Is Caffeine legal in Romania?

Legal status

Caffeine is not controlled in Romania, and that is a completed finding rather than an open question. The search recorded for this row is «Căutare exactă 18 Sep 2026: “cafeină”; “cofeină”; “Caffeine”, în Legea 143/2000, tabelele I-III şi clauzele privind sărurile şi produsele. Rezultat: nicio înscriere pentru Caffeine şi nicio trimitere nominală în Legea 194/2011.». Absence from Romania's named schedules is a completed negative result for this slug; it is not deferred as an unperformed search. Romania uses the simplest of the three models: the schedule sits inside the Act. Article 1(a) makes Tables I to IV integral to Legea 143/2000 and supplies the mechanism for adding, deleting or moving an entry. Tables I and II are droguri de mare risc, high-risk drugs; Table III is droguri de risc. A mixture is reached through a listed constituent. Legea 194/2011 is a separate products regime and does not turn an unlisted name into a scheduled drug. This reading is stated as in force on 18 September 2026. The consolidated text identifies Legea 30/2025 as the latest schedule amendment included, effective 29 March 2025, and states that it contains all officially published amendments through that Act. An absence is a statement about a list at a moment, and this one is stated as at that consolidation and no later.

Consequences if caught

Capital and life exposure. Romania has no death penalty and no life sentence for a drug offence. And none of the drug penalties reach caffeine, because they attach to the substances on the Romania list and caffeine is not one of them. The scale runs by table and by conduct. Article 4(1) sets 3 months to 2 years or a fine for unauthorised own-use acts involving a Table III risk drug, and article 4(2) sets 6 months to 3 years where the drug is high-risk. Article 2 sets 3 to 10 years for risk-drug circulation and 5 to 15 years for high-risk. Article 3(2) sets 10 to 20 years for unauthorised import or export of a high-risk drug. Article 9 raises the special limits by one third where the act finances drug consumption, and article 13(2) permits up to 5 further years in the specified education-related circumstance. Those provisions are stated here so the scale is visible, not because they apply to caffeine. If a listed constituent is proved in a given material, that constituent is assessed on its own and carries its own exposure.

If prescribed or medical

There is no controlled drug prescription question for caffeine in Romania, because the controlled list does not carry it. Whether caffeine is available on prescription, over the counter or on general sale is a question for the Romania medicines and pharmacy regime, which this row did not audit. the Romanian National Agency for Medicines and Medical Devices is the body that answers it. Treat the supply route as unread rather than as open.

Documentation

Carry caffeine as the Romania medicines regime allows and do not read this row as a carriage permission, because a substance that is off the controlled list is not thereby free to cross a border. That is the carriage answer for caffeine and it is deliberately narrow. No traveller permit scheme, declaration form or carriage allowance for caffeine appears in what was read here. Provenance follows. The instrument searched was Legea 143/2000, whose Tables I to IV article 1(a) makes integral to the Act itself, on Portal Legislativ, the official legislation portal of the Ministry of Justice, and the ANMDMR consolidated text on 18 September 2026 and no entry for caffeine was found.

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