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

Georgia, in Central Asia, 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 1999. Every line below carries the source it came from and the date that source was read.

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

International framework

Georgia is bound by 3 of the four instruments this dataset tracks, the earliest from 1998 and the most recent from 2008. 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	8 Jan 1998	Chapter VI-19
UNTOC	2000	5 Sep 2006	Chapter XVIII-12
UNCAC	2003	4 Nov 2008	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 Georgia: 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 Georgia. The list is what could be cited, not necessarily everything in force.

Law of Georgia on the Combat of Narcotic Crimes — A principal drug control instrument, carrying the 1988 Convention's trafficking and confiscation obligations into domestic law. Confirmed against the UNODC legal library, checked 2026-07-30.

Georgia Criminal Code (full) (1999) — 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 the UNODC legal library, checked 2026-07-30.

Law of Georgia On Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and — A principal drug control instrument, carrying the 1988 Convention's trafficking and confiscation obligations into domestic law. Confirmed against matsne.gov.ge, checked 2026-07-30.

Enforcement authorities

2 bodies are named in the record for Georgia, each confirmed on Georgia's own government domain. A named body is not the same as an operative one, but it establishes where the mandate sits — and a mandate no institution holds is the gap that treaty coverage cannot close.

Body	Function	Confirmed on
Ministry of Justice of Georgia	policy and oversight	justice.gov.ge
Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia	policy and oversight	gov.ge

Ratification sequence

A count of four tells you less than the sequence that produced it. Georgia came to these instruments over 10 years, beginning with the 1988 Convention in 1998 and ending with the UNCAC in 2008. Measured against each instrument's own adoption, the shortest gap was the UNCAC at 5 years, the longest the 1988 Convention at 10.

Georgia became a party to the 1988 Convention in 1998, 10 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 8 years between 1998 and 2006, Georgia was bound by the 1988 Convention but not yet by the UNTOC or the UNCAC. An obligation that arrives late does not reach conduct that took place before it, which is why the sequence matters to a prosecutor and not only to a chronology.

On coverage, Georgia is one of 22 jurisdiction s here party to 3 of the four, against 81 party to all four. The Central Asia cohort runs to 10 records, 0 of them currently listed for increased monitoring.

What is not in force

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

Firearms Protocol — adopted 2001, and Georgia 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, Georgia is recorded as Not listed . The lists are revised three times a year, so this record moves on that cadence rather than continuously. The current statement and what it changed are tracked on the FATF grey list tracker.

Questions about drug and firearms law in Georgia

Which drug-control conventions has Georgia ratified?

3 of the four instruments tracked here — the 1988 Convention (8 Jan 1998), the UNTOC (5 Sep 2006), the UNCAC (4 Nov 2008). It is not a party to the Firearms Protocol.

Is Georgia on the FATF grey list?

No. Georgia 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 Georgia?

Law of Georgia on the Combat of Narcotic Crimes, confirmed against the UNODC legal library; Georgia Criminal Code (full), confirmed against the UNODC legal library; Law of Georgia On Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and, confirmed against matsne.gov.ge.

Which register confirms the legislation on this page?

Each instrument names its own. For Georgia that is the UNODC legal library, matsne.gov.ge. 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 Georgia, 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 Georgia 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 of Georgia on the Combat of Narcotic Crimes: the UNODC legal library, checked 2026-07-30.
Georgia Criminal Code (full): the UNODC legal library, checked 2026-07-30.
Law of Georgia On Narcotic Drugs, Psychotropic Substances and: matsne.gov.ge, checked 2026-07-30.