What Article 69⁴ covers
Article 69⁴ of the Administrative Offences Code of Georgia penalises a breach of environmental requirements when an economic facility is transferred into operation. That one sentence is the whole of the article, and its brevity is the source of its main practical difficulty: the Code names the moment of transfer into operation without defining which facilities or which procedure that moment covers, and the text alone does not reveal what specific act or omission is prohibited.
The provision ties liability directly to the transfer into operation, not to the facility's later day-to-day running. The first question to test in any case under this article is therefore whether the fact described in the record actually belongs to the moment the article covers. If what was found concerns the current activity of a facility that has been operating for some time, that is a separate question of classification and does not fit mechanically under Article 69⁴.
A case of this kind normally begins with an inspection at the site: the representative of the authorised body draws up the record of the administrative offence and describes in it the circumstance found. The explanation you give while the record is being drawn up becomes part of the case file and keeps working at every later stage, so what is said or signed on site carries the same weight as the appeal filed afterwards. If your position is not yet settled, it is better to record the facts precisely and plainly and to leave the legal assessment for later.

