Promoting rural development in Georgia
A key component of the Georgia Rural Development Project will focus on specific, key legal and institutional reforms that impact directly on the competitiveness of Georgian agriculture and the safety and marketability of its products and enable Georgia to meet its intemational sanitary and phytosanitary obligations. The project would work with relevant MOA staff to revise selected food, plant variety protection and veterinary laws and regulations to meet intemational trade and treaty requirements and support Georgian membership and participation in international standards organizations relevant to Georgian agricultural trade. Training and study tours would be provided, and operating manuals based on an EU compliant legislative framework would be developed. The project would also enable the Georgian government to establish a comprehensive, unitary food safety management and risk assessment system in line with the requirements o f a draft Food Law. This would include the establishment o f a Veterinary and Food Department within the MOA, the strengthening o f domestic and border sanitary inspection capacity, the strengthening o f laboratories for accredited food inspection, the development of a risk assessment capability and the establishment of the Food Safety Council proscribed under the draft law.
| Implemented by |
World Bank Group
(World Bank Group)
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| Dates |
May 2005
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Jun 2010
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| Countries |
Georgia
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| Project Scope |
National
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| Project Target |
Standard setting bodies
Other public entities
Government ministries
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| Documents |
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| Contact |
Frauke Jungbluth
Fjungbluth@worldbank.org
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