A new package of legislative amendments concerning grants and political activities has been initiated in the Parliament and forwarded to the Legal Committees for review. The author and initiator of the package is the ruling Georgian Dream faction.
As part of the package, the Code on Administrative Offenses will be supplemented with a new article - 153¹³, which regulates political activity by entrepreneurial legal entities.
According to the draft law, if an entrepreneurial legal entity publicly engages in political activity that is unrelated to its core business operations, this will be considered an administrative offense and will be punishable by a GEL 20,000 fine. If the entity repeats the offense after being fined once, the penalty will increase to GEL 40,000.
The bill also defines what qualifies as political activity by a business. Political activity is described as “any activity carried out or intended to be carried out with the aim of influencing Georgia’s government, state institutions, or any part of society, directed toward forming, implementing, or altering the country’s domestic or foreign policy.”
According to the initiators, the purpose of the amendments is to separate entrepreneurial entities from political processes and limit the political influence of businesses in the public sphere.
The legislative package has already been registered in the Parliament. The bill’s rapporteurs are Archil Gorduladze and Tornike TcheshvilI.
In the explanatory note, the authors argue that despite legislation adopted in 2025, some foreign funding remains non-transparent. Georgian Dream claims that such financial resources may be used “against Georgia’s sovereignty,” making stricter regulation necessary, in their view.
