PM instructs Justice Minister to facilitate amnesty for illegally constructed residential houses
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Monday instructed the Minister of Justice Rati Bregadze to facilitate a project legalising illegally constructed residential houses across the country. Photo: PM's press office
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Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili on Monday instructed the Minister of Justice Rati Bregadze to facilitate a project legalising illegally constructed residential houses across the country.
The Government Administration said the amnesty, set to involve individual residential houses built without construction documentation over the years, would affect up to a million citizens.
The Government meeting held earlier today noted citizens owning houses in rural areas or cities without construction documents would no longer be required to go through a “difficult and costly” legalisation procedure, along with the decision eliminating the practice of illegal residential space construction.
The Administration also said Bregadze would present the project for the amnesty to the Government in the “shortest period of time”.
The Municipal Development Fund of Georgia’s Ministry of Infrastructure will announce a tender for reconstruction and renovation of hundreds of kindergartens across Georgia this spring, the Fund said on Wednesday during a meeting with construction companies.
The Georgian Parliament on Wednesday approved amendments in the domestic Law on Assembly and Manifestation banning installation of “temporary constructions” during rallies on specific occasions in the first of three readings.
The Georgian Government on Monday said it would hand 160 agricultural plots of land to 133 families affected by natural disasters in several municipalities, and had also approved the construction of the country’s largest thermal power plant in the south-western municipality of Gardabani.
Construction permits issued in Georgia will require minimum energy efficiency requirements starting in July, the Ministry of Economy announced on Wednesday.
The Georgian Government’s “fruitful” cooperation with the United Nations was discussed on Thursday in a meeting between the Georgian Justice Minister Rati Bregadze and Miguel de Serpa Soares, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Legal Affairs and United Nations Legal Counsel.
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Rati Bregadze, the candidate for the Minister of Justice of Georgia, on Monday announced citizens would be able to replace their older, laminated ID cards with new electronic versions free of charge.