Africa
Source tier A. Conventions checked 2026-07-29.
Drug and firearms law in Chad: statutes on record and in force
Chad, in Africa, is party to 3 of the four instruments tracked here but not to the Firearms Protocol. It appears on neither FATF list. Its confirmed instrument on record is the Loi No. 024/Pr/2000 Relative A La Pharmacie of 2000. Every line below carries the source it came from and the date that source was read.
International framework
Chad is bound by 3 of the four instruments this dataset tracks, the earliest from 1995 and the most recent from 2018. The exception is the Firearms Protocol, and that exception has consequences: there is no treaty obligation to mark or trace weapons, so a firearm recovered at a crime scene may have no route back to its point of diversion — the single most common reason a trafficking chain cannot be reconstructed.
| Instrument | Adopted | Ratified or acceded | Depositary reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 Convention | 1988 | 9 Jun 1995 | Chapter VI-19 |
| UNTOC | 2000 | 18 Aug 2009 | Chapter XVIII-12 |
| UNCAC | 2003 | 26 Jun 2018 | Chapter XVIII-14 |
| Firearms Protocol | 2001 | not a party | 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 Chad: 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.
Loi No. 024/Pr/2000 Relative A La Pharmacie (No. 024/) — A principal instrument in its own right, confirmed on the register named below; its subject matter is not stated on the face of its title. Confirmed against the UNODC legal library, checked 2026-07-30.
Enforcement authorities
No enforcement body is named in this record for Chad. 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 .td country-code domain. No page on those hosts named a body in terms that could be cited, so the field stays empty; an agency name attested only by an archive is not a source.
Ratification sequence
A count of four tells you less than the sequence that produced it. Chad came to these instruments over 23 years, beginning with the 1988 Convention in 1995 and ending with the UNCAC in 2018. Measured against each instrument's own adoption, the shortest gap was the 1988 Convention at 7 years, the longest the UNCAC at 15.
Chad became a party to the 1988 Convention in 1995, 7 years after it was adopted — slower 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 14 years between 1995 and 2009, Chad was bound by the 1988 Convention but not yet by the UNTOC or the UNCAC. For the 9 years between 2009 and 2018, Chad was bound by the 1988 Convention and the UNTOC but not yet by the UNCAC. The practical effect is on what could be charged, and on what could be confiscated, in the years before the later instruments arrived.
On coverage, Chad is one of 22 jurisdiction s here party to 3 of the four, against 81 party to all four. The Africa cohort runs to 53 records, 6 of them currently listed for increased monitoring.
What is not in force
One of the four instruments does not bind Chad, and the gap has specific consequences rather than symbolic ones.
Firearms Protocol — adopted 2001, and Chad is not a party. In practice, there is no treaty obligation to mark or trace weapons, so a firearm recovered at a crime scene may have no route back to its point of diversion — the single most common reason a trafficking chain cannot be reconstructed.
Financial-crime monitoring
As of the FATF plenary statements of 2026-06-19, Chad is recorded as Not listed . The lists are revised three times a year, so this record moves on that cadence rather than continuously. What each status entails is set out on the FATF grey list tracker.
Questions about drug and firearms law in Chad
Which drug-control conventions has Chad ratified?
3 of the four instruments tracked here — the 1988 Convention (9 Jun 1995), the UNTOC (18 Aug 2009), the UNCAC (26 Jun 2018). It is not a party to the Firearms Protocol.
Is Chad on the FATF grey list?
No. Chad 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 Chad?
Loi No. 024/Pr/2000 Relative A La Pharmacie (No. 024/), confirmed against the UNODC legal library.
Which register confirms the legislation on this page?
Each instrument names its own. For Chad 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 Chad, 1 of them. The treaty dates and the listing status are separately sourced, so all three layers of this record carry a citation.
What does it mean that Chad is not a party to the Firearms Protocol?
In practice, there is no treaty obligation to mark or trace weapons, so a firearm recovered at a crime scene may have no route back to its point of diversion — the single most common reason a trafficking chain cannot be reconstructed.
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 No. 024/Pr/2000 Relative A La Pharmacie: the UNODC legal library, checked 2026-07-30.