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Montenegro: for restaurants and takeaways

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In Montenegro the app follows the food safety law (Zakon o bezbjednosti hrane, Sl. list CG 57/15) and its hygiene rules. The Food Safety Administration inspects, and every kitchen needs a HACCP-based system. A new food safety law was adopted in 2026: check which applies.

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Montenegro: food hygiene rules

Inspection body
Food Safety, Veterinary and Phytosanitary Administration (Uprava za bezbjednost hrane, veterinu i fitosanitarne poslove)
Public rating
No
Languages in the app
English

Your inspection

The Food Safety, Veterinary and Phytosanitary Administration (Uprava za bezbjednost hrane, veterinu i fitosanitarne poslove) inspects food businesses.

After a visit the inspector writes a report and tells you what to put right and by when. The inspector can fine the business, take unsafe food off the market and, if health is at risk, stop the activity.

Hygiene rating

Montenegro has no public hygiene rating, sticker or score, and nothing has to be displayed. Chef Hygiene shows no rating card for Montenegro.

“Law” is a binding rule. “Official guidance” is not law, but inspectors expect it. “Chef Hygiene default” is a value the app checks against where no rule gives a number.

Temperatures

  • LawThe hygiene rules ask you to control temperatures. We found no numbers for a restaurant in Montenegrin law.
  • Chef Hygiene defaultChilled food: Chef Hygiene checks 4°C or colder. Frozen food: −18°C or colder.
  • Official guidanceCooking: core 75°C, or 70°C for 2 minutes. Good practice, not law.
  • Official guidanceHot holding: 63°C or hotter. Good practice, not law.
  • Official guidanceCooling: to 10°C or colder within about 2 hours, then into the fridge. Good practice, not law.
  • Official guidanceReheating: core 75°C. Good practice, not law.

Staff, training and health

  • Chef Hygiene defaultFood handlers should be trained in food hygiene for their work. Chef Hygiene keeps each person's certificate and a training log.
  • Official guidanceAsk your inspector which health checks your staff need (such as the health booklet, sanitarna knjižica). We could not confirm the rules.
  • Chef Hygiene defaultStaff who are ill with something that can pass through food stay away from food work. Chef Hygiene asks staff to tell the manager.

Allergens

  • Official guidanceGive customers information on the 14 allergens (the same list as the EU).
  • Official guidanceWe advise keeping it in writing, on a poster, a board or the menu. We could not confirm whether the law asks for writing in restaurants.

Fire safety checks

  • Official guidanceThe fire brigade is 123, or 112. Ambulance 124, police 122.
  • Official guidanceGas work only by a qualified gas engineer.
  • Chef Hygiene defaultExtinguishers, fire alarm and electrics: Chef Hygiene suggests dates you can change. No exact Montenegrin interval was confirmed.

Records

  • LawThe kitchen must run a HACCP-based food safety system (the hygiene rules under the food safety law).
  • LawBefore opening: register the business with the Food Safety Administration.
  • Official guidanceA new food safety law was adopted in 2026. Check which law applies to your business.
  • Chef Hygiene defaultChef Hygiene asks for fridge checks twice a day and keeps every record in one place for the inspector.

Official sources

Checked

This page is general information, not legal advice. Check with your local authority.

Montenegro: the Chef Hygiene app

The app loads these rules for your kitchen, checks your records against them and keeps proof for the inspector.

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