Africa
Source tier A. Conventions checked 2026-07-29.
Drug and firearms law in Guinea Bissau: statutes on record
Guinea Bissau, in Africa, is party to all four of the instruments tracked here, the last of them since 2013. It appears on neither FATF list. Its confirmed instrument on record is the Décret Loi N 1/76 SUPPLEMENT. Where a field could not be sourced it is reported as unsourced rather than left to be inferred.
International framework
Guinea Bissau is bound by all four instruments this dataset tracks, the earliest from 1995 and the most recent from 2013.
| Instrument | Adopted | Ratified or acceded | Depositary reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 Convention | 1988 | 27 Oct 1995 | Chapter VI-19 |
| UNTOC | 2000 | 10 Sep 2007 | Chapter XVIII-12 |
| UNCAC | 2003 | 10 Sep 2007 | Chapter XVIII-14 |
| Firearms Protocol | 2001 | 24 Sep 2013 | 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 Guinea Bissau: 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 Guinea Bissau. The list is what could be cited, not necessarily everything in force.
Décret Loi N 1/76 SUPPLEMENT — A subordinate instrument, made under the authority of a parent act rather than standing alone — typically the schedules, thresholds and licensing detail. Confirmed against the UNODC legal library, checked 2026-07-30.
Enforcement authorities
No enforcement body is named in this record for Guinea Bissau. 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 .gw country-code domain. What was not found is a page naming the body itself. That is a gap in what is published, and it is reported as one rather than filled from a secondary account.
Ratification sequence
The order matters as much as the count. Guinea Bissau came to these instruments over 18 years, beginning with the 1988 Convention in 1995 and ending with the Firearms Protocol in 2013. Measured against each instrument's own adoption, the shortest gap was the UNCAC at 4 years, the longest the Firearms Protocol at 12.
Guinea Bissau 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.
What sat in the gaps between them is the less obvious half of the record. For the 12 years between 1995 and 2007, Guinea Bissau was bound by the 1988 Convention but not yet by the UNTOC, the UNCAC or the Firearms Protocol. For the 6 years between 2007 and 2013, Guinea Bissau was bound by the 1988 Convention, the UNTOC and the UNCAC but not yet by 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, Guinea Bissau is one of 81 jurisdiction s here party to 4 of the four, against 81 party to all four. Africa accounts for 53 of the records here; 6 of them carry a current monitoring listing.
Position on the trafficking corridors
Guinea Bissau sits on the west african corridor, one of the six corridors profiled here. What the corridor meets at this leg is the record set out above.
The West African corridor — 12 jurisdictions, carrying cocaine. The legs either side of Guinea Bissau in the reporting are Brazil and Guinea. Across the corridor as a whole, 9 of the 12 legs are party to all four instruments, 3 sit outside the Firearms Protocol, 1 carry no confirmed national instrument , and 1 is under increased monitoring. Guinea Bissau 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, Guinea Bissau 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 process is described on the FATF grey list tracker.
Questions about drug and firearms law in Guinea Bissau
Which drug-control conventions has Guinea Bissau ratified?
All four: the 1988 Convention on 27 Oct 1995, the UNTOC on 10 Sep 2007, the UNCAC on 10 Sep 2007, the Firearms Protocol on 24 Sep 2013.
Is Guinea Bissau on the FATF grey list?
No. Guinea Bissau 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 Guinea Bissau?
Décret Loi N 1/76 SUPPLEMENT, confirmed against the UNODC legal library.
Which register confirms the legislation on this page?
Each instrument names its own. For Guinea Bissau that is the UNODC legal library. 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 Guinea Bissau, 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. Guinea Bissau's earliest of these commitments dates from 1995, its most recent from 2013; 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.
- Décret Loi N 1/76 SUPPLEMENT: the UNODC legal library, checked 2026-07-30.