Drug and firearms law in Burundi: statutes on record and in force

Burundi, in Africa, is party to all four of the instruments tracked here, the last of them since 2012. It appears on neither FATF list. Its legislation on record runs to 2 confirmed instruments, the earliest from 1980. Where a field could not be sourced it is reported as unsourced rather than left to be inferred.

Tile cartogram of the covered jurisdictions with Burundi picked out — Fig. — Burundi in the covered set of 106 source and transit jurisdictions.

International framework

Burundi is bound by all four instruments this dataset tracks, the earliest from 1993 and the most recent from 2012.

Instrument	Adopted	Ratified or acceded	Depositary reference
1988 Convention	1988	18 Feb 1993	Chapter VI-19
UNTOC	2000	24 May 2012	Chapter XVIII-12
UNCAC	2003	10 Mar 2006	Chapter XVIII-14
Firearms Protocol	2001	24 May 2012	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 Burundi: they are the points from which each obligation began to bind, taken from the depositary's own status tables.

National legislation

The following instruments have been confirmed against a citable national source. Titles are given as enacted and are not translated.

Décret No 100/150 du 30 septembre 1980 portant organisation de l'exercice de la pharmacie — A subordinate instrument, made under the authority of a parent act rather than standing alone — typically the schedules, thresholds and licensing detail. Confirmed against www.unodc.org, checked 2026-07-30.

Loi n° 1/05 portant révision du Code pénal (No. 1/05) — A code rather than a dedicated statute: the offences sit within the general body of law and are read together with its provisions on attempt, participation and sentencing. Confirmed against natlex.ilo.org, checked 2026-07-30.

Enforcement authorities

One body is named in the record for Burundi, each confirmed on Burundi's own government domain. The division of mandate is what decides where a case can actually be taken: interception, investigation and prosecution are three different powers, rarely held by one body.

Body	Function	Confirmed on
Police Nationale du Burundi	criminal investigation	mininterinfos.gov.bi

Ratification sequence

A count of four tells you less than the sequence that produced it. Burundi came to these instruments over 19 years, beginning with the 1988 Convention in 1993 and ending with the Firearms Protocol in 2012. Measured against each instrument's own adoption, the shortest gap was the UNCAC at 3 years, the longest the UNTOC at 12.

Burundi became a party to the 1988 Convention in 1993, 5 years after it was adopted — exactly the median lag across the jurisdictions in this dataset.

The intervals below are where the obligations were partial rather than complete. For the 13 years between 1993 and 2006, Burundi was bound by the 1988 Convention but not yet by the UNCAC, the UNTOC or the Firearms Protocol. For the 6 years between 2006 and 2012, Burundi was bound by the 1988 Convention and the UNCAC but not yet by the UNTOC or the Firearms Protocol. Nothing in the later instruments reaches back into that window, which is why a complete position today says little about a case from then.

On coverage, Burundi is one of 81 jurisdiction s here party to 4 of the four, against 81 party to all four. 6 of the 53 Africa records here are under increased monitoring as the register stands.

Financial-crime monitoring

As of the FATF plenary statements of 2026-06-19, Burundi is recorded as Not listed . The two statements are issued together and read together, because a jurisdiction named in the second is not on the first. The mechanics of listing and delisting are on the FATF grey list tracker.

Questions about drug and firearms law in Burundi

Which drug-control conventions has Burundi ratified?

All four: the 1988 Convention on 18 Feb 1993, the UNTOC on 24 May 2012, the UNCAC on 10 Mar 2006, the Firearms Protocol on 24 May 2012.

Is Burundi on the FATF grey list?

No. Burundi 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 Burundi?

Décret No 100/150 du 30 septembre 1980 portant organisation de l'exercice de la pharmacie, confirmed against www.unodc.org; Loi n° 1/05 portant révision du Code pénal (No. 1/05), confirmed against natlex.ilo.org.

Which register confirms the legislation on this page?

Each instrument names its own. For Burundi that is www.unodc.org, natlex.ilo.org. Following the link reaches the document itself; nothing here paraphrases an instrument it has not cited.

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 Burundi, 2 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. Burundi's earliest of these commitments dates from 1993, its most recent from 2012; 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.
Décret No 100/150 du 30 septembre 1980 portant organisation de l'exercice de la pharmacie: www.unodc.org, checked 2026-07-30.
Loi n° 1/05 portant révision du Code pénal: natlex.ilo.org, checked 2026-07-30.