On Public Health

Law of Georgia

On Public Health

Article 1. Purpose of the Law🔗

The purpose of this Law is: promotion of the establishment of the health of the population and a healthy lifestyle; ensuring an environment safe for human health; promotion of the protection of the reproductive health of the family; prevention of the spread of communicable and non-communicable diseases.

Article 2. Scope of the Law🔗

1. This Law shall apply to all natural and legal persons located in the territory of Georgia.

2. This Law shall not apply to the individual treatment and rehabilitation of natural persons, unless this directly follows from this Law.

Article 3. Definition of Terms🔗

The terms used in this Law have the following meaning:

a) public health protection – a set of measures aimed at improving public health, prevention and control of diseases;

b) Ministry – Ministry of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia;

c) Public Health Service – the relevant public health protection service of the Ministry;

d) medical service provider – a natural or legal person providing medical services who holds a state certificate for the pursuit of independent medical practice or a license for the pursuit of the relevant medical activity;

e) epidemic – a significant increase in cases of a disease in a defined territory or in a particular population group over a certain period of time compared to the expected (background) level;

f) epidemic outbreak – a sharp increase in the frequency of new cases of a communicable disease in a limited number of the population over a short period;

g) pandemic – an unusually wide spread of a communicable disease (across several countries, a continent or the world) covering a significant part of the population;

h) epidemic focus – the place of the source of infection and its adjacent territory within which, under the given conditions, healthy persons may be infected by the causative agent of the disease;

i) especially dangerous infections – diseases caused by biological agents with high pathogenicity that pose a particular risk to human and/or animal health;

i¹) especially dangerous pathogens – biological agents and toxins of high transmissibility that cause those especially dangerous infections and can cause serious harm to public health and safety;

j) epidemiological surveillance – a permanent system for the collection, analysis and dissemination of information on public health;

k) isolation – separation of a sick or infected person from other people during the period of communicability of the disease, in a place and/or under conditions that restrict or exclude the transmission of this disease from him/her to another person by direct or indirect means;

l) quarantine measures – a set of measures applied to a person who is not sick but had exposure to a case of a communicable disease during the period of communicability;

m) preventive treatment – implementation of medical interventions (vaccination, administration of specific medications) for the purpose of preventing the spread of communicable diseases in risk-group patients;

n) preventive vaccination – introduction of a vaccine into the human body (vaccination) for the purpose of developing specific immunity to communicable diseases;

o) National Calendar of Preventive Vaccinations – the list of infectious diseases for which preventive vaccination is mandatory, and the age indicators, terms and rules for carrying out preventive vaccinations;

p) nosocomial infection – an infection acquired in a medical institution;

q) zoonotic disease – a disease common to humans and animals;

r) pathogenic biological agent – a microorganism, a toxin of biological origin, as well as any object and material of any origin containing them;

s) International Health Regulations – a document adopted at the Fifty-eighth World Health Assembly of the World Health Organization, which is a global instrument for protection against the spread of diseases;

t) biological safety – a system of organisational, medical-biological and engineering-technological measures and means aimed at protecting personnel, the population and the environment from the effects of pathogenic biological agents;

u) circulation of chemical substances – import, export, transit of chemical substances;

v) sanitary norms – mandatory technical regulations established by the Ministry for the purpose of ensuring public health;

w) hygienic norms – mandatory norms established by the Ministry for the special contingent;

x) fortified food products – food products enriched with micronutrients and vitamins, which are used for the prevention of diseases caused by micronutrient and vitamin deficiency;

y) special contingent – for the purposes of this Law, any person who lacks or has a limited ability to make a decision independently (a minor, a person with disabilities, an elderly person, a hospital patient) and whose freedom of action has been forcibly restricted by the State.

z) national recommendation (guideline) for the protection of public health – an evidence-based national recommendation for the prevention and study of communicable and non-communicable diseases, epidemiological surveillance and epidemiological control, the promotion of human health and the planning and management of measures to ensure an environment safe for health, which is approved by the Ministry.

Law of Georgia of 1 April 2015 No. 3417 – website, 14.04.2015.

Law of Georgia of 5 July 2018 No. 3115 – website, 11.07.2018.

Law of Georgia of 20 November 2018 No. 3720 – website, 03.12.2018.

Article 4. Basic principles of the Law🔗

The basic principles of this Law are:

a) ensuring preventive measures in order to avoid health-related threats;

b) a clear separation of the competences of State bodies in the field of public health and their close information coordination during the planning and implementation of health-related measures;

c) a clear separation of the powers of State authorities and municipalities in the field of public health;

d) protection of public health in compliance with the international treaties and agreements of Georgia, as well as with the protection of fundamental human rights and freedoms recognised by the legislation of Georgia.

Law of Georgia of 15 July 2020 No. 6890 – website, 28.07.2020.

Article 5. Rights and obligations of the population and legal entities in the field of public health🔗

1. Every person present on the territory of Georgia shall be obliged to:

a) not carry out any activity that creates a risk of the spread of communicable and non-communicable diseases, gives rise to health-related risks;

b) in the event of a danger of the emergence and spread of communicable diseases, undergo, at the request of the competent authorities, all medical procedures necessary to prevent a threat to the health of another person;

c) cease the activity if it poses a threat to public health;

d) comply with sanitary and epidemiological norms;

e) provide the public health service with information on all emergency situations caused by violation of sanitary norms in production and technological processes;

f) in the absence of medical contraindications, undergo vaccination in the event of a danger of an outbreak or widespread spread of communicable diseases, or of the onset of an epidemic;

g) undergo preventive vaccination if their activity is associated with a high risk of the spread of communicable diseases;

h) comply with the national calendar of preventive vaccinations in the manner and within the scope established by the legislation of Georgia.

2. Every person present on the territory of Georgia has the right:

a) to be protected from communicable diseases in an institution providing medical services;

b) to refuse to undergo preventive measures, unless the matter concerns an epidemic or pandemic. A person whose activity is associated with a high risk of the spread of communicable diseases shall not have the right to refuse to undergo preventive measures;

c) to live in an environment harmless to health;

d) to receive in a timely manner comprehensive information on the essence and necessity of preventive vaccination, the expected clinical outcome, the risk associated with vaccination and the possible consequences in the event of refusal of vaccination.

3. Every enterprise shall be obliged to:

a) comply with the legislation of Georgia in force in the field of public health;

b) provide the public health service with information on all emergency situations caused by violation of sanitary norms in production and technological processes.

