Is Xylazine legal in Moldova?

Legal status

Xylazine is not on Moldova's narcotic and psychotropic lists, and this cell states that as a finding rather than as a gap. The repair searched Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 for "xylazine", "XYLAZINE" and accepted no list row, then went on to record the body of rules that does reach the substance, which is veterinary medicines legislation, described in the record as xylazine veterinary medicine controls. That placement is held as record MOL-87. The veterinary route is the only one of its kind in the set, and it is the reason a human medicine framing would produce the wrong documents and the wrong authority to ask. Being outside the narcotics lists is not being outside the law, and nothing here says the substance may be carried or supplied freely. Legea nr. 382/1999 cu privire la circulaţia substanţelor stupefiante, psihotrope şi a precursorilor and the decision made under it govern listed substances; this row is answered by different legislation. Read as at 20 September 2026, against the official consolidated record of the decision.

Consequences if caught

Capital exposure: none. Moldova provides no death penalty for a drug offence, and Article 217¹ of the Codul penal does not provide life imprisonment either, so the top of the scale is a term of years. The fifteen year ceiling at Article 217¹(4) is not the route for this row. Article 217¹ reaches substances carried on the lists approved by Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006, and record MOL-87 places this one outside them after searching "xylazine", "XYLAZINE". Stating the narcotics ceiling as this row's exposure would be a cell arguing against its own finding, which is why the ceiling is named and then set aside rather than repeated as though it applied. The repair did not transcribe the penalty provisions of the regime it did name, so no figure is stated here either. What attaches instead runs through veterinary medicines control, the only row in the repair answered that way, so a human medicines framing would be the wrong one to apply here. [Likely] Carried forward from the published entry and not re-derived from statute in this pass: The ceiling is 15 years. Criminal Code article 217 with a superscript one, subsection (4), provides a term of seven to fifteen years.

If prescribed or medical

Moldova states its traveller rule at country level rather than substance by substance. A scheduled medicine has to satisfy Legea nr. 1409/1997 cu privire la medicamente together with the prescription, packaging, import and customs rules, and a criminal quantity band under Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006 is not a lawful traveller allowance. Record MOL-87 places this row outside those lists, under veterinary medicines legislation, so the narcotics layer does not sit on top of a prescription for it and the general medicines law is what governs supply. The repair records no traveller rule written about this substance, so that half of the question is deferred here rather than answered, with the placement attached so a reader can see what is and is not settled. Do not read the placement as permission to carry a supply without the prescription and the dispensing packaging. The route is the veterinary medicines one, so the paperwork that matters names an animal and a prescribing veterinarian, and a human medicines framing would produce the wrong documents.

Documentation

Carry the paperwork the separate regime asks for rather than narcotics paperwork, because record MOL-87 places this row under veterinary medicines legislation and not on the lists. For a medicinal product that means the prescription and the original dispensing packaging; for a product controlled by excise, labelling or product safety rules it means quantity and declaration limits that this repair did not audit. Confirm with the Moldovan authority for that regime before you travel. Provenance follows. The controlling text is Hotărârea Guvernului nr. 79/2006, read in the official consolidated record on 20 September 2026 through the legislation portal legis.md, with the first and final annex headings and the final available amendment page checked. The searched terms for this row were "xylazine", "XYLAZINE", and the record describes the reaching regime as xylazine veterinary medicine controls. Carry the veterinary prescription and the packaging naming the animal and the prescribing veterinarian, because that is the paperwork the reaching regime actually asks for.

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