---
title: "Product Recall Litigation"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/corporate-and-commercial-law-en/product-recall-litigation-en"
field: "Corporate & Commercial Law"
description: "Product recall in Georgia: from suspension to withdrawal and recall, fines up to 7 000 lari and higher on repetition. Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-07-09"
updated: "2026-11-07"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Product Recall Litigation

> Source: legal.ge, https://legal.ge/en/service/corporate-and-commercial-law-en/product-recall-litigation-en

Recalling a defective product from the market in Georgia is no longer a purely private matter between business and consumer: the Code on Product Safety and Free Circulation creates a state-law mechanism — from preventive duties through the graduated orders of the market surveillance authority to differentiated sanctions for non-compliance. On this page we explain that three-level logic: first the manufacturer’s initial duties, then the stages of the authority’s response, and finally the fines that scale precisely with those stages. The civil-law recourse for defects remains the subject of a separate page; here we cover the regulatory regime only.

## Prevention: the Manufacturer’s Primary Duties

Article 9 lays the foundation: the manufacturer must place only safe products on the market and, within its competence, warn consumers of visible or invisible risks the product contains in its intended use. Where avoiding the risk is impossible, the manufacturer must take every measure to reduce it. The distributor, within its activity, facilitates safety, and both must cooperate with the authorised authorities.

The information layer is set by Article 12: the consumer receives essential, reliable and complete information about the product — name, manufacturer, shelf life where applicable, weight or volume, usage rules — in Georgian. This informational foundation later becomes the backbone of communication with the surveillance authority and of informing affected consumers.

## The Surveillance Authority and the Operator’s Duties

Article 13-3 designates the Market Surveillance Agency as the surveillance authority for those products for which the relevant technical regulation so provides, exercising its powers proportionately, independently and impartially.

Article 13-5 governs the economic operator’s duties: satisfy the safety requirements, cooperate with the authority and admit its representatives to production, storage and sale sites, compile and keep the technical documentation. Where the operator has information or reasonable suspicion of non-compliance, it must immediately take corrective action; where the product contains a risk, it must immediately notify the authority of the non-compliances and the measures taken.

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### What is recall and when is it ordered?

Removal of a product from the market where it poses a serious danger to life, health, property or the environment, or retains that danger after sale, at the use stage.

### How do the fines scale?

In stages: non-compliance with a suspension order brings 1 500–3 000 lari, withdrawal 3 000–5 000, recall 5 000–7 000; repeated cases are fined at higher ceilings, recall repetition reaching 7 000–10 000 lari.

### What is the self-correction duty?

On information or reasonable suspicion of non-compliance the operator immediately takes corrective action, and for risky products notifies the authority.

### Can an order be appealed?

Yes, but the appeal does not suspend execution — the process runs in both directions.