LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

of July 10, 2025 No. 201

About turnover of narcotic, psychotropic substances and the plants, and also precursors containing them, new psychoactive agents and substitutes of drugs

The parliament adopts this organic law.

This law partially shifts:

– Regulations of the European parliament and Council (EU) No. 273/2004 of February 11, 2004 about precursors of drugs published in the Official magazine of the European Union by L 047 of February 18, 2004, CELEX: 32004R0273, with the subsequent changes made by the Delegated regulations of the Commission (EU) 2024/1331 of February 28, 2024;

– Regulations of Council (EU) the No. 111/2005 of December 22, 2004 establishing rules of monitoring of trade in precursors of drugs between the European Union and the third countries, published in the Official magazine of the European Union by L 022 of January 26, 2005, CELEX: 32005R0111, with the subsequent changes made by the Delegated regulations of the Commission (EU) 2024/1331 of February 28, 2024;

– Executive regulations of the Commission (EU) 2015/1013 of June 25, 2015, No. 273/2004 of the European parliament and Council establishing rules of application of Regulations (EU) about precursors of drugs and Regulations of Council (EU) No. 111/2005, of the establishing rule of monitoring of trade in precursors of drugs between the European Union and the third countries published in the Official magazine of the European Union by L 162 of June 27, 2015, CELEX: 32015R1013;

– The delegated regulations of the Commission (EU) 2015/1011 of April 24, 2015, No. 111/2005, supplementing Regulations of the European parliament and Council (EU) No. 273/2004 and the Regulations of Council (EU) No. 1277/2005, establishing rules of monitoring of trade in precursors of drugs between the European Community and the third countries and canceling Regulations of the Commission (EU) published in the Official magazine of the European Union by L 162 of June 27, 2015, CELEX: 32015R1011;

– The framework decision of Council 2004/757/JAI of October 25, 2004 about establishment of the minimum provisions concerning the crime components and punishments applied in the field of drug trafficking, published in the Official magazine of the European Union by L 335 of November 11, 2004, CELEX: 32004F0757, with the subsequent changes made by the Delegated directive of the Commission (EU) 2022/1326 of March 18, 2022;

– Regulations of the European parliament and Council (EU) 2023/1322 of June 27, 2023 about the Agency of the European Union on drugs (EUDA) and about cancellation of Regulations (EU) No. 1920/2006, published in the Official magazine of the European Union by L 166 of June 30, 2023 CELEX: 32023R1322.

Chapter I. General provisions

Article 1. Scope of this law

(1) Operation of this law extends to the activities connected with narcotic, psychotropic substances and the plants containing them, precursors of drugs, medicines containing narcotic, psychotropic substances and/or precursors, new psychoactive agents, substitutes of drugs and ethnobotanical means, performed in the territory of the Republic of Moldova in the medical, scientific, industrial purposes, for the purpose of examination, in the gardening or permitted by the law other purposes, and also to activities for the prevention, control and monitoring of their turnover.

(2) Operation of this law extends on the physical persons and legal entity performing the activities connected with provided by part (1) substances and products, and also on the competent authorities performing powers on issue of permissions, supervision and control in the field.

Article 2. Concepts

For the purposes of this law the following concepts are used:

1) abuse of the substances, plants and medicines containing narcotic, psychotropic substances and precursors (further – abuse), – permanent or incidental deliberate overconsumption of the substances, plants and medicines containing narcotic, psychotropic substances or precursors out of the reasonable medical purposes in doses or methods which can make negative impact on physical or mental health of the person;

2) the intermediary activities connected with precursors (further – intermediary activities), – the activities for the organization of acquisition, sale or supply of the classified substances performed by physical person or legal entity for the purpose of reaching an agreement between the parties or for the purpose of making of actions on behalf of at least one of the parties without possession these substances or establishments of control over the transaction;

3) the special operating authority, connected with precursors of drugs (further – special permission), – the allowing document certifying observance of certain conditions and granting the right to pharmaceutical organizations, veterinary offices, Customs Service, the General inspectorate of police, the General inspectorate of Boundary police, National administration of penal institutions, organizations of the Ministry of Defence and military units to fulfill official duties;

4) cannabis – sort Cannabis plant tops with flowers or fruits, and also its pitch, irrespective of the botanical name or type, except for seeds and leaves if they are not followed by tops, containing tetrahydrocannabinol in the concentration causing psychoactive action, and falling under verification regime of narcotic or psychotropic substances;

5) industrial/garden hemp – the sort Cannabis plant with the content of tetrahydrocannabinol of no more 0,3 of percent determined by way of the chemical analysis which is carried out by accredited laboratory cultivated in the industrial, gardening or food purposes for receipt of fibers, stalks, seeds, oil, biomass and other derivative products with use exception in the medical, recreational or experimental purposes;

6) turnover of narcotic, psychotropic substances and the plants, and also precursors, new psychoactive agents, ethnobotanical means and substitutes of drugs containing them – all types of activity including scientific research and experimental activities, development, production, preparation, transformation, extraction and conversion, cultivation, collection and destruction of the plants containing narcotic and psychotropic substances, destruction of these substances, precursors, new psychoactive agents, ethnobotanical means and substitutes of drugs, and also their import and export, transportation, delivery, transfer, distribution, trade in them, their leave, use and acquisition, ownership of them, their storage and warehousing, and also the intermediary activities connected with precursors;

