Breach of the safety rules for subsoil use (Art. 57²)

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How much is the fine under Article 57²?

The article provides for a fine from 400 to 700 lari. The body examining the case sets the exact amount inside that range. No other measure is written into this article.

Nothing went wrong on site. Can we still be fined?

The article attaches liability to the breach of the rules and norms themselves and does not require that a consequence occurred. So the absence of an incident does not by itself end the matter. It does, however, mean that the specific rule said to have been breached is what the case turns on, since the article does not name it.

Which rules does the article actually refer to?

It does not say. Article 57² supplies the sanction, while the norms of subsoil use and the safety rules themselves are established outside it. In practice this makes the protocol the starting point: the rule relied on is what has to be read out of it, and asking for the text of that rule is the practical way to test whether it covered your work.

The protocol names our company. Who ends up liable?

The article sets a single range and does not separately name officials or legal entities. Who bears responsibility in a given case depends on who was required to observe the rule that was breached, which is why the contracts and internal instructions distributing those duties matter so much.

5 min·22 Aug 2026

What Article 57² covers

Article 57² of the Administrative Offences Code of Georgia brings together two related breaches: breach of the norms of subsoil use, and breach of the safety rules and norms of subsoil use. The two formulations are not the same thing. The first concerns the order in which subsoil may be used at all; the second concerns how safety is secured while that work is carried out. So the first thing to establish from the protocol is which of the two is alleged.

One structural feature shapes every case built on this provision. The article does not itself list which rules and norms it means. It supplies the sanction; the content of the rules is established outside it. That is why each case begins with the same question: which norm is named in the protocol, where is that norm written down, and did it apply to the particular work you were carrying out. If there is no licence at all, that is a different offence assessed under a different provision; Article 57² addresses the part of the activity where a rule was broken.

Breach of the safety rules for subsoil use (Art. 57²)

How much is the fine under Article 57²?

The article provides for a fine from 400 to 700 lari. The body examining the case sets the exact amount inside that range. No other measure is written into this article.