Georgia faces a number of structural environmental challenges such as inadequate environmental protection legislation, poor monitoring, inspection and enforcement systems, and insufficient awareness, knowledge and capacities to help improve policies and strategies to protect the environment. Environmental governance is therefore a priority sector necessitating support in a number of critical areas.
The overall objective to which this assignment contributes was to support the Government of Georgia in complying with the environmental governance obligations under the EU-Georgia Association Agreement.
The specific objective of this assignment is to support the Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Protection of Georgia (MENRP) to strengthen legislation and implementation of measures in the areas of Environmental Liability, Environmental Impact Assessments / Strategic Environmental Assessments and Industrial pollution and industrial hazards, and to monitor the implementation of the Roadmaps for EU Approximation in environment and climate action fields.
The above assistance was provided in compliance with the provisions in Annex XXVI of the Association Agreement and the Roadmaps for approximation in the areas of Environmental Governance and Industrial pollution and industrial hazards.
The principal beneficiary was the MENRP. In addition, the assignment targeted all relevant
stakeholders involved in the support to environment and climate action in Georgia, including
government bodies, civil society, donors, financing institutions and implementing agencies.