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1. PARLIAMENT APPROVES BILL ON PRIVATIZATION OF STATE-OWNED AGRICULTURAL LANDS IN FIRST HEARING AND AMENDMENTS TO LAW ON PRIVATIZATION
   (Daily News: April 19, 2005)

   Parliament today has approved the bill “On Privatization of State-Owned Lands” in the first hearing. It will conduct the second hearing also this week.

2. BATUMI THERMAL POWER STATION CONSTRUCTION TO COST BATUMI OIL TERMINAL INVESTORS 50M
   (Daily News: April 18, 2005)

   Mogens Hansens, the director of LLC Batumi Oil Terminal (Batumi Oil Terminal), has announced the construction of the thermal power station in Kobuleti (Ajara), which was closed in 2003, has resumed. The decision was made following the talks between Jan Bonde Nielsen, a Danish businessman and chairman of the board of directors of the LLC with Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli and Ajara leader Levan Varshalomidze.

3. GEORGIA AND UZBEKISTAN CONSIDER COOPERATION ISSUES
   (Daily News: April 18, 2005)

   Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli is visiting Uzbekistan. He left for Tashkent, the capital yesterday and will arrive in Tbilisi tonight.

4. WINE CERTIFICATION LAB TO COMMENCE OPERATION IN SUMMER
   (Daily News: April 14, 2005)

   Agriculture Minister Mikheil Svimonishvili has announced today that the wine certification lab, which meets European standards, will commence operation in the summer. The lab is ready to commence operation, but some organizational issues are to be settled first, he says.

5. MP TKEMALADZE ARGUES AGAINST CUSTOMS DEBT RESTRUCTURING
   (Daily News: April 14, 2005)

   MP Zurab Tkemaladze (Industrialists – Right Opposition) has said the Finance Ministry’s proposal to restructure the customs debt runs counter to both the Tax Code and Constitution during the consideration of adequate legislative amendments at a meeting of the Financial and Budgetary Committee of Parliament today.

   Tkemaladze thinks the approval of amendments will make it legal not to pay taxes.

6. FOOD PRODUCT SECURITY SERVICE TO BE SET UP
   (Daily News: April 13, 2005)

   The bill “On Security and Quality of Food Products”, which calls for setting up a food products security service, will be shortly placed before Parliament. The bill is consistent with European standards and is based on Latvia’s the institutional model, it was said at the presentation today.

7. GOVERNMENT’S WORK ON LEGISLATIVE AMENDMENTS AND LICENSING SYSTEM SIMPLIFICATIONS NEARS END
   (Daily News: April 13, 2005)

   The government has considered today legislative amendments concerning the simplification of a licensing system, which will be introduced to parliament approximately in a week. President Mikheil Saakashvili called the project anti bureaucratic and estimated it as “one more revolution”, this time against bureaucracy.

8. US, CANADA, ISRAEL AND JAPAN CITIZENS TO HAVE VISA FREE ACCESS TO GEORGIA
   (Daily News: April 13, 2005)

   Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli has announced at a government meeting today the Georgian government’s unilateral decision to give visa free access to citizens of the US, Canada, Israel and Japan. The draft legislative amendments concerning the initiative will be shortly placed before parliament.

9. TBILISI MUNICIPALITY STARTS DEALING WITH EMPLOYMENT
   (Daily News: April 12, 2005)

   A conference dedicated to business promotion and employment issues has been held in the Mayor’s Office of the capital today. Mayor Zurab Chiaberashvili noted the importance of creating new job places and redistribution of labor resources amid reforms in state bodies and cuts in workforce, including in the Mayor’s Office.

10. FUNDS DISBURSED FOR CO-FINANCING OF GUUAM INFORMATION CENTER AND NATIONAL COORDINATOR
    (Daily News: April 12, 2005)

    The amount of money to be allocated for co-financing of the GUUAM information center in Kiev (Ukraine) and coordinator from the Georgian side has been decided.

    $23,300 will be disbursed for the co-funding of the center’s office, while $24, 570 will fund national coordinator’s accrediting in Kiev.

