About This Service
A regulatory fine is, as a rule, issued in the form of an administrative-legal act, and the procedure for appealing it is established by the General Administrative Code of Georgia. This page rests on five articles of that code: Article 177 explains the right of appeal, Article 180 the time limit, Article 184 the suspension of the appealed act, Article 188 the possibility of amending or annulling the act despite the complaint, and Article 191 the withdrawal of the complaint. The appeal of a fine operates inside this general framework, and the precise deadlines and procedural decisions are governed by exactly these norms. Knowing this framework is a practical instrument for the addressee of a fine: it decides when to act, what may be demanded, and which decision is not subject to appeal at all — and these are exactly the boundaries that parties most often get wrong in practice.
The Right of Appeal and Its Boundaries
Under Article 177, an interested party has the right to appeal an administrative-legal act issued by an administrative organ. The law also builds protection for the case where the organ simply does not react in time: violation of the term set for the issuance of the act is deemed a refusal to issue, and it too is appealed under the same procedure. An action of an administrative organ not connected with the issuance of an act is likewise appealed in this way. The boundary is drawn precisely as well: a decision taken on a question of administrative proceedings is not separately appealable — except where this is directly provided by law or the decision, independently of the act, violates a person's right or lawful interest.
The Time Limit for Appeal
Article 180 governs the deadlines: an administrative complaint must be submitted within one month from the day of publication of the act or of its official notification, unless the law provides otherwise. An action of the organ must be appealed within one month from the day the interested party learned of its commission or of the abstention from it. The distinction matters: where the term for issuing the act has been violated, no appeal deadline is set at all — the decision deemed a refusal may be appealed at any time. A missed deadline is restored only for force majeure or another honorable cause, so the count should begin immediately from the day the fine is issued.