Georgian Competition
and Consumer
Agency

Status and Powers of the Georgian Competition and  Consumer Agancy

Competition Agancy was created on the basis of the Law of Georgia „on Competition” and in line with the Regulation approved by the Decree №288 of the Government of Georgia of 14.04.2014. The Competition Agency is an independent legal entity of public law that is accountable to the Prime Minister of Georgia and the society.

The main objective of the Agency is the implementation of competition policy, creation and protection of conditions for promotion of competition in Georgia and for this purpose prevention and elimination of all types of anti-competitive agreements and actions.


We aim at

• Ensuring proper conditions for free access of undertakings to the market; detect and prevent the imposition of administrative, legal and discriminative barriers to entry into a market.
  
  

• Safeguarding the principle of equality of undertakings in their activities and prevent unlawful restriction of competition.
  
  

• Ensuring maximum publicity, fairness, non-discrimination and transparency in the decision-making process.  

The Agency is authorized to

• Detect abuse of dominant position cases and act accordingly, within the powers provided by the legislation;
  
  

• Identify the anticompetitive agreements and act accordingly, within the powers provided by the legislation;
  
  

• Assess the compliance of the planned concentrations with the competitive environment and decide whether or not allow the concentration;
  
  

• Detect the facts of the unfair competition of undertakings and act accordingly;
  
  

• Examine compatibility of the actions performed by the state authorities, authorities of Autonomous Republic and local self-government of Georgia with the national competition legislation;
  
  

• Control compatibility of the granted state aid with the national competition legislation;
  
  

• Monitor and analyze the commodity and services markets with an aim to detecting competition distortion and unfair competition;
  
  

• Ensure to protect local industry from import dumping in the customs territory of Georgia (except for free industrial zones).  In its activities, the Agency shall be guided by the Constitution of Georgia, international treaties of Georgia, the Law, the Statute of the Agency and other legal acts;
  
  

• In the territory of Georgia, the protection of consumer rights established by the Law, the prevention of a violation of consumer rights and the facilitation of the restoration of violated rights, the identification of a violation of consumer rights and the appropriate response mechanisms to violations.

the agency is independent in its activities and decision-making process

The principles of the Agency’s activities are independence, non-discrimination, impartiality, transparency and accountability. In order to ensure transparency of its activities, the decisions made by the Agency are always public.