3¹. Every person whose activity is associated with the performance of aesthetic and cosmetic procedures in institutions of public importance shall be obliged to comply with the technical regulation − sanitary norms for the prevention and control of infections during the performance of aesthetic and cosmetic procedures in institutions of public importance.

3². The person indicated in paragraph 3¹ of this article shall, in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of Georgia, register the relevant activity in the Register of Economic Activities and, in the event of the commencement, termination and/or change of any registered data related to the activity, for the purpose of making a change in the Register of Economic Activities, apply in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of Georgia to the Legal Entity of Public Law operating in the field of governance of the Ministry of Justice of Georgia − the National Agency of Public Registry.

4. Failure to comply with the requirements of this article shall be punishable under the legislation of Georgia.

Law of Georgia No. 5571 of 24 June 2016 - website, 13.07.2016.

Law of Georgia No. 3720 of 20 November 2018 – website, 03.12.2018.

Article 6. Obligations of the State in the Field of Prevention of Communicable Diseases🔗

The State shall ensure:

a) the organization and supervision of the vaccinations determined by the National Calendar of Preventive Vaccinations;

b) the organization and supervision of the supply, storage and transportation of the preparations necessary for the vaccinations determined by the National Calendar of Preventive Vaccinations;

c) in the event of epidemic indications, the organization of preventive vaccinations and active detection of communicable diseases.

Article 7. Obligations of the Ministry in the field of prevention of communicable diseases🔗

1. The Ministry shall ensure:

a) epidemiological surveillance of communicable diseases;

b) prevention of communicable diseases, including the carrying out of prophylactic vaccinations;

c) supervision of the vaccinations defined by the national calendar of prophylactic vaccinations and of the vaccinations conditioned by epidemiological indications;

d) the production of state statistics on the vaccinations defined by the national calendar of prophylactic vaccinations that were carried out;

e) the production of statistics on cases of communicable diseases, including particularly dangerous infections;

f) laboratory confirmation of epidemic outbreaks and epidemics;

g) treatment of infected persons for the purpose of preventing the spread of communicable diseases;

h) accessibility, for persons located on the territory of Georgia, of the vaccinations defined by the national calendar of prophylactic vaccinations.

2. For the purpose of carrying out prophylactic vaccinations, the Ministry:

a) determines the terms and rules for carrying out prophylactic vaccinations, the forms of the relevant medical documentation and immunisation cards;

b) takes a decision on the commencement of vaccination against diseases conditioned by epidemiological indications;

c) ensures maximum coverage of persons living in Georgia with the vaccinations defined by the national calendar of prophylactic vaccinations;

d) controls the supply of medical service providers with quality, effective and safe preparations necessary for the prophylactic vaccination of the population;

e) determines the rules for the storage and transportation of the preparations necessary for prophylactic vaccinations;

f) exercises supervision over the storage and transportation of the preparations necessary for prophylactic vaccinations.

3. The Ministry shall establish the rules for epidemiological surveillance, prevention and control of nosocomial infections.

4. By a legal act of the Minister of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labour, Health and Social Protection of Georgia, the following shall be determined:

a) the national calendar of prophylactic vaccinations;

b) the list of activities for which prophylactic immunisation is mandatory;

c) the list of activities associated with a high risk of the spread of communicable diseases, and the list of the relevant preventive measures;

d) the list of institutions where the employment of a natural person is permitted only after the carrying out of prophylactic immunisation.

5. The Ministry shall ensure that persons engaged in the activities referred to in subparagraph „c“ of paragraph 4 of this Article are informed about the vaccinations recommended for them.

6. The rules of prophylactic immunisation in the penitentiary institution (hereinafter – the penitentiary institution) of the Special Penitentiary Service (hereinafter – the Penitentiary Service), a state sub-agency institution within the system of the Defence Forces of Georgia and the Ministry of Justice of Georgia, shall be established by the Minister of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labour, Health and Social Protection of Georgia, unless otherwise provided by the legislation of Georgia.

7. The Ministry disseminates information about the preventive measures to be carried out, including procedures related to vaccinations.

8. The Ministry establishes sanitary norms for penitentiary institutions.

Law of Georgia of 9 March 2010 No. 2729-LHG I, No. 12, 24.03.2010, Art. 65

Law of Georgia of 1 May 2015 No. 3548 – website, 18.05.2015

Law of Georgia of 5 July 2018 No. 3115 – website, 11.07.2018

Law of Georgia of 31 October 2018 No. 3599 – website, 21.11.2018

Law of Georgia of 21 September 2023 No. 3532 – website, 12.10.2023

Article 8. Obligations of a medical service provider in the field of prevention of communicable diseases🔗

1. The respective medical service provider shall promptly provide to a person residing in Georgia comprehensive information on the essence of preventive vaccination, its necessity, the expected clinical outcome, the risk associated with vaccination and the possible consequences in the event of refusal of vaccination. In the event of the said person being a minor or having limited legal capacity, the medical service provider shall provide this information to his/her legal representative.

2. In the event of a person's refusal of preventive vaccination, the medical service provider shall draw up the relevant document in the form determined by the Ministry.

3. The medical service provider shall, in accordance with the procedure established by the Ministry, submit to the public health service information on the preventive vaccinations carried out.

4. The medical service provider shall, in accordance with the procedure established by the Ministry, submit a report on statistical data to the competent body.

5. The medical service provider shall ensure the prevention and control of nosocomial infections.

Law of Georgia of 20 March 2015 No. 3365 – website, 31.03.2015

Article 9. Prevention of communicable diseases when travelling outside the borders of Georgia🔗

1. Organizations providing tourism services shall inform tourists about:

a) the risk of infection in connection with a visit to the respective country;

b) the need for preventive vaccinations and other preventive measures.

2. During tourist travel, preventive vaccinations and other preventive measures shall be financed at the citizen's expense.

3. During travel for the purpose of a business trip, preventive vaccinations and other preventive measures shall be financed at the employer's expense.

Article 10. Requirements in cases of the possible existence and detection of communicable diseases🔗

1. The public health service has the right to require a natural person to undergo a medical examination if there is reasonable suspicion that he/she is a carrier of a communicable disease and poses a threat to public health. The aforementioned shall be carried out with protection of fundamental human rights and freedoms.

2. The medical service provider shall be obliged to notify the relevant public health service, in accordance with the procedure established by the Ministry, of each case of detection of a communicable disease.

