Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee creates 5 working groups for EU candidacy

The Legal Affairs Committee of the Georgian Parliament on Thursday created five working groups to fulfill the 12 conditions set by the European Commission in June for Georgia to receive the membership candidate status next year. 

The groups were scheduled to address de-oligarchisation, judicial reform, electoral issues, anti-corruption questions and further institutional strengthening of the Special Investigation Service and Personal Data Protection Service.

Anri Okhanashvili, the chairman of the Legal Affairs Committee, said that the state legislature was working “actively” to meet the conditions, slamming the part of the opposition parties which refused to join the ruling party’s proposed working format for EU candidacy. 

The United National Movement, Lelo for Georgia and the Strategy Agmashenebeli opposition parties are now working in separate formats.