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

Egypt, 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 legislation on record runs to 3 confirmed instruments, the earliest from 1989. 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 Egypt picked out — Fig. — Egypt in the covered set of 106 source and transit jurisdictions.

International framework

Egypt is bound by 3 of the four instruments this dataset tracks, the earliest from 1991 and the most recent from 2005. 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	15 Mar 1991	Chapter VI-19
UNTOC	2000	5 Mar 2004	Chapter XVIII-12
UNCAC	2003	25 Feb 2005	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 Egypt: they are the points from which each obligation began to bind, taken from the depositary's own status tables.

National legislation

Each instrument below was located on an official register and is named exactly as that register names it, in the language of enactment.

law no. 122 of 1989 amending certain provisions of (No. 122) — An amending instrument, so the operative wording is the amended text of the act it alters rather than anything freestanding. Confirmed against the UNODC legal library, checked 2026-07-30.

Health min. issues urgent anti-arcotics decree — A subordinate instrument, made under the authority of a parent act rather than standing alone — typically the schedules, thresholds and licensing detail. Confirmed against sis.gov.eg, checked 2026-07-30.

Prime Minister's Decree No. 777 for Year 2020 (No. 777) — A subordinate instrument, made under the authority of a parent act rather than standing alone — typically the schedules, thresholds and licensing detail. Confirmed against edaegypt.gov.eg, checked 2026-07-30.

Enforcement authorities

No enforcement body is named in this record for Egypt. 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 .eg 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. Egypt came to these instruments over 14 years, beginning with the 1988 Convention in 1991 and ending with the UNCAC in 2005. Measured against each instrument's own adoption, the shortest gap was the UNCAC at 2 years, the longest the UNTOC at 4.

Egypt 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.

The years in between are the ones a case from that period would have to be judged against. For the 13 years between 1991 and 2004, Egypt was bound by the 1988 Convention but not yet by the UNTOC or the UNCAC. 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, Egypt is one of 22 jurisdiction s here party to 3 of the four, against 81 party to all four. Within Africa the dataset holds 53 jurisdictions, of which 6 are currently under FATF increased monitoring.

What is not in force

One of the four instruments does not bind Egypt, and the gap has specific consequences rather than symbolic ones.

Firearms Protocol — adopted 2001, and Egypt 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, Egypt 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 Egypt

Which drug-control conventions has Egypt ratified?

3 of the four instruments tracked here — the 1988 Convention (15 Mar 1991), the UNTOC (5 Mar 2004), the UNCAC (25 Feb 2005). It is not a party to the Firearms Protocol.

Is Egypt on the FATF grey list?

No. Egypt 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 Egypt?

law no. 122 of 1989 amending certain provisions of (No. 122), confirmed against the UNODC legal library; Health min. issues urgent anti-arcotics decree, confirmed against sis.gov.eg; Prime Minister's Decree No. 777 for Year 2020 (No. 777), confirmed against edaegypt.gov.eg.

Which register confirms the legislation on this page?

Each instrument names its own. For Egypt that is the UNODC legal library, sis.gov.eg, edaegypt.gov.eg. Each link resolves to the register's own copy, not to a summary of it.

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 Egypt, 3 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 Egypt 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.
law no. 122 of 1989 amending certain provisions of: the UNODC legal library, checked 2026-07-30.
Health min. issues urgent anti-arcotics decree: sis.gov.eg, checked 2026-07-30.
Prime Minister's Decree No. 777 for Year 2020: edaegypt.gov.eg, checked 2026-07-30.