1990 Constitution of the Arab Union

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The 1990 Constitution of the Union of Arab Republics (Arabic: دُستور اتِّحاد الجمهوريات العربية عام ١٩٩٠ dustūr ittiḥād al-jumhūriyāt al-ʿarabīyah ʿām alf wa-tisʿah miʾah wa-tisʿūn) was the second constitution of the Arab Union, signed into law by President Hafez al-Assad on 20 February 1990 and taking effect immediately.

The new constitution had the effect of changing the Arab Union from a unitary to a federal state, which was reflected in the official constitutional name change from "United Arab Republic" to "Union of Arab Republics", the Arab republics being the twenty formerly sovereign Arab states which had become part of the now-former United Arab Republic over the course of the 1948—1989 Arab Wars of Unification, officially becoming "governorates" upon their entry into the United Arab Republic. The 1990 constitution officially recognized them as semi-sovereign Arab republics within a single Arab Union, retaining the term "governorate" for the administrative apparatus at the level of any republic.

The changes enumerated above were not altered in any way by the current 1999 Constitution of the Arab Union, which instead addressed other issues unrelated to the newfound structure of the Arab Union from 1990.