The Human Rights and Civil Integration Committee deliberated and approved the Draft law on Exemption from the Administrative Sanctions for the I reading.

Pursuant to the draft, the individual shall be exempted from the unenforced part of the administrative sanctions imposed for the administrative offenses as a temporary and special remedy - fine (including the triple and three times triple fine) and/or respective penalty, who has committed the action envisaged under a respective article of the Administrative Offenses Code, namely, the transportation of the passengers by taxi (M1 category) with the violation of the license terms or without the license.

As the reporter and Chair of the Environmental Protection and Natural Resources Committee, Maia Bitadze noted, certain fines have been imposed for the violation of licence terms or the failure to hold a licence for several years.

“Eight million GEL of unpaid fines were considered expedient to be subject to a single-time amnesty to allow individuals to continue their activities. At that point, there are cases directed to the enforcement. The Draft also establishes the basis for the municipality to, by introducing respective amendments to the Act of the City Assembly, exempt individuals from the license fees in a one-off manner, specifically, about 1,800,000 GEL, e.i. a single-time measure with the human goal to exempt individuals from fines and penalties based on a simple reason that the main objective of the so-called taxi reform was not to gain revenues to the budget but to formalization of the passenger transportation system by taxi (M1 category)”, - she elucidated.