On 19-20 November 2026, Tbilisi will host the 5th International Conference on Competition and Consumer Protection. Over the past five years, the Conference has established itself as a premier regional platform for exchanging international best practices, fostering professional dialogue, and addressing the field’s most pressing challenges. For the fifth consecutive year, the event is jointly organised by the Georgian Competition and Consumer Agency (GCCA), the National Bank of Georgia, the Georgian National Energy and Water Supply Regulatory Commission (GNERC), the Insurance State Supervision Service of Georgia, and the Georgian National Communications Commission.
The Conference will welcome more than 40 foreign delegates from over 20 countries, including representatives of counterpart authorities, international organisations, regulatory bodies, public institutions, academia, and the business community. This annual forum aims to strengthen competition policy in Georgia, facilitate the exchange of international experience on regulatory achievements and challenges, and enhance consumer protection mechanisms.
The Conference will be opened by senior representatives of the Government of Georgia, the Parliament of Georgia, and international organisations, who will address the participants. The opening session will also feature speeches by Irakli Lekvinadze, Chairman of the GCCA; Davit Narmania, Chairman of the GNERC; Ekaterine Galdava, Vice-President of the National Bank of Georgia; Davit Onoprishvili, Head of the Insurance State Supervision Service of Georgia and Goga Gulordava, Chairman of the Georgian National Communications Commission.
With the participation of Georgian and international experts, thematic panel discussions will address global trends in consumer protection and modern regulatory approaches; competition and affordability in the pharmaceutical and food markets; the control of concentrations; the protection of consumer rights in online markets; the interplay between competition law and sector-specific regulation; and the intersection of competition, trade, and industrial policy.
The discussions will bring together representatives of competition and consumer protection authorities from Georgia and abroad, including senior officials from the authorities of Lithuania, Türkiye, Romania, and Saudi Arabia, alongside leading international experts.
On 20 November, keynote addresses will be delivered by the Guests of Honour: Teresa Moreira, former Head of the Competition and Consumer Policies Branch at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), and Professor Ioannis Lianos, Professor of Global Competition Law and Public Policy at University College London.
Also on 20 November, within the framework of the panel discussion “Connecting Competition and Consumer Protection: Price Transparency and Informed Choice in Food and financial Markets”, two national price-transparency tools - the eKalata.gov.ge portal and the bank tariff comparison portal will be presented by Irakli Lekvinadze, Chairman of the GCCA, and Natalia Chkoidze, Head of the Payment Systems Department of the National Bank of Georgia, respectively. Shota Berekashvili, Chairman of the Economic Policy Committee of the Parliament of Georgia, will also participate in the panel, which will be moderated by Giorgi Abashishvili, Founder of Business Insider Georgia and Economic Forum Georgia.
This year’s Conference is dedicated to the 30th anniversary of competition and consumer protection policy in Georgia. The landmark law adopted in 1996 laid the foundation for the development of legal protection mechanisms in this field and the establishment of the country’s first anti-monopoly service.
By way of background, the 4th International Conference, held in 2025, welcomed more than 350 delegates, over 50 local and international speakers, and upwards of 40 representatives of counterpart authorities from 18 countries.
Detailed information on the agenda and speakers is available on the official website: www.ccc.gov.ge.
