European Standard and Georgian Law: What Compliance Actually Targets
The European Union's General Data Protection Regulation does not apply directly in Georgia — the operative law for the Georgian market is the Georgian Law on Personal Data Protection. At the same time, many Georgian companies serve European consumers and transfer data to European partners, so a compliance programme must answer to both regimes. The practical route is this: internal documents and processes are built on the specific requirements of the Georgian law, while the equivalent European level of protection is secured where both regimes demand the same thing — lawful grounds, transparency, data-subject rights and security measures.
Notably, the Georgian law's core blocks mirror the European regulation's architecture: processing principles, lawful bases, the rights of data subjects to information, rectification and erasure, and the right to complain. The differences lie in the details — deadlines, the supervisory authority and the sanctions regime. That is why a compliance audit runs in two layers: first a check of the obligations defined by the Georgian law, then a clarification of the grounds for transferring data to European partners.