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title: "Producing tobacco without a licence or in breach of the licence conditions (Art. 155¹²)"
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description: "Tobacco production without a licence — Art. 155¹²: 10,000 GEL, 50,000 on a repeat, 5,000 for breach of conditions. Legal.ge."
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# Producing tobacco without a licence or in breach of the licence conditions (Art. 155¹²)

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## Two different offences in one article

Article 155¹² of the Administrative Offences Code of Georgia regulates two situations that are quite different from one another. The first is producing tobacco where no tobacco production licence exists at all. The second is producing tobacco where a licence has been issued but its conditions are being breached. The two sit in one text, yet they carry different legal consequences and call for different lines of defence. If you produce tobacco or hold a licence, the first thing to look for in the protocol is which part of the article has been applied — part 1, part 2 or part 3.

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### What separates the 10,000 GEL fine from the 5,000 GEL one?

10,000 GEL applies where tobacco is produced without a licence at all; 5,000 GEL applies where a licence exists but its conditions are breached. These are two distinct offences, so the part of the article named in the protocol determines both the amount and the shape of the defence.

### Does a repeated breach of licence conditions lead to 50,000 GEL?

On the text of the article, 50,000 GEL is reserved for production without a licence by a person already penalised under part 1 or part 2. For breaches of licence conditions the article routes matters differently: failure to eliminate the breach within the set term after a written notification brings liability under the procedure established by Article 36¹ of the Code.

### How often can inspectors come in a single year?

The note to the article states that, in order to detect an offence under it, the body carrying out control may conduct an inspection at any time during the calendar year, without restriction. An argument based on a cap on the number of visits therefore does not assist in this field.

### Within what period must the breach be remedied?

Article 155¹² names no number of days. The term is set by the licence issuer, which makes it decisive what term was fixed in your case and how that is documented, because the route into Article 36¹ liability turns on whether it was met.