What Article 66⁵ actually covers
Article 66⁵ of the Administrative Offences Code of Georgia addresses one narrowly drawn situation: failure to comply with the requirements laid down by a decision of the Government of Georgia for removing plant species protected by Georgia's Red List from the natural environment. The wording repays close reading. The article does not declare an absolute ban on taking a protected plant from the wild. It assumes the opposite — that a lawful route exists, that a Government decision sets out the requirements governing that route, and that the offence consists precisely in not meeting those requirements. Every case built on this article therefore reduces to two questions: which specific requirement was treated as unmet, and whether that requirement was owed by you. Where the case file does not answer both clearly, that gap is where a defence begins.