Venice Commission - Observatory on emergency situations

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Georgia

13. Was legislation on the state of emergency or on the emergency amended or adopted to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic?

On 14 July the Parliament passed amendments to the Law on Public Health, allowing the Government to restrict rights in relation to COVID-19 until the end of 2020 without declaring a state of emergency.