Drug and firearms law in Central African Republic: statutes on record

Central African Republic, in Africa, 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 Loi n° 01.011 portant adoption de la loi harmonisée relative au contrôle des drogues, à l'extradition et à l'entraide judiciaire en matière de trafic illicite des stupéfiants et de substances psychotropes. Nothing below is asserted without the document it came from being named alongside it.

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

International framework

Central African Republic is bound by all four instruments this dataset tracks, the earliest from 2001 and the most recent from 2006.

Instrument	Adopted	Ratified or acceded	Depositary reference
1988 Convention	1988	15 Oct 2001	Chapter VI-19
UNTOC	2000	14 Sep 2004	Chapter XVIII-12
UNCAC	2003	6 Oct 2006	Chapter XVIII-14
Firearms Protocol	2001	6 Oct 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 Central African Republic: they are the points from which each obligation began to bind, taken from the depositary's own status tables.

National legislation

These are the instruments an official source confirms for Central African Republic. The list is what could be cited, not necessarily everything in force.

Loi n° 01.011 portant adoption de la loi harmonisée relative au contrôle des drogues, à l'extradition et à l'entraide judiciaire en matière de trafic illicite des stupéfiants et de substances psychotropes (No. 01.011) — A principal drug control instrument, carrying the 1988 Convention's trafficking and confiscation obligations into domestic law. Confirmed against www.unodc.org, checked 2026-07-30.

Enforcement authorities

No enforcement body is named in this record for Central African Republic. The bodies that would appear here are those identified on the jurisdiction's own government hosts — the police service, customs administration, prosecuting authority or dedicated drug agency, reachable under the .cf country-code domain. No citable naming was located. The institutions almost certainly exist; what is missing is an official page that identifies them, which is the only thing this field records.

Ratification sequence

The order matters as much as the count. Central African Republic came to these instruments over 5 years, beginning with the 1988 Convention in 2001 and ending with the Firearms Protocol in 2006. Measured against each instrument's own adoption, the shortest gap was the UNCAC at 3 years, the longest the 1988 Convention at 13.

Central African Republic became a party to the 1988 Convention in 2001, 13 years after it was adopted — slower than the median lag of 5 years across this dataset.

On coverage, Central African Republic is one of 81 jurisdiction s here party to 4 of the four, against 81 party to all four. The Africa cohort runs to 53 records, 6 of them currently listed for increased monitoring.

Financial-crime monitoring

As of the FATF plenary statements of 2026-06-19, Central African Republic is recorded as Not listed . A jurisdiction can enter or leave either list at any plenary, so this line is dated rather than settled. How the plenary reaches these decisions is covered on the FATF grey list tracker.

Questions about drug and firearms law in Central African Republic

Which drug-control conventions has Central African Republic ratified?

All four: the 1988 Convention on 15 Oct 2001, the UNTOC on 14 Sep 2004, the UNCAC on 6 Oct 2006, the Firearms Protocol on 6 Oct 2006.

Is Central African Republic on the FATF grey list?

No. Central African Republic 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 Central African Republic?

Which register confirms the legislation on this page?

Each instrument names its own. For Central African Republic that is www.unodc.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 Central African Republic, 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. Central African Republic's earliest of these commitments dates from 2001, 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.
Loi n° 01.011 portant adoption de la loi harmonisée relative au contrôle des drogues, à l'extradition et à l'entraide judiciaire en matière de trafic illicite des stupéfiants et de substances psychotropes: www.unodc.org, checked 2026-07-30.