Birth Registration and Confirming Documents
Birth is a fact of legal significance subject to mandatory registration by the organ of registration of civil acts. For the purposes of birth registration, the documents confirming a birth are: a medical certificate of birth; a decision of an authorized organ on the establishment of a fact of birth of legal significance at a certain time and in certain circumstances; and a birth-confirming document issued by an authorized organ of another state on the basis of the legislation of that same state.
The head of a medical facility, or a person authorized by them, is obliged to submit the medical certificate of birth to the Agency exclusively in electronic form. In the cases provided for by the joint order of the Ministers of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labour, Health and Social Affairs and of Justice of Georgia, the medical certificate of birth may be submitted in material form. Thus, in the ordinary course of events parents do not have to take care of the certificate — it is transmitted electronically from the facility itself.