Law of Georgia on Agricultural Cooperatives (No. 816-RS of 2013)

The Law governs the legal relations for operating agricultural cooperatives and promoting them by the government, monitoring their activities, as well as for obtaining and terminating the status of an agricultural cooperative. The objectives of the Law include developing family households, organising them into cooperatives, and strengthening their viability; promoting the revival of rural areas and agriculture; ensuring the social and economic development of rural areas; eliminating rural poverty; stopping migration from rural areas; increasing agricultural productivity, improving competitiveness and raising profitability, as well as developing the national economy; and promoting the development of biological farming.