The Georgian Form of an International Organization: the Legal Basis
Bringing a foreign non-governmental organization into Georgia requires the precise application of the rules of the Civil Code on non-entrepreneurial legal persons. Under Article 24 of the Code, a legal person is an organized formation created to achieve a defined purpose, possessing its own property, independently liable with that property, and acquiring rights and obligations in its own name. A legal person may be based on membership or be independent of it, and may or may not pursue entrepreneurship; its purpose also determines the path of its registration: a legal person whose purpose is non-entrepreneurial activity must be registered in the manner established by this Code.
For an international organization this means that the non-entrepreneurial character of its activity in Georgia is a precondition: where the activity contains elements of entrepreneurship, a different regulation applies, while purely non-entrepreneurial activity falls within the regime of precisely this Code.