Madagascar ratified the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) in 2004 and entered into force on February 27, 2005. Madagascar has the Malagasy Tobacco Office (OFMATA), a public establishment of an industrial and commercial nature with legal status and administrative and financial authority. Its purpose is to ensure, on behalf of the State, the supervision and general control of the qualitative and quantitative promotion of tobacco production across the country. OFMATA is placed under the technical supervision of the Ministry of Agriculture, the budgetary supervision of the Ministry of Budget, and the accounting supervision of the Ministry of Public Accounts.