Georgia and SIGMA

Status: EU Neighbourhood country
Capital City: Tbilisi
Population: 4.9 million
Currency: Georgian lari (GEL)

Georgia signed the EU Association Agreement including provisions for a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area on 18 July 2014, and it has been applied since 1 September 2014. The Association Agreement came fully into force on 1 July 2016.

On 3 March 2022, Georgia officially applied for EU membership and in June 2022 the European Council indicated that it is ready to grant candidate country status to Georgia once the priorities specified in the European Commission’s opinion on Georgia’s application have been addressed.

SIGMA, the European Commission and the Georgian authorities agreed a work programme in November 2022 and SIGMA support is currently focused on co-operating with:

• The Administration of the Government on strengthening monitoring and reporting on the new Public Administration Reform Strategy as well as the management and co-ordination of its implementation.

• The Civil Service Bureau on developing the civil service legal framework and the Law on Legal Entities of Public Law.

• The Ministry of Finance on the further development of the public internal financial management and control systems, with a specific focus on developing internal audit quality assurance and certification.

• The State Procurement Agency on implementing the new public procurement law and the procurement -related Dispute Resolution Council with developing its activities.

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Country co-ordination

EU's 2020 Association Implementation Report

Baseline Measurement Report 2018

The Principles of Public Administration for European Neighbourhood Policy countries

Publications in Georgian

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EU relations with Georgia

EU Delegation to Georgia

Ministry of Foreign Affairs - European Integration

News on Georgia

EU Neighbours East

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Alastair Swarbrick

Country manager
alastair.swarbrick@oecd.org
Tel: +33 1 45 24 98 58 

Raija Talus

Project Co-ordinator
raija.talus@oecd.org
Tel: +33 1 45 24 94 92