Government of  Georgia
                                                                decree N
Rule for indication of  the country of origin or  place  of provenance for  fresh,  chilled and 
frozen meat of swine, sheep, goats and poultry
Article 1.  Based on the first part of Article 56 of  the Product Safety and Free Circulation 
Code; 2  part of Article  58, 2 part  of Article 58 and  2 part of Article  75 of the Food / 
Animal Feed Safety, Veterinary and Plant Protection Code approve the rules for  
indication of  the country of origin or place  of provenance for fresh, chilled  and frozen  
meat of swine, sheep, goats  and poultry.
Article 2. Decree  come into  force  1st June of 2023.
Prime Minister                                                                                       Irakli GharibashviliRules for indication of  the country of origin or  place  of provenance for  fresh,  chilled  and 
frozen meat of swine, sheep, goats and poultry
Article 1. General provision 
Rules for indication of  the country of origin or  place  of provenance for  fresh,  chilled  and 
frozen meat of swine, sheep, goats and poultry  establishs by  a decree of the  Government  
of Georgia - "Technical Regulation - on  the provision  of food information to consumers" 
Annex N10  "Meat Species, for which  is compulsory to indicate the place  of origin or 
country. The rule lays down indications the  country of origin or  place of origin on the 
label and  the obligations of the  business  operator.
Article 2. Aim and Scope of regulation
1.The aim of this rule is  to protect human life,  health  and economic interests  of the 
consumers.
2.This Rule will be spread to the  following groups of meat  as defined by the 
Commodity code (HS  code), subject  to state control:
A)Pork, fresh, chilled or  frozen  - (HS  code)Code  0203
B)sheep or goat meat, fresh, chilled or  frozen  - (HS code) code 0204;
C)(HS code) Code 0105 - Fresh,  chilled or frozen poultry specified in (HS code)Code 
0207;
3.State control of the requirements defined by this Rule, in  accordance with the 
requirements defined  by the  legislation  of Georgia is carried out by  the  LEPL 
National Food Agency which operates in the territory of  Georgia, and a legal 
entity under public  law -  the Revenue  Service while goods  cross the  customs  
border of Georgia.
Article 3. Definition  
The following definitions shall also  apply:
A) Establishment - A place where food is produced,  processed and/or distributed;
B) Cutting  plant/Establishment - A place where meat is  cut and/or boned;
C) Minced meat – Swine, sheep, goats and poultry   boned  meat that has been  minced into 
fragments and contains less than 1 % salt;
D) Trimmings  - small pieces of swine, sheep, goats  and poultry  meat recognised  as fit for  
human consumption produced exclusively during trimming operations during the boning of carcasses and/or the cutting up of  meat;  E) Batch - swine, sheep,  goats and  poultry  meat obtained from a single species, with or 
without bone, whether or not  cut or minced, that has been  cut, minced or packed  under 
practically identical conditions;
2. For the  purposes of  this Rule, the terms  defined by the Code of Food / Animal Feed 
Safety, Veterinary and Plant Protection and the legislation of Georgia will be used.
Article 4. Traceability
1. Food business operators, at each stage  of production  and distribution of the  meat 
referred to in part  2 of Article 2 of this rule,  shall have  in place  and use  an identification 
and registration system.
2. That system shall be applied  in  paragraph  1 of this Article in such a way  as to ensure:
A) the link between the meat and the animal or group of  animals  from  which it has been 
obtained, at the slaughter  stage this link being the responsibility of the slaughterhouse;  
B) the transmission of the  information relating  to the indications referred to in Articles 6-
8 of this Rule, as appropriate, together with  the meat, to the  operators at the subsequent 
stages of  production and distribution.
3. Each food  business operator shall be responsible  for the application of  the identification 
and registration system, as laid down, in the  first subparagraph, within the  stage  of 
production and distribution at which it  operates.
4. The food business operator who packs or labels the meat in  accordance with Articles 6-
8 shall  ensure the correlation between the  batch code identifying the  meat supplied  to the 
consumer or mass caterer  and the relevant batch or batches of meat from which  the pack 
or labelled batch is  constituted. All packs  with the  same  batch  code shall correspond  to 
the same indications in  accordance with  Articles 6-8.
5.The system referred  to in paragraph  1 shall record, in particular, the arrival at and the  
departure from the establishment of the food business operator, of animals, carcases or cuts, as appropriate, and ensure a correlation  between arrivals and  departures.