11. PRIME MINISTER INTENDS TO MEET BUSINESSMEN REGULARLY
    (Daily News: April 11, 2005)

    Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli has held the first meeting with businessmen today on organizational issues. The Prime Minister told journalists such meetings, during which businessmen would be informed on the government’s economic policy, would acquire a regular character.

12. WAR BY MEANS OF SCANDALS AND COMPROMISING MATERIAL
    (Weekly Press Digest: April 10, 2005)

    The press this week has focused on two politicians – Defense Minister Irakli Okruashvili and David Kezerashvili, head of the Financial Police. The two have come in for a flood of criticism by the opposition and non-government organization, which has been widely covered by the press.

13. Khvalindeli Dge: “SAKSTANDART AND PHYTOSANITARY INSPECTION TO BE CANCELLED”
    (Economic Press Monitor: April 8, 2005)

    Businessmen think the work of Sakstandart (standardization service) is ineffective and demand switching to willful certification. They consider the current certification regime impedes seriously both import and export.

14. BUDGET RECEIVES $330,000 FROM TWO STATE ENTITIES SOLD TODAY
    (Daily News: April 7, 2005)

    Of five entities the Economic Development Ministry has put up for sale today only two worth of $330,000 total have been sold. Not completed building, located in the Didube district of the capital, withdrawn from the charter capital of LLC Alfa, and White Swan, a restaurant in Kobuleti, have been sold for $165,000 each, while their initial price was $160,000 each.

15. GEORGIA AGREES WITH TURKEY ON ELECTRICITY IMPORTS
    (Daily News: April 6, 2005)

    Georgia will commence electricity imports from Turkey in several days, Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli told journalists today. Power will be supplied under barter agreement with Turkey (in exchange for the electricity Georgia will supply to Turkey in the summer) and will last for one and a half – two months, he said.

16. GEORGIA COMMENCES REGISTRATION OF WINE BRANDS AND MINERAL WATER BRANDS CONTAINING PLACE-NAMES
    (Daily News: April 6, 2005)

    The national center for intellectual property, Sakpatenti has applied to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) for the international registration of a number of wine and mineral water brands produced in certain geographical zones such as Khvanchkara, Mukuzani, Akhasheni (wines), Borjomi and Nabeglavi (mineral waters).

    Registration is essential to produce high quality products and avoid adulteration, Merab Kvimsadze, deputy director general of Sakpatenti, told Sarke.

17. 458,400 LARI EARMARKED FOR OFFICES OF PRESIDENT’S REPRESENTATIVES IN REGIONS
    (Daily News: April 6, 2005)

    The government’s 2005 reserve fund has disbursed 458,400 lari for the regulation of salaries of offices of president’s plenipotentiaries in regions, Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli has announced the decision at a government meeting today.

    Of the money 65,900 lari will go to the office of the president’s representative in the Shida Kartli region (according to the number of the staff), 65,800 lari to Kvemo Kartli, 54,300 to Mtskheta-Mtianeti, 48,800 lari to Samtskhe-Javakheti, 47,100 lari to the Imereti region, 45,700 lari to Kakheti, 44,600 lari to Racha-Lechkhumi, 43,100 lari to the Zemo Svaneti region, while 40,100 lari to Guria.

18. 354,527 LARI MAY BE ISSUED FOR CIS SUMMIT IN TBILISI
    (Daily News: April 6, 2005)

    Georgia has proposed to hold a meeting of the council of heads of CIS states in Tbilisi (in Sheraton Metechi Palace hotel) on June 3. 354,527 lari will be disbursed from the reserve fund to hold the summit, which may take place in Georgia for the first time, Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli told journalists today.

19. ISRAELI AIR COMPANY TO RESUME FLIGHTS IN JUNE
    (Daily News: April 5, 2005)

    Israeli air company Arkia plans to resume regular Tel-Aviv – Tbilisi – Tel-Aviv flights from June 10, 2005, Sarke was told in the Civil Aviation Administration. The air company entered the Georgian market in June 2004, while in October it suspended the flights.

20. LLC GEORGIAN RAILWAY LOSES 500,000 LARI DUE TO CONTRACTS CONCLUDED BY FORMER MANAGEMENT
    (Daily News: April 5, 2005)

    The Chamber of Control is checking LLC Georgian Railway for the period from June 2002 to May 2003. The examination will be completed in a month.

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