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

Moldova, in Balkans and eastern Europe, is party to all four of the instruments tracked here, the last of them since 2007. It appears on neither FATF list. Its legislation on record runs to 2 confirmed instruments. Every line below carries the source it came from and the date that source was read.

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

International framework

Moldova is bound by all four instruments this dataset tracks, the earliest from 1995 and the most recent from 2007.

Instrument	Adopted	Ratified or acceded	Depositary reference
1988 Convention	1988	15 Feb 1995	Chapter VI-19
UNTOC	2000	16 Sep 2005	Chapter XVIII-12
UNCAC	2003	1 Oct 2007	Chapter XVIII-14
Firearms Protocol	2001	28 Feb 2006	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 Moldova: 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.

The Criminal Code Of The Republic Of Moldova — 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.

The Criminal Procedure Code Of The Republic — 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.

Enforcement authorities

One body is named in the record for Moldova, each confirmed on Moldova'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
Serviciul Vamal al Republicii Moldova	named in the legislation	customs.gov.md

Ratification sequence

A count of four tells you less than the sequence that produced it. Moldova came to these instruments over 12 years, beginning with the 1988 Convention in 1995 and ending with the UNCAC in 2007. Measured against each instrument's own adoption, the shortest gap was the UNCAC at 4 years, the longest the 1988 Convention at 7.

Moldova 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.

A complete treaty position assembled over decades is not the same as one assembled at once. For the 10 years between 1995 and 2005, Moldova was bound by the 1988 Convention but not yet by the UNTOC, the Firearms Protocol or the UNCAC. 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, Moldova is one of 81 jurisdiction s here party to 4 of the four, against 81 party to all four. 1 of the 10 Balkans and eastern Europe records here is under increased monitoring as the register stands.

Financial-crime monitoring

As of the FATF plenary statements of 2026-06-19, Moldova is recorded as Not listed . Nothing here is a finding about Moldova's financial controls; it records only that neither statement names it. How the plenary reaches these decisions is covered on the FATF grey list tracker.

Questions about drug and firearms law in Moldova

Which drug-control conventions has Moldova ratified?

All four: the 1988 Convention on 15 Feb 1995, the UNTOC on 16 Sep 2005, the UNCAC on 1 Oct 2007, the Firearms Protocol on 28 Feb 2006.

Is Moldova on the FATF grey list?

No. Moldova 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 Moldova?

The Criminal Code Of The Republic Of Moldova, confirmed against the UNODC legal library; The Criminal Procedure Code Of The Republic, confirmed against the UNODC legal library.

Which register confirms the legislation on this page?

Each instrument names its own. For Moldova that is the UNODC legal library. 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 Moldova, 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. Moldova's earliest of these commitments dates from 1995, its most recent from 2007; 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.
The Criminal Code Of The Republic Of Moldova: the UNODC legal library, checked 2026-07-30.
The Criminal Procedure Code Of The Republic: the UNODC legal library, checked 2026-07-30.