The Legal Framework of Product Safety
The safety of consumer products in Georgia is regulated by a dedicated instrument — the Product Safety and Free Circulation Code. This act creates the system of obligations that binds manufacturers and distributors with respect to products placed on the market: placing only safe products, warning consumers about risks, supplying information, and compensating harm caused by a defective product. The sixth, ninth, eleventh and twelfth articles of the Code rest precisely on these four pillars.
For consumers and businesses alike this framework has practical significance: it determines who answers for harm, what information must be given to the consumer, and how the manufacturer must act when a risk emerges in a product after it has been placed on the market.