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title: "Failure to submit notification of placing a new tobacco product on the market (Art. 155¹¹)"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/administrative-and-public-law-en/failure-to-submit-notification-of-placing-a-new-tobacco-product-on-the-market-art-en"
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description: "Failure to notify placing a new tobacco product on the market — Art. 155¹¹: a fine of 5,000 GEL. Legal help — Legal.ge."
updated: "2026-10-14"
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# Failure to submit notification of placing a new tobacco product on the market (Art. 155¹¹)

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## What Article 155¹¹ requires

Article 155¹¹ of the Administrative Offences Code of Georgia protects a single information duty. A manufacturer and/or importer of heated tobacco or of a new tobacco product must submit, in the established manner, a notification to the Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia about the placing of that product on the Georgian market. If no notification is submitted, or it is not submitted in the established manner, that omission is what completes the offence — not the quality or the composition of the product itself.

The addressee is defined narrowly: the manufacturer and the importer. The two statuses are not mutually exclusive — the text uses "and/or" — so a company that both produces and imports can be caught in both capacities. If you are a distributor, a wholesaler or a retailer and you neither manufacture nor import the product, the first question to check is whether the protocol has been drawn up against the right person at all.

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### Is the fine charged once, or per product?

The article sets 5,000 GEL for one offence and does not itself lay down how episodes are counted. In practice, therefore, it becomes decisive how the protocol separates the episodes and how many products it names. That is the part of the file to read first.

### Does the article apply to distributors and retailers?

The duty in Article 155¹¹ is placed on the manufacturer and/or importer. If you neither manufacture nor import the product, the first question is whether the protocol names the right person. That is an independent argument and it is raised within the same proceedings.

### We submitted a notification, but it was treated as deficient. Is that already an offence?

The article attaches liability to failure to submit the notification in the established manner, so the file has to identify precisely which requirement was treated as unmet. A general reference to a deficiency does not answer that question. How it is assessed depends on what was submitted and when.

### Does a repeat offence carry a higher fine under this article?

Article 155¹¹ provides no separate, increased amount for a repeat. It names one figure, 5,000 GEL. Any other consequence, if one exists, does not follow from this article and has to be checked on its own footing.