The Schengen Article 75 certificate

Who is the Article 75 certificate for?

Germany's Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices describes it this way:

For journeys of up to 30 days within the member states of the Schengen Agreement, controlled drugs prescribed by a physician may be carried if the traveller has a certificate issued in accordance with Article 75 of the Schengen Implementing Convention and completed by the treating physician.

Before the journey begins, the certificate must be authenticated by the competent supreme health authority of the Land or by an authority authorised to perform this task.

Source: Federal Institute for Drugs and Medical Devices (BfArM), Germany, Travelling with controlled drugs. Read 21 Oct 2026.

Croatia's customs administration states its version of the rule in terms of residence:

As an exception, persons who are domiciled in or are residents of the Republic of Croatia, traveling to countries of the Schengen area, may possess medicine that contains a narcotic in the quantity necessary for personal use for a maximum of 30 days on the basis of a certificate issued by an authorized physician on a prescribed form (chosen doctor of medicine or specialist doctor of medicine).

Source: Croatian Customs Administration, Bringing in medicine and narcotics. Read 21 Oct 2026.

What does a traveller from Australia carry instead?

German customs sets out a separate rule for arrivals from outside the Schengen area:

Before entering Germany from a country that is not a member of the Schengen Agreement, patients shall have their prescribing physician issue, and carry on their journey, a multilingual certificate specifying the individual and daily doses, the name of the active ingredient and the duration of the journey.

Source: German Customs (Zoll), Medicinal products and narcotics: entering Germany. Read 21 Oct 2026.

Other Schengen countries set their own rules for arrivals from outside the area, and they differ. What each record says is below; the country page has the full rule, including the documents and the quantity allowed.

What do the country records say?

• Croatia

  Croatia (an EU and Schengen state) allows ADHD stimulants for personal use with a valid prescription and a doctor's certificate endorsed by the traveller's home health authority. Schengen-area residents should carry an Article 75 Schengen certificate issued in their country of residence. A visitor may carry up to 5 days' supply on medical documentation. Declare the medicine's name and quantity to customs on entry from outside the EU, showing the medical documentation; not declaring is a misdemeanour (art 59 point 3).

  Official source: Bringing in medicine and narcotics. Record reviewed 5 Oct 2026.

• Denmark

  Prescription is the authorisation; a Schengen certificate (pillepas) can be ordered at a pharmacy. The pillepas (Schengen certificate) is issued only to residents of Denmark ('Pillepasset udstedes gratis til borgere, som er bosat i Danmark'), so it is not a route for an Australian; carry the prescription and a doctor's certificate.

  Official source: Importing medicine with euphoriant substances. Record reviewed 20 Jul 2026.

• France

  France classes the ADHD stimulants as stupéfiants (narcotics). You may bring them for personal use only if you carry them yourself, with the original prescription, up to the treatment length on the prescription and no more than 28 days. Residents of another Schengen state may carry an Article 75 certificate from their home authority.

  Official source: You are traveling with medicines. Record reviewed 20 Jul 2026.

• Sweden

  Travellers must carry a valid prescription and proof the medicine is for their own medical use. All four ADHD stimulants are on Sweden's narcotics list II, so arriving from outside Schengen you may bring at most 5 days' use per entry (LVFS 2011:9 s 10). For more, apply in advance to Läkemedelsverket for an exception (Narcotics Control Ordinance 1992:1554 s 5). Entering from another Schengen state, up to 30 days in proportion to the trip is allowed (s 5 a), but amphetamine and methylphenidate (Annex 2 of the Ordinance) then need an Article 75 certificate from your home country, which Australia does not issue.

  Official source: Resa med medicin (Travelling with medicine) - Tullverket. Record reviewed 10 Oct 2026.