3. In the event of confirmation of carriage of a communicable disease, the public health service and the medical service provider have the right to require the natural person to:

a) undergo appropriate medical examination and/or appropriate treatment and/or receive appropriate consultation;

b) name the persons who were and/or are in close contact with him/her during the period of communicability.

Article 11. Isolation of a person and placement in quarantine🔗

1. In an emergency situation, the enforcement of a decision on the isolation and/or placement in quarantine of a natural person shall be ensured by the state sub-agency institution within the governance sphere of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia − the Emergency Management Service (hereinafter − the Emergency Management Service) and/or an authorized person of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia.

1¹. In case of violation of the isolation and/or quarantine rules, an authorized person of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia shall be entitled, in order to protect the life and/or health of others, to use the transfer of the offending natural person to an appropriate space within a reasonable time as a preventive measure. At the same time, the transfer of the offending natural person to an appropriate space shall be carried out with the accompaniment of an authorized person of the Ministry, if possible.

2. A natural person shall have the right to appeal, in accordance with the procedure established by the legislation of Georgia, the decision taken in respect of him/her.

3. The decision on the isolation of a person and/or the application of quarantine measures in respect of him/her shall be taken by the Public Health Service in compliance with the principles of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.

4. The State shall ensure medical services for an isolated and/or quarantined person.

5. In case of the isolation and/or placement in quarantine of a minor under 7 (young child) and/or a person with limited legal capacity, his/her legal representative shall be notified thereof in writing. The written notification shall contain the legal basis and the expected duration of the isolation and/or placement in quarantine.

6. The rules of isolation and/or quarantine shall be established by the Government of Georgia or a Ministry designated by the Government of Georgia.

Law of Georgia of 20 March 2015 No. 3365 – website, 31.03.2015.

Law of Georgia of 7 December 2017 No. 1691 – website, 14.12.2017.

Law of Georgia of 22 December 2018 No. 4091 – website, 28.12.2018.

Law of Georgia of 23 April 2020 No. 5890 – website, 24.04.2020.

Article 12. Management of emergency situations during an epidemic and pandemic especially dangerous for public health🔗

1. An epidemic and a pandemic especially dangerous for public health shall be classified as an emergency situation, the management of which shall be carried out in accordance with the Law of Georgia on Civil Safety.

2. (deleted – 27.06.2018, No. 2619).

3. During an epidemic and pandemic especially dangerous for public health, the rights and duties of the Emergency Situations Management Service and the Ministry are:

a) coordination of the management of the situation caused by an epidemic and pandemic especially dangerous for public health;

b) taking a decision, in coordination with the relevant state bodies, in connection with changing the boundaries of an epidemic focus;

c) requiring any natural person located in an epidemic focus to undergo a medical examination;

d) ensuring, through the relevant services, the carrying out of quarantine measures in respect of any natural person located in an epidemic focus;

e) ensuring, where necessary, the evacuation of a person located in an epidemic focus;

f) ensuring control over the entry of natural persons into an epidemic focus and their exit from that focus during an epidemic;

g) ensuring control over the entry of transport into an epidemic focus and its exit from that focus;

h) ensuring the inspection of any type of baggage, goods and postal items;

i) mobilisation of material resources and transport for the purpose of carrying out appropriate anti-epidemic measures;

j) ensuring the informing of the public through the mass media during an epidemic;

k) organising the hospitalisation and isolation of patients;

l) ensuring the carrying out of quarantine measures in respect of persons in contact with patients;

m) ensuring control over the production, supply and transportation of food;

n) organising the supply of the population with quality drinking water and the disinfection of contaminated water;

o) ensuring the informing of the population about the measures to be carried out;

p) ensuring, together with municipal bodies, the functioning of checkpoints on all routes exiting the emergency situation zone.

Law of Georgia of 29 May 2014 No. 2469 – website, 12.06.2014.

Law of Georgia of 7 December 2017 No. 1691 – website, 14.12.2017.

Law of Georgia of 27 June 2018 No. 2619 – website, 06.06.2018.

Law of Georgia of 22 December 2018 No. 4091 – website, 28.12.2018.

Law of Georgia of 2 April 2019 No. 4409 – website, 08.04.2019.

Article 13. Control of zoonotic diseases🔗

1. In order to protect the population from zoonotic disease, the procedure for informing about a detected case of disease shall be determined by the procedure for the functioning of the integrated national system of epidemiological surveillance of infectious diseases, including diseases caused by particularly dangerous pathogens.

2. In the event of detection of a zoonotic disease, the Ministry and the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia shall jointly carry out measures to eliminate the epidemic outbreak.

3. The Ministry shall develop the state programme for rabies prevention and shall determine the policy for anti-rabies prophylactic treatment of the population.

4. The Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia shall be responsible for providing vaccine for anti-rabies prophylactic vaccination of animals, for the storage and transportation of animal rabies vaccine, and for the maintenance of the unified information bank of animal vaccination data.

Law of Georgia of 3 November 2009 No. 1920-LHG I, No. 35, 19.11.2009, Art. 230

Law of Georgia of 1 April 2015 No. 3417 – website, 14.04.2015

Law of Georgia of 7 December 2017 No. 1691 – website, 14.12.2017

Article 14. Control of foodborne diseases🔗

1. For the control of foodborne diseases, the rules for informing about a detected case of disease and for coordinating the implementation of measures to eliminate the epidemic outbreak shall be determined by the procedure for the functioning of the integrated national system of epidemiological surveillance of infectious diseases, including diseases caused by particularly dangerous pathogens.

2. For the purpose of ensuring the planning and carrying out of comprehensive measures for the prevention of foodborne diseases, the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia shall, in accordance with the established procedure, regularly provide the Ministry with the results and data of state supervision of food safety and quality.

Law of Georgia of 3 November 2009 No. 1920-LHG I, No. 35, 19.11.2009, Art. 230

Law of Georgia of 1 April 2015 No. 3417 – website, 14.04.2015

Law of Georgia of 7 December 2017 No. 1691 – website, 14.12.2017

Article 15. Prevention and control of specific infections🔗

1. The Ministry ensures the development of a unified state strategy for prevention and control and the organisation of its implementation in the case of the following specific infections:

a) tuberculosis;

b) HIV/AIDS.

1¹. Issues related to the prevention and control of tuberculosis shall be regulated by this Law and the Law of Georgia "On Tuberculosis Control".

