Tbilisi: At the session of the Human Rights Protection and Civil Integration Committee, Deputy Minister of Environment Protection and Agriculture Nino Tandilashvili presented the amendment to the Law “On Amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses of Georgia” to the deputies.
As a result of the adoption of the draft law, strict fines will be imposed for violating the established norms of the composition of harmful substances in the exhaust of vehicles, and a number of shortcomings in the code will be corrected.
“As practice has shown, periodic technical inspection of vehicles cannot completely solve the problem of vehicle emissions, because due to certain malfunctions from periodic technical inspection to the next technical inspection , the content of polluting substances in vehicle exhaust can exceed the established norms.
We are witnesses of the mentioned case while moving in every city, when we often come across the facts of excess polluting substances in the exhaust of vehicles.
The problem is that there are no periodic technical inspections between flexible and efficient vehicle emission control regulation and strict administrative responsibility. The draft law also aims to eliminate the shortcomings that were revealed in the process of law enforcement“, said Nino Tandilashvili.
According to the change, driving the vehicle with the composition of harmful substances in the exhaust that do not correspond to the established norms, will result in the driver of the vehicle being fined in the amount of 100 GEL.
The same action committed 30 days after the first fine will result in a fine of 300 GEL to the driver of the vehicle, and the same action 60 days after the first fine will result in a fine of 600 GEL to the driver of the vehicle.
