Georgian Competition Agency signs cooperation deal with Serbian, Austrian institutions
The deal will involve “deepening” cooperation between the sides, Agency Chairman Irakli Lekvinadze said, highlighting its timing “on the backdrop of Georgia’s strengthening of its relations with Europe”. Photo via the Georgian National Competition Agency's Facebook
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The National Competition Agency of Georgia has signed memorandums for strengthening cooperation with Austrian and Serbian counterpart institutions at an international conference on competition and consumer rights running in Tbilisi, the body said on Wednesday.
The deal will involve “deepening” cooperation between the sides, Agency Chairman Irakli Lekvinadze said, highlighting its timing “on the backdrop of Georgia’s strengthening of its relations with Europe”.
Lekvinadze signed the deal with Natalie Harsdorf-Borsch, the Director General of the Austrian Federal Competition Authority and Čedomir Radojčić, a representative of the Commission for the Protection of Competition of Serbia.
Organised by the Agency, the National Bank of Georgia, the Georgian National Energy and Water Supply Regulatory Commission, the State Insurance Supervision Service and the Communications Commission, the conference involves over 300 delegates from over 20 countries, officials of competition institutions and the consumer sector, as well as parliament members and international experts.
Projects implemented by the Communications Commission of Georgia for protecting rights of consumers and developing media literacy were introduced by the body’s member Vakhtang Abashidze to the audience of the international conference on Competition and Consumer Protection in Tbilisi on Thursday, the state body said.
Georgian Economy Minister Levan Davitashvili on Thursday highlighted the progress made over the recent years in developing “healthy competition” for the country’s business sector and ensuring consumer rights at the international conference Competition and Consumer Protection, hosted in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi.
The Communications Commission of Georgia on Wednesday revealed it had been elected to chair the Electronic Communications Regulators Network of the European Union’s Eastern Partnership programme over the next year.
The Georgian National Competition Agency will look into the upward trend of fuel prices in the country following the Russian invasion of Ukraine and submit an interim report this month, Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili announced on Monday.
Irakli Lekvinadze, the Chairman of the National Competition Agency of Georgia, on Tuesday said enforcement of competition and consumer rights protection policies in the country was “becoming stronger”.
The law for regulating the rights and obligations of intermediary service providers in the e-Commerce sector and protecting consumers by making information services more transparent and standardised has fully entered into force in Georgia starting this year.