2. Issues related to the quality and safety of human blood and its components, blood donation and the rights of a donor shall be regulated by the Law of Georgia "On the Quality and Safety of Human Blood and Its Components".

Law of Georgia of 11 December 2015 No. 4631 – website, 23.12.2015.

Law of Georgia of 15 December 2022 No. 2389 – website, 27.12.2022.

Law of Georgia of 13 December 2024 No. 141 – website, 29.12.2024.

Article 16. Ensuring biological safety🔗

1. For the purpose of ensuring the biological safety of the population, the Ministry conducts a unified state policy. For the purpose of protecting the health of the population, of the personnel in contact with disease-causing pathogenic biological agents, and of the environment, the Ministry carries out comprehensive – organisational, medical-biological and engineering-technological – measures.

2. The Ministry establishes the list of particularly dangerous pathogens and, as necessary, ensures its revision.'

3. It is prohibited to possess pathogenic biological agents of such a species and in such a quantity as cannot be explained by their use for diagnostic, research or other peaceful purposes.

4. On the submission of the Ministry, the Government of Georgia approves the rules and norms for the possession, use, transfer, transportation and destruction of particularly dangerous pathogens, and the methods for their research and control.

5. The Ministry shall develop the sanitary-hygienic rules and norms for laboratories working with particularly dangerous pathogenic biological agents, the qualification requirements for personnel and the principles for monitoring their health, and shall submit them to the Government of Georgia for approval.

Law of Georgia of 1 April 2015 No. 3417 – website, 14.04.2015.

Article 17. Restrictions on possession, use, transfer, transportation and destruction of especially dangerous pathogens🔗

1. Only legal entities holding a licence for activity on especially dangerous pathogens, in accordance with the Law of Georgia “On Licences and Permits”, shall have the right to work with especially dangerous pathogens.

2. The Government of Georgia shall establish a list of natural persons who, due to a criminal record or being charged with terrorism, are prohibited from possessing, using, transferring, transporting and destroying especially dangerous pathogens.

3. On the proposal of the Ministry, the Government of Georgia shall determine additional technical and safety requirements, which are additional conditions for the issuance of a licence for activity on especially dangerous pathogens.

4. By order of the Minister of Internally Displaced Persons from the Occupied Territories, Labour, Health and Social Protection of Georgia, the National Repository of Especially Dangerous Pathogens shall be established.

5. On the proposal of the Ministry, the Government of Georgia shall approve the rules for the transfer and transportation of especially dangerous pathogens. Compliance with these rules shall be mandatory for any person participating in the transfer and/or transportation of especially dangerous pathogens.

6. Especially dangerous pathogens may be transferred only to an institution with the relevant authority. The institution with the relevant authority shall be notified in advance of all proposed transportation of especially dangerous pathogens, and they shall be moved in accordance with the established procedure.

Law of Georgia of 24 September 2010 No. 3619-LHG I, No. 51, 29.09.2010, Art. 332

Law of Georgia of 1 April 2015 No. 3417 – website, 14.04.2015.

Law of Georgia of 5 July 2018 No. 3115 – website, 11.07.2018.

Article 18. Destruction of especially dangerous pathogens🔗

1. Especially dangerous pathogens shall be destroyed in accordance with the procedure approved by the Government of Georgia.

2. Appropriately qualified personnel shall be obliged to keep records of the types and quantities of destroyed especially dangerous pathogens.

3. In the event of identification of especially dangerous pathogens, the relevant laboratory shall immediately notify the legal entity where the National Repository of Especially Dangerous Pathogens is located, and shall transfer these pathogens to the National Repository or destroy them in accordance with the procedure established by legislation.

Law of Georgia of 1 April 2015 No. 3417 – website, 14.04.2015.

Article 19. Import and Export of Especially Dangerous Pathogens🔗

1. The Government of Georgia shall adopt the rules for the import and export of especially dangerous pathogens. These rules shall ensure the use of especially dangerous pathogens exclusively for peaceful purposes.

2. The import and export of especially dangerous pathogens shall be carried out only by a person with the relevant authority in accordance with the procedure established by legislation.

Law of Georgia of 1 April 2015 No. 3417 – website, 14.04.2015.

Article 20. Functions of the relevant service of the Ministry in the field of biological safety🔗

The relevant service of the Ministry shall, where necessary, carry out other types of measures necessary for preparing for and responding to an emergency situation related to particularly dangerous infections.

Article 21. Integrated national system of epidemiological surveillance of infectious diseases🔗

1. The Government of Georgia shall ensure the creation of an integrated national system of epidemiological surveillance of infectious diseases, including diseases caused by particularly dangerous pathogens.

2. The rules for the functioning of the integrated national system of epidemiological surveillance of infectious diseases, including diseases caused by particularly dangerous pathogens, shall be approved by the Government of Georgia.

3. The integrated national system of epidemiological surveillance of infectious diseases shall be based on a unified laboratory system for the detection of particularly dangerous pathogens, epidemiological surveillance and response, which includes a network of biological safety laboratories at various levels.

4. Biological safety laboratories shall comply with the relevant international norms.

Law of Georgia No. 3417 of 1 April 2015 – website, 14.04.2015.

Article 22. Ensuring an environment safe for public health🔗

1. For the purpose of ensuring an environment safe for public health, the Ministry establishes qualitative norms of an environment safe for human health (atmospheric air, water, soil, noise, vibration, electromagnetic radiation), which include norms of maximum permissible concentrations and harmful effects.

2. Control over compliance with the environmental qualitative norms by natural and legal persons shall be exercised by the relevant competent body.

3. Liability of persons violating the environmental qualitative norms shall be determined by the legislation of Georgia.

4. The extraction, receipt, manufacture, production, circulation and use of radioactive substances and other sources of ionizing radiation, as well as the arrangement of a radioactive waste burial site and a radioactive waste storage facility, without special authorization, shall be prohibited.

5. Natural and legal persons shall be obliged to suspend the use of radioactive substances and other sources of ionizing radiation if radiation safety norms are violated and human health is endangered.

6. The Ministry develops and approves the norms of safety for working with radioactive substances and other sources of ionizing radiation, including treatment and diagnostic procedures by medical X-ray radiological methods.

7. In places of human residence or permanent stay, the qualitative state of the environment shall not be harmful to the health of the persons present in these places and shall not exceed the maximum permissible norms established by the Ministry.

