The legal framework of site remediation
Site remediation — bringing a contaminated or damaged plot back to a safe state through clean-up and restoration works — rests in Georgia on several institutions of the law on environmental protection: the obligations of the owner of a privatized facility, the ecological requirements towards waste, and the environmental requirements established upon transfer into operation and upon liquidation. Together these norms constitute the rules by which it is decided who bears the obligations connected with the condition of a site and at which stage the clean-up measures must be secured.