The statutory basis for the protection of atmospheric air lies in the Law of Georgia on Environmental Protection: the law regulates the accounting of indicators of the state of the environment, monitoring, protection norms and the procedure for their establishment. For business this means that air-quality requirements unfold in two layers — qualitative norms for the environment and permissible emission norms for a specific source. This page explains how this system operates and what a company needs for compliance.
Accounting, Reporting and Monitoring
The accounting, reporting and assessment of the qualitative and quantitative indicators of the state of the environment comprise the compilation of cadastres of the state of the environment and of natural resources, statistics, inventory, certification and cartography. This state accounting is led and coordinated, within its competence, by the ministry responsible for health protection together with the ministry and other relevant agencies.
The system of monitoring the state of the environment is a totality of the analysis and forecasting of information obtained through observation; its general coordination is carried out by the ministry. The results of monitoring are available to the public — which means that the official data on the state of the air rest on the same public basis on which a company's environmental position is assessed.