8. A person whose activity has caused a violation of the environmental qualitative norms established by the Ministry in places of human residence or permanent stay shall be punished in the manner established by the legislation of Georgia.

9. Ensuring nuclear and radiation safety shall be regulated by special legislation.

10. In the process of strategic environmental assessment provided for by the Code of Environmental Assessment, the competence of the Ministry shall be determined in accordance with the same Code.

Law of Georgia of 11 November 2015 No. 4494 – website, 24.11.2015.

Law of Georgia of 1 June 2017 No. 907 – website, 21.06.2017.

Article 23. Ensuring water safe for public health🔗

1. The Ministry, in accordance with the recommendations of the World Health Organization, determines the quality norms and technical regulations of water safe for human health.

2. (Removed - 07.112.2017, No. 1691).

3. The Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia ensures:

a) the development and implementation of a unified state policy in the field of state management of water resources using the principles of sustainable development and basin management of water resources;

[a) the development and implementation of a unified state policy in the field of water resources management using the principles of sustainable development and basin management of water resources; (shall enter into force from 1 September 2026) ]

b) the protection of water objects from such negative impact as may cause harm to public health, worsen water supply conditions and cause qualitative changes therein;

c) the planning and carrying out of measures to restrict, suspend or prohibit water use in special cases;

d) control of the compliance of drinking water safety parameters and quality with the requirements established by the legislation of Georgia and external, selective laboratory control of drinking water.

4. Internal control of water quality and external laboratory audit shall be carried out by accredited independent laboratories.

Law of Georgia of 25 March 2013 No. 492 – website, 05.04.2013.

Law of Georgia of 7 December 2017 No. 1691 – website, 14.12.2017.

Law of Georgia of 30 June 2023 No. 3430 – website, 20.07.2023.

Article 24. Chemical safety🔗

1. The Ministry establishes the classification of chemical substances, the rules for assigning a chemical substance to toxicity and hazard classes, the requirements for packaging, marking and labelling, the form of the information sheet on the safe handling of a chemical substance and the volume of data to be entered therein.

2. The production, circulation, supply, sale, storage, use and utilisation of chemical substances shall be carried out in compliance with the established safety norms and shall be subject to state supervision.

3. The list of hazardous chemical substances permitted on the territory of Georgia and the matters related to the circulation of and handling of these substances shall be determined by the legislation of Georgia.

4. Matters of the safety of chemical substances shall be regulated by special legislation.

Law of Georgia of 13 April 2016 No. 4961 - website, 26.04.2016.

Article 25. Safety of Technological Processes at the Workplace🔗

State control over the safety of technological processes at the workplace is exercised by the Legal Entity of Public Law – Technical and Construction Supervision Agency in the cases and within the scope established by the legislation of Georgia.

Law of Georgia of 23 March 2010 No. 2793-LHG I, No. 20, 19.04.2010, Art. 108

Law of Georgia of 22 March 2011 No. 4469-website, 01.04.2011

Law of Georgia of 8 May 2012 No. 6165 – website, 25.05.2012

Article 26. Product Safety🔗

1. Products produced or imported in the territory of Georgia, for the purpose of ensuring human health safety, shall comply with normative safety requirements.

2. In the event of violation of sanitary norms, a person shall be obliged to terminate the production, import, export, supply, transportation, sale and use of products until the violation is eliminated.

Article 27. Healthy Nutrition Policy🔗

1. The Ministry determines food safety norms and principles of healthy nutrition.

2. The Ministry, on the basis of the relevant normative act, establishes the list of institutions for which compliance with the norms of the nutritional value of the ration is mandatory.

3. The Ministry develops and approves sanitary and hygienic norms and norms of physiological needs of the human body, the fulfilment of which is mandatory for institutions in which a special contingent is present.

4. The Ministry establishes safety norms for children's (including infants'), fortified and special-purpose (dietary, diabetic) food products.

5. The Ministry determines the policy for combating disorders caused by deficiency and excess of nutrients.

Article 28. Ensuring the Health of Mothers, Children and Adolescents🔗

The Ministry determines:

a) the policy on the health of mothers, children and adolescents;

b) the policy on reproductive health;

c) in cooperation with other competent ministries of Georgia and international organizations, ensures an enabling environment for the optimal development of children.

Article 29. Tobacco Consumption Control🔗

1. The Ministry implements a policy the aim of which is to reduce and ultimately eliminate tobacco consumption.

2. Issues of tobacco consumption control are regulated by special legislation.

Article 30. Policy on Combating Drug Addiction, Toxicomania and Alcoholism🔗

The Ministry determines the policy on combating drug addiction, toxicomania and alcoholism.

[Article 30¹. Unified Information Database of Persons with Mental Health Problems and Persons Suffering from Alcoholism, Drug Addiction and/or Toxicomania

1. The Ministry shall administer the unified information database of persons with mental health problems and persons suffering from alcoholism, drug addiction and/or toxicomania, into which the relevant data on the person's state of health shall be entered.

2. Only the relevant institutions shall have the right to obtain the data contained in the unified information database of persons with mental health problems and persons suffering from alcoholism, drug addiction and/or toxicomania, in the cases determined by law. (shall enter into force from 1 May 2026)]

Law of Georgia of 9 December 2025 No. 1156 – website, 15.12.2025.

Article 31. Competence of the Ministry in the field of public health🔗

1. In the field of public health, the powers of the Ministry are:

a) determination of public health policy;

b) implementation of monitoring in the field of public health;

c) development of state programmes within the framework of this Law;

d) determination of policy and ensuring of monitoring in the field of non-communicable diseases;

e) determination of biological safety policy;

f) determination of policy related to ensuring the health safety of children and adolescents;

g) determination of healthy lifestyle policy;

h) approval of the national recommendation (guideline) for public health protection;

i) performance of the functions defined for the Ministry by the Law of Georgia "On Tuberculosis Control".

2. The Ministry determines:

a) the list of communicable diseases in respect of the carriage of which, in the event of suspicion during epidemic indications, a natural person is obliged to undergo an appropriate medical examination;

b) the norms of the relevant medical examination;

c) measures and methods for the prevention, management and suppression of the spread of communicable diseases, including particularly dangerous infections.

