Latin America and the Caribbean
Source tier A. Conventions checked 2026-07-29.
Drug and firearms law in Brazil: statutes on record and in force
Brazil, in Latin America and the Caribbean, is party to all four of the instruments tracked here, the last of them since 2006. It appears on neither FATF list. Its confirmed instrument on record is the Law No. 11.343, Of 23 August 2006 Creating The National System For Public Policies On Drugs – SISNAD of 2006. The dates below are the depositary's; the instruments, where any are named, are the register's.
International framework
Brazil is bound by all four instruments this dataset tracks, the earliest from 1991 and the most recent from 2006.
| Instrument | Adopted | Ratified or acceded | Depositary reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 Convention | 1988 | 17 Jul 1991 | Chapter VI-19 |
| UNTOC | 2000 | 29 Jan 2004 | Chapter XVIII-12 |
| UNCAC | 2003 | 15 Jun 2005 | Chapter XVIII-14 |
| Firearms Protocol | 2001 | 31 Mar 2006 | Chapter XVIII-12-c |
What each instrument obliges a party to do is set out once, per instrument, in the conventions reference. The dates above are what is specific to Brazil: they are the points from which each obligation began to bind, taken from the depositary's own status tables.
National legislation
What follows is the legislation this dataset can point at. A translated title would be a different instrument, so titles are left as enacted.
Law No. 11.343, Of 23 August 2006 Creating The National System For Public Policies On Drugs – SISNAD (No. 11.343) — A principal drug control instrument, carrying the 1988 Convention's trafficking and confiscation obligations into domestic law. Confirmed against the UNODC legal library, checked 2026-07-30.
Enforcement authorities
2 bodies are named in the record for Brazil, each confirmed on Brazil's own government domain. Reading this alongside the treaty position is the point: the conventions say what must be criminalised, and these are the institutions through which that reaches a consignment or a suspect.
Ratification sequence
How a state assembled its treaty position is itself a fact about the position. Brazil came to these instruments over 15 years, beginning with the 1988 Convention in 1991 and ending with the Firearms Protocol in 2006. Measured against each instrument's own adoption, the shortest gap was the UNCAC at 2 years, the longest the Firearms Protocol at 5.
Brazil became a party to the 1988 Convention in 1991, 3 years after it was adopted — faster than the median lag of 5 years across this dataset.
Between the first date and the last, the framework binding this jurisdiction was incomplete in specific ways. For the 13 years between 1991 and 2004, Brazil was bound by the 1988 Convention but not yet by the UNTOC, the UNCAC or the Firearms Protocol. An obligation that arrives late does not reach conduct that took place before it, which is why the sequence matters to a prosecutor and not only to a chronology.
On coverage, Brazil is one of 81 jurisdiction s here party to 4 of the four, against 81 party to all four. Latin America and the Caribbean accounts for 33 of the records here; 3 of them carry a current monitoring listing.
Position on the trafficking corridors
Brazil sits on the west african corridor, one of the six corridors profiled here. How this leg compares with the others is the question the figures below answer.
The West African corridor — 12 jurisdictions, carrying cocaine. The legs either side of Brazil in the reporting are Venezuela and Guinea Bissau. Across the corridor as a whole, 9 of the 12 legs are party to all four instruments, 3 sit outside the Firearms Protocol, 1 carry no confirmed national instrument , and 1 is under increased monitoring. Brazil clears all three of those checks. The corridor profile carries the leg-by-leg comparison.
Financial-crime monitoring
As of the FATF plenary statements of 2026-06-19, Brazil is recorded as Not listed . Absence from both lists is not a clean bill of health: it means no strategic deficiency has been identified, which is not the same as none existing. What each status entails is set out on the FATF grey list tracker.
Questions about drug and firearms law in Brazil
Which drug-control conventions has Brazil ratified?
All four: the 1988 Convention on 17 Jul 1991, the UNTOC on 29 Jan 2004, the UNCAC on 15 Jun 2005, the Firearms Protocol on 31 Mar 2006.
Is Brazil on the FATF grey list?
No. Brazil appears on neither the increased-monitoring list nor the call-for-action list in the FATF statements of 19 June 2026.
What national drug legislation is on record for Brazil?
Law No. 11.343, Of 23 August 2006 Creating The National System For Public Policies On Drugs – SISNAD (No. 11.343), confirmed against the UNODC legal library.
Which register confirms the legislation on this page?
Each instrument names its own. For Brazil that is the UNODC legal library. The citation is to the issuing register rather than to any account of it, so the text can be read as enacted.
What is source tier A, and why is this record in it?
Tier A means a national instrument has been confirmed against an official register — for Brazil, 1 of them. The treaty dates and the listing status are separately sourced, so all three layers of this record carry a citation.
Why does the ratification date matter?
The date is the point from which the obligations bind. Brazil's earliest of these commitments dates from 1991, its most recent from 2006; the gap between them is a rough measure of how long the framework took to assemble.
Sources
- Ratification dates: United Nations Treaty Collection, depositary status tables (chapters VI-19, XVIII-12, XVIII-14, XVIII-12-c). Checked 2026-07-29.
- Listing status: FATF, Jurisdictions under Increased Monitoring and High-Risk Jurisdictions subject to a Call for Action, 2026-06-19.
- Law No. 11.343, Of 23 August 2006 Creating The National System For Public Policies On Drugs – SISNAD: the UNODC legal library, checked 2026-07-30.