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

Madagascar, in Africa, is party to all four of the instruments tracked here, the last of them since 2005. It appears on neither FATF list. Its confirmed instrument on record is the Decree No. 70 041 governing application of Law No. 69 011. The dates below are the depositary's; the instruments, where any are named, are the register's.

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

International framework

Madagascar is bound by all four instruments this dataset tracks, the earliest from 1991 and the most recent from 2005.

Instrument	Adopted	Ratified or acceded	Depositary reference
1988 Convention	1988	12 Mar 1991	Chapter VI-19
UNTOC	2000	15 Sep 2005	Chapter XVIII-12
UNCAC	2003	22 Sep 2004	Chapter XVIII-14
Firearms Protocol	2001	15 Sep 2005	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 Madagascar: they are the points from which each obligation began to bind, taken from the depositary's own status tables.

National legislation

The following instruments have been confirmed against a citable national source. Titles are given as enacted and are not translated.

Decree No. 70 041 governing application of Law No. 69 011 (No. 70) — A subordinate instrument, made under the authority of a parent act rather than standing alone — typically the schedules, thresholds and licensing detail. Confirmed against mid.gov.mg, checked 2026-07-30.

Enforcement authorities

One body is named in the record for Madagascar, each confirmed on Madagascar'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
Direction Générale des Douanes	customs and border control	douanes.gov.mg

Ratification sequence

How a state assembled its treaty position is itself a fact about the position. Madagascar came to these instruments over 14 years, beginning with the 1988 Convention in 1991 and ending with the Firearms Protocol in 2005. Measured against each instrument's own adoption, the shortest gap was the UNCAC at 1 year, the longest the UNTOC at 5.

Madagascar 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 gaps between those dates are the part worth reading. For the 13 years between 1991 and 2004, Madagascar was bound by the 1988 Convention but not yet by the UNCAC, the UNTOC or the Firearms Protocol. The practical effect is on what could be charged, and on what could be confiscated, in the years before the later instruments arrived.

On coverage, Madagascar is one of 81 jurisdiction s here party to 4 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.

Financial-crime monitoring

As of the FATF plenary statements of 2026-06-19, Madagascar is recorded as Not listed . Nothing here is a finding about Madagascar's financial controls; it records only that neither statement names it. The current statement and what it changed are tracked on the FATF grey list tracker.

Questions about drug and firearms law in Madagascar

Which drug-control conventions has Madagascar ratified?

All four: the 1988 Convention on 12 Mar 1991, the UNTOC on 15 Sep 2005, the UNCAC on 22 Sep 2004, the Firearms Protocol on 15 Sep 2005.

Is Madagascar on the FATF grey list?

No. Madagascar 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 Madagascar?

Decree No. 70 041 governing application of Law No. 69 011 (No. 70), confirmed against mid.gov.mg.

Which register confirms the legislation on this page?

Each instrument names its own. For Madagascar that is mid.gov.mg. The entry links straight to the document, so the wording can be checked rather than taken on trust.

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 Madagascar, 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. Madagascar's earliest of these commitments dates from 1991, its most recent from 2005; 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.
Decree No. 70 041 governing application of Law No. 69 011: mid.gov.mg, checked 2026-07-30.