3. In the field of public health, the powers of the Ministry are:

a) determination by a normative act of the rules for carrying out medical preventive measures;

b) establishment of norms for the qualitative state of the environment;

c) establishment of the list of chemical substances the use of which is inadmissible in the production of household, perfumery-cosmetic products, synthetic raw materials and materials;

d) establishment, in agreement with the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia, of safety norms and labelling rules for specialised (dietary, diabetic, fortified) food products, as well as children's (including infant) food products;

e) development of rules and norms for the possession, use, transfer, transportation and destruction of particularly dangerous pathogens, and methods for their study and control, and submission thereof to the Government of Georgia for approval;

f) establishment of labour safety norms;

g) establishment of the list of occupational diseases and the rules for the prevention of these diseases.

4. The Ministry supervises and monitors the carrying out of sanitary and anti-epidemic measures by medical service providers.

5. The Ministry monitors in the field of biological safety.

Law of Georgia of 1 April 2015 No. 3417 – website, 14.04.2015.

Law of Georgia of 11 December 2015 No. 4631 – website, 23.12.2015.

Law of Georgia of 7 December 2017 No. 1691 – website, 14.12.2017.

Article 32. Competence of the Government of Georgia in the field of public health🔗

The Government of Georgia:

a) ensures the functioning of the integrated national system of epidemiological surveillance of infectious diseases, including the unified laboratory system for the detection of especially dangerous pathogens, epidemiological surveillance and response;

b) approves the rules and norms for the possession, use, transfer, transportation and destruction of especially dangerous pathogens, and the methods of their study and control;

c) establishes the list of those natural persons who, due to a criminal record or being charged with terrorism, are prohibited from possessing, using, transferring, transporting and destroying especially dangerous pathogens;

c¹) approves the rules for the functioning of the integrated national system of epidemiological surveillance of infectious diseases, including diseases caused by especially dangerous pathogens;

d) approves the technological scheme for the implementation of sanitary-quarantine control in the border strip and customs control zones of Georgia;

e) is entitled, taking into account the epidemiological situation, for the purpose of the entry into and/or stay in Georgia of foreigners and stateless persons, to establish, in respect of this circle of persons, the conditions and rules of health insurance and accident insurance.

Law of Georgia of 24 September 2010 No 3619-LHG I, No 51, 29.09.2010, Art. 332

Law of Georgia of 12 November 2010 No 3806-LHG I, No 66, 03.12.2010, Art. 414

Law of Georgia of 27 March 2012 No 5966 – website, 12.04.2012

Law of Georgia of 1 April 2015 No 3417 – website, 14.04.2015

Law of Georgia of 25 May 2021 No 489 – website, 31.05.2021

Article 33. (removed)🔗

Law of Georgia of 25 March 2013 No 492 – website, 05.04.2013

Law of Georgia of 7 December 2017 No 1691 – website, 14.12.2017

Article 34. Competence of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia and/or institutions within its system in the field of public health🔗

In the field of public health, the powers of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia and/or institutions within its system are:

a) organising the monitoring of soil pollution;

b) development and implementation of a unified state policy in the field of state management of water resources, using the principles of sustainable development and basin management of water resources;

[b) development and implementation of a unified state policy in the field of water resources management, using the principles of sustainable development and basin-wide management of water resources; (shall enter into force from 1 September 2026) ]

c) protection of water bodies from such negative impact as may harm the health of the population, worsen water supply conditions and cause qualitative changes therein;

d) planning and carrying out measures to restrict, suspend or prohibit water use in special cases;

e) organising the monitoring of the atmospheric air quality of populated areas;

f) organising the monitoring of noise, vibration, non-ionising radiation;

g) organising the monitoring of the radiation background;

h) ensuring dosimetric monitoring at facilities using ionising radiation;

i) authorisation of nuclear and radiation activity;

j) development and implementation of food safety policy;

k) control over compliance with food safety requirements;

l) establishing norms for the arrangement of burial sites for animals and poultry that have died from particularly dangerous infections, and their registration;

m) registration of pesticides and agrochemicals;

n) state supervision of the conditions of transportation, sale, storage and warehousing of pesticides;

o) vaccination of animals in the event of a threat of epizootic;

p) control over the compliance of drinking water safety parameters and quality with the requirements established by the legislation of Georgia, and implementation of external, selective laboratory control of drinking water;

q) coordination with the Ministry and the Emergency Situations Management Service during the conduct of works to eliminate emergency situations (including emergency situations caused by chemical accidents).

Law of Georgia of 25 March 2013 No. 492 – website, 05.04.2013.

Law of Georgia of 7 December 2017 No. 1691 – website, 14.12.2017.

Law of Georgia of 27 June 2018 No. 2619 – website, 06.06.2018.

Law of Georgia of 22 December 2018 No. 4091 – website, 28.12.2018.

Law of Georgia of 16 June 2023 No. 3289 – website, 06.07.2023.

Law of Georgia of 30 June 2023 No. 3430 – website, 20.07.2023.

Article 35. Competences of other ministries in the field of public health🔗

1. The Ministry and the Ministry of Education, Science and Youth of Georgia shall jointly establish sanitary and hygienic norms for educational, upbringing and educational-upbringing institutions.

2. The competence of the Ministry of Defence of Georgia is supervision of compliance with sanitary and hygienic norms in the Defence Forces of Georgia and implementation of appropriate preventive measures.

3. The Ministry, together with the Ministry of Defence of Georgia, shall establish sanitary and hygienic norms for the Defence Forces of Georgia.

4. In penitentiary institutions, the competence of the Penitentiary Service is:

a) supervision of compliance with sanitary and hygienic norms in penitentiary institutions;

b) implementation of health-related preventive measures in penitentiary institutions.

5. The Ministry and the Ministry of Justice of Georgia shall jointly establish appropriate sanitary and hygienic norms for penitentiary institutions.

6. The Ministry of Defence of Georgia, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia, the Penitentiary Service and the State Security Service of Georgia shall immediately provide the Public Health Service with information on any case that may pose a threat to the health and safety of the population.

7. The Ministry of Defence of Georgia, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia, the Penitentiary Service and the State Security Service of Georgia shall, in accordance with the established procedure, transmit medical statistical data to the Ministry.

8. The Ministry of Defence of Georgia, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia, the Penitentiary Service and the State Security Service of Georgia shall cooperate with the Ministry and the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia during the conduct of works to eliminate emergency situations caused by chemical accidents.

