Benin

Aevamo’s reading

Décret 2026-049 of 4 March 2026, taken in Council of Ministers under Loi 2025-15, is the instrument that imposes the obligation: it fixes the conditions and modalities of issue of entry visas, requires every foreigner to hold one unless dispensed, and defines the two routes out of it — an accord with Benin, or a special exemption by decree. Everything else held here operates under it: the ministry's database enumerates the accords of its first route, Décret 2023-489 is an exercise of its second, and the e-visa platform is the online channel its article 7 requires. Its stored copy is an image scan with no text layer, so no row quotes it and no figure is taken from it; each field is instead sourced to a document that can be quoted, and that substitution is stated on every row it affects.

The Secrétariat général du Gouvernement, the body that publishes Benin's decrees, records this decree under its own title as exempting nationals of the People's Republic of China from the entry and stay visa — a special exemption by decree of the kind Décret 2026-049 article 3(b) preserves alongside accords, and one the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' accord tab does not track. The register entry establishes that the exemption exists and names the issuer; the 30-day term is cited separately because this entry does not state it.