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

Mauritania, in Africa, is party to all four of the instruments tracked here, the last of them since 2006. It appears on neither FATF list. Its legislation on record runs to 2 confirmed instruments. 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 Mauritania picked out — Fig. — Mauritania in the covered set of 106 source and transit jurisdictions.

International framework

Mauritania is bound by all four instruments this dataset tracks, the earliest from 1993 and the most recent from 2006.

Instrument	Adopted	Ratified or acceded	Depositary reference
1988 Convention	1988	1 Jul 1993	Chapter VI-19
UNTOC	2000	22 Jul 2005	Chapter XVIII-12
UNCAC	2003	25 Oct 2006	Chapter XVIII-14
Firearms Protocol	2001	22 Jul 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 Mauritania: they are the points from which each obligation began to bind, taken from the depositary's own status tables.

National legislation

Below are the confirmed instruments, given in their enacted titles. Where a register supplies a citation number it is carried through unchanged.

Loi no. 93-37 (No. 93-37) — A principal instrument in its own right, confirmed on the register named below; its subject matter is not stated on the face of its title. Confirmed against the UNODC legal library, checked 2026-07-30.

Loi No. 93-37 relative à la repression de la production, du (No. 93-37) — A principal instrument in its own right, confirmed on the register named below; its subject matter is not stated on the face of its title. Confirmed against the UNODC legal library, checked 2026-07-30.

Enforcement authorities

One body is named in the record for Mauritania, each confirmed on Mauritania'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	customs and border control	finances.gov.mr

Ratification sequence

How a state assembled its treaty position is itself a fact about the position. Mauritania came to these instruments over 13 years, beginning with the 1988 Convention in 1993 and ending with the UNCAC in 2006. Measured against each instrument's own adoption, the shortest gap was the UNCAC at 3 years, the longest the 1988 Convention at 5.

Mauritania became a party to the 1988 Convention in 1993, 5 years after it was adopted — exactly the median lag across the jurisdictions in this dataset.

What sat in the gaps between them is the less obvious half of the record. For the 12 years between 1993 and 2005, Mauritania was bound by the 1988 Convention but not yet by the UNTOC, the Firearms Protocol or the UNCAC. Conduct inside such a window is judged against the instruments then in force, not against the set as it stands today.

On coverage, Mauritania is one of 81 jurisdiction s here party to 4 of the four, against 81 party to all four. The Africa cohort runs to 53 records, 6 of them currently listed for increased monitoring.

Financial-crime monitoring

As of the FATF plenary statements of 2026-06-19, Mauritania 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 Mauritania

Which drug-control conventions has Mauritania ratified?

All four: the 1988 Convention on 1 Jul 1993, the UNTOC on 22 Jul 2005, the UNCAC on 25 Oct 2006, the Firearms Protocol on 22 Jul 2005.

Is Mauritania on the FATF grey list?

No. Mauritania 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 Mauritania?

Loi no. 93-37 (No. 93-37), confirmed against the UNODC legal library; Loi No. 93-37 relative à la repression de la production, du (No. 93-37), confirmed against the UNODC legal library.

Which register confirms the legislation on this page?

Each instrument names its own. For Mauritania that is the UNODC legal library. 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 Mauritania, 2 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. Mauritania's earliest of these commitments dates from 1993, its most recent from 2006; 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.
Loi no. 93-37: the UNODC legal library, checked 2026-07-30.
Loi No. 93-37 relative à la repression de la production, du: the UNODC legal library, checked 2026-07-30.