Law of Georgia of 9 March 2010 No. 2729-LHG I, No. 12, 24.03.2010, Art. 65

Law of Georgia of 25 March 2013 No. 492 – website, 05.04.2013

Law of Georgia of 13 December 2013 No. 1794 – website, 28.12.2013

Law of Georgia of 1 May 2015 No. 3548 – website, 18.05.2015

Law of Georgia of 8 July 2015 No. 3943 – website, 15.07.2015

Law of Georgia of 7 December 2017 No. 1691 – website, 14.12.2017

Law of Georgia of 5 July 2018 No. 3115 – website, 11.07.2018

Law of Georgia of 31 October 2018 No. 3599 – website, 21.11.2018

Law of Georgia of 16 March 2021 No. 359 – website, 18.03.2021

Law of Georgia of 21 September 2023 No. 3532 – website, 12.10.2023

Law of Georgia of 30 November 2023 No. 3845 – website, 15.12.2023

Article 36. Powers delegated to municipalities in the field of public health🔗

1. In accordance with the procedure established by this Law, the respective bodies of a municipality shall ensure:

a) the implementation of measures against the spread of communicable diseases in respect of animals that pose a threat to the health of the public, including anti-rabies vaccination of animals;

b) supervision of compliance with sanitary and hygienic norms in educational, upbringing and educational-upbringing institutions;

c) the organization, in the territory of the municipality, of deratization, disinsection and disinfection measures for the purpose of preventing the spread of diseases;

d) the facilitation of the implementation of preventive measures in educational, upbringing and educational-upbringing institutions;

e) supervision of compliance with sanitary norms in institutions of public importance located in the territory of the municipality, including control over the fulfilment, by persons performing aesthetic and cosmetic procedures in institutions of public importance, of the obligations provided for by paragraphs 3¹ and 3² of Article 5 of this Law;

f) the receipt, storage and distribution to medical service providers of materials supplied by the Ministry for immunoprophylaxis determined by the national calendar of preventive vaccinations;

g) the implementation of preventive and epidemiological control measures in the event of an epidemic threat;

h) the facilitation of primary epidemiological investigation in the territory of the municipality;

i) the exercise of the powers determined for them by the Law of Georgia "On Tuberculosis Control".

2. The power defined by paragraph 1 of this Article is a power delegated by the State to municipalities.

3. The amount of financial resources necessary for the exercise of the delegated power defined by paragraph 1 of this Article for a municipality shall be determined by the Law of Georgia on the State Budget of the respective year.

4. Sectoral supervision over the exercise of the delegated power defined by subparagraph "a" of paragraph 1 of this Article shall be carried out by the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Agriculture of Georgia in accordance with the Organic Law of Georgia "Local Self-Government Code".

5. Sectoral supervision over the exercise of the delegated powers defined by subparagraphs "b"−"i" of paragraph 1 of this Article shall be carried out by the Ministry in accordance with the Organic Law of Georgia "Local Self-Government Code".

Law of Georgia of 11 December 2015 No. 4631 - website, 23.12.2015.

Law of Georgia of 24 June 2016 No. 5571 - website, 13.07.2016.

Law of Georgia of 15 July 2020 No. 6890 – website, 28.07.2020.

Article 37. Competences of the Autonomous Republics in the field of public health🔗

The competences of the Autonomous Republics in the field of public health shall be determined by this Law and the laws of the Autonomous Republics.

Article 38. Organizational arrangement of public health🔗

The Ministry determines public health policy, which is implemented by the respective public health protection service of the Ministry.

Article 39. Labour/human resources in the field of public health🔗

1. The list of public health specialties and the respective competencies for these specialties shall be determined by the Ministry.

2. Specialists in public health and epidemiology undergo training at the higher education level, according to the respective programmes, and hold a bachelor's degree in public health or a higher degree.

3. Persons who have completed professional training study courses in the field of public health and epidemiology are public health workers.

Article 40. Sources of financing of public health protection measures🔗

The source of financing of public health protection measures may be:

a) funds allocated from the state budget of Georgia and the budgets of the autonomous republics;

b) other sources permitted by the legislation of Georgia.

Article 41. Budgetary financing🔗

1. The law of Georgia on the State Budget shall annually determine the measures which the State finances in the field of public health on the basis of this Law.

2. The law on the budget of the autonomous republic shall determine the measures which the autonomous republic finances in the field of public health on the basis of this Law.

Article 42. Compensation for damage in the field of public health🔗

1. Legal entities and natural persons shall be obliged to compensate for damage caused by non-compliance with this Law.

2. In the event of the development of post-vaccination/adverse events or complications following vaccinations carried out in accordance with the national calendar of preventive vaccinations, the State shall, in accordance with the procedure established by law, ensure free medical services and rehabilitation for the population, except in cases where the post-vaccination/adverse events are caused by an error committed by medical personnel or an institution.

3. In the event of the development of incapacity for work as a result of vaccinations carried out in accordance with the national calendar of preventive vaccinations, a person shall be entitled to receive compensation in accordance with the procedure established by law.

Article 43. Responsibility in the field of public health🔗

1. Within the scope of competence defined by the legislation of Georgia operating in the field of public health, all state bodies, natural and legal persons shall be obliged to comply with the requirements of this Law and, through their activities, ensure the safety of the health of the population.

2. All persons present on the territory of Georgia shall be obliged to satisfy the requirements of the legislation of Georgia operating in the field of public health and to respect the decisions of the public health service, in the exercise of the powers conferred by law.

3. The state shall bear responsibility for the management and financing of measures for the prevention and control of communicable diseases and epidemics, and of the vaccination of the population in accordance with the national calendar of preventive vaccinations.

Article 44. Normative acts invalidated in connection with the entry into force of this Law🔗

Shall be considered invalid:

a) from 1 October 2007 – the Sanitary Code of Georgia of 8 May 2003 (Legislative Herald of Georgia, No 14, 3.06.2003, Art. 91);

b) upon the entry into force of this Law – Order No 234/n of 6 October 2003 of the Minister of Health and Social Protection of Georgia "on approval of sanitary protection zones and sanitary classification of enterprises, structures and other objects".

Article 45. Normative acts to be adopted in connection with the entry into force of this Law🔗

1. The Government of Georgia shall, within 1 month from the entry into force of this Law, adopt the following normative acts:

a) the Regulation of the Governmental Commission for Emergency Situation Management;

b) (removed - 01.04.2015, No 3417);

c) (removed - 01.04.2015, No 3417);

d) (removed - 01.04.2015, No 3417);

e) (removed - 01.04.2015, No 3417) .

1¹. The Government of Georgia shall adopt the rules for the import and export of especially dangerous pathogens.

