The Law on the System of Protected Areas and Its Purpose
The creation, management and protection of protected areas in Georgia are regulated by the Law of Georgia on the System of Protected Areas. This act determines what kinds of territories exist in the country, how the rules for activities within them are written, and what liability applies to breaches of the law's requirements. On this page we explain the core norms that most often reach any nature-use activity — the determination of categories under Article 3, the regulation of activities under Article 20, and the forms of liability under Article 23.
Understanding the law is practical both for entrepreneurs and for persons engaged in tourism, farming or construction on or near a protected area: a violation is established precisely under the rules fixed by this law and by the individual statute of each territory, and it is often the imprecision of those rules that creates the legal basis of a dispute.