It is true that even a perfect legislation does not guarantee decisions that fully protect social and environmental interests when economic activities are being planned, however, if there are any shortcomings in the legislation that create a risk of making unscrupulous or incompetent decisions, then the risk of neglecting public interests is higher. Thus, the purpose of this study is to identify specific shortcomings in the Environmental Assessment Code and to recommend relevant legislative changes.

This study does not have an ambition of fully analyzing the compliance of Georgia’s Environmental Assessment Code with the EU EIA Directive and the Aarhus Convention, nor does it claim to be fully analyzing the shortcomings in the Code.

As for the research methodology, the analysis presented in the study is, to a great extent, based on the analysis of existing documents (reports and documents of various organizations, legal instruments, academic papers, etc.) and [publicly available] information on the official website of the Ministry of Environment and Agriculture of Georgia. Also, online interviews have been conducted with representatives of the non-governmental sector, the Green Movement and the Green Alternative.

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