You may bring with you goods representing a total value of NOK 6000 free of customs and excise duties.

Within the limit of NOK 6000, you are allowed to bring with you the following articles free of customs and excise duty:

• Alcoholic beverages:

  • 2 litres of beer, 1 litre of spirits (maximum 60% proof) and 1 litre of wine (maximum 22% proof).
    or
    2 litres of beer and 2 litres of wine, but no spirits.

• Tobacco:

  • 200 cigarettes or 250 grams of other tobacco products and 200 leaves of cigarette papers.

• Meat, meat products and cheese:

  • A total of 10 kg of meat and meat products, cheese and foodstuffs except dog and cat food.

• Currency:

  • When you enter Norway, you may bring with you notes and coins (Norwegian and foreign) to a total value of NOK 25 000 (equivalent of approx £ 1900). If the currency you are carrying exceeds this amount, notification must be made on a prescribed form and given to the customs authorities upon arrival in Norway. The relevant form can be obtained from the customs authorities.
    There is no limit on travellers' cheques.

• In your luggage or for your own consumption you may bring with you meat/meat products, milk/dairy products, eggs and other animal foodstuffs from EEA countries. Possibilities to import such products from countries outside the EEA have to be investigated in advance in each individual case.

• You must be at last 20 year of age to bring in spirits and at least 18 to bring in wine, beer, cigarettes and tobacco products.

• Children below the age of 12 are not allowed to bring with them any customs- and excise-free foodstuffs with the exception of soft drinks, chocolates and sweets.

Import of the following goods is prohibited without special permission:

Drugs, medicines and poisons (minor quantities of medicine for personal use are permitted), alcohol over 60 % per vol., weapons and ammunition, fireworks, potatoes, mammals, birds and exotic animals, plants/parts thereof for cultivation.

You may only bring medicine for your personal use, and you should have a letter from your doctor attesting to your need for the medicine.

If you are entering Norway with goods or currencies in excess of the permitted limit, you have to notify the customs authorities accordingly of your own accord. It is a punishable offence to give incorrect information to the customs authorities.

When you are leaving Norway:

• You may take with you Norwegian and foreign bank notes and coins at a total amount of NOK 25 000. Should the amount you are taking with you exceed the above limit you have to declare this on a form provided by the customs authorities upon request. This form has to be handed over to the customs officer at border crossing.
  There is no limit for travellers' cheques.

• It is against the law to take endangered animal and plant species as well as products thereof out of Norway. Examples of endangered species which in Norway are covered by these regulations are wolf, arctic fox, wolverine as well as some birds of prey. Export of the eggs of endangered bird species is prohibited as well.

• Antiques and ancient objects of artistic, cultural or historical value may not be taken out of the country without special permission.

For further information on custom regulations:

Norwegian Customs and Excise (Toll- og avgiftsdirektoratet)

Schweigaards gate 15

Postboks 8122 Dep.

N-0032 Oslo

Norway

Tel.: +47 22 86 03 00

Internett: www.toll.no

E-mail: tad@toll.no

Useful links:

• Norwegian Tourist Board

• Directorate for Nature Management

• Ministry of the Environment

• Norwegian Food Safety Authority

• Norwegian Directorate for the Prevention of Alcohol and Drug Problems

• Norwegian Directorate for Health and Social Welfare, Dept. of Tobacco Control

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