The EU-funded AA Facility supports enactment of bilateral agreements between the European Union and Georgia. It renders assistance to the Government of Georgia in deepening Georgia’s integration with the EU in line with the priorities set out in the Association Agreement (AA), including its Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA) component, in the Association Agenda as well as in the Visa Liberalisation Action Plan (VLAP).

The Project activities are comprised of three components:

Component 1: Coordination, Monitoring and Reporting of the Implementation of EU–Georgia Agreements; Donor Coordination

Component 2: Support to the Institutional Reform and Legal Approximation Process

Component 3: Implementation of EU–Georgia Communication Strategy and Visibility

Project’s Support to DCFTA Implementation

The AA Facility renders assistance to the Ministry of Economy and Sustainable Development (MoESD) in activities related to enactment of the DCFTA provisions in such areas as trade facilitation and technical barriers to trade as well as promoting development of the private sector, in particular international activation of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). To better identify the priority areas specific to the SMEs development and improvement of their competitiveness on the EU market, the AA Facility has been organizing, together with the MoESD, a series of regional roundtables, bringing together the representatives of the Government of Georgia, Parliament, local authorities and Georgia’s private sector, to determine the needs and measures needed for supporting SME operation under the DCFTA. The objective of this public–private dialogue (PPD) platform is to make contribution to promoting a good governance, business integrity, inclusive growth and development in the process of reforms required under the DCFTA framework. At the same time, the roundtables should deliver a catalogue of recommended measures to support adaptation of enterprises to the new regulatory requirements, based on the EU standards, and to improve the SME international competitiveness.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Dr. Jolanta Taczyńska, Team Leader

Office of the State Minister of Georgia on European and Euro-Atlantic Integration

7, Ingorokva Str., office No 819

0134 Tbilisi, Georgia

Tel.: +995 599 15 34 35