Across the EU, CBD is classified as an unauthorised novel food under Regulation (EU) 2015/2283, and no Union list authorisation exists in any member state. In February 2026 EFSA set a provisional safe intake level of roughly 2 mg per day for a 70 kg adult; that is a safety opinion, not an authorisation.

Hungary runs two rules in parallel, and they do not point the same way.

The first is criminal. Hungary's controlled substance schedules moved into a new ministerial decree with effect from 1 January 2023, and schedule K1 lists cannabis, cannabis resin and extracts and tinctures of cannabis. That is a material entry rather than a substance entry - the chemical name, formula and identifier columns are empty - and it carries no THC limb and no low-THC carve-out. Section 459(1a) of the Hungarian criminal code adopts that schedule directly as its own definition of a narcotic, feeding the trafficking offence in section 176, which carries two to eight years. Quantity grades the offence rather than creating any exemption.

The second is food law, and it is what the authorities actually enforce. The medicines and nutrition agency holds that any preparation containing added or increased CBD cannot lawfully be marketed as a food or food supplement, expressly regardless of its THC content, and that hemp-seed ingredients may be used only where CBD does not exceed 25 mg/kg as a contaminant. The food safety authority names cannabidiol, cannabinol and other cannabinoids as novel foods when used as food ingredients, and extends that to hemp extracts and to any product containing an added cannabinoid extract.

The agency has also stated in writing that CBD is not currently a controlled substance in Hungary and that CBD as an active substance is not among substances controlled under national competence. Both statements can be true at once: CBD as a substance is genuinely absent from every Hungarian schedule, while the K1 entry names the material, cannabis extract, rather than the molecule.