Is Caffeine legal in Montenegro?

Legal status

Not listed in Montenegro's narcotics and psychotropics schedule, and placed instead under Zakon o bezbjednosti hrane, where the dossier records its legal category as food and labelling regime. The Pravilnik o utvrđivanju spiska droga, psihotropnih supstanci i bilja koje se može koristiti za proizvodnju droga, 56/2012 as amended by 54/2015, was searched for «kofein» and prints no row for it, and the instrument recorded as governing it instead is Zakon o bezbjednosti hrane. The placement is a food safety and labelling one. The dossier opened no maximum level, no energy drink limit and no labelling threshold, so nothing quantitative is established for it here. The list is not the criminal code's to move. Član 4 of the Zakon o sprječavanju zloupotrebe droga gives it to the state administration body responsible for health and requires publication in the official gazette: «Spisak droga donosi organ državne uprave nadležan za poslove zdravlja... Spisak droga se objavljuje u Službenom listu Crne Gore.» The version read is the Prilog as those tables stand after the 54/2015 amendment, read on 20 September 2026, and because Član 4 leaves the list with the health administration this does not rule out a later amendment.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. Montenegro's criminal code carries no death penalty and the dossier records none. The ceiling it records is fifteen years under Article 300 of the Krivični zakonik, the aggravated drug offence, read with the Code's imprisonment rules, and that is the only criminal article this reading names. That ceiling belongs to the drug offence and this row is placed outside the drug regime, under Zakon o bezbjednosti hrane, so Article 300 is not stated here as this substance's exposure. The penalty provisions of Zakon o bezbjednosti hrane were not opened in this reading, so what a breach of that regime carries is not established, and the category recorded for it is food and labelling regime. No numerical lawful personal use threshold was found in the controlling Act or in the list, so there is no stated weight below which the question changes, and a reduced offence or an exclusion from one trafficking paragraph is not described here as a general lawful possession safe harbour. Separately from that, and carried forward from this site's published Montenegro entry rather than re-derived from the Code in this pass: production, distribution or trafficking are reported at roughly two to fifteen years, the source given there being the United States State Department narcotics report, which also records that the individual paragraph ranges of Article 300(1) to (5) are not pinned in the sources it cites. The Article 300(6) offence of unlawfully making, acquiring, possessing, transporting or supplying equipment, material or substances knowing they are intended for narcotics production is reported at six months to five years. An addiction driven offender may receive mandatory treatment as a security measure to a maximum of three years, alongside or in place of imprisonment, and possession is reported as handled inside Article 300 with treatment diversion available. A foreigner faces expulsion for one to ten years or permanently. Every figure in this paragraph is a penalty band and none of them is a quantity threshold, which is the separate point made above. These bands describe the Article 300 drug offence, and this row is placed outside that regime, so they are recorded as Montenegro's published drug penalties and not as this substance's exposure. What this row rests on is the absence of a Prilog row for «kofein» and the placement under Zakon o bezbjednosti hrane, legal category food and labelling regime.

If prescribed or medical

Montenegro's traveller rule in this reading is a country level one and not a substance level one: scheduled medicines and other prescription products remain subject to the Zakon o ljekovima and to prescription, packaging, import and customs requirements, and a brand or street label is resolved through proved active ingredients. The placement to attach on this row is not a schedule entry at all: the search for «kofein» returned no Prilog row and the governing instrument recorded is Zakon o bezbjednosti hrane. The dossier carries no prescription column at all, which was confirmed by tools/check-dossier.py, so no per substance medical route was established here: no import permit route, no personal quantity ceiling and no certificate requirement was read for this row, and none has been invented for it. The reading behind this row is the absence of a Prilog row for «kofein» and the placement under Zakon o bezbjednosti hrane, legal category food and labelling regime.

Documentation

Carry the product in its original packaging with whatever documentation Zakon o bezbjednosti hrane requires, and do not rely on a narcotics exemption argument, because this row rests on the absence of a Prilog entry for «kofein» and on Zakon o bezbjednosti hrane rather than on a printed schedule row. The list was read on 20 September 2026. The consolidated control Act was read at https://www.gov.me/en/documents/afd3651b-7fdd-43b9-b324-6e1e1a1a36cb and the Ministry schedule at https://www.gov.me/dokumenta/5aa4ae6f-0e4b-4f30-8c5e-75f9e413b019 on 20 September 2026. No express open reuse licence was located on either page, so only the wording needed for verification is reproduced, with attribution and a direct link. The record this advice rests on is the absence of a Prilog row for «kofein» and the placement under Zakon o bezbjednosti hrane, legal category food and labelling regime.

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