---
title: "Violation of Protected Areas"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/crim-criminal-law-en/violation-of-protected-areas-en"
field: "Criminal Law"
description: "Georgia's protected areas law: categories, prohibitions, forms of regulation and types of liability for violations. Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-07-09"
updated: "2026-10-23"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Violation of Protected Areas

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## 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.

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### What categories of protected areas exist?

State nature reserve, national park, natural monument, managed reserve, protected landscape and multiple-use area, as well as categories included in the international network.

### Where are the concrete prohibitions written?

In the individual statute and management plan of each protected area — the law sets the framework, and the detailed rules are determined by those documents.

### What liability applies to a breach?

Article 23 provides for administrative, civil and criminal liability — the concrete sanction is established by the relevant codes.

### Can liability arise for activity outside the territory?

Yes — the law also provides for regulation outside the territory, through the buffer-zone regime and the prevention of activity harmful to the protected area.