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affects:Article 248
Amendment introduces specific exclusions to state procurement (diplomatic vehicles, exclusive services, HEI accreditation), clarifies definition of 'construction works' & 'economic operator/subcontractor', and makes numerous procedural adjustments across multiple articles. The scope is *not* a broad structural reform but rather targeted changes.
affects:Article 1Article 3Article 7Article 8Article 9Article 10¹Article 10³Article 12¹Article 13Article 15¹Article 16¹Article 18¹Article 19Article 20⁶+6
In Article 26 of Annex 1 the list of construction products and applicable standards has been reformulated, and its final part now ends with the structural adhesive standards EN 15274:2015 and EN 15275:2015.
Significant revision of domestic animal welfare provisions (Art. 103 et seq.) with cascading effects on related articles.
affects:Article 103Article 103²Article 103³Article 103⁴Article 107⁴Article 114²Article 125Article 125²Article 125³Article 125⁴Article 130Article 135⁵Article 148Article 150³+19
Administrative Offences Code: art.239(4^4) reformulated assigning protocol authority for many offences in protected-landscape territories to specific municipality mayoralties (Akhmeta, Kazbegi, Dusheti, Khelvachauri, Gori, Ambrolauri).
affects:Article 239
Administrative Procedure Code: Amends Chapter VII^11 to expand the scope of financial institutions subject to tax authority requests for confidential client information, specifically adding microbanks, payment providers, MFOs, lenders, currency exchangers, brokers, depositaries, registrars, asset managers, investment/factoring companies and platforms. Affects arts. 21^45-21^46.
Expands the definition of financial-sector representative to include factoring companies, factoring platforms and securitization SPVs.
Tax: Factoring/Financial Platform Information Requests (arts 52^8, 70).
affects:Article 70
Civil Code: Factoring amendments (arts 198/274/286) – exclusion from general pledge rules, treatment of receivables transfer & restrictions on residential property as factoring security.
This amendment extends the timeframe for issuing wood harvesting tickets based on individual social needs and for specific forestry activities in protected areas until January 1, 2027. It also clarifies the effective date of a specific clause within the Forest Code.
affects:Article 93Article 98
Factoring regulation for banks: Defines factoring per the Factoring Law; prohibits bank ownership of factoring companies; adds factoring as a permitted lending activity; introduces supervisory oversight related to compliance with the Factoring Law.
affects:Article 10Article 20Article 30
NARROW: Introduces a Factoring Registry within the public registry system, impacting extract issuance & data sources. Primarily affects factoring/receivables services.
affects:Article 2Article 4Article 10
Securities Market Law art.2 amended: Restrictions on state/SOE ownership in financial institutions clarified with exceptions for investment funds, factoring platforms & NBG-defined cases; 'financial institution' definition expanded.
affects:Article 2
This amendment expands the definition of 'reporting persons' under AML/CFT law to include factoring companies and platforms, and clarifies which entities the National Bank of Georgia supervises for these purposes.
Accounting/Reporting/Audit law: adds "factoring company" (per the Law on Factoring) to the scope of supervised subjects — Art.2 gets a new definition sub-clause, and Art.3(17) is reworded to add factoring companies to the carve-out list of supervisory-organ-supervised entities excluded from PIE (SDP) treatment; effective 1 Jan 2027.
Article 165^1 now provides in paragraph 1 that owners and end-users of micro-power plants connected to the distribution network before 1 January 2027 may, until 1 January 2033, use the conditions in force at connection (netting, with exemption from system and market-operation service charges); paragraph 2 empowers the Commission to allow connections of up to 100 kW until 1 January 2027 without netting once the maximum total capacity is reached.
affects:Article 1Article 38
This legal amendment concerns the Kolkheti Protected Areas, specifically adding and defining the Rioni Strict Nature Reserve, adjusting boundaries of the Kolkheti National Park, and detailing permissible activities in different zones.
affects:Article 2Article 7Article 8Article 9¹Article 9²Article 12Article 25¹Article 25²Article 27
Microbank package: defined factoring, added factoring to permitted microbank activities (lending), prohibited investment in factoring companies, and added factoring law violations as a supervisory basis for sanctions.
