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.