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title: "Site Remediation"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/environmental-and-energy-law-en/site-remediation-en"
field: "Environmental & Energy Law"
description: "Site remediation: privatization obligations, waste requirements and liquidation rules under environmental law. Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-07-09"
updated: "2026-10-14"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Site Remediation

> Source: legal.ge, https://legal.ge/en/service/environmental-and-energy-law-en/site-remediation-en

## 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.

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### Who performs the environmental obligations of a privatized facility?

The new owner: it is not released from the obligations imposed on the former owner, and the compensation of damage caused by violation before privatization is imposed on every new owner.

### What is the environmental audit of a facility?

An instrument for assessing the ecological condition, the risk and the value of the clean-up and restoration works of a privatized facility. It is conducted on the basis of a decision of the ministry.

### Where may waste be placed?

Only in specially designated places; for radioactive and hazardous waste — in specially designated places. Placing any waste in the sea and water objects is prohibited.

### What counts as a condition for transfer into operation?

The proper operation of devices for the utilization and neutralization of hazardous waste, of treatment structures and of control means, and the existence of the means for the measures provided by the project.