Article 2(1) of the Law on Microfinance Organizations gains a new sub-paragraph (m) defining "factoring" as a transaction defined by the Law of Georgia on Factoring.
affects:Article 2Article 4Article 9¹
Article 90 keeps 1 January 2025 as the entry-into-force date of sub-paragraph "t" of Article 6(1) in paragraph 4, while a new paragraph 5 moves the entry into force of sub-paragraph "s" from 1 January 2025 to 1 January 2027.
affects:Article 90
The act restates Articles 3, 4 and 6 and adds Articles 4^2–4^6 and 6^2 of the Law on the Establishment and Management of the Racha Protected Areas: the protected areas are the national park, five cave natural monuments, the Ambrolauri protected landscape and the support zone, with their location, coordinates, management rules and permitted activities.
affects:Article 4Article 4⁶Article 6Article 6¹Article 6²Article 7
Two new registration fees were added to paragraph 1^1 of Article 7: sub-paragraph (i) for registration of a factoring company and sub-paragraph (k) for registration of a factoring platform, each GEL 10,000.
affects:Article 7
Administrative offence reporting: specifies municipal authorities for certain protected landscape areas (239).
affects:Article 239
Article 3 lowers the small winery threshold from 40,000 to 25,000 litres, replaces "house wine" with a defined "natural wine" and adds the term "labelling"; Article 14 makes the same replacement, Article 33^2 extends organoleptic testing and introduces mandatory labelling, and Article 33^6 adds deadlines for the labelling rule and fee.
Administrative offences: GMO import/processing (87^1) amended with new penalty for license violations.
affects:Article 87¹
The act deletes parts 4, 6 and 7 of Article 73 (served-term thresholds for replacing the unserved sentence, the three-month minimum, and the life-sentence replacement rule), rewrites Article 195^1 with harsher penalties and a new part 3 for previously convicted persons, and adds new Article 344^3 criminalising fictitious marriage.
affects:Article 207²
Environmental Protection: GMO import/processing authorization (art 13).
affects:Article 13
Licenses & Permits: new GMO animal feed import/processing license (art 6).
affects:Article 6
Licensing Fees: Adds a new license fee for import/processing of GMOs (excluding corn, wheat, grapes) used in animal feed.
affects:Article 6
The act adds a new Article 10^1 to the Law on Living Genetically Modified Organisms, introducing a licence for importing and processing living GMOs admitted in Georgia for animal feed production (except maize, wheat and vine), with its issuance conditions, application contents and licence-holder duties.
affects:Article 4Article 7Article 10¹Article 11Article 12Article 15Article 22Article 25Article 27Article 28
Amends Article 2 of Law of Georgia “On Amendments to the Administrative Offences Code” (promulgated March 7, 2024) to delay its effective date from publication to July 1, 2027.
The act assigns state accounting of water use on the territory of autonomous republics to their bodies (Article 6(9), Article 33(2)), splits the deadlines for adopting subordinate acts in Article 37 between 1 September 2026 and 1 September 2027, moves the permit deadline in Article 39(3) to 1 March 2028, and restates the phased entry-into-force provisions in Article 42.
affects:Article 5Article 6Article 7Article 8Article 9Article 10Article 11Article 12Article 13Article 14Article 16Article 17Article 21Article 22+13
The act adds Article 9^1, governing entry and retrieval of data in the unified information database of persons with mental health problems, alcoholism, drug or substance addiction, and Article 36^1, obliging administrative bodies and certain private-law entities to ensure the accessibility of their websites and applications.
affects:Article 2Article 36¹
Introduces a greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions authorization regime and an accredited-verifier requirement for annual emissions reports (MRV).
Agricultural Law: phased implementation of electronic systems for data management and financial processes; removal of redundant sub-points.
Technical amendment to a 2026 amending act: reformulates the art 208 district-court jurisdiction list (adds arts 82⁷, 82⁸)
Administrative Offences Code: adds new arts.82^7/82^8 (greenhouse-gas emission penalties); reformulates art.208 (court jurisdiction list), art.219 (Revenue Service on-spot adjudication), art.222 (environmental-supervision dept enforcement powers) and art.239 (protocol-drawing authority) to incorporate the new GHG offences.
affects:Article 82⁸Article 208Article 219Article 222Article 239
Significant restructuring of general education stages (primary I-VI, basic VII-IX, secondary X-XI + optional XII) with corresponding certificate definitions updated; impacts school structure, curriculum, and student pathways.
affects:Article 2Article 4Article 6Article 9Article 14Article 19¹Article 25Article 26Article 27Article 33Article 33¹Article 38Article 46Article 62²