Penalties to Rise for Construction Waste Pollution

The extent of penalties for environmental pollution caused by construction waste are set to increase through amendments to the Waste Management Code, initiated by MPs Goga Gulordava and Sulkhan Makhatadze.

According to the draft law, waste of up to one cubic meter of construction or other inert waste will result in the fining of a physical person with 500 GEL instead of 200 GEL; and a legal entity with 2000 GEL instead of 500 GEL.

“Under this section, the fine imposed on physical persons is threefold, while a doubled fine is to be imposed on legal persons. This arrangement was conditioned by the fact that more individuals are committing this type of offence," the MPs explain.

In the event of any environmental degradation of construction or other inert waste of 10 to 50 cubic meters, a physical person will be fined 5000 GEL and a legal entity 15,000 GEL.

These changes will be initiated at Thursday's sitting of the Parliament Bureau.