---
title: "Product Counterfeiting"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/crim-criminal-law-en/product-counterfeiting-en"
field: "Criminal Law"
description: "Non-compliant products: fines from 400 to 3 000 lari, removal and process suspension. Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-07-09"
updated: "2026-11-03"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Product Counterfeiting

> Source: legal.ge, https://legal.ge/en/service/crim-criminal-law-en/product-counterfeiting-en

## The Legal Regime of Non-Compliant Products

Legal liability built on the unsuitability or counterfeiting of food and animal feed is gathered in Georgia in the liability chapter of the Food and Feed Safety Code, and it rests on the business operator: the existence or discovery of non-compliance, the placing of expired products on the market and the breach of labelling rules are each punished with a separate fine. The actual subject is the administrative liability for placing non-compliant and expired products on the market. A boundary is noted as well: a consumer's civil claim over quality belongs to the regime of the Civil Code and lies outside this page; what is explained here is regulatory liability.

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### Fine for ignoring an instruction?

Four hundred lari; after a new period — twelve hundred.

### For expired product?

Two or five hundred lari; repeated — three thousand.

### For labelling?

Four hundred lari; repeated — twelve hundred.

### Repetition of a labelling breach?

Within one year — a 1 200 lari fine.