---
title: "Restaurant Licensing"
url: "https://legal.ge/en/service/licensing-and-regulatory-permits-en/restaurant-licensing-en"
field: "Licensing & Regulatory Permits"
description: "No separate restaurant licence exists: food safety requirements, HACCP and six state-control mechanisms govern the field; Legal.ge."
reviewed: "2026-07-09"
updated: "2026-10-14"
publisher: "legal.ge"
---

# Restaurant Licensing

> Source: legal.ge, https://legal.ge/en/service/licensing-and-regulatory-permits-en/restaurant-licensing-en

## Does a Restaurant Licence Exist?

In Georgia a restaurant opens without a separate restaurant licence: the Code on food safety, veterinary and plant protection regulates the field through food safety requirements, through the implementation of a system based on hazard analysis and critical control points (HACCP), and through the types and mechanisms of state control. The practical consequence is this: a business operator does not need a one-off permit — it must continuously comply with safety requirements along the entire production chain, and state control verifies that compliance.

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### Is a restaurant licence required?

No, no separate licence exists — the matter is one of food safety requirements and state control.

### What does HACCP require?

Identification of hazards, determination of critical points and limits, monitoring, corrective action, verification and records; primary production is not covered.

### How does the Agency inspect?

Through inspection, monitoring, supervision, document checks, sampling and audit — the six control mechanisms established by law.

### What happens with a harmful product?

Its placement on the market is impermissible; the batch is deemed harmful as a whole unless inspection proves otherwise, and the Agency may withdraw it from the market.