Acetylfentanyl

Current official national law expressly controls Acetylfentanyl in United States; unauthorized possession, supply, or manufacture is prohibited.

The current consolidated federal-law schedule names acetylfentanyl.citation needed

Current official national law expressly controls Acetylfentanyl in Canada; unauthorized possession, supply, or manufacture is prohibited.

The current operative First Schedule is the new schedule in K.D.P. 367/2025, which expressly replaced the First Schedule and revoked prior controlled-drug orders. Acetylfentanyl is not treated as a separately named entry here: the DEA's official identity is N-(1-phenethylpiperidin-4-yl)-N-phenylacetamide (CAS 3258-84-2), i.e. fentanyl's N-propionyl group replaced by an acetyl group. It therefore falls within Part I paragraph 4, which covers an otherwise unlisted substance with a fentanyl or benzylfentanyl structural skeleton whether or not the N-propionyl group is replaced by another acyl group. As a Class A controlled drug, import/export, production/manufacture/preparation/extraction, supply/sale/distribution and possession are unlawful except for statutory regulations, licences and professional exceptions. The Third Schedule provides life imprisonment or a fine (or both) for section 4(1) import/export and section 5(2) production/supply offenses involving a Class A drug, and up to 12 years' imprisonment or a fine (or both) for section 6(2) possession; section 30's under-25/no-prior-conviction personal-use proviso caps imprisonment at two years. The Greek schedule text is controlling; a competent Cyprus authority or court determines any borderline identity question.

The schedule amendment was published 20 February 2026 and its new Schedule I–VI annex entered into force 23 February 2026; the official annex lists the identity above under the I NIMEKIRI heading. NPALS § 2 defines narcotic and psychotropic substances by reference to the § 3¹(1) lists and also covers substances in listed groups, their isomers, esters, ethers and salts, and medicines containing them. NPALS § 15¹(1) provides up to 300 fine units or detention for use without a doctor's prescription, or unlawful manufacture, acquisition or possession in a small quantity; § 15¹(2) provides a legal-person fine up to €3,200. For small-quantity systematic transfer/mediation, manufacture, acquisition or possession with intent to transfer, or unlawful cross-border movement, Penal Code § 183(1) provides a pecuniary punishment or up to three years' imprisonment; aggravated cases in § 183(2) carry a pecuniary punishment or up to five years. Large-quantity unlawful handling under § 184(1) carries one to ten years' imprisonment; group or specified prior-offender cases under § 184(2) carry three to fifteen years, and conduct for large proprietary gain under § 184(2¹) carries six to twenty years or life imprisonment. These are conduct- and quantity-dependent statutory penalties, not a finding about a particular case, licence or prescription. No recreational authorization or universal gram threshold for a large quantity is established.

Finlex's latest amendment to the narcotics schedule (Government Decree 1119/2025) replaced Annexes I, II and IV and entered into force on 29 December 2025. Its Annex 1, under the 1961 Convention list I, expressly lists acetylfentanyl by the chemical identity N-fenyyli-N-[1-(2-fenyylietyyli)piperidin-4-yyli]asetamidi. The Narcotics Act defines narcotics to include substances in lists I–IV of the 1961 Convention and delegates the detailed substance list to Government decree. It generally prohibits production, manufacture, import, export, transport, transit, distribution, trade, handling, possession and use, with exceptions only for separately authorized medical, research and supervisory purposes. Unlawful manufacture, import/export/transport, sale/distribution, possession or attempted acquisition is a Chapter 50 section 1 narcotics offence punishable by a fine or imprisonment for up to two years; unlawful use or possession/attempted acquisition of a small amount for personal use is a section 2 a use offence punishable by a fine or up to six months' imprisonment; aggravated narcotics offence under section 2 carries imprisonment from one to ten years when the statutory aggravating conditions are met.

Current official national law expressly controls Acetylfentanyl in Germany; unauthorized possession, supply, or manufacture is prohibited.

