---
title: "Soil Contamination Law"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/environmental-and-energy-law-en/soil-contamination-law-en"
field: "Environmental & Energy Law"
description: "Soil pollution law in Georgia: quality norms, agrochemical rules, waste prohibitions and the 10-year damage claim period. Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-07-09"
updated: "2026-10-23"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Soil Contamination Law

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

## Soil Quality Norms

The legal regulation of soil pollution begins with the system of environmental quality norms under the Georgian Law on Environmental Protection. According to Article 29 of the law, the environmental quality norms are: the maximum permissible norms for the concentration of substances harmful to human health and the natural environment and for the quantities of microorganisms in atmospheric air, water and soil; the maximum permissible norms for noise, vibration, electromagnetic fields and other physical impacts; and the maximum permissible norms for radiation exposure. Soil is named directly in this list, which means that the assessment of land pollution is made precisely against these limit norms. The quality norms are determined once every 5 years, by a statute developed and approved, in agreement with the Ministry of Environmental Protection, by the Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labour, Health and Social Affairs — the agreed competence of the health and environment ministries ensures that the normative values simultaneously protect both the human being and the soil as a component of the natural environment.

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### What are the environmental quality norms?

Maximum permissible norms for concentrations of harmful substances in air, water and soil, for physical impacts and for radiation; they are determined once every 5 years.

### How is the use of chemicals in soil regulated?

Norms are set so that no threat is created to health, the plant and animal world or the soil; a unified state registry of chemical substances operates.

### Where is the placement of waste prohibited?

In the sea and other water bodies — for any waste; otherwise placement is allowed only in specially defined places.

### For how long may environmental damage be claimed?

For ten years from the moment the right of claim arises.