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

Gabon, in Africa, is party to all four of the instruments tracked here, the last of them since 2010. It appears on neither FATF list. Its confirmed instrument on record is the Code pénal. Nothing below is asserted without the document it came from being named alongside it.

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

International framework

Gabon is bound by all four instruments this dataset tracks, the earliest from 2004 and the most recent from 2010.

Instrument	Adopted	Ratified or acceded	Depositary reference
1988 Convention	1988	10 Jul 2006	Chapter VI-19
UNTOC	2000	15 Dec 2004	Chapter XVIII-12
UNCAC	2003	1 Oct 2007	Chapter XVIII-14
Firearms Protocol	2001	22 Sep 2010	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 Gabon: 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.

Code pénal — 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.

What this record can point at for Gabon is the Code pénal — a general criminal code rather than a dedicated drug or firearms act — and the copy consulted sits in an international labour-law register rather than on a Gabonese government host. Gabon has been party to all four instruments since 2010. The specific offences and record-keeping duties they require are therefore not traceable here to a named implementing statute, only to a code of general application.

Enforcement authorities

One body is named in the record for Gabon, each confirmed on Gabon's own government domain. Which body holds a mandate matters in practice: a customs administration can stop a consignment at the frontier, a police service can investigate inland, and only a prosecuting authority can bring the charge.

Body	Function	Confirmed on
Direction Générale des Douanes et Droits Indirects	customs and border control	budget.gouv.ga

Ratification sequence

A count of four tells you less than the sequence that produced it. Gabon came to these instruments over 6 years, beginning with the UNTOC in 2004 and ending with the Firearms Protocol in 2010. Measured against each instrument's own adoption, the shortest gap was the UNTOC at 4 years, the longest the 1988 Convention at 18.

Gabon became a party to the 1988 Convention in 2006, 18 years after it was adopted — slower than the median lag of 5 years across this dataset.

On coverage, Gabon 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, Gabon 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 Gabon

Which drug-control conventions has Gabon ratified?

All four: the 1988 Convention on 10 Jul 2006, the UNTOC on 15 Dec 2004, the UNCAC on 1 Oct 2007, the Firearms Protocol on 22 Sep 2010.

Is Gabon on the FATF grey list?

No. Gabon 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 Gabon?

Code pénal, confirmed against natlex.ilo.org.

Which register confirms the legislation on this page?

Each instrument names its own. For Gabon that is natlex.ilo.org. 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 Gabon, 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. Gabon's earliest of these commitments dates from 2004, its most recent from 2010; 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.
Code pénal: natlex.ilo.org, checked 2026-07-30.