| Forbidden items |
I. Objects forbidden to carry in your hand luggage
1. Firearms and other types of arms
- fire arms (military and sports arms - pistols, revolvers, machine pistols, rifles, shotguns, etc.)- replicas and imitations of fire arms
- lighters looking like fire arms
- components of fire arms (except for telescopic equipment and telescopic sights)
- hunting weapons with bullets or other cartridges
- signaling guns and signaling charge tubes
- starting pistols
- all types of toys looking like pistols, revolvers, rifles, etc.
- air rifles or pistols, pneumatic revolvers and soft-air revolvers shooting out balls
- crossbows and bows
- catapults
- all types of equipment for shooting out harpoons, spears and javelins
- all types of equipment for slaughtering animals
- devices causing stunning and shock, e.g. electrical goads
- electrical paralysers (including cables paralysers, so-called tasers).
2. Objects with sharp endings or sharp edges
- axes and hatchets- arrows and darts
- razors and shaving razors
- spears and javelins
- knives for cutting ice and ice chisels
- skates
- pocket knives or flick knives with any blade length
- knives, including ritual knives with length over 6cm made of metal or other material hard enough to be a potential weapon
- meat choppers
- machetes
- open shaving knives (except for shavers and disposable razors with closed blades)
- sabers, swords and sticks with a hidden sword
- scalpels
- scissors with the blade length over 6 cm
- ski poles, trekking poles and climbing poles
- metal tent pegs and pins
- darts with sharp edges
- working tools with sharp edges that may be used as weapon, with sharp endings or sharp edges, e.g. drills, drilling bits and other drilling equipment, tools for cutting cardboard, multi-task knives, all types of saws, screwdrivers, cant dogs, hammers, pincers (pliers), wrenches/spanners, torches with hardened construction
- other objects not in the shape of weapons but containing a hidden blade
3. Dull objects
- baseball bats and other types of sticks used in various sports- clubs (including wooden clubs) - rigid or bending, e.g. metal clubs covered with leather, police truncheons, etc.
- cricket bats
- golf clubs
- hockey sticks
- lacrosse racquets
- paddles and oars used for kayaking, canoeing, dugouts and for other sailing equipment
- skateboards
- all types of cues and pool sticks
- fishing rods
- equipment used in martial arts, e.g. knuckle-dusters, all types of clubs (including wooden clubs), rice flails, or nunchaku.
4. Explosives and combustible substances
- ammunition- detonators
- blasting fuse and detonating fuse
- detonators and fuses
- explosives and exploding equipment
- replica or imitation of explosives and exploding equipment and their components
- all types of mines
- all types of grenades (including training grenades, fake grenades, mortar grenades)
- gas and gas holders, in particular holders for butane, propane, acetylene, and oxygen in large amounts
- fireworks, all types of signaling rockets and other types of pyrotechnic materials (including mini-fireworks to expel confetti used at parties, and caps)
- matches with a larger than normal amount of sulphur (so-called storm-matches)
- smoke-generating equipment and all containers with compressed smoke
- flammable liquid fuel as petrol/diesel oil and gas for lighters, and liquid alcohol or ethanol
- aerosol paints
- turpentine oil and paint thinners
- alcoholic drinks of over 70% concentration per unit.
5. Chemicals and toxic substances
- acids and alkalis, e.g. wet electrical batteries- corrosive, caustic or bleaching substances, e.g. mercury, chlorine
- all types of gas throwers, including hand throwers, containing paralyzing substances, e.g. tear gas or "pepper spray"
- gel and paralyzing fluid throwers
- radioactive materials, e.g. therapeutic or industrial isotopes
- poisons
- materials causing contagious diseases or materials of biological hazard, e.g. infected blood, bacteria and viruses
- materials with spontaneous ignition or combustion
- fire extinguishers.
6. Liquids and products of similar consistency
Fluids (including gels, pastes, emulsions, liquid / solid mixtures and the contents of pressurized cans, toothpastes, hair gels, drinks, soups, syrups, perfumes, deodorants, shaving mousses and other products of similar consistence), except for:- fluids in individual packages with the capacity not more than 100 ml or its equivalent, placed in one multiple-locking, transparent, plastic bag with a capacity of up to 1 liter
- fluids that the passenger may need during the journey due to health reasons or because of dietary indications; this also includes baby food
- fluids bought in the operational zone of the airport behind the boarding card check, provided that the fluid is packed in a bag secured with a seal allowing for easy check of any possible damage, and containing in a visible place a bill documenting its purchase in the given airport on the same day
- fluids bought in the reserved zone of the airport
- fluids bought on the same day in any other airport of the Community, provided that the fluid is packed into a bag secured with seals allowing for easy check of any possible damage and containing in a visible place a bill documenting its purchase in an operational zone of that airport
- fluids purchased on board of any aircraft belonging to any community air carrier, provided that the fluid is packed into a bag secured with seals allowing for easy check of any possible damage and containing in a visible place a bill documenting its purchase on the same day on board of the aircraft.
II. Objects forbidden to carry in your registered luggage
1. Explosives and combustible substances
- all types of detonative substances and explosives- suitcases and bags with self-destructing elements and elements generating smoke or smoke screens
- powdered materials for non-professional production of pyrotechnic equipment, such as ammonium nitrate(V), sulphur, or charcoal
- training or fake grenades
- dummies of exploding equipment
- all types of inflammable substances and materials, including magnesium, and petrol and methanol
- components of fuel systems - containing fuel
- alcohol with concentration over 70 % (also forbidden in petrol fuel of self-propelled machines)
- gases: propane, butane
- all types of containers with lighter fuel
- all fireworks or signalling rockets
2. Chemical and toxic substances
- poisons and toxic substances, or substances causing contagious diseases, including mouse and rat poisons, and infected blood- radioactive materials, including therapeutic and industrial isotopes
- gas, gel and paralysing liquid throwers
- pistols and revolvers with paralysing gas, e.g. tear gas
- hand grenades with paralysing gas, e.g. tear gas
- all objects containing caustic, paralysing and stunning substances and other substances used to attack people
- caustic chemicals
- corrosive materials, including mercury and accumulators
- containers with soda
- paints and thinners
- oxidizing agents and organic peroxides, including bleaching agents and sets of chemical agents used for tinsmith's and car body repairs
- cylinders with compressed gas (butane, propane), also gas cylinders for tourist purposes (they can only be transported if empty, without any remaining gases)
- oxygen cylinders/underwater oxygen torches (it is possible to transport empty oxygen cylinders or disconnected underwater oxygen torches).
Source: www.ulc.gov.pl (based on “Notice no 5” CAO President’s date 9th August 2007.)









