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Preferential trade agreements:
Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between CARIFORUM and the European Union:
Other provisions: (...) Environment, (...)

13. Georgia maintains import and export prohibitions and a system of licence and permit requirements based on health, security, and environmental considerations. During 2015-21, the lists of prohibited and restricted imports and exports remained almost unchanged, except for a few additions, including temporary measures in response to the COVID‑19 pandemic. Most of the product categories subject to an import licence/permit are also subject to an export licence/permit.

24. (...) Efforts were undertaken during the review period to reform the sector through a National Forest Concept strategy and the adoption of the new Forest Code in 2020. With the main aim of establishing sustainable silviculture, the Code is expected to introduce changes such as abolishing the long-term licences for harvesting, direct all commercial felling through the National Forest Agency, regulate non-timber resource extraction, and prohibit the long standing practice of obtaining free firewood from forests by local populations.

26. Georgia continues to be highly dependent on energy imports, mainly of natural gas, which is its main source of energy supply (45% of its total energy supply in 2019). Other sources of energy are oil products and hydropower. (...)

Box 1.2. Economy 2030 key points (...) - Programmes for agro- and eco-tourism development, including loans, co-financing, and loan guarantees. (...)

2.24. The Association Agreement concluded in 2014 between Georgia and the European Union and its member States has as one of its objectives Georgia's gradual economic integration into the European Union (EU) Internal Market (...) Title IV, which establishes a free trade area, contains chapters on (...) trade and sustainable development (...)

2.29. The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Georgia and European Free Trade Association (EFTA) States was concluded on 27 June 2016 (…) The FTA consists of 13 chapters and 16 annexes, covering (…) trade and sustainable development (…)

2.30. The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Georgia and China was concluded on 13 May 2017 and entered into force on 1 January 2018. It includes provisions (...) environment and trade (...)

2.31. The Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between Georgia and Hong Kong, China was concluded on 27 June 2018 and entered into force on 13 February 2019. It contains provisions on (...) trade and environment (...)

2.36. Georgia became a contracting party to the Energy Community Treaty on 1 July 2017. The Energy Community was created in 2005 to extend the EU internal market energy rules to South East Europe and the Black Sea to create an integrated energy (electricity and gas) market. By adopting the Energy Community Treaty, the Contracting Parties made legally binding commitments to adopt core European Union (EU) energy legislation [56] (Section 4.2.2).
[56] The key objectives of the Energy Community are to: (...) improve the environmental situation in relation with energy supply in the region and foster the use of renewable energy and energy efficiency (...)