On 17 December 2025, the Legal Affairs Committee reviewed, at the II reading and under an expedited procedure, and approved amendments to the Administrative Offences Code.

According to the draft law, provisions of the Administrative Offences Code will be repealed that currently allow individuals who have committed certain administrative offences to apply to the competent adjudicating authority for the early restoration of the right to drive, provided statutory conditions are met.

In addition, the draft law includes a transitional provision, under which a person who committed an administrative offence under Article 116 (driving a vehicle under the influence of alcohol and other specific traffic-related administrative offences) and/or Article 123 (leaving the scene of a road traffic accident or failing to comply with a police officer’s request to stop a vehicle) before 16 December 2025 will be granted a one-time exemption from the administrative penalty of suspension of the right to drive. However, such a person will still be considered as having been subject to an administrative sanction.

As stated by the Chair of the Legal Affairs Committee, Archil Gorduladze, the restoration of driving rights will be carried out gradually starting from 1 January 2026.

The authors and initiators of the draft law are Members of Parliament: Archil Gorduladze, Tornike Cheishvili, Davit Matikashvili, Rati Ionatamishvili, Akaki Aladashvili, Aluda Ghudushauri, and Aleksandre Tabatadze.