Is CBN legal in Bulgaria?

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A flag of Bulgaria, next to the chemical structure of CBN

Formal status

Like CBD, cannabinol falls under Regulation (EU) 2015/2283 as an unauthorised novel food across the EU: no member state has granted authorisation for it.

Bulgaria's food supplements ordinance (Наредба за хранителните добавки) reaches CBN without ever mentioning it. Article 13(3), as amended with effect from 25 April 2025, prohibits food supplements from containing any novel food missing from the Union list under Regulation (EU) 2017/2470, and Articles 13(4) and 12(1) separately bar narcotic substances and plants. Neither provision turns on which cannabinoid is involved.

Beyond that ordinance, no Bulgarian source addresses CBN specifically - not food safety agency material, enforcement reporting, or national legislation. The agency's own position is likewise worded around cannabinoids as a group.

Do we sell here?

Yes, for now: Sleep spray, Sleep capsules.

CBN sits in exactly the same position as CBD here. Bulgarian authorities address cannabinoids as a group rather than naming individual ones, and anything that changed our view on CBD would change it here too.

Outlook

Nothing in Bulgaria addresses CBN by name, and the rules that do catch it are written by category, so its position will follow whatever happens to CBD. A CBN-forward formulation would gain nothing here.

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Reporting that Bulgaria had become the first EU country to permit free sale of CBD is clarified: the Free Sale Certificate was company-specific, issued jointly by the Ministry of Agriculture and the food safety agency, and worked by classifying the products as traditional rather than novel foods.

NutraIngredients

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Parliament rejects a bill that would have permitted industrial hemp to be processed in Bulgaria in addition to being grown. The Customs Agency objected to a proposed 1% THC threshold below which hemp would not be treated as a narcotic. Cultivation remains lawful; domestic processing does not.

Cannabis Law Report

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A regional directorate of the Bulgarian Food Safety Agency halts the sale of hemp-flavoured gums and energy drinks in a Sofia shop, recording THC content above the 0.2% threshold. An official states that cannabinoids are forbidden as ingredients in food and that the abbreviation "CBD" should not appear on a food label.

Tribune.bg

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An amendment promulgated in State Gazette ДВ бр. 35 takes effect, rewriting Article 13(3) of the Ordinance on Food Supplements (Наредба за хранителните добавки) to bar food supplements from containing novel foods that are not on the Union list under Regulation (EU) 2017/2470. Articles 13(4) and 12(1) of the same ordinance separately bar substances and plants classified as narcotic. The prohibition operates by category and does not name CBD.

Ordinance on Food Supplements, consolidated text

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The Customs Agency reports Operation Hydra: more than 1,000 courier parcels containing narcotics, ordered online via EU-based platforms, intercepted in under two weeks across express courier terminals. Officials state that all parcels ordered through online platforms are inspected. The seizures were narcotics concealed in vapes, sweets and baked goods; no cannabinoid supplement was reported among them.

National Customs Agency

Ingredients

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