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Support to the Georgian Competition Agency

Project Description
The project aims to enhance enforcement capacity of the Georgian Competition Agency, improve interaction with sector regulators, and promote competition culture within Georgian society. Therefore, the project focuses on preparation of guidelines and documents with recommendations; capacity building and awareness rising activities; organization of joint thematic workshops with different stakeholders.
Specific Objective
The project improves enforcement capacity of the Georgian Competition Agency, better institutional cooperation on competition issues, enhanced skills and competences of the Georgian specialists working in the field of competition and increased competition culture in Georgia.
Expected Results
- The understanding of the staff of the Competition Agency on a wide range of competition and market issues along the provisions of the DCFTA has notably improved. This includes improved capacities over the entire competition process and policy and legislative development. The improved knowledge and capacities will lead to increased knowledge of competition policy, including subsidies/state aid and proposed amendments to current norms, in line with the 'better regulation' approach. It will also result to more effective and efficient case handling, increased investigations of cases, deeper market analysis. Consistent practices, accountability and transparency of the entire process has been enhanced.
- The competence of all staff, officials and the wider group of participants, including business and economic operators, has improved.
- Under this framework, the co-operation between the Competition Agency and the Sector Regulators, including other relevant sectoral bodies, has been enhanced and improved.
- The internal information management system has been strengthened
- The awareness of competition rules and the understanding about the role of competition policy has increased at all levels of Georgian society.
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PROJECT DETAILS
Georgia
Priority Area:
Partnership that protects
Subsector:
Governance & public administration
Topic:
Good government
Project Status:
Completed
Start Date:
29.12.2016
End Date:
13.01.2020
EU Project Number:
377-781