Is Melatonin legal in Cyprus?

Formal status

There is no EU-harmonised rule for melatonin. It sits outside the cannabinoid framework entirely and is governed nationally, member state by member state - limits range from 0.3 mg in Belgium to 2 mg in Spain, with several countries setting none at all. The one EU-level figure is the authorised health claim in Regulation (EU) 432/2012, which is conditional on 1 mg per quantified portion.

We identified no Cypriot national maximum for melatonin and no Cypriot decision reclassifying it as a medicine. Cyprus runs food supplements through a notification and licensing regime administered by the Ministry of Health's Public Health Services, under which a product already lawfully distributed as a food supplement in another EU member state ordinarily requires notification rather than a full licence. We found no national list of restricted other substances carrying maximum levels.

That is an absence of evidence rather than a positive confirmation, and we record it as such.

Do we sell here?

Yes, for now: Sleep spray, Sleep capsules.

Cyprus has no national limit on melatonin that we have been able to find, and no decision treating it as a medicine. Our 1 mg dose is also exactly the amount the EU's own authorised sleep claim is built on.

We want to be straight about the limits of that. We are reporting that we could not find a Cypriot rule, not that we have confirmation there isn't one - a weaker statement than the one we can make about a country like Spain, and we would rather say so than round it up. We are putting the question to the Cypriot authorities directly.

Separately: whether we can ship to Cyprus at all is decided by the CBD rules, not by melatonin.

Outlook

No Cypriot melatonin rule has surfaced in either direction, and nothing suggests one is coming. The useful step is a direct query to the Ministry of Health's Public Health Services to convert an absence of findings into a confirmed position. Until that happens we hold the cautious rating rather than upgrade it on the strength of a missing rule.

Ingredients

Browse legality of our other ingredients in Cyprus.