What Article 82⁵ actually covers
Article 82⁵ of the Administrative Offences Code of Georgia protects one specific obligation: when plastic and/or biodegradable bags are imported into the territory of Georgia, produced, and/or sold, the requirements of the technical regulation — the "Rules on the regulation of plastic and biodegradable bags" — must be met. The offence can be recorded at any of those three stages, and the article treats them as equivalent: goods arriving at the border, goods coming off a production line, and goods sitting on a shop shelf all fall under the same provision. Liability is placed on the entrepreneurial entity. In practice that means the protocol is drawn up against the business rather than against the individual employee who handed a bag to a customer, and the fine is collected from the business. If you import, manufacture, distribute or retail these products in Georgia, this article is written about your operation, whether or not you produced the bags yourself.