The Irish instrument supplies a generic structural rule rather than an exact-name listing. The 2021 instrument states that it substitutes Schedule 1 of the 2017 Regulations.citation needed

The Ministry of Health implementation notice identifies acetylfentanyl as a narcotic and states its effective date.citation needed

Cabinet Regulation No. 847 expired on 31 May 2021. The current legal basis is Annex 2 to the Law On the Procedures for the Coming into Force and Application of the Criminal Law, whose current edition is effective from 1 December 2025. Annex 2, Chapter II, List I, paragraph 8(2) expressly names acetilfentanili and gives the base chemical identity and a detailed derivative rule. The substance is in List I, which the Legal Circulation Law describes as prohibited especially dangerous narcotic substances. Section 5 prohibits cultivation, production, manufacture, import, export, distribution, advertising, transport, storage, transfer, acquisition, use and transit through Latvia of List I plants, substances and medicines. Section 7 permits a narrow State Agency of Medicines authorization for medical, veterinary or scientific research, physical/chemical characterization and training; this is not a consumer, prescription or recreational exception. Under Criminal Law Section 253, unauthorized manufacture, acquisition, storage, transportation or forwarding without disposal intent is punishable by up to three years or alternative sanctions; where committed by a prior-agreement group or involving a large amount, three to ten years, optional property confiscation and probation supervision up to three years. Section 253.1 covers disposal intent or unlawful disposal: two to eight years (or three to ten years for a prior-agreement group), and five to fifteen years for an organized group, large amount, serious consequences or listed aggravated locations/victims, with optional confiscation and probation supervision up to three years. Section 253.2 provides the small-amount rules: for unauthorized acquisition/storage without disposal intent (after the person has been warned), temporary imprisonment, probation supervision, community service or a fine; small-amount disposal-intent manufacture/acquisition/storage/transport/forwarding or sale carries up to three years or alternatives. Annex 2 sets the acetylfentanyl small amount at 0.001 g and large amount from 1 g. The thresholds qualify criminal-law provisions and do not legalize any List I handling. Section 254's voluntary surrender/notification rule may release a person from criminal liability for use, acquisition, storage, transportation or forwarding in the circumstances specified there; it is a statutory limitation, not authorization to possess or supply the substance.

The current Lithuanian schedule does not separately print the name Acetilfentanilis; it uses the operative generic fentanyl-and-bioisosteric-derivatives group. The group describes N-[1-(2-phenylethyl)piperidin-4-yl]-N-phenylethanamide derivatives and expressly allows the unsubstituted/parent framework and specified substitutions, ring replacements and salts/ethers/esters/N-oxides. Acetylfentanyl is the acetamide (ethanamide) parent N-(1-(2-phenylethyl)piperidin-4-yl)-N-phenylacetamide, so the current group is the controlling designation. An earlier official consolidated edition expressly listed ‘Acetilfentanilis (Acetylfentanyl)’ and records its addition by Order V-1062 (21 September 2015), confirming the substance identity and continuity of control. List I is described as narcotic and psychotropic substances prohibited for medical use, except where an item is in a registered medicinal product; no source establishes a prescription, consumer or recreational exception for acetylfentanyl. The current quantity recommendations assign the generic fentanyl group a small quantity of not more than 0.0005 g, a large quantity above 0.005 g and a very large quantity above 0.025 g; these are criminal-law quantity recommendations, not lawful possession allowances. Criminal Code Article 259 covers unauthorized production, processing, acquisition, keeping, transport or dispatch without intent to distribute: public works, a fine, restriction of liberty, arrest or imprisonment up to two years; small-quantity conduct is a criminal misdemeanour with public works, a fine, restriction of liberty or arrest, and voluntary medical help or surrender can produce the statutory exemption in Article 259(3). Article 260 covers distribution intent or sale/distribution: 2–8 years; large quantity with distribution intent or distribution: 8–10 years; very large quantity: 10–15 years; legal persons are also liable. Exact charging depends on quantity, intent and other statutory elements.

The regulation, last amended 15 May 2026, lists acetylfentanyl under the N I+IV designation and prohibits it under §5.citation needed

The July 2026 official amendment (Dz.U. 2026 poz. 934) enumerates changes that add other substances and do not replace the acetylfentanyl entries, which remain listed as a narcotic substance.citation needed

