in the licensing field. It is important that and the licensees will be able to contact and share information with one another. Date of implementation: 2016-2017 Commitment 3. Introduction of licensing system in the field of natural resources application Lead Agency LEPL – National Environment Agency, Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Protection of Georgia Other Involved Actors Public Agencies Civil Society /Private Sector Issues to be Addressed Issuance of licenses and other type of services are only partially electronized. Most of the documents are available as hard copies which complicates the process and requires more time, additional financial and human resources. Main Objective Improvement of services Simplification of relations between the government and the citizen Avoiding risks of corruption Optimization of human resource application More transparency during the service delivery OGP Challenge Improving public services OGP Principles Transparency Accountability Citizens Participation Technologies and Innovations Milestones to Fulfill the Commitment New or ongoing commitment Start date: End date: Introduction of electronic system of licenses (description of business processes) at the National Environment Agency Ongoing December, 2015 August,2016 Enhancement of the server infrastructure for the electronic system of the Agency and putting the test system into operation New August, 2016 June, 2017 Training for staff members and supporting them during the introduction process of the electronic system New June, 2017 December, 2017 Launching licenses into the electronic system New June, 2017 December, 2017 Publishing statistics, online map of resources and guidebooks in the field of licensing New June, 2017 December, 2017 Indicator At the end of 2017 the electronic system of licensing and other paid services are launched at the National Environment Agency Risks and Assumptions Difficulty to adopt the staff members to the new system Difficulty to adopt licensees and customers to the new electronic system
Hence, unless the company mentioned above is not selected and the EU Technical Assistance Project is not launched, the activities envisaged by the third stage could not be started. Commitment 13: Publication of phone tapping data according to the nature of the crime and geographic area The given commitment is a prominent example of the cooperation of the government and the civil society. By the recommendation of the Forum member NGOs, in the framework of the second Action Plan of the Open Government Georgia, the Supreme Court of Georgia started to proactively publish phone tapping statistics. Due to this fact, Georgia entered a small group of countries where such data is publicly disclosed. Independent Reporting Mechanism (IRM) of OGP marked this commitment of the second Action Plan as ‘starred’ commitment. In addition, the IRM report noted that data shall be published in such a manner that it can be sorted by crime and geographic area. The Chairperson of the Supreme Court directly reacted to the recommendation and stated that the court would adopt this as a new commitment in the framework of the Third Action Plan of OGP. Hence, the court plans to introduce new statistical reporting forms that will allow for obtaining and publishing detailed phone tapping data, as well as processing the data according to the crime differentiation and courts. Data will be published in Excel files on the website under the section of OGP, on the News block and Statistics link. Date of Implementation: 2016-2017 Commitment 13: Publishing phone tapping data according to the nature of the crime and geographic area Lead Agency Supreme Court of Georgia Other Involved Actors Public Agency Civil Society /Private Sector Issues to be Addressed Currently only aggregated data of phone tapping are being published. Data will be published according to the differentiation of crime and geographic area in order to obtain more detail information. Main Objective Disclosure of the closed data; provision of maximum transparency of the judiciary OGP Challenge Increasing public integrity OGP Principles Transparancy Accountability Citizens Participation Technology and Innovation Milestones to Fulfill the Commitment New or ongoing commitment Start date: End date:
products. Contracting authoritiesare not provided with unbiased information, which would allow them to define estimated cost of a procurement object. Main Objective Ensure more flexibility of the public procurement process for customers including the representatives of contracting authoritiesand business sector; Support business and increase competition in the publicprocurement process; Increase participation of citizens and civil organizations both on the central and local level in the monitoring of budget resource spending. OGP Challenge Improving public services OGP Principles Transparency Accountability Civil Participation Technology and Innovation Milestones to Fulfill the Commitment New or ongoing commitment Start date: End date: Software development New June, 2016 September, 2017 Dissemination of information on implemented changes New June, 2016 December, 2017 Indicator Increase the number of customers of the e-Procurement system; Increase the number of business organizations using e-Plan module; Put e-Market within e-Procurement system into operation and increase the number of its customers. Risks and Assumptions Shortage of available information on innovations for tens of thousands of economic operators and hundreds of representatives of civil society; Expansion of the area of procurement objects of e-Market and refusal of business on collaboration Challenge IV: Creating Safer Communities Commitment 16: Adoption of the Environmental Assessment Code This commitment implies adoption of the environmental assessment code that will envisage the requirements of the convention “on Access to Information, Public Participation in Decision-Making and Access to Justice in Environmental Matters” (hereafter, Aarhus Convention) in the environmental protection issues and will ensure public participation in the decision-making process in relation with effects on the environment, particularly:
Challenge V: Increasing Corporate Accountability Commitment 19: Development of a Guidebook for Economic Agents Economic agents who apply only the Law on Competition and the normative acts based on it do not have relevant information about the application of legislation on competition. In addition, the society does not have sufficient information on the newly established Competition Agency. The communication between the control organ and relevant business entity is necessary so that an economic agent can be informed on their commitments derived from the Law on Competition. As a result, the work of the agency will become more efficient, and entities on their part, will take relevant measures to minimize activities interfering the free competitive market. The commitment serves to improve transparency and accountability principles of the public administration. The Competition Agency will develop a guidebook/brochure, the main topic of which will be problematic and urgent issues of the Law on Competition and key action principles of the agency. The guidebook will be distributed both in a print version and electronically to inform businesses and society about the competition matters. Date ofImplementation: 2016-2017 Commitment 19: Development of a guidebook for economic agents Lead Agency LELP–Competition Agency Other Involved Actors Public Agency Civil Society/ Private Sector Issues to be Addressed Economic agents do not have enough information on application of the Law on Competition that complicates the process of law execution. Main Objective Increase awareness of economic agents and simplify the execution of the Law on Competition OGP Challenge Imporving corporate accountability; Improving public services OGP Principles Transparency Accountability Civil Participation Technology and Innovation Milestones to Fulfill the Commitment New or ongoing commitment Start date: End date: Developing a guidebook on the competition issues for the economic agents both in print and electronic form New September, 2016 December, 2017