On 5 February 2014 the Parliament of Georgia approved on the third and final hearing the new Local Self-Government Code, which brings about certain changes in the current local self-government system: Local Self-Government Code The Local Self-Gover

The Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development has developed a draft law on postal service with the purpose to introduce a new regulatory framework in the postal sector. The draft law envisages the introduction of state regulation in this segmen

The President and the government have agreed on three candidates for a vacant seat in the 5-member leadership of the Georgian National Communication Commission (GNCC), the telecom and broadcasting regulator. The position has been vacant since former

Background to the Ban In Spring 2013, two Members of Parliament, Gigla Agulashvili, Chair of the Agricultural Issues Committee and Zurab Tkemaladze, Chair of the Sector Economy and Economic Policy Committee drafted a ban on all non-Georgian cit

In June 2013, the Parliament passed a temporary legal ban restricting non-Georgian citizens (including Georgian entities with a foreign minority shareholders – “foreigners”) from purchasing or inheriting agricultural land until December 2014— this ba

For three months now Tbilisi’s residents have been waiting in vain for Tbilisi Council to approve the city’s most important financial document - the 2014 budget. Amidst endless discussions, political debates and accusations, impeding the

A recent article on our blog reviewed inaccuracies that we had discovered in the asset declarations of Georgian Parliament members. Specifically, we highlighted the cases where Parliament members had failed to indicate their connections with private

Transparency International Georgia has obtained confirmation that an individual who is listed as an adviser to the Chairman of the Georgian National Communications Commission (GNCC) is in fact representing the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MIA). We

Numerous elected representatives have failed to correctly disclose current and past private sector activities in their annual asset declarations, Transparency International (TI) Georgia has found. Members of the Georgian Parliament (MP), like more t

Open Government Partnership (OGP) is a global platform which the governments join voluntarily to commit to achieving the main OGP goals. These goals include: making the government more transparent and accountable and increasing public participation i