень were searched on "caffeine", "CAFFEINE" at № 19/2015 with the official 2025 and 10 March 2026 amendments and returned no accepted entry, and that absence is recorded as a finding about where the regulation sits rather than as a finding that nothing regulates it. Record BEL-24. The negative half of that cross check carries a limit worth stating: the terms just quoted are in Latin script, as all eighty eight search sets in this source are, while the entries the source accepts elsewhere are mostly printed in Cyrillic, so a Latin search of a Cyrillic annex can return nothing whether or not the substance is on it.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. Belarus retains capital punishment in its general criminal law, and that is a separate question from what a drug offence carries. Criminal Code Article 328 provides neither the death penalty nor life imprisonment, so a term of years is the whole of the drug scale here. The figure itself is disputed and the dispute is stated rather than hidden: this repair reads Article 328(5) as a twenty year ceiling, the cell it replaces read the same paragraph as twelve to twenty five years, and the sources reachable here do not settle which reading is right. The earlier cell also framed the offence as articles 327 to 328 with a superscript one, a range this repair does not mention at all, so treat the article range as well as the figure as open. That scale attaches to an offence in a substance the narcotics annexes list, and this row is not one of them. Caffeine sits under food safety and labelling legislation at record BEL-24, so Article 328 does not engage on the footing that this substance is scheduled. What applies instead are the offence and penalty provisions of that separate regime, which are product, licensing and supply rules rather than narcotics rules, and this cell does not state a figure for them because the source does not carry one. The applicable rules govern declaration and permitted use in food, so the enforcement question is a labelling and compliance question and there is no narcotics exposure to state.

If prescribed or medical

The traveller rule is stated at country level and it is the same for every substance in this set: Belarus provides no lawful personal use allowance for a scheduled drug and no traveller exemption, and a scheduled medicine has to satisfy Закон Республики Беларусь «О лекарственных средствах» as well as the narcotics annexes. This row's placement is outside those annexes and inside food safety and labelling legislation, record BEL-24, so what a traveller has to satisfy is that regime's own requirements, caffeine food-ingredient controls. The source states no medical route specific to caffeine and none is supplied here. There is no schedule placement to attach, and the food rules that do apply govern products rather than people carrying them.

Documentation

Carry the paperwork the food safety and labelling legislation route requires rather than narcotics paperwork, in the original packaging, and be able to show what the product is and on what basis you hold it. The narcotics cross check that puts this row outside the республиканский перечень was run against № 19/2015 with the official 2025 and 10 March 2026 amendments on 20 September 2026, record BEL-24. A later amendment can add an entry that moves a substance from that regime onto the annexes, so recheck before travel. Nothing needs to be carried for this row beyond what the product itself is sold with.

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