2. (removed – 25.03.2013, No 492).

3. The Government of Georgia shall, by 1 July 2015, ensure the approval of the rules for the functioning of the integrated national system of epidemiological surveillance of infectious diseases, including diseases caused by especially dangerous pathogens.

Law of Georgia No 492 of 25 March 2013 – website, 05.04.2013.

Law of Georgia No 3417 of 1 April 2015 - website, 14.04.2015.

Article 45¹. Legal regulation relating to persons declared incapacitated by a court before 1 April 2015 during the transitional period🔗

1. If a person was declared incapacitated by a court before 1 April 2015 and his/her individual assessment has not taken place, the medical service provider shall provide the information provided for by paragraph 1 of Article 8 of this Law to his/her guardian.

2. In the event of placement in isolation and/or quarantine of a person who was declared incapacitated by a court before 1 April 2015 and whose individual assessment has not taken place, his/her guardian shall be notified in writing thereof. The written notification shall contain the legal basis and the expected duration of the placement in isolation and/or quarantine.

Law of Georgia of 20 March 2015 No. 3365 - website, 31.03.2015.

Article 45². Registration for carrying out aesthetic and cosmetic procedures in facilities of public importance during the transitional period🔗

1. All persons whose activity is related to the carrying out of aesthetic and cosmetic procedures in facilities of public importance shall, before 1 October 2016, register the relevant activity in the register of economic activities in the manner established by the legislation of Georgia.

2. The Government of Georgia shall, on the basis of proposals of the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Protection of Georgia, before 1 October 2016 introduce an amendment to Resolution No. 473 of 14 September 2015 of the Government of Georgia "On approval of the technical regulation − sanitary norms for the prevention and control of infections during the performance of aesthetic and cosmetic procedures in facilities of public importance".

Law of Georgia of 24 June 2016 No. 5571 - website, 13.07.2016.

Article 45³. Temporary measures to be taken before 1 January 2023🔗

1. The rule of isolation and/or quarantine shall be established by the Government of Georgia or a Ministry designated by the Government of Georgia. This rule may also determine the relevant quarantine measures, which in that case are part of this rule. The said rule may also determine, differently from what is established by this Law, the executive agencies and officials implementing this rule.

(The normative content of the first and 2nd sentences of the first paragraph of Article 45³, which grants the Government of Georgia or a Ministry designated by the Government of Georgia the possibility to restrict the labour rights protected by the first paragraph of Article 26 of the Constitution of Georgia, was declared invalid) - Decision of the Constitutional Court of Georgia No. 1/1/1505,1515,1516,1529 of 11 February 2021 – website, 22.02.2021.

2. For the purposes of this Article, quarantine measures are:

a) a set of measures applied to a person who is not ill but has had or may have had contact with a case of a communicable disease during the period of communicability;

b) measures determined by this Law and/or by a normative act adopted/issued in accordance with this Law, which are temporarily applied during a pandemic and/or an epidemic especially dangerous to public health for the purpose of protecting the health of the population and may imply regulation different from that established by other normative acts of Georgia, including the temporary imposition of relevant restrictions in relation to the activities/administration of public institutions, other institutions forming part of the executive authority, legal entities of public law, other legal entities, the provision of public services, the movement of persons, property, labour, professional or economic activity, illegal migration/international protection and/or the gathering of persons for the purpose of conducting social measures.

3. A restriction of a right in accordance with this Article shall be:

a) aimed at achieving the goods protected by the relevant article of the Constitution of Georgia;

b) provided for by law and/or another normative act;

c) necessary for a democratic society;

d) non-discriminatory;

e) proportionately restrictive;

f) such that the good protected by the restriction outweighs the harm caused by the restriction.

4. A decision on the isolation and/or placement in quarantine of a person shall be taken in compliance with the principles of the "Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms".

5. In the event of the isolation and/or transfer of a person to quarantine, the following shall be explained to him/her in a form understandable to him/her:

a) the ground for isolation and/or transfer to quarantine;

b) that he/she has the right to a lawyer;

c) that he/she has the right, if he/she so wishes, to have the fact of his/her isolation and/or transfer to quarantine and his/her whereabouts communicated to a relative designated by him/her, as well as to the administration of his/her place of work or study.

6. The parent or other legal representative of the minor shall without fail be notified of the isolation and/or quarantine of the minor at the first opportunity.

Law of Georgia No. 5972 of 22 May 2020 – website, 22.05.2020.

Law of Georgia No. 6778 of 14 July 2020 – website, 14.07.2020.

Law of Georgia No. 37 of 29 December 2020 – website, 29.12.2020.

Decision of the Constitutional Court of Georgia No. 1/1/1505,1515,1516,1529 of 11 February 2021 – website, 22.02.2021.

Law of Georgia No. 674 of 22 June 2021 – website, 24.06.2021.

Law of Georgia No. 1206 of 22 December 2021 – website, 28.12.2021.

Article 45⁴. Term of validity of Article 45³ of this Law🔗

Article 45³ of this Law shall be in force until 1 January 2023.

Law of Georgia No. 5972 of 22 May 2020 – website, 22.05.2020.

Law of Georgia No. 6778 of 14 July 2020 – website, 14.07.2020.

Law of Georgia No. 37 of 29 December 2020 – website, 29.12.2020.

Law of Georgia No. 674 of 22 June 2021 – website, 24.06.2021.

Law of Georgia No. 1206 of 22 December 2021 – website, 28.12.2021.

Article 45⁵. Temporary rule on liability related to a pharmaceutical product against the infection caused by the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) (COVID-19)🔗

In the case of importation, in connection with a pandemic/epidemic, of a pharmaceutical product against the infection caused by the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) (COVID-19), intended for prophylactic vaccination or treatment, to which the World Health Organization or a stringent regulatory authority (SRA) recognised by it has granted authorisation for use (including emergency use) or prequalification, the State shall be liable for possible harm caused by the use of that pharmaceutical product, except where the harm is caused by:

a) an error committed by the importer;

b) an error committed by medical personnel or a medical institution;

c) the manufacturer of the pharmaceutical product, where the contract concluded with the manufacturer provides for its liability.

Law of Georgia No. 98 of 28 January 2021 – website, 28.01.2021.

Article 46. Entry into force of the Law🔗

This Law shall enter into force upon publication.

President of Georgia M. Saakashvili

Tbilisi,

27 June 2007.

No. 5069-rs