Constitution

Niger 2010 Constitution (reviewed 2017)

Table of Contents

TITLE X. OF THE TREATIES AND INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS

Article 168

The President of the Republic negotiates and ratifies the international treaties and agreements.

Article 169

The treaties of defense and peace, the treaties and agreements relative to the international organizations, those which modify the internal laws of the State and those which involve [portent] [a] financial engagement from the State, may only be ratified following a law authorizing their ratification.

Article 170

If the Constitutional Court referred to [the matter] by the President of the Republic, by the president of the National Assembly, by the Prime Minister or by one-tenth (1/10) of the Deputies, has declared that an international agreement contains a clause contrary to the Constitution, the authorization to ratify it can only intervene after revision of the Constitution.

Article 171

The treaties or agreements regularly ratified have, from their publication, an authority superior to that of the laws, subject to[,] for each agreement or treaty[,] of its application by the other party.