Article 5. Group of  animals
1.The size of the group of  animals referred in paragraph 2 of  Article 4 of  this Rule:
A)the number of  carcases cut together and constituting one batch for  the cutting plant 
concerned in case  of cutting of carcases;B)the number of  carcases the meat  of which constitutes one  batch for the cutting or 
mincing plant  concerned in case of further cutting or  mincing
2. The size of a batch shall not exceed the  production of one day in a single  establishment.
3. Except the case  where Article  8 is applied, when  constituting the batches,  the 
establishments in which meat is cut  or minced shall ensure that all carcasses in  a batch 
correspond to animals to the meat  of which identical labelling indications apply in  
accordance with  1 or 3 paraghraps  Article  6.
Article 6. Labeling of meat
1. The label of meat referred to  in paragraph 2 of Article 2 intended  for supplying to the 
final consumer or  to mass  caterers shall contain the following indications:
A) The name of  the country where the rearing  took place  indicated as  : "Reared  in 
Country (name  of country)"; in accordance with  the following criteria:
A.a) For swine:
A.a.a) in case the animal is slaughtered older than 6 months,  the name  of the country in 
which the last rearing period of at  least 4 months took place,
A.a.b) in case the animal is slaughtered  younger than 6 months  and with a live weight  of 
at least 80 kilograms the  name of the country  in which the rearing period after the animal 
has reached 30 kilograms took  place,
A.a.c) in  case  the animal is slaughtered younger than 6 months and with a live weight of 
less than 80 kilograms the name of the  country in which the whole rearing period took 
place;
A.b) For  sheep and goats:
A.b.a) Name of the country in which the last rearing period of  at least 6 months took 
place
A.b.b) In case  the animal is slaughtered  younger than  6 months,  the name  of the  country  
in which the whole rearing period  took place,
A.c) for poultry:
A.c.a)  the  name of the country in which  the last rearing period of at least one month  
took place
A.c.b) In  case the animal is slaughtered  younger than one month,  the name of the 
country in  which the whole  rearing  period after  the animal was placed for fattening took  
place;B) The name of the country in which the slaughter took place indicated as ‘Slaughtered in: (name  of the country)";
C) the batch code identifying the  meat supplied  to the consumer  or mass caterer.
2. If the rearing period  specified in subparagraph (a)  of paragraph  1 of this Article has not 
been attained, the names  of all countries shall be  indicated,where the  animal was reared. 
Indication - "reared (list of countries where the  animal  was reared)" if  the food business 
operator proves  to the LEPL -  National Food  Agency that the animal was  reared in  these  
countries.
3. The indications referred to  in subparagraphs (a) and (b) of paragraph 1 of this Article  
may be replaced by  the indication "origin"  if the food business operator proves to the 
LEPL National Food Agency that the  meat  specified in  paragraph 2 of the Article  2 of this 
Rule has been  obtained from an animals  born, reared and slaughter  in the same country.
4. Where several pieces of meat, of the same or of different species, correspond  to 
different labelling  indications in  accordance  with  paragraphs 1,2 and 3 of this article and 
are presented  in the same  pack  to the consumer or mass caterer, the label shall indicate:
A) The list  of the relevant countries  for each  species  in accordance  with paragraphs 2 or 3 
of this  article, 
B) The batch code/number identifying the  meat supplied to  the consumer or mass caterer.
Article 7. Derogation
If the label  of meat  imported for placing on the  market referred in paragraph  2 of Article 
2 does not contain  the indications referred  in  paragraph 1, subparagraph (a),  of the  
Article 6, must  be indicated: ’’Reared  in (name of the  country) and  slaughtered (name of 
the country)";
Article 8 - Derogations for minced meat and trimmings
1.The following indications  may be  applied on  the label of  the  minced meat and 
trimmings,
A) "Origin (name  of the country)",  where minced meat or trimmings  are produced 
exclusively from meat  obtained from animals  born,  reared  and slaughtere in that country.
B)"Reared and  slaughtered in (name of  the country)", where the minced meat or  
trimmings produced exclusively from  the meat obtained from  animals,  reared  and 
slaughtered in that  country 
C) "Reared in (name of  country) and slaughtered  in (name of country)"  where the minced 
meat or trimming  produced exclusively from  the meat obtained from animals which, 
reared in one country, imported and slaughtered  in other country;Article 9. Additional voluntary  information  on the label
1. Food business operators may supplement the indications referred to in Articles 6, 7 or  8 
with additional information concerning the  provenance of the  meat on the label specified  
in paragraph  2 of Article 2.
2. The information  specified in paragraph  1 of this Article shall not  be contradictory to 
the indications referred to  in Articles 6, 7 or 8 of this Rule and the Resolution N301  of the 
Government of Georgia July 1, 2016 - "Technical  Regulation - on approval of technical 
regulations for  providing the consumers with  the Information  about food",  Chapter V on 
“Food additional  information “defined requirements.