Constitution

Senegal 2001 Constitution (reviewed 2016)

Table of Contents

TITLE IX. OF THE INTERNATIONAL TREATIES

Article 95

The President of the Republic negotiates international commitments.

He ratifies them or approves them[,] as the case arises [éventuellement], on the authorization of the National Assembly.

Article 96

The peace treaties, the commercial treaties, the treaties or agreements relative to international organization, those which engage the finances of the State, those which modify the provisions of a legislative nature, those which are relative to the status of persons, [and] those involving [comportent] cession, exchange or addition of territory may only be ratified or approved by virtue of a law.

They only take effect after having been ratified or approved.

No cession, [or] no addition of territory is valid without the consent of the population interested.

The Republic of Senegal may conclude with any African State treaties of association or of community [which] contain the partial or total abandonment of sovereignty with a view to realizing African unity.

Article 97

If the Constitutional Council has declared that an international commitment involves a clause contrary to the Constitution, the authorization to ratify it or to approve it may only intervene after the revision of the Constitution.

Article 98

The treaties or agreements regularly ratified or approved have, on their publication, an authority superior to that of the laws, under reserve, for each treaty or agreement, of its application by the other party.