Sanitary Code (No. 2271-IIS).

This Code regulates matters related to the provision of a healthy environment as well as state control over observation of the sanitary standards and implementation of the preventive health and sanitary and antiepidemic activities. The aims and purposes of the Sanitary Code shall be: (a) protection of the human right to live in a healthy environment; (b) protection of sanitary standards by natural and/or legal persons; (c) provision of state sanitary control in the country; (d) hygienic certification of products manufactured in and imported into the country in order to prevent possible harm to public health; (e) sanitary protection of the territory of the country; and (f) social and hygienic monitoring. The competence of the State Sanitary Supervision Inspection of the Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Affairs of Georgia includes: (a) hygienic certification of products, including chemical and biological substances and agents, physical factors generating facilities, equipment, other industrial and consumer products and issue of product hygienic certificate (other than chemical and biological substances and agents which have passed state registration on the basis of the toxicological and hygienic expertise); (b) providing hygienic reports on water bodies selected for centralized drinking and industrial water supply of inhabited areas and resorts; (c) providing hygienic reports on the construction (or reconstruction) of centralized drinking and industrial water supplies for inhabited areas and resorts, as well as on sanitary protection zone projects for water supply sources; and (d) control of compliance with regulations regarding the discharge of sewage water into (or diversion from) surface waterbodies and with sanitary standards for waterbodies.