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

Tunisia, in Africa, is party to all four of the instruments tracked here, the last of them since 2008. It appears on neither FATF list. Its confirmed instrument on record is the Loi n° 92-52 du 18 mai 1992, relative aux stupéfiants of 1992. The dates below are the depositary's; the instruments, where any are named, are the register's.

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

International framework

Tunisia is bound by all four instruments this dataset tracks, the earliest from 1990 and the most recent from 2008.

Instrument	Adopted	Ratified or acceded	Depositary reference
1988 Convention	1988	20 Sep 1990	Chapter VI-19
UNTOC	2000	19 Jun 2003	Chapter XVIII-12
UNCAC	2003	23 Sep 2008	Chapter XVIII-14
Firearms Protocol	2001	10 Apr 2008	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 Tunisia: they are the points from which each obligation began to bind, taken from the depositary's own status tables.

National legislation

Each instrument below was located on an official register and is named exactly as that register names it, in the language of enactment.

Loi n° 92-52 du 18 mai 1992, relative aux stupéfiants (No. 92-52) — 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.

Enforcement authorities

One body is named in the record for Tunisia, each confirmed on Tunisia'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
Portail web officiel de la Douane Tunisienne	customs and border control	douane.gov.tn

Ratification sequence

Which instrument came first says something the total does not. Tunisia came to these instruments over 18 years, beginning with the 1988 Convention in 1990 and ending with the Firearms Protocol in 2008. Measured against each instrument's own adoption, the shortest gap was the 1988 Convention at 2 years, the longest the Firearms Protocol at 7.

Tunisia became a party to the 1988 Convention in 1990, 2 years after it was adopted — faster than the median lag of 5 years across this dataset.

The intervals below are where the obligations were partial rather than complete. For the 13 years between 1990 and 2003, Tunisia was bound by the 1988 Convention but not yet by the UNTOC, the UNCAC or the Firearms Protocol. For the 5 years between 2003 and 2008, Tunisia was bound by the 1988 Convention and the UNTOC but not yet by the UNCAC or the Firearms Protocol. Treaty obligations do not apply backwards, so the interval is a real limit on what the framework could reach at the time rather than an administrative detail.

On coverage, Tunisia 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, Tunisia is recorded as Not listed . The lists are revised three times a year, so this record moves on that cadence rather than continuously. The process is described on the FATF grey list tracker.

Questions about drug and firearms law in Tunisia

Which drug-control conventions has Tunisia ratified?

All four: the 1988 Convention on 20 Sep 1990, the UNTOC on 19 Jun 2003, the UNCAC on 23 Sep 2008, the Firearms Protocol on 10 Apr 2008.

Is Tunisia on the FATF grey list?

No. Tunisia 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 Tunisia?

Loi n° 92-52 du 18 mai 1992, relative aux stupéfiants (No. 92-52), confirmed against the UNODC legal library.

Which register confirms the legislation on this page?

Each instrument names its own. For Tunisia 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 Tunisia, 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. Tunisia's earliest of these commitments dates from 1990, its most recent from 2008; 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 n° 92-52 du 18 mai 1992, relative aux stupéfiants: the UNODC legal library, checked 2026-07-30.