Resolution No. 681, as amended 11 June 2025, places acetylfentanyl in List I. The List I heading states that turnover in Russia is prohibited; the narcotic-drug subsection expressly names acetylfentanyl and its derivatives, with a carve-out only for derivatives separately listed. The acetylfentanyl entry was introduced by Resolution No. 1215 of 23 November 2012, and its wording was amended by Resolution No. 256 of 1 April 2016. Resolution No. 1002 sets the criminal-law quantity thresholds for acetylfentanyl at more than 0.5 g (significant), more than 2.5 g (large), and more than 500 g (particularly large), for Articles 228, 228.1, 229 and 229.1; these thresholds classify liability and do not create a lawful possession amount. Article 228 covers illegal acquisition, storage, transportation, manufacture or processing without intent to sell: up to 3 years for significant quantity, 3–10 years for large quantity, and 10–15 years for particularly large quantity (with statutory alternative/additional sanctions). Article 228.1 covers illegal production, sale or forwarding: 4–8 years under part 1, 5–12 years under part 2, 8–15 years under part 3, 10–20 years under part 4, and 15–20 years or life imprisonment under part 5, depending on quantity and aggravating circumstances. Federal Law No. 3-FZ defines drug turnover broadly (including production, manufacture, processing, storage, transportation, forwarding, release, sale, distribution, acquisition, use, import, export and destruction) and defines illicit turnover as turnover violating Russian law. Acetylfentanyl is not available for consumer, recreational or ordinary prescription use; the List I prohibition and derivative carve-out are the controlling limitations.

The current Läkemedelsverket consolidated schedule expressly lists acetylfentanyl by this chemical identity in Swedish list I and records international N I+IV. List I covers substances normally without medical use. HSLF-FS 2015:12 brought the acetylfentanyl schedule entry into force on 18 August 2015. Under the current Narcotic Drugs Control Act, import, export, manufacture, offering for sale, transfer and possession are limited to medical, scientific, specially urgent public-benefit or authorized industrial purposes; possession is restricted to the persons or entities specified in section 7. Unlawful possession, use, transfer and other handling are narcotics offences. The separate health-dangerous-goods regime does not apply to goods that are narcotics under section 2(1) of Lag (1999:42), subject to the statutory transition rule in section 15 of the Narcotic Drugs Control Act; acetylfentanyl is not treated as a separate hälsofarlig vara under the current health-dangerous-goods annex. The narcotics schedule's general scope also covers specified salts, esters/ethers, possible isomers and stereoisomers unless otherwise stated.

Acetylfentanyl is expressly listed in the current official BetmVV-EDI Annex 5 Verzeichnis d. BetmKV Art. 3(2)(d) defines Verzeichnis d as prohibited controlled substances. Accordingly, the substance is not a normal prescription or consumer-market product. BetmG Art. 8(3) authorizes prohibition of additional narcotics and Art. 8(5) allows the BAG, unless an international agreement prevents it, to issue narrow exception permits for cultivation, import, manufacture and placing on the market for scientific research, medicine development or limited medical use; Art. 8(6)-(8) provide further tightly bounded authorizations. Outside authorization, BetmG Art. 19(1) covers cultivation, manufacture, storage, shipment, transport, import, export, transit, sale, prescription, supply, placing on the market, possession, acquisition, financing and preparatory acts, with imprisonment up to three years or a monetary penalty. A serious case under Art. 19(2) carries imprisonment of at least one year (a monetary penalty may also be imposed), including where the conduct can endanger many people's health, is gang-based, commercial at high turnover/profit, or commercial near youth educational institutions. Unauthorised intentional consumption and an Art. 19 offense committed for one's own consumption are separately punishable by a fine under Art. 19a; the statute therefore does not make a blanket claim that every use receives the Art. 19 penalty.

Turkey's official Decision No. 2016/8548 expressly places acetylfentanyl under Law No. 2313 by its exact chemical identity. The decision was made on 16 February 2016 but Article 3 makes it effective on publication; the operative date is therefore 8 March 2016 (Resmî Gazete No. 29647). Law No. 2313 Article 19 authorizes additional toxicomania-producing poisons to be brought under the law by presidential decision; Article 20 provides seizure of narcotics brought in without authorization, sold without authorization, or held by persons without legal authority. For the resulting narcotic status, Penal Code Article 188(1) punishes unauthorized manufacture, import or export with 20–30 years' imprisonment and 2,000–20,000 judicial-days fine; Article 188(3) punishes unauthorized domestic sale, offering for sale, giving, dispatch, transport, storage, purchase, acceptance or possession with at least 10 years and 1,000–20,000 judicial-days fine. Article 188(4)(a) provides a half increase when the substance is a synthetic opioid or derivative; Article 191 separately provides 2–5 years for purchase, acceptance, possession or use for personal use, with the statutory prosecution-deferral and supervision regime. The schedule decision itself does not state a medical or personal-use exception for acetylfentanyl; any authorization must come from the applicable narcotics and medicines rules.

Current official national law expressly controls Acetylfentanyl in United Kingdom; unauthorized possession, supply, or manufacture is prohibited.

Controlled since October 1, 2015. Illegal to sell, buy, import, export, and manufacture.⁶