7) the International committee on control over drugs – the body founded based on the Single convention of the United Nations on drugs of 1961 with the amendments made to it according to the Protocol of 1972 (further – the Single convention on drugs of 1961);

8) the concluded international conventions about narcotic and psychotropic substances – the Single convention on drugs of 1961, the Convention of the United Nations on psychotropic substances of 1971 (further – the Convention on psychotropic substances of 1971) and the Convention on fight against illicit trafficking in drugs and psychotropic substances of 1988 which the Republic of Moldova joined;

9) cultivation of the plants containing narcotic or psychotropic substances (further – cultivation), – set of the works which are carried out with the plants relating to the types containing narcotic or psychotropic substances including their crops, replacing, care of them (for example, watering, weeding, processing by fertilizers and other actions), collection (including collection of opium, leaves cooks, cannabis or kannabisny pitch from plants producers), storage, use and conversion of these plants for the purpose of receipt of the corresponding substances;

10) the final receiver of precursors (further – the final receiver) – physical person or legal entity to which the classified substances for specific purposes are delivered and which can not be the end user, but who should accept these substances for their subsequent use according to legislation provisions;

11) drugs – the substances regulated by the Single convention on drugs of 1961 or the Convention on psychotropic substances of 1971 and also any subjects to national control of substance and plant included in the list 3 of the tables I-III provided by appendix 1;

12) psychoactive action – the effect which had in case of the use of product per capita including the excitement or oppression of the central nervous system causing change of mental functions and behavior or promoting development of physical or mental dependence;

13) export – any export from customs area of the Republic of Moldova of the substances regulated by this law;

14) the exporter – the physical person or legal entity responsible for implementation of transaction for export of the substances regulated by this law on behalf of which the customs declaration is drawn up;

15) manufacturer – the physical person or legal entity performing activities for production during which raw materials will be transformed to finished goods or semifinished products;

16) production – any activities performed for receipt of the substances which are subject to control including their cleaning and transformation to other subjects to substance control, and also production of the products and/or medicines except for prepared according to the recipe in pharmaceutical organization;

17) import – any import to customs area of the Republic of Moldova of the substances regulated by this law;

18) the importer – the physical person or legal entity responsible for implementation of transaction for import of the substances regulated by this law on behalf of which the customs declaration is drawn up;

19) introduction of precursors on the market (further – introduction on the market) – any paid or free delivery of the classified substances, including their warehousing, production, conversion, trade in them, their distribution or broker activities with them for the purpose of their delivery to the territory of the Republic of Moldova;

20) special registration for implementation of the activities connected with precursors of drugs (further – special registration), – registration of the activities performed by pharmaceutical organizations, veterinary offices, Customs Service, the General inspectorate of police, the General inspectorate of Boundary police, National administration of penal institutions, organizations of the Ministry of Defence and military units for the purpose of execution of official obligations by them;

21) opium poppy – the plant relating to type of Papaver somniferum L.;

22) the medicines containing narcotic, psychotropic substances and/or precursors (further – medicines), – any medicinal solution, any medicinal mix or medicine, irrespective of their physical condition, the containing one or several narcotic, psychotropic substances or precursors intended for therapeutic application produced by industrial method or prepared in drugstore according to the main or ofitsinalny prescription copy-book;

23) the operator of precursors (further – the operator) – any physical person or legal entity participating in import or export of the classified substances or in the accompanying intermediary activities including persons performing activities for filling of customs declarations both within the main activities, and within minor types of activity;

24) the plants containing narcotic or psychotropic substances (further – plants), – the plants containing the narcotic or psychotropic substances coming from the Republic of Moldova or acquired on import;

25) precursor of drugs (further – precursor) – the substance of natural or synthetic origin used as raw materials in case of production of narcotic and psychotropic substances, provided by the regulations approved by the Government;

26) the medicine containing new psychoactive agents – the mix containing one or several new psychoactive agents which are not included in lists of the substances regulated by this law, and which are not allowed for use in the medical purposes according to the legislation;

27) the recipe on the medicines which are subject to national control (further – the recipe), – the official document issued in written or electronic form signed and certified by the doctor who contains recommendations about treatment of accurately identified patient and based on whom the druggist is authorized to allot certain amount of the medicines included in the tables I-IV provided by appendix 1;

28) natural material – organism or its part in any form or any substance, that is the substance existing in the nature in not changed type, raw, or processed by exclusively manual, mechanical or gravitational methods which is present at the nature, by means of dissolution in water, flotation, water extraction, steam distillation or heating only for the purpose of removal of water, or taken from air by any methods;

29) ethnobotanical means – mixes of substances in any physical condition and/or plants or mix of herbs and parts of the plants processed by the chemicals which are subject to control causing the changes accompanied with physiological and/or mental effects, hallucinogenic and/or psychoactive action;

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