Latin America and the Caribbean
Source tier A. Conventions checked 2026-07-29.
Drug and firearms law in Dominican Republic: statutes on record
Dominican Republic, in Latin America and the Caribbean, is party to all four of the instruments tracked here, the last of them since 2009. It appears on neither FATF list. Its legislation on record runs to 2 confirmed instruments, the earliest from 1988. The record is set out in the order the obligations arrive: treaty first, statute second, enforcement last.
International framework
Dominican Republic is bound by all four instruments this dataset tracks, the earliest from 1993 and the most recent from 2009.
| Instrument | Adopted | Ratified or acceded | Depositary reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 Convention | 1988 | 21 Sep 1993 | Chapter VI-19 |
| UNTOC | 2000 | 26 Oct 2006 | Chapter XVIII-12 |
| UNCAC | 2003 | 26 Oct 2006 | Chapter XVIII-14 |
| Firearms Protocol | 2001 | 7 Apr 2009 | 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 Dominican Republic: 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. 17-95, amending Law No. 50-88 (1) of the Dominican Republic on (No. 17-95) — An amending instrument, so the operative wording is the amended text of the act it alters rather than anything freestanding. Confirmed against the Organization of American States, checked 2026-07-30.
Law No. 50-88 [Of 30 May 1988] On Drugs And (No. 50-88) — A principal drug control instrument, carrying the 1988 Convention's trafficking and confiscation obligations into domestic law. Confirmed against the Organization of American States, checked 2026-07-30.
Enforcement authorities
2 bodies are named in the record for Dominican Republic, each confirmed on Dominican Republic'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.
| Body | Function | Confirmed on |
|---|---|---|
| Dirección General de Migración | named in the legislation | migracion.gob.do |
| Departamento Nacional de Investigaciones | named in the legislation | map.gob.do |
Ratification sequence
The order matters as much as the count. Dominican Republic came to these instruments over 16 years, beginning with the 1988 Convention in 1993 and ending with the Firearms Protocol in 2009. Measured against each instrument's own adoption, the shortest gap was the UNCAC at 3 years, the longest the Firearms Protocol at 8.
Dominican Republic 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, Dominican Republic was bound by the 1988 Convention but not yet by the UNTOC, the UNCAC 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, Dominican Republic is one of 81 jurisdiction s here party to 4 of the four, against 81 party to all four. Within Latin America and the Caribbean the dataset holds 33 jurisdictions, of which 3 are currently under FATF increased monitoring.
Position on the trafficking corridors
Dominican Republic sits on the caribbean corridor, one of the six corridors profiled here. How this leg compares with the others is the question the figures below answer.
The Caribbean corridor — 12 jurisdictions, carrying cocaine. The legs either side of Dominican Republic in the reporting are British Virgin Islands and Jamaica. Across the corridor as a whole, 9 of the 12 legs are party to all four instruments, 2 sit outside the Firearms Protocol, every leg carries a confirmed national instrument , and 2 are under increased monitoring. Dominican Republic clears all three of those checks. The full corridor profile lists the jurisdictions it runs through in order.
Financial-crime monitoring
As of the FATF plenary statements of 2026-06-19, Dominican Republic 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. What each status entails is set out on the FATF grey list tracker.
Questions about drug and firearms law in Dominican Republic
Which drug-control conventions has Dominican Republic ratified?
All four: the 1988 Convention on 21 Sep 1993, the UNTOC on 26 Oct 2006, the UNCAC on 26 Oct 2006, the Firearms Protocol on 7 Apr 2009.
Is Dominican Republic on the FATF grey list?
No. Dominican 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 Dominican Republic?
Law No. 17-95, amending Law No. 50-88 (1) of the Dominican Republic on (No. 17-95), confirmed against the Organization of American States; Law No. 50-88 [Of 30 May 1988] On Drugs And (No. 50-88), confirmed against the Organization of American States.
Which register confirms the legislation on this page?
Each instrument names its own. For Dominican Republic that is the Organization of American States. 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 Dominican Republic, 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. Dominican Republic's earliest of these commitments dates from 1993, its most recent from 2009; 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. 17-95, amending Law No. 50-88 (1) of the Dominican Republic on: the Organization of American States, checked 2026-07-30.
- Law No. 50-88 [Of 30 May 1988] On Drugs And: the Organization of American States